by Lorraine Treanor Wow. Queen of the Bohemian Dream opens July 21. 20 days to opening, and just this morning I got the website up, and postcard art submitted to the printer. I love producing. But it’s a job only a masochist would do more than once. Producing is a real roll of the dice. […]
Archives for June 2007
The Phantom of the Opera
Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics by Charles Hart Book by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe Directed by Harold Prince Presented by The Kennedy Center Reviewed by Gary McMillan A recent Playbill.com headline announced “Cat Destroys Lloyd Webber’s Phantom Sequel Score.” Well, Phantom‘s run has surpassed the phenomenal run of Cats – so it’s […]
Dori Berinstein on Show Business
SHOW BUSINESS – IN IT FOR THE LOVE Interviewed by Joel Markowitz Produced by Lorraine Treanor Dori Berinstein has been an insider on the Broadway scene for the past 15 years, a self-described hands-on producer of major shows – most of them hits. She’s no steely eyed, heartless number cruncher. She’s cute, with an easy […]
Warehouse Theater to Close by Inches
The Warehouse, a café and multi-stage theater facility operating on 7th Avenue near the Convention Center, will close its bar and second stage in September preparatory to finding a new home, Producing Director Paul Rapport has announced. “When we reopen in September (after a month-long August vacation in which the entire facility will be closed) we will […]
Welcome to DC Theatre Scene
DC THEATRE REVIEWS IS DEAD! LONG LIVE DC THEATRE SCENE All right, it’s not that big a deal. It’s just that this site has become so much more than reviews – it’s podcasts, news flashes, ticket deals, color and atmosphere – and “DC Theatre Reviews” just seemed kind of limiting. So we changed our name and URL. And […]
Marc Kudisch on Witches of Eastwick
Witches of Eastwick Signature Theatre Interviewed by Joel Markowitz Produced by Lorraine Treanor Marc Kudisch, who plays devil incarnate Darryl Van Horn, lays it on the line about Signature’s Witches of Eastwick. It’s an adult musical with sex, bite and edge. New York’s been waiting for a show like this for years. .. A little […]
Meet the Witches: Emily, Jacqueline and Christiane
The Witches of Eastwick Signature Theatre Interviewed by Joel Markowitz Produced by Lorraine Treanor Broadway divas Emily Skinner, Jacqueline Pirot Donovan and Christiane Noll are the three shunned divorcees of Eastwick, RI who become the high flying Witches. This coven knows how to have a good time. Between laughs, they talk about their characters, about […]
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper
Music by Froggy Moody. Lyrics by various artists. Narrative by David J. Taylor Produced by Landless Theatre Company Directed by Andrew Lloyd Baughman Reviewed by Tim Treanor Unspeakable living conditions, beggars, prostitutes, pickpockets, hideous death, surgical dismemberment, and rock-n-roll. What could be cooler than that, eh? Unfortunately, Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper, is – and […]
Show Business – The Movie – Comes to Town
. Meet filmmaker Dori Berinstein in Person Tuesday, June 26 It’s finally here. The tell-all documentary Show Business: The Road to Broadway which opened last month in New York has just begun its run at the comfy E Street Cinema and filmmaker Dori Berinstein takes questions next Tuesday following the 7:45 showing. Find out how 2004’s Caroline, […]
Souvenir
Studio Theatre’s local premiere of Souvenir is a thorough delight, a finely crafted play that is perfectly showcased and wonderfully performed. Studio has brought local theatre-goers a two-character, master-class gem. Lovable raconteur Cosme McMoon (J. Fred Shiffman) spins an affectionately humorous and warm-hearted reminiscence of his dozen years in the orbit of his late patron, […]
June Contest Winners Announced
In case you missed our earlier (and now lost in the ethernet) announcement, we have winners for our June contests. More about them on our Contest page. Janet Coleman of Washington, DC won a CD of the songs made up for her by the iMusical team (you can hear them on the Contest page), along […]
Macbeth Director Tackles the Naked Question
Interview with José Carrasquillo, director of WSC’s Macbeth playing now at the Clark Street Playhouse, Arlington, VA by Lorraine Treanor As house managers busily prepared for the sold-out audience to arrive on opening night, director Jose Carrasquillo told us how the creation of his unique setting for Macbeth began with the story telling from his […]