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Staff in the Executive Office Building scramble over yet another incident involving the Vice President. This time, while the President and his advisors are photographed tensely following the release of hostages, the VP seems more interested in a cell phone. The embarrassing photo has gone viral. Later, the White House’s Dream Metric Team analyzes the latest demographics. [Read more...]
Interview with Arena Stage’s Chad Bauman, bound for Milwaukee Rep
“Go west, young man,” they say, and Chad Bauman is heeding the call. Currently the Associate Executive Director at Arena Stage — and a hard-working arts consultant, educator, and administrator all around the DC region — Bauman will be making a big move this spring to Milwaukee, where he’ll begin his new position as Managing Director at Milwaukee Repertory Theater beginning June 1. [Read more...]
A blind date can be a boon or a bust for two strangers seeking romance. But what if the couple know each other and use blind dates as a game in an attempt to keep a spark in their relationship? [Read more...]
Don’t invest on Broadway unless you love the show. There’s an 80% chance you’ll get little more back than tickets on opening night and a backstage tour. If you do see a recoupment, never mind a profit, it could be years after you attend that splashy opening night party. [Read more...]
Michael Stebbins was making his name mainly as an actor when he took the reins at Rep Stage almost eight years ago as the new Artistic Director. But his go-get-’em spirit and his bright ideas in the seasons since have brought much to the company, which works in residence at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD. [Read more...]
Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth’s new play, Andy and the Shadows, isn’t entirely autobiographical. But when you’ve been working on a script for twenty-six years, it’s probably inevitable that chapter after chapter of your own life will change and inform the personal story you’re telling in some extraordinary ways. [Read more...]
For the current production of Bill Cain’s deeply personal How to Write a New Book for the Bible, Ryan Rilette, producing artistic director at Round House Theatre, has moved to the director’s chair for the first time since taking the reins at the Bethesda theatre. The former producing artistic director of Marin Theatre Company in California’s Bay Area and Southern Rep Theatre in New Orleans took over at Round House from Blake Robison in August, 2012.
- Luis Caballero arrives, wearing a wool scarf coiled around his neck. The morning, April 3rd, was unseasonably cold. He is wired with energy for our interview in the chilly, white-walled basement rehearsal room of GALA’s Tivoli Theatre in Columbia Heights. In awe of this multitalented powerhouse from New York City, who has written and is directing his own play, DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story, I come prepped to talk about Clemente, El Magnifico, “The Great One,” who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, and in 1973 was the first Latino elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. – [Read more...]
Costume designer Murell Horton has a simple philosophy: “Theatre, to me, is really good storytelling if it’s done well. It’s also about coming together to create a world that had not been there before.”
Thanks to Horton’s work, when audiences enter the worlds of ancient Rome and 17th Century Germany at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, it’s easier to tell a plebeian from a senator or a grenadier from a general. [Read more...]
An Interview with Olney Theatre’s Jason King Jones and actor Michael Russotto
Take four middle-managers from a Manchester business firm – think the UK version of “The Office.” Now hurl them into a rough and tumble setting where these members of the British middle class are literally fish out of water, being trapped on a tiny island in England’s Lake District. Now, it sounds more like “Survivor.” [Read more...]
American Theatre Wing Interviews I AM THEATRE (TCG)