http://dctheatrescene.com Washington DC's Liveliest Theater Website Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:43:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 2009-2010 lorraine@dctheatrescene.com (DC Theatre Scene) lorraine@dctheatrescene.com (DC Theatre Scene) 1440 http://dctheatrescene.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/dcts.jpg http://dctheatrescene.com 144 144 http://dctheatrescene.com/?feed=podcast Lively up close interviews and audio plays Podcasts interviews and audio shows from the Washington DC area theatre scene. podcasts, DC theatre, radio plays, DC Theatre Scene DC Theatre Scene lorraine@dctheatrescene.com no no http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/24/shrek-cripple-of-inishmaan/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/24/shrek-cripple-of-inishmaan/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:14:46 +0000 Richard Seff http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=3431 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/24/shrek-cripple-of-inishmaan/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/05/love-peace-and-robbery/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/05/love-peace-and-robbery/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:09:20 +0000 Tim Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=2962 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/05/love-peace-and-robbery/feed/ 3 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/02/glengarry-glen-ross/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/02/glengarry-glen-ross/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:44:42 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=2900 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/12/02/glengarry-glen-ross/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/19/dublin-carol/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/19/dublin-carol/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:09:55 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=2762 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/11/19/dublin-carol/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/24/the-playboy-of-the-western-world/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/24/the-playboy-of-the-western-world/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:17:22 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=2459 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/10/24/the-playboy-of-the-western-world/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/05/stones-in-his-pockets-2/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/05/stones-in-his-pockets-2/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:26:06 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/?p=1887 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/08/05/stones-in-his-pockets-2/feed/ 2 http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/29/trad/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/29/trad/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:11:25 +0000 Steven McKnight http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/29/trad/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2008/01/29/trad/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/made-in-china/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/made-in-china/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:17:22 +0000 Ronnie Ruff http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/made-in-china/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/10/18/made-in-china/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/20/scenes-from-the-big-picture/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/20/scenes-from-the-big-picture/#comments Sun, 20 May 2007 17:45:46 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/20/scenes-from-the-big-picture/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/20/scenes-from-the-big-picture/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/19/callie-kimball-talks-with-big-picture-director/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/19/callie-kimball-talks-with-big-picture-director/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 15:13:34 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/19/callie-kimball-talks-with-big-picture-director/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/05/19/callie-kimball-talks-with-big-picture-director/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Belfast director Des Kennedy is in town to direct his first U. S. production, Solas Nua’s Scenes from the Big Picture by Owen McCafferty (Mojo/ Mickybo). Callie Kimball, popular DC playwright and actress, leads Des in a lively conversation ab[...] Belfast director Des Kennedy is in town to direct his first U. S. production, Solas Nua’s Scenes from the Big Picture by Owen McCafferty (Mojo/ Mickybo). Callie Kimball, popular DC playwright and actress, leads Des in a lively conversation about the day-in-Belfast play, his take on American actors, his unusual techniques for rehearsing Big Picture‘s 21 member cast, and the role The Laramie Project has played on his career. Finally, the 24-year director shares his discoveries in theater and upcoming projects. Listen here. Or play by clicking on the speaker icon Scenes from the Big Picture runs through June 24th at the Callan Theatre, Catholic University. For more information, visit the Solas Nua website. (Run