ON THE WAY TO MAME As I am writing this, I’m on the run – -getting ready to meet 50 members of the Ushers Theatre-going Social Group at The Kennedy Center to finally see Mame tonight at 7:30 PM. Before the show begins, I have to join members for dinner at the overpriced Kennedy […]
Archives for June 2006
Picasso’s Closet at Theater J
The lives of artists, truly great artists, are fascinating to us all. Apparently, so are the lives they never led. Ariel Dorfman’s new play, Picasso’s Closet, examines the 1944 murder of Picasso in Nazi-occupied Paris—despite the fact that Picasso died in Mougins, France, on April 8th, 1973. Dorfman offers a startling and brilliant portrait of […]
Bedbound Breaks Barriers
Bed Bound — Solas Nua By: Ronnie Ruff Edna Walsh has yet to achieve the popularity in America that Conor McPherson has but he is, none the less, one of the most important new playwrights in contemporary Irish theatre. Solas Nua, one of the most exciting local theatre companies around has mounted Bedbound, Walsh’s 2000 play […]
New World Order
By: Ronnie Ruff The New World Order and Other Plays — Scena Theatre Pinter’s The New World Order and Other Plays currently mounted at Warehouse Theatre by Scena Theatre is a cluster of angry one act plays that speak to the oppressive governments that abuse the citizenry of the third world. Mainly aimed at the west, the three one […]
The Lunch Launch
Bouncing Ball Productions got started with a bang Sunday evening at the Black Cat Club on 14th St. NW with scenes from three of writer Shawn Northrip and director Shirley Serotsky’s projects including Titus The Musical, Cautionary Tales For Adults and Lunch (which is being performed at the CapFringe Festival). The wonderful Tracy Lynn Olivera (why don’t we see […]
Two-Headed a must-see at WSC
Note: D.M.Jackson has acted at WSC in the past, but has never worked directly with or for any of the artists involved with this production. This gem of a two-character play, Two-Headed by Julie Jensen, is an ideal performance piece for Lee Mikeska Gardner and Melissa Flaim. Wrapped in tight layers like an onion, the story […]
LOTS TO SING ABOUT PART 2: SUMMER 2006 MUSICALS
“THAT’LL BE THE DAY” WHEN “3 DIVAS” (times two) “TAKE THE A TRAIN” TO “AMSTERDAM” It may be humid, but we have some extremely hot musicals during June, July and August at our local theatres. I hear you kvetchin, “That’ll Be The Day” when I schlep with my kids to Columbia, Maryland to see anybody […]
The Faculty Room at Woolly Mammoth
Teachers doing drugs (and other things) with students, students discussing physical mutilation with teachers, religious riots in the auditorium—did any of this happen at your high school? If you are less than five years out of high school, expect middle-aged patrons of The Faculty Room to look at you as if your generation is responsible […]
Charlie Victor Romeo at Studio Theatre
This most unusual, unsettling piece, Charlie Victor Romeo depicts the final moments heard on the CVR: Cockpit Voice Recorders known as the “black box” from airplane wreckage. Described as terrifying, riveting, spell-binding, mundane and boring as hell- Charlie Victor Romeo is all of the above and more. For me, it was actually good theater-admittedly, it […]
The Children’s Hour
By: Ronnie Ruff The Childrens Hour at WSC The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman starts on a slow path to it’s conclusion but as the plot thickens this melodrama of blackmail and lies in a 1930s girls school comes to life with a riveting but predictable ending. WSC’s H Lee Gable directs and casts Christopher Henley […]
100th Review ~ Our Mission
Hi everyone, Ronnie here, just wanted to thank everyone for all the support that has been given over the last 11 months that it has taken to get to the 100 Review mark. It is important for me to point out that the most important things to DC Theatre Reviews are our readers and the talented […]
Review: A Murder, A Mystery & A Marriage, A Twain Musical Melodrama
Check out Joel’s great interview with Writer/Director Aaron Posner on YouTube! As I write this review I am a very happy reviewer for two reasons! The first one is this is the 100th review to be posted on DC Theatre Reviews! More about that later, the business at hand is a wonderful musical at Roundhouse […]