You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

July 2, 2009 by Miriam Chernick  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

“Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without the ice cream.”  This is just one of many lines young audience members will be able to relate to in this lively production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

Danny and Sylvia: from DC to NYC

July 1, 2009 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Theatre Schmooze

Danny Kaye once said it only took him 10 years to become an overnight sensation, but it took Danny and Sylvia, the bio-musical about Danny Kaye and his wife Sylvia Fine, only 8 years to move from its sensational American Century Theater opening in DC to its Off-Broadway open run.

Lyle the Crocodile

June 30, 2009 by Miriam Chernick  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

After the beautiful opening scene of Lyle the Crocodile, I’m holding my breath.  Could the rest of the production be as good?  An hour and a half later, I answer yes.  This is children’s theater at its best.

The Producers’ Ben Dibble

June 29, 2009 by Joel Markowitz  
Filed under Features, Our Podcasts

June 19, 2009 - With less than an hour before curtain for Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers, actor Ben Dibble sat down with Joel Markowitz backstage at Walnut Street Theatre.

 
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Source Festival Coverage

June 28, 2009 by lorraine treanor  
Filed under Features, Uncategorized

Welcome to our coverage of this year’s Source Festival which runs from June 20 - July 12th at Source, 1835 14th St NW in Washington.

The Year of Magical Thinking

June 27, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking is a reflective look at the most difficult time in her life. As a world-class writer, Didion resorts to her craft to help clarify her own thoughts

The Seagull on 16th Street

June 25, 2009 by Steven McKnight  
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It takes chutzpah to write new dialogue for Chekhov’s classic The Seagull and to insert Russian Jewish themes that didn’t exist in the original.  While the setting and basic plot remain the same, Theater J’s The Seagull on 16th Street adds dramatic conflicts over the extent

King Lear

June 24, 2009 by Tim Treanor  
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What penalty does an artist pay for telling the truth? I am not speaking about the penalties paid by ordinary people like you and me (or at least me). We see those prices paid constantly, in Kosovo and Chile,

Forbidden Broadway’s Jennie Eisenhower

June 23, 2009 by Joel Markowitz  
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June 19 — My Philadelphia trip began with this hysterical interview with the bubbly and outrageous Jennie Eisenhower, just before the evening curtain for Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits.

 
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The Millionairess

June 22, 2009 by Tim Treanor  
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All right, so what did the first Act of George Bernard Shaw’s The Millionairess, now playing at Olney Theatre Center, remind you of? You know the one I mean, where the haughty, father-drunk, self-obsessed millionairess

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