So you’re sitting in your seat – excellent seat, second row center – watching Caroline, or Change and some cretin starts talking behind you. Well, they’ve reminded everyone to turn their cell phones off, and to put their candy away, but they forgot to say stop talking. And this guy is nattering on. What do […]
Archives for March 2006
Irish Authors Held Hostage
I did not really know what to expect at a show with the rather wacky title of Irish Authors Held Hostage but I purchased my large cup of java at the Warehouse coffee bar and made my way through the long drab hallway leading back to the Warehouse forty-five seat black box. As I approached […]
Almost Whole
By: Tim Treanor Whole Against the Sky, at Trumpet Vine Theatre Paul Donnelly’s new play, Whole Against the Sky, has much going for it. The dialogue is witty, the characterizations are sharp, and there are scenes of enormous emotional authenticity and power. The play is still a few rewrites away from being the strong theater […]
The Autumn Garden — The American Century Theater
By Tim Treanor The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellmen at The American Century Theater Imagine, if you will, a roomful of morose men and women of late middle years. They are too old for optimism or other forms of self-deception, and so pass their time in reading, heavy drinking, and aiming barbed witticisms at each […]
Free professional theatre? Spooky Action takes a chance
We want to reach into your life, not your pocket. Richard Henrich Spooky Action Theatre presents a challenge – will more people come if theatre is free? DC Theatre Reviews suggests taking Spooky Action up on it’s offer. Take a chance on new companies. Spooky Action Theater presents – Rameau’s Nephew Richard Henrich, Founding Artistic Director […]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Want a book?
Solas Nua is busy giving out books all over DC today. You can get yours at Love Café, Warehouse Café, The Embassy of Ireland, Chinatown Metro, Metro Center, Dupont Circle Metro, Capitol South Metro and outside M.L.K. Library. Also there is a piece in today’s Post about The Mai and the company. Christina Talcott chatted […]
Bart Whiteman, died Mar 14, 2006
Bart Whiteman, educator, writer, theater founder, director, producer, financier and beloved father and husband, passed on the evening of March 14, 2006 from heart failure. As an actor, Bart performed at the Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, at the Folger, the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, and with just about every […]
Review: Salman Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Critic Tim Treanor takes on a reviewing partner, Valeria Lamarra Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a children’s play, adapted from a children’s novel by the great Salman Rushdie. I am a 55-year old lawyer. Should I be reviewing this play? I don’t think so. Children possess an imaginative faculty which is gone by […]
We Needed The Rain
By: Debbie Minter Jackson The Rainmaker Arena Stage The Rainmaker feels so contemporary; it’s hard to believe it’s been around for fifty years. Packed with themes of love and yearning, laced with messages about self-worth, confidence, and the redemptive power of truth, there’s a reason why it was so successful on Broadway, as a movie–who can […]
Huck Finn’s Story at Imagination Stage
By kids’ theatre reporter Valeria Lamarra with Tim Treanor Huck Finn’s Story, at the Imagination Stage, is a pretty good show. Not great, but pretty good. Huck Finn (Matthew McGloin) was a young boy who ran way from his mean pap (Michael John Casey) to nearby Jackson’s Island. There he met another runaway – Jim […]
Review: The Mai, Irish tragedy liltingly told by Solas Nua
Irish playwright Marina Carr offers many observations of importance in The Mai currently mounted at The Josephine Butler Arts Center in Columbia Heights. One of note is “Everyone is deranged — Some people just hide it better.” Another and the central theme of the play is “There are two kinds of people — there are those […]
Sex Habits starts rehearsals (UPDATE)
From the Signature Blog Hello cyber-Signature fans! Welcome to a preview of the fabulous world of Julie Marie Myatt’s hysterical and powerful new play, The Sex Habits of American Women. My name’s Michael Baron and I’m the director. Based on the conversations the cast and I’ve had during the first week of rehearsals, this promises […]