Fringe Comments- By Joel Markowitz Musical Podcaster/Theatre Schmoozer My hats off to all the volunteers and the administration who pulled the Fringe Festival off. Alot of people worked very hard to make this a success. It will be interesting to see what the final ticket sales were, but most of the shows I attended were […]
Archives for July 2006
Lorraine’s Fringe Thoughts
Lorraine Treanor, our Director of Marketing, had these thoughts about our first Fringe. Hats off to the organizers of Capital Fringe for proving that Washington has a huge hunger for Fringe. As a producer (of Mamas, DOn’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up to Be Actors) I attended the first Fringe meeting last summer where we […]
Tim’s Thoughts On Fringe
Senior Reviewer Tim Treanor had these thoughts about our first Fringe The Fringe itself was an unalloyed success. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen Washington area theater do. What it shows is that there is immense talent waiting to get out and express itself. Most of the Fringe stars were folks I had […]
Footloose
Footloose — Toby’s Baltimore Today, eight friends, including myself, attended the matinée of the musical Footloose at the new Toby’s Baltimore. The show has been receiving raves from local critics, so we had to go there to see if the critics were right and, most important, we wanted to experience the new venue. The […]
Stupid Frailty
What begins as a familiar riff on Internet dating morphs into an unsettling meditation on death. How does this happen? Credit Laura Zam, who inhabits a fictional character named Maggie Goldfarb. Tiny and attired in a shabby little ballerina’s outfit, Maggie radiates vulnerability from the first moment she walks down the stairs and assumes a […]
Normal C
Fringe Snips: Normal-C, written and performed by Courtney McLean Reviewed by Tim Treanor The word “normalcy” was invented by the notorious political buffoon Warren G. Harding, who sought to describe how things would be for Americans if he was elected President. Proving that God has a sense of humor, Harding won, ushering in an era […]
Review: 3 Mo’ Divas 1 fantastic evening!
di·va ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dv) n. pl. di·vas or di·ve (-v) An operatic prima donna. A very successful singer of non operatic music: a jazz diva So that’s the meaning straight from the dictionary but what is the real meaning of ‘diva’? I think Arena may have the answer with their summer delight Three […]
Tramps and Vamps
Reviewed by Tim Treanor Tramps and Vamps (Ruffian on the Stair/Vampire Lesbians of Sodom), Actors Theater of Washington The great immortal succubus, stage name La Condesa (Nanna Ingvarsson) requires the blood of virgin women to continue living – or rather continue undying. A woman (Rick Hammerly) of indeterminate age (she says fourteen), having experienced the […]
The Duke is butter smooth..
By: Ronnie Ruff Interview by Joel Markowitz Ellington:The Life and Music of the Duke — Metro Stage It’s a hot summer night in DC the original home of Duke Ellington and Carolyn Griffin, artistic director of Metro Stage is glancing nervously around the Metro Stage lobby at the arriving theatre goers. They are there to […]
Alice in Underwear
Alice in Underwear by the Natural Theatricals By: Tim Treanor In Paula Alprin’s new play, Alison Alice (Alprin), a dyspeptic, Anglophile critic with a bad back, is given ninety minutes of what for by spokespeople for the mysterious producer, Sue Z. Not that you’ll mind too much – after all, Alice is an anti-Irish, anti-French […]
Almost Theatre Heaven – West Virginia
By: Debbie Minter Jackson Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV July 13, 2006 Why, oh why has it taken me sixteen years to finally get to Shepherdstown, WV for the Contemporary American Theater Festival, which started the same year I moved here from Chicago? I have heard rumblings about it since its inception, so […]
Drowsy Chaperone
Podcasts by: Joel Markowitz A LANDLESS PSYCHO AND SPRING YOURSELF TO THE ATLANTIC THEATRE BEFORE AUGUST 5TH. WE’RE ALL GETTING DROWSY WAITING FOR THAT BAKER TO ARRIVE I’m kvelling (smiling with immense pride). I bump into DC actors everywhere in NYC productions. It reminds me how far our theatre community has come, and the great […]