Patti LuPone to receive Signature Theatre’s Stephen Sondheim Award
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The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog!
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Can’t Scare Me: The Story of Mother Jones
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“the best one-person show we’ve seen in many a year.”
The Theater of the First Amendment’s latest offering—Can’t Scare Me: The Story of Mother Jones—is a virtual blast from the past with a few lessons for the present. This vigorous, one-woman one-act drama was conceived, written, and directed by its star, OBIE Award-winning actress Kaiulani Lee. Wuite a tour-de-force,it attracted a large and diverse opening night audience, which numbered among its members Ralph Nader, perhaps the most prominent robber-baron opponent of our own time. [Read more...]
A Conversation on Race and Performance with Parade’s Kevin McAllister
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Once headed for a career in opera, Kevin McAllister is giving three breakout performances
in the musical Parade at Ford’s Theatre
If the 1913 criminal trial of Leo Frank – and the lynching that followed two years later – seems to you like uncomfortable fodder for a Tony Award-winning musical, actor Kevin McAllister can relate. “The show is very different from anything else in musical theatre,” he said in an interview last week. “Although the writers take some theatrical liberties, it’s almost entirely factual.” [Read more...]
Readers wanted for Source Festival 10 minute play submissions
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