Relatively Speaking
October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Relatively Speaking is the collective title for three one act plays by three who usually turn their talents toward the screen. Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen are three stagestruck screenwriters who drop in on us in theatre every now and then and bring their acerbit wit along with them. [Read more...]
Kevin Kline is Michael Kahn’s next guest on ‘Classic Conversations’
October 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Shakespeare Theatre Company today announced that noted stage and screen actor Kevin Kline will join Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn for a conversation in front of an audience at the Sidney Harmon Hall on November 28. Tickets start at $35. [Read more...]
The Lyons
October 20, 2011 By 1 Comment
The various Manhattan not-for-profit theatres have done us all a great service by offering a home to a dozen talented playwrights. Theatres like Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center Theatre, the Vineyard, Atlantic Theatre Company, 2nd Stage, Playwrights’ Horizons and others have presented dozens of plays by the likes of Terrence McNally, John Robin Baitz, Tom Stoppard, Nicky Silver, Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel and you begin to see how rich we’ve become, (not to mention how self-supporting most of the writers have become). [Read more...]
Rorschach’s after the quake hosts book party for new Murakami novel
October 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Rorschach Theatre Company, which is currently producing after the quake, a play based on two Haruki Murakami short stories, will make copies of the popular Japanese novelists newly released English language version of “1Q84” available for sale following a special Monday night performance of the show on October 24th, the theater announced.
Patti LuPone to receive Signature Theatre’s Stephen Sondheim Award
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Patti LuPone, who won a Tony, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award for her work as Rose in the Styne/Sondheim/Laurents musical Gypsy, is the recipient of Signature Theatre’s third annual Stephen Sondheim Award, the company announced this afternoon. [Read more...]
The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog!
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
If family theatre ratings, like Olympic diving, included a degree of difficulty factor, the Kennedy Center premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and her Dog! would earn a very high score. It’s not easy to tackle the scientific method and solar fusion in a musical for children ages six and up. Yet, thanks to enthusiastic acting, uplifting music, and a skillful production The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and her Dog! ultimately works. [Read more...]
Can’t Scare Me: The Story of Mother Jones
October 19, 2011 By 2 Comments
“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
October 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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
October 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
DC’s Source Festival, which produces a dozen-and-a-half ten-minute plays each June to go along with full-length plays and productions from blended disciplines, seeks interested Source audience members to help cull next year’s selections from 700 submissions. [Read more...]
She Loves Him: Kate Baldwin Live at Feinsteins
October 18, 2011 By 2 Comments
Recorded show music comes in many guises. One genre that can be thoroughly enjoyable when done right is the live recording of a club act of show songs. A fine new release that falls in the “done right” category is Kate Baldwin’s act recorded last March at Feinstein’s, the Broadway-themed nightclub on New York’s Park Avenue. [Read more...]
