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Erin Weaver from Comedy of Errors

February 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Erin Weaver on playing Luciana in the Folger’s The Comedy of Errors

It didn’t surprise me when Erin Weaver was awarded The Helen Hayes Award for her performance as Thomasina Coverly in Folger’s Arcadia; I have been a fan of hers since I saw her face full of schmutz and swinging an oversized broom while singing about a “Castle on a Cloud” in Les Misérables. In Philly, I watched her perform in musicals at The Arden. Here, in Bethesda, Erin captivated audiences with her funny performance in the musical based on a Mark Twain short story at Round House Theatre. This year she wowed critics and audiences with her performance in A Wrinkle in Time. Now she’s running in and out of doors in her husband Aaron Posner’s marathon-running The Comedy of Errors. What’s her secret? Read on… [Read more...]

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Dancer Ryan Watkinson tells us how to succeed on Broadway

February 25, 2011 By 8 Comments

When a local talent makes it to the Big White Way – and is about to open in the new revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel Radcliffe (“Harry Potter” and Equus) – you can’t help but smile and applaud his efforts. [Read more...]

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An interview with Director Mary Zimmerman

February 15, 2011 By 1 Comment

Director Mary Zimmerman on The Arabian Nights and Candide

DC audiences were given two holiday gifts from Director Mary Zimmerman: her lavish and eye-popping productions of Candide for The Shakespeare Theatre Company and The Arabian Nights for Arena Stage. I became a fan of Mary’s after seeing her Tony Award-winning production of Metamorphoses at Circle in the Square Theatre in 2002 in NYC (she won the Tony for Best Director). Like many DC area audience members, I was wowed by the visual delights of Candide and The Arabian Nights. I asked Mary to take us on her journey of adapting these two great works for the stage and the recent DC productions. [Read more...]

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Rob McClure on playing Mozart in Amadeus

February 11, 2011 By 1 Comment

Rob McClure is a performer who can do it all. He’s a puppeteer – spending many years pulling the strings in Avenue Q. He’s a hysterical physical comedian, leaping around while playing the flaming Carmen Ghia in The Producers and Charlie Chaplin in a new musical. Through March 6th, Rob is playing the manic genius – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre. It’s not surprising to me that critics are raving about his performance as the child-like and annoying Mozart.       [Read more...]

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Stephen Cole and David Krane on the musical The Road to Qatar!

January 31, 2011 By 3 Comments

Direct from its world premiere at Lyric Stage, Irving, Texas in October 2009, where it won the coveted Best New Play or Musical award from the Dallas-Fort Worth Drama Critics Forum, The Road to Qatar! began previews on January 25th at The York Theatre in NYC. [Read more...]

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Lumina’s musicalized Canterbury Tales – putting it all together

January 21, 2011 By 14 Comments

I’ll be frank with you – I didn’t know much about Lumina Studio Theatre until I read a ‘rave’ for Lumina’s The Comedy of Errors … at Colonus?. by DCTS reviewer Leslie Weisman in which she called the production “a remarkably inventive and accomplished effort by the young company.” [Read more...]

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Ed Dixon from Sunset Boulevard

January 19, 2011 By 4 Comments

The Greatest Star of All: Ed Dixon on playing Max Von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard.

It’s rare when an actor gets a chance to reprise a role he loves, and that’s what happened to Ed Dixon when Eric Schaeffer asked him to play the mysterious Max Von Mayerling in Signature Theatre’s popular production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard. Critics and audiences are raving about Ed’s powerful performance and his glorious voice. [Read more...]

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Interview with Oscar Andrew Hammerstein III

January 7, 2011 By 2 Comments

This winter, DC fell in love again with three Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, starting with the critically acclaimed and SOLD OUT production of Oklahoma! at Arena Stage, The National Tour of South Pacific which dropped anchor at The Kennedy Center’s Opera House, and Cinderella which is still entertaining young theatregoers and their families at Toby’s Dinner Theatre in Columbia, MD.

I asked Oscar Andrew Hammerstein III (‘Andy’) – grandson of the beloved librettist and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II and author of “The Hammersteins: A Musical Theatre Family” – to chime in on the continued popularity of his grandfather’s shows, and memories of growing up in his famous showbiz family. [Read more...]

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Chris Sizemore, Margo Seibert and Tracy Lynn Olivera on Candide

January 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Local actors Chris Sizemore, Margo Seibert and Tracy Lynn Olivera on being in the cast of Candide

I was elated when I learned that three of my favorite actors in the DC area were appearing in Candide at The Shakespeare Theatre Company. As the musical enters its last week in DC, Chris Sizemore, Margo Seibert and Tracy Lynn Olivera talk about what it’s been like to be in this stunning production, and working with Tony Award-winning Director Mary Zimmerman and Musical Director Doug Peck. [Read more...]

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Oy Vey! Schmoozing with The Kinsey Sicks

December 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I thought I was interviewing the four outrageously loveable, funny and eccentric members of The Kinsey Sicks who are tearing up the mistletoe at Theater J. But, instead, eight showed up – since sometimes the KS actors/writers responded as their boy names and sometimes as their character’s girl names.

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