DC’s Puppet Underground has teamed up with Occupy DC for a full afternoon of puppetry, poetry and music titled Occupy Kabaret Street, a roving street performance. [Read more...]
Ken Ludwig writes ‘Twas the Night before Christmas for Adventure Theatre
November 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
No worries about writer’s block or evoking the muse for Washington author Ken Ludwig.
In addition to penning ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, a world premiere holiday children’s show for Adventure Theatre, the prolific playwright debuts a comedy at a high school in Fairfax designed for younger drama departments and community theaters, premieres a new comic mystery at the Cleveland Playhouse, puts finishing touches on a book about teaching tots about Shakespeare, and this fall, went back and wrote a new ending for the West End revival of his prize-winning Broadway show Crazy For You. [Read more...]
Standing on Ceremony, the Gay Marriage Plays
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The closet is, at last, wide open. No more need for gay characters to parade around pretending to be women, which was the game played up through the mid-twentieth century. When even a hint of the love that dare not speak its name was offered onstage (The Captive, The Green Bay Tree) whispers were heard among the ‘carriage trade’ audiences, and not too many of the general public bothered to show up at all. [Read more...]
Jersey Boys benefit concert to feed hungry in DC and fight AIDS
November 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Cast from the national tour of Jersey Boys will stage a benefit concert on November 28th at D.C. Improv to support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the local charity Food & Friends. General admission tickets are $50.
The concert, tabbed “Rock Like A Man”, will feature cast members singing hits from the fifties and sixties. The company will also auction off an opportunity to appear live in the DC production of Jersey Boys, a private backstage tour of the production, and lunch with the lead performers.
All proceeds from the event will go to the two charities.
Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS is a 24-year-old charity which has over the years given nearly $125 million in grants to fight AIDS. Food & Friends helps people with serious illnesses by feeding them and giving them nutritional counseling.
Cocktails begin at 6.30 at the D.C. Improv, 1140 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC. Pre-concert eats are also available.
Tickets: Online here or by calling 202.296.7008.
Spooky Action given $1.6 million bequest
November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Spooky Action Theater, a small company which has faced misfortune in the past, has become the recipient of a bequest valued at $1.6 million, Spooky Action’s Artistic Director Richard Henrich announced yesterday. [Read more...]
Arena announces schedule change, adds The Normal Heart
November 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Normal Heart will replace Like Water for Chocolate in season’s lineup;
Mary T and Lizzie K is postponed
The Tony Award winning Broadway production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer’s lacerating story about a gay activist in an era indifferent to the crisis of AIDs, will launch its National Tour by joining the Arena Stage season’s lineup in place of Like Water for Chocolate, the company announced yesterday. [Read more...]
Jersey Boys
November 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
The latest traveling road-show version of Jersey Boys, now playing in a limited engagement at the National Theatre, is loaded with energy and as stuffed with fab Four Seasons classics as any Boomer on a nostalgia trip could ever want. That said, Saturday evening’s opening night performance of the show drew a demographic that actually skewed considerably younger—proof positive that a show full of irresistible tunes characterized by actual, intelligible lyrics can still attract a capacity crowd. [Read more...]
Babes in Arms
November 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
Re-Release of the 1951 Studio Cast Recording
I guess I was wrong – again. [Read more...]
Stay
November 15, 2011 By 1 Comment
Stay is a story in performance featuring theatre, dance, music and SLAM multimedia. The premiere production of this collaboration, conceived by Playwright/Director Heather McDonald and Choreographer Susan Shields, was developed in workshop by Theater of the First Amendment, and it has all the markings of an interesting experiment of form realized through beautiful stage pictures. [Read more...]
Mary Goldwater Awards preserved on DC Theatre Scene
November 15, 2011 By 2 Comments
DCTS to include the Mary Goldwater Awards in its permanent archives
For nineteen years, the Washington theater community honored its own in a unique way: for excellence, regardless of category or classification, under difficult circumstances. Those who achieved it received something called the Mary Goldwater Award, and those awardees often considered a Mary Goldwater to represent the apex of their art. [Read more...]
