- For Washington Improv Theater, the Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament is the biggest event of the year. With 58 teams vying for the comedy crown this year — that’s a record-setting high of 174 performers — the blackbox theatre at Source is humming with energy. DC Theatre Scene probed the minds of three performers right in the thick of it – Artistic and Executive Director Mark Chalfant, rookie contestant Mandy Murphy, and WIT alum Megan Cummings — to take the pulse of DC improv’s biggest competitive tournament. – [Read more...]
Romeo and Juliet through the eyes of the Fools
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Listen in on Mike Daisey’s New Years Eve monologue
January 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
“Let’s face it”, he says, “we are all living in a play that isn’t working.” - Mike Daisey
Monologist Mike Daisey, considered one of the finest storytellers in America, has a ready home on Woolly Mammoth’s stage and when he comes to town with pieces such as The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, Last Cargo Cult, and How Theater Failed America, tickets sell fast. New Years Eve 2011 Mike performed When the Clock Strikes for Boston’s First Night before a sold out audience, and has given us permission to share the live recording with you. [Read more...]
Joe Brack is the last elf standing
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Spooky Action given $1.6 million bequest
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Behind the scene with Stay’s creators
November 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A son’s bedtime wish was the creative spark for Stay
A bottle of wine can lead to many things, but for playwright Heather McDonald and choreographer Susan Shields, it led to an artistic collaboration. [Read more...]
Is Shakespeare Shakespeare?
November 4, 2011 By 2 Comments
“Anonymous” says ‘no’. Freud agrees. Who are we to believe?
Court is in session and Tim Treanor argues his case.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let’s review the evidence. Can anyone reasonably believe that this man is responsible for some of the greatest literature in the English language? He was a rustic, indifferently educated, who held a succession of low-level jobs, generally unsuccessfully. His father was a rural merchant. And then, somehow, he supposedly blossomed into a great writer – one who wrote brilliantly perceptive stories about kings and princes. [Read more...]
Derek Goldman’s new play re-imagines ‘Night of the Hunter’
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Zelda Fichandler galvinizes artistic directors at the Zelda Fichandler Awards
October 31, 2011 By 2 Comments
Sometimes you sup with the gods.
That’s what it felt like on the stage at the Mead Center for American Theater Monday night, October 26, 2011, when the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) celebrated its third annual presentation of the Zelda Fichandler Award. Directors and choreographers gathered to honor one artistic director, picked this year from the eastern region’s several finalists, whose vision and consistent programming has made an indelible impact on the community she served and who followed undeterred her own specific, laudatory artistic vision. [Read more...]
A Farewell to Emery Battis
October 4, 2011 By 1 Comment
