Reviews by Joel Markowitz

Joel Markowitz DCTS Columnist and Podcaster Joel writes the DCTS column 'Theatre Schmooze' and podcasts local, Philadelphia and NYC actors and directors. In 1990, Joel founded The Ushers Theatre Going Social Group in the DC area and leads groups on theatre weekends in NYC. Joel is a fan of Stephen Sondheim, William Finn, Jason Robert Brown and Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. He is a huge supporter of children's theatre. His favorite,musicals include Ragtime, The Secret Garden, The Light in the Piazza, Sweeney Todd, The Last Five Years, In The Heights and [title of show]. Joel is also a Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres fan, so you may see him at ice hockey rinks as well as stage doors where he schmoozes with the stars.

Josh Kornbluth on Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?

March 17, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Our Podcasts, videos

Joshing with Kornbluth, Warhol, Golda, George, Sarah and Other Jews on the Wall.
When you sit and interview Josh Kornbluth, you can’t help but relax quickly and start kibbitzing almost instantly with this very funny, always-reflecting monologist.

Reston Community Players and Silver Spring Stage dominate the 10th annual WATCH Awards

March 15, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under News and Views

Reston Community Players sweeps the 10th annual WATCH Awards with 11 wins for its production of Kander and Ebb’s Curtains.

Chad Kimball, starring in the Broadway musical Memphis

March 12, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze

Joel Markowitz interviews Chad Kimball, the star of Broadway’s hit musical Memphis.

Marc Kudisch in Terrence McNally’s Golden Age

March 10, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Our Podcasts

Broadway’s Marc Kudisch talks about his latest project, Golden Age, the new play by Terrence McNally the first of the Kennedy Center’s 3 play Terrence McNally Nights at the Opera series.

 
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Musical Scene Stealers – Winter, 2010

March 4, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Theatre Schmooze

Two young undertakers, two angels and their lover, a colorful instrumentalist and singer, a pie-baking assistant, a quarreling and vocally gifted couple, a distraught girlfriend who’s gone to pot,

High Fidelity interviews: Andrew Baughman, Stephen Gregory Smith and Julie Herber

February 25, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze

With High Fidelity, Landless has done it again – another amazing production of a musical that just didn’t do well in NYC, and turned it into a winner.

Natalie Toro from the In the Heights tour

February 24, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze

Natalie Toro who plays Camila in the national tour of In the Heights talks about touring with the show, her career and advice for young Latina performers.

NEWSical The Musical’s Michael West

February 7, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Our Podcasts

Forbidden Broadway star Michael West, now in NEWSical the Musical, schmoozes with Joel Markowitz about the shows, and brings out his favorite impressions.

 
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Catching up with Brad Oscar

January 28, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze

He’s played Max Bialystock more often than Nathan Lane, now Brad Oscar talks to DCTS while on the road with another Mel Brooks’ musical, Young Frankenstein.

Ben Cunis returns from injury to play Antony for Synetic

January 22, 2010 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze

Synetic member Ben Cunis suffered an injury that could have been career-ending. Instead, he’s back and ready to co-star with Irina Tsikurishvili in Antony and Cleopatra.

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