Perhaps. But it wouldn’t be as well described, and so after twenty-one years as The Washington Shakespeare Company, the Rosslyn-based troupe has renamed itself “WSC Avant Bard”. [Read more...]
The Ramayana
August 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Monkey butt jokes, Bollywood-style dance sequences, parables about how to be the ideal husband and wife, delectable world music and actors who make virtue and duty seem kinda sexy intermingle in Constellation Theatre Company’s remounting of last season’s hit The Ramayana. [Read more...]
The Nervous Set – Original Broadway Cast Recording
August 9, 2011 By Leave a Comment
DC Theatre Scene Editor Lorraine Treanor’s touching tribute to Fran Landesman, who died last month, provides the impetus for this week’s Theatre Shelf column. [Read more...]
Uncle Vanya
August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
After a particularly unfortunate week, what a pleasure it was to wallow in the misery of others. Especially when that misery was as lustrous as that portrayed by the Sydney Theatre Company in their startling production of Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. [Read more...]
Report from Glimmerglass: opera beside the lake
August 8, 2011 By 2 Comments
Since its inception in 1975, the Glimmerglass Festival has grown from a small summer stock opera in rented digs in a local high school auditorium to a state-of-the-art theatre on beautiful Lake Otsego in New York’s Cooperstown. [Read more...]
Olney Theatre presents its free outdoor Taming of the Shrew
August 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Olney Theatre Center, Olney’s 73-year-old professional, award-winning Equity theater, is ending August on a wild note. On August 26 and 27, they’ll celebrate their 22nd annual Shakespeare Theatre Festival with the National Player’s production of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. The festival is free of charge, and will be held at Olney Theatre Center’s open-air, outdoor stage. [Read more...]
Impossible Theater debuts with Macbeth
August 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s a bold move for a new theater company to tackle a well known Shakespearean work in their first outing; it’s another thing entirely to take on a show that is the very definition of bad luck in theater circles. Impossible Theater Company has done just that, overcoming the curse of “The Scottish Play” and making a confident entrance to the DC theater community with their ambitious spin on Shakespeare’s superstition-riddled tragedy, Macbeth. [Read more...]
A Tribute to Fran Landesman
August 5, 2011 By 4 Comments
Lyricist Fran Landesman started with “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” and the Broadway musical The Nervous Set. Then turned her life into songs. Here’s how our lives intersected. [Read more...]
First look at the DC area 2011-12 theatre season
August 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If you hit the link at the bottom of this article, you will reach a machine designed to tell you how much fun you’ll have next season. For maximum effect, sort by date, and imagine yourself seeing shows through the year. [Read more...]
Studio Theatre’s garage sale this Saturday
August 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Why settle for stools from Ikea, when you can have Ikea-like stools that Jennifer Mendenhall and others used in Circle Mirror Transformation? Or wouldn’t that red couch Tom Story is presently curling up in as Andy Warhol be the perfect spot for you and your iPad2? [Read more...]
