Aug 29 – Yesterday morning, DCTS launched its new Hot Ticket Deals column with more discounted and free tickets than ever before. New listings are posted daily by Zoltar, Destroyer of Planets (Retired), the pseudonym of a well known theatre personality. There are 12 ticket offers posted today. Zoltar says there will be special DCTS-only offers coming […]
Archives for August 2007
Mrs. Farnsworth
Mrs. Farnsworth By A. R. Gurney Produced by RepStage Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson Mrs. Farnsworth now playing at Rep Stage in Columbia, is a clever if somewhat light-weight satire of fictionalized early “indiscretions” of the current Commander in Chief. The story unfolds in a creative writing class in New York City and the entire […]
Two Theater Companies Mount Encores
Encores. They don’t happen often but at the start of this year’s season, two companies have been able to fit two recent popular productions into their schedules. You have until Sept 16th to catch Pangs of the Messiah which re-opens tonight at Theater J. Opus, last Spring’s hit for Washington Stage Guild, opens on September 6th with its original cast: Krytzov Lindquist, […]
Act Two’s Annie and Jeckyll and Hyde make the Top 10 performances of 2007
Annie and Jekyll Casts Show Their Stuff By Joel Markowitz Listen for yourself to see why two Act Two musicals from this past season made it into my Top 10 for the year JEKYLL AND HYDE What an honor to hear three vocally incredible young singers in Act Two’s stunning production of Frank Wildhorn’s Jekyll […]
Mr. Baseball
An interview with director Michael Stock and actor Joshua Markowitz by Joel Markowitz I trecked up to NYC to see Mr. Baseball in the NYC Fringe Festival at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in Greenwich Village. My nephew Josh, an aspiring actor, was playing Smitty in the show and I was eager to see this Kosher […]
Private Lives
Private Lives By Noel Coward Produced by Washington Shakespeare Company Reviewed by Janice Cane Washington Shakespeare Company is serving up a bite of fun almost as delectable as the fare offered just beyond the stage at 1409 Playbill Café. Almost. A day later, I’m still salivating over the meal I enjoyed before seeing Noël Coward’s Private […]
Joel Names His Top Musicals and Performers
HITTING ALL THE RIGHT NOTES: THIS YEAR’S BEST MUSICALS! By Joel Markowitz I am a musical theatre crazy, and this year we were blessed with many wonderful productions in our local theatres. Here are my top ten musicals of the year, my top ten musical performances, and the musical performer of the year. BEST MUSICALS […]
Rob McQuay and Joe Peck Interviews
Joel Markowitz Interviews Songs for a New World actors Rob McQuay and Joe Peck Three-time Helen Hayes nominee Rob McQuay who had just finished his demanding role in Songs for a New World, talked with me about what its like to be part of a working theatre couple (his wife Channez was most recently seen […]
Lazarus Syndrome
Lazarus Syndrome By Bruce Ward Produced by Theater Alliance Directed by Paul Douglas Michnewicz Reviewed by Tim Treanor In 1983, concert pianist Elliott Liteman (Michael Kramer) discovered that he had contracted AIDS. He watched in horror and helplessness as dozens of his closest friends, and tens of thousands of other people, died. How did he, […]
AUDIENCE CHOICE Awards
Sept 5 – The results are in. To celebrate, we recorded the Audience Choice Awards show. Tune in to hear James Konicek as host, DCTS staff announce the nominees, and the winners accept. Listen here. Here are the top 5 finalists, and the *winners.
The Hothouse
The Hothouse By Harold Pinter Produced by Longacre Lea Directed by Kathleen Akerley Reviewed by Tim Treanor The Hothouse belongs to that class of absurd, Kafkaesque plays of which Forum’s excellent production of The Memorandum by Vaclav Havel is the most recent local example. That the ultra-serious and occasionally self-righteous Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter could […]
DCTS Announces the first Audience Choice Awards
DC Theatre Scene Announces Its First Audience Choice Awards Aug 19 — With the new season barely begun, we at DC Theatre Scene want to take some time to honor the incredible Plays and Performances of the 06/07 season. The nominations were chosen by our staff from all professional productions in the DC area which opened between August […]