FREE NIGHT OF THEATER, locally organized and sponsored by the League of Washington Theaters, is back and bigger than ever with 17 theatres offering 21 productions. Tickets go on sale Monday, Oct 1st at noon. For those who don’t remember, last year’s tickets were swooped up almost immediately. But before you get ready to reserve […]
Archives for September 2007
Race, Injustice, Healing and Hope
A Lesson Before Dying Sparks Community Dialog by Debbie Minter Jackson The final session of a four-part series organized at Round House Theater explored “race, social justice, and other issues in the play” and involved a stellar panel of presenters – John C. Brittain, preeminent lawyer in the field of civil rights and social justice, […]
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying By Romulus Linney based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines Directed by Timothy Douglas Produced by Round House Theatre Reviