Un Saddest’s underground Ten Minute Play Festival

DCTS welcomes Baltimore columnist John Barry

In the dark, sweaty, jam-packed basement of the Bell Foundry Building – located in a neighborhood off Baltimore’s Penn Station – Un Saddest Factory Ten Minute Play Festival organizer Lola Pierson has a few things to tell her audience. If you can’t stand the play after two minutes, she says, — “since many of you are from the ADD Generation” — try to think about something else for the next eight minutes. Turn off cell phones. And, to help cover the live-in renters who have been enduring two weeks of rehearsals and set construction — buy a Natty Boh. [Read more...]

WSC Avant Bard turns the Henry plays inside out

The newly re-named company announces casting for its Falstaff-centric comedy

We all know this story…the one about Happy Hal, the Prince Who Stayed out Late. The heir to the English throne who drank, wenched, gambled and cavorted with cowards, petty thieves and whoremongers while the great monarch Henry IV fretted – and then who, miraculously, recovered his powers when England needed him most, and thereafter set fire to history. [Read more...]

Looking back on the Hispanic theatre season

The rap on the wrap-up of the 2010/2011 Hispanic Theatre season in Washington D.C. is that as far as audiences are concerned, GALA Hispanic Theatre and Teatro de la Luna must be doing something right. In spite of funding cuts, the two Spanish-speaking theater groups have enjoyed strong box office support, garnered positive to enviable reviews, and enjoyed packed houses. [Read more...]