As read first in today’s Backstage from The Washington Post, Catalyst Theater, located not far from DC’s Eastern Market, is doing a special performance of The Flu Season this Saturday, May 26 at 2 pm with proceeds going to help the merchants displaced by the recent Eastern Market fire, and will contribute all of next season’s […]
Archives for May 2007
Dine Out Tonight to Help Eastern Market
From PotomacStages.com Help Eastern Market By Dining Out Tonight Before Seeing The Witch at Clark Street May 21, 2007 – Monday evenings often offer few choices for theater fans. Tonight you might consider a pre show dinner at any of nearly a dozen restaurants on Capitol Hill and then a pay-what-you-can performance of a staged […]
Baghdad’s Theater of War
One more lesson from Baghdad. This time, on the will of Baghdad’s theatre community to keep performing. Suuni, Shiite and Christian performers risk all to continue the work of the National Theatre. Ernesto Londono’s report to The Washington Post on the company’s satirical ‘Intensive Care Unit’ is well worth the read.
Karen Kandel from Peter and Wendy
Interviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson with Lorraine Treanor Karen Kandel plays both the Narrator and gives voices to all the puppet characters in Peter and Wendy. Peter Pan has been loved as a children’s story. In a rare conversation, Ms. Kandel takes us into the Mabou Mines adaptation of the play as an adult’s journey, […]
Scenes from the Big Picture
By Owen McCafferty Produced by Solas Nua and Tinderbox Theatre Company (Belfast) Directed by Des Kennedy Reviewed by Tim Treanor In Mojo/Mickybo, Owen McCafferty’s two-man tragedy staged by Keegan last January, Belfast bled all over the stage, as the City’s ceaseless Catholic-Protestant conflict made mincemeat out of two young boys’ friendship, and out of everything […]
Blue Orange
By Joe Penhall Directed by Jeremy Skinner Produced by Theater Alliance Reviewed by Tim Treanor You know that something is wrong the moment the lights come up. A large, aggressive man is standing on a chair in a semi-crouch, loose-limbed and swaying. Another man, wearing a lab coat, is trying to talk to him. […]
Callie Kimball Talks with Big Picture Director
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 […]
Nancy Robinette Steps into Souvenir
Studio Theatre announced that Nancy Robinette will be replacing Anna Bergman in the upcoming Studio production of Souvenir, which opens June 13th. The acclaimed actress Ms. Robinette, whose singing voice is unknown to us, will be playing the famously off-key chanteuse Florence Foster Jenkins, with none other than J. Fred Schiffman as composer/accompanist Cosme McMoon. When […]
Two Shows Go an Extra Week
In case you are just catching on that there is a wickedly funny comedy happening at H Street Playhouse, Theater Alliance has given you an extra week to get tickets to In On It starring Jason Lott, Jason Stiles, and one hilarious dance number. The show, running in rep with Blue/Orange , closes May 27th. […]
The Oracle
By Ed Shockley Produced by African Continuum Theatre Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson It’s not often you find a work that features a young black female on the classic hero’s quest, seeking answers to life’s baffling questions about one’s role, purpose, identity. Rarer still is to have the caliber of actors-Jewell Robinson and Erika Rose in […]
Theodore Bikel, Act 2
Interviewed by Joel Markowitz with Lorraine Treanor “We are the tales that we tell.” Continuing his conversation with Joel Markowitz, master story teller Theodore Bikel covers a lifetime of experiences and lessons learned. Always, there is Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof, the role he has played more often than any actor on earth. He […]
The Tempest
By William Shakespeare Produced by Folger Shakespeare Theatre Reviewed by Tim Treanor Aaron Posner is one of the best directors at work in Washington. He is an unparalleled interpreter of Shakespeare who justly won two Helen Hayes Awards in three years for his direction of Shakespeare plays. This time around, he has made a decision […]
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