Joel’s Best Musical Performances

  • GREAT MUSICAL PERFORMANCES 2007-2008 
  • by Joel Markowitz

Here are 17 performers who made their mark in our local musicals in the past year, and whose performances I loved.
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Tim’s Best Shows

  • BEST PLAYS OF 2007-2008
  • by Tim Treanor

Have Washington theater prices shot out of sight? When the Helen Hayes Awards announced that attendance for 2007 had dropped for the fifth straight year, we asked our readers why.
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Tim’s Best Performances

  • BEST PERFORMANCES OF 2007-2008
  • by Tim Treanor

Imagine an actor of such power, of such imagination and self-control, that he transforms the stage into a palace, and the steaming heat of downtown Washington into an icy winter’s day in 1352. Such an actor needs no set, or special effects, or lighting beyond bare illumination. The words, written by Shakespeare or Arthur Miller or Moliere, come rolling out of this actor as though he had just thought of them this minute. [Read more...]