time: 18:57) Interviews, Podcasts DC Theatre Scene no no http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/02/09/the-small-things/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/02/09/the-small-things/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:21:13 +0000 Joel Markowitz http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/02/09/the-small-things/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/02/09/the-small-things/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Produced by Solas Nua Reviewed by Ronnie Ruff Podcast with Kate Debelack by Joel Markowitz with Lorraine Treanor (follows the review) Chris Davenport and Kate Debelack (Photo: C. Stanley Photography) Irish playwright Enda Walsh, who was recently ap[...] Produced by Solas Nua Reviewed by Ronnie Ruff Podcast with Kate Debelack by Joel Markowitz with Lorraine Treanor (follows the review) Chris Davenport and Kate Debelack (Photo: C. Stanley Photography) Irish playwright Enda Walsh, who was recently appointed Playwright in Residence for Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, is becoming very familiar to Washington audiences. His 2005 play The Small Things does not tell a clearly defined story in the same way as last year’s Misterman or the excellent, well reviewed Bedbound – it does though, shower us with brilliantly constructed and colorful language. Frequently edgy and often shocking scraps of human cruelty, genocide and individual loneliness are accessible beneath the multiple layers of Walsh’s styled vocabulary. Walsh is a master at making you laugh at his characters and later feel really creepy that you found some things funny at all. In Walsh’s world, fractured bits of childhood memories become the puzzle pieces that define large parts of human existence. Picture if you will two individuals reaching the twilight years of their lives; visualize them in twin facing separate homes with only their own words and horrific memories to keep them company. This is a play of brilliant theatrical musings that entertains our senses and brings far more shivers than DC’s recent wintry nights. Walsh toys with how we look at the English language and what has been done to stifle human communication. Popular director Kathleen Akerley takes the helm of The Small Things for a young theatre company that is riding high after a very successful first season and a recent glowing Washington Post article. The Small Things takes Solas Nua into familiar territory with a play by Walsh and the unknown with a respected director from outside the company. Akerley does not disappoint and her treatment for The Small Things is as delightful as is the play itself. The actors give first class performances — Chris Davenport’s character, Man, is delightfully quirky with an understated frailty and his delicate delivery of a complex role is dazzling. Ms. Debelack gives a gutsy, well conceived performance that shows a new degree of depth. Her character, Woman, struggles with her lonely, pained existence remembering things that many would choose to repress. The set is a pleasing mix of white panels drenched in defused light, a comfy easy chair much like your father sat in, a tall wooden kitchen stool, a table holding small figurines, nothing that really stands out because that would detract from what really deserves your attention, the language. The Small Things is a production of considerable importance and thought provoking dialogue that is powerful yet fragile and, without doubt, brilliant. It will serve you well if edgy material that has profound meanings hidden beneath deposits of clever but classic wordplay are your theatre of choice. Solas Nua and Ms. Akerley succeed in staying true to the company’s mission of bringing fresh, contemporary Irish theatre to Washington area audiences. While this is not the most accessible of their productions, it may be their most adventurous and beautiful. (Run-time: 70 minutes, no intermission) The Small Things plays through Feb. 25th at Flashpoint 916 G Street NW, Washington, DC. Showtimes: Thurs – Sat at 8pm (except Thurs, Feb 15 is at 8:30), and Sundays at 3pm. Tickets: $20. Reserve by calling 202 595-1915 or purchase online  Listen here. Interviews, Podcasts DC Theatre Scene no no http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/01/07/mojo-mickeybo/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/01/07/mojo-mickeybo/#comments Sun, 07 Jan 2007 23:56:04 +0000 Joel Markowitz http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/01/07/mojo-mickeybo/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2007/01/07/mojo-mickeybo/feed/ 2 0:00:01   Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty Produced by the new island project of Keegan Theatre at Theatre on the Run Reviewed by Tim Treanor Podcast with the cast and director follows the review. Who are those guys? Hey, if you like good theater, [...]   Mojo Mickybo by Owen McCafferty Produced by the new island project of Keegan Theatre at Theatre on the Run Reviewed by Tim Treanor Podcast with the cast and director follows the review. Who are those guys? Hey, if you like good theater, delivered explosively by excellent actors, do yourself a favor and go to the Theatre on the Run in Arlington.  Buy yourself a ticket to Owen McCafferty’s Mojo Mickybo, plunk yourself down in one of the comfortable seats, and just watch. Mojo Mickybo, set in 1970 Belfast, is the story of the friendship between two boys, the diffident Mojo (Christopher Dinolfo) and querulous, aggrieved Mickybo (Michael Innocenti).  