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Tiffany Walker Porta on Always…Patsy Cline
I’m a big fan of Patsy Cline and when I saw Always…Patsy Cline on press night at Toby’s Baltimore, I was amazed how Tiffany Walker Porta’s renditions of many of Patsy’s hit songs - including “I Fall to Pieces”, “Crazy”, and “Walkin’ After Midnight”, had that unique Patsy “sound”. [Read more...]
A conversation with playwright/director D. W. Jacobs and performer Rick Foucheux
If you haven’t read the work of Buckminster Fuller or seen it explained in R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, you might doubt whether watching one solo performance could totally transform how you see this “Spaceship Earth” [Read more...]
“I’D RATHER SLING HASH THAN WRITE THE SAME KIND OF PLAY TWICE”
All right. So you saw Constellation do David Ives’ witty adaptation of George Feydeau’s farce A Flea in Her Ear last October. And in April, you went to the Shakespeare to see how Ives reinvented the 1643 Pierre Corneille’s comedy The Liar. And now you’ve noticed that Theater J will be staging Ives’ The New Jerusalem, [Read more...]
Mark Jacoby on playing Tevye in Walnut Street Theatre’s Fiddler on the Roof.
It was so nice to get a second chance to interview Mark Jacoby as he was “Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum-ing” through the role of Tevye in Walnut Street Theatre’s stunning production of Fiddler on the Roof. Mark talks about what he brings to this famous role, and why the show is still so popular more than four decades later after it opened on Broadway. [Read more...]
Report from Philadelphia: Jeffrey Coon in the role of Georges Seurat in The Arden’s Sunday in the Park with George.
It’s always an honor and pleasure to watch Jeff Coon perform. He can do it all - musicals, plays, and children’s theatre. He has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard on the stage. A staple in the Philadelphia theatre community, Jeffrey Coon is now portraying painter Georges Seurat in Arden Theatre Company’s sumptuous production of Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George. [Read more...]
Richard Seff and Joel Markowitz on the NYC Theatre Season and the Tony Awards
In what has become an annual tradition on DC Theatre Scene, DCTS columnists Richard Seff and Joel Markowitz met in Richard’s penthouse on the Upper East Side of NYC to share their thoughts with you on the current NYC theatre season. [Read more...]
Composer Ricky Ian Gordon on his roots and Sycamore Trees.
It takes a lot of persistence and courage to keep plugging on for 27 years to finish a work based on your own life and family. It also takes a lot of chutzpah to show all the ups and downs and to put it on a stage for the whole word to see. That is the story of Ricky Ian Gordon and his newest musical Sycamore Trees. [Read more...]
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