Backstage with Shakespeare Theatre’s youngest star
September 27, 2011 By 1 Comment
Two Univ of Md Grad Students begin their careers with Book of Mormon
August 29, 2011 By 1 Comment
Ariel Benjamin and Jonathan Dillard get their start as ”Assistants To Mr. MacDevitt”
If you happen to be lucky enough to get a seat to Broadway’s hottest ticket of the year, The Book of Mormon, turn to the back pages of the Playbill. You’ll notice two names listed as Assistant to Mr. MacDevitt. “Mr. MacDevitt” in this case is Brian MacDevitt, who won his fifth Tony Award designing the lighting for this award-sweeping musical, and is now teaching at the University of Maryland. [Read more...]
Think theater’s not affordable? AET commits to $10 tickets
August 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
With recession jitters and a volatile stock market, now may not be the ideal time to delve into low-cost theater and theater tickets. Then again it might. Every theater’s business model is different. I’m certainly concerned about the well-being of every company in the D.C. area. Still, theater has been around for thousands of years. The tide that goes out comes back. For theater companies and audiences, I hope the tide doesn’t go out too far. [Read more...]
Big Deal for Adventure Theatre
August 11, 2011 By 3 Comments
World premiere youth version of Big, The Musical - Natascia Diaz joins DC cast
Five or so years ago, when Adventure Theatre was an undersized children’s theater with a tiny budget and less-than-stellar artistic capabilities, someone must have gone to the carnival and found the “Zoltar Speaks” machine. “I want Adventure to be BIG!” he must have said to the machine. [Read more...]
A Tribute to Fran Landesman
August 5, 2011 By 4 Comments
Lyricist Fran Landesman started with “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” and the Broadway musical The Nervous Set. Then turned her life into songs. Here’s how our lives intersected. [Read more...]
Purge – Finland’s young writer uncovers Estonia’s dark shame
June 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
Finland’s best selling novelist writes a play about Estonia’s painful past
On June 9th, Scena Theater – which bills itself as “Washington’s International Theater” – will host a regional premier of Sofi Oksanen’s Purge. The play, according to Scena artistic director Robert McNamara, “is not for the faint-of-heart, but for those who feel that the theatre is an extraordinary place to experience strong emotions.” [Read more...]
Gary Lee Maker Award
June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Gary Lee Maker Award
presented to a member of the audience whose love for theatre is an inspiration to all. [Read more...]
Selecting the recipients for the Gary Lee Maker Award
June 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Gary Lee Maker Award is intended for the mostly unrecognized supporter – the sort of person every theater wants in its audience — one who laughs freely, applauds enthusiastically, speaks well of theatre and its practitioners, gives a supportive word or a sympathetic ear to theater artists, and in general gives a return to the art worth many times the price of a ticket. [Read more...]
Creating the Gary Lee Maker Award
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Gary Lee Maker
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