The Wizard of Oz
August 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Only the creative minds of folks from The Puppet Co could find a zany way to give the Wizard of Oz story a fresh new spin while encouraging imagination and make believe. In their usual fashion, the company members took the time to deconstruct the scenes to relay the message with a contemporary flair while staying true to the original script, and created bouncy new tunes with ultra-witty lyrics, original music by Christopher Piper and Eric Brooks. Add in tremendous costumes and talented puppeteers committed to the integrity of the precious story, and you’ve got a sure-fire hit. [Read more...]
Season at a Glance: 2011/12
August 3, 2011 By 2 Comments
The DCTS Interactive Guide to the Washington DC Area Theatre Season [Read more...]
War Horse
August 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This import from the National Theatre in London, at the Beaumont Theatre in LincolnCenter, is more an experience than a play, and as such it’s a hum-dinger. As a play it is less than that, for stripped of its trappings, which are tremendous, it’s more or less “Lassie Come Home” minus dog, plus horse. I don’t mean to belittle it, for it’s a masterful piece of theatre and even at close to 3 hours in length it holds its audiences and gives them everything in the book — laughter, tears, thrills and a glimpse of a little known aspect of warfare as it was played out in the “war to end all wars”, World War I. [Read more...]
Strike Up the Band
August 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Once again, PS Classics comes to the rescue of aficionados who have a few blank spaces in the Gershwin section of our theatre shelves. [Read more...]
Grease
August 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Grease is one of those Broadway musicals that’s been grown, shrunk, and re-shaped over time so that each version you see can be rather different from the last. The Olney Theatre’s sprightly but not completely satisfying take on the show resembles more recent Broadway and London iterations, circa 2007, with perhaps a snip or two. [Read more...]
Little Shop of Horrors
August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Tell me if this sounds familiar. There’s this thing in the middle of the room, and it’s growing. In fact, it’s consuming everything in sight. First it’s the size of a beaver, then of a Doberman Pinscher, and finally the size of a Volkswagen. And there’s this nervous, nerdy, nebbishy little guy who keeps feeding it. He knows it’s wrong to feed the thing but he does it anyway, because it is making him famous and popular and if he doesn’t keep feeding it, he won’t be famous and popular any more. [Read more...]
Taffety Punk’s free bootleg of King John is tonight
August 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Today, Taffety Punk continues its annual tradition of bootleg performances when the company plus friends gather for the one and only rehearsal of tonight’s single performance of William Shakespeare’s King John. As Folger’s box office opens at noon to distribute the night’s free tickets, the cast members, their lines memorized, director, choreographer and designers will be onstage, fashioning the play which will go up at 7pm. [Read more...]