The lads are just at the cusp of pubescence, where they glory in the ecstatic violation of parental authority and of minor ordinances. They steal cigarettes, piss on walls and shout out profanity with the purposefulness of monks singing a hymn.  They are full of grand plans, but they are still kids.  When Mickybo’s stewbum father (Dinolfo again) offers to take the kids to Australia, Mojo enthusiastically signs on – as soon as he gets his mother’s permission. ( “Just be back in time for tea,” his distracted ma (Innocenti again) says.} Like kids of this age all over the globe, they live in a world which is half fantasy and half real.  The fantasy part is informed by the great William Goldman movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Mojo and Mickybo imagine themselves to be the immortal cowboys, hard-riding gun-toting friends to the end.  (“All men are cowboys,” a Greek chorus of neighborhood women, all played by Innocenti, tells Mojo, and they carry that truth with them throughout the play.)  They talk a friendly local bus driver (Dinolfo) into giving them a ride to the next county, which will serve for Bolivia in the absence of the real thing. The real part of their experience is informed in part by their childhood nemeses, Cank the Wank (Dinolfo) and Fuckface (Innocenti), who are a few years older than Mojo and Mickybo and thus as terrifying as lions.  (Indeed, Fuckface’s older brother Torture is even more terrifying.  “He says ‘fuck off’ to his mum,” Mojo says wonderingly to Mickybo, describing a crime in Catholic Belfast as exotic as cannibalism).  But the real part is also informed by Belfast, which is to say is informed by Hell.  A miasma of violent death hangs over the play’s landscape, and the adults know that the question is not whether it will come but when it will come, and to whom.  Mojo’s quietly confident da (Innocenti) knows all about it, because he’s a part of it.  “I’m going dancing,” he informs Mojo one night; we know, though the boy doesn’t, that in Belfast the only dance is the dance with the devil.  But so does Mojo’s ma (Innocenti), who is made a knot of anxiety by it; and Mickybo’s wisecracking, tale-telling ma (Dinolfo), and his hard-drinking da. When the moment comes, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are collateral damage.  “The age of human happiness is over,” Adolf Hitler once said.  “Now let us get on with our work.” And so it is here.  Childhood confronts the heartbreaking real world.  Childhood loses, and our hearts are broken. As you have doubtlessly realized by now, Dinolfo and Innocenti populate a municipality of characters, and I must tell you that they do it with such speed, skill and authenticity that ten minutes into the play the addition of another actor is unthinkable.  Innocenti establishes such specifically realized characters (particularly his women) with such a minimum of fuss and bother that he recalls a younger version of Jefferson Mays, the Tony-Award winning star of I Am My Own Wife.  While Dinolfo’s characters do not show as much range as Innocenti’s, he establishes an exceptionally strong narrative voice not only as Mojo but as [...] Interviews, Podcasts DC Theatre Scene no no http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/06/25/bedbound-breaks-barriers/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/06/25/bedbound-breaks-barriers/#comments Sun, 25 Jun 2006 05:16:28 +0000 Ronnie Ruff http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/06/25/bedbound-breaks-barriers/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/06/25/bedbound-breaks-barriers/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/03/11/paradise-material/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/03/11/paradise-material/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:13:51 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/03/11/paradise-material/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/03/11/paradise-material/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/telling-tales/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/telling-tales/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:58:53 +0000 Ronnie Ruff http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/telling-tales/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/telling-tales/feed/ 1 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/thrilling-ride/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/thrilling-ride/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:26:10 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/thrilling-ride/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/thrilling-ride/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/misterman-at-dcac-by-solas-nua/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/misterman-at-dcac-by-solas-nua/#comments Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:51:37 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/misterman-at-dcac-by-solas-nua/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/25/misterman-at-dcac-by-solas-nua/feed/ 0 http://dctheatrescene.com/2005/06/28/18/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2005/06/28/18/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:56:14 +0000 Lorraine Treanor http://dctheatrescene.com/2006/02/24/18/ http://dctheatrescene.com/2005/06/28/18/feed/ 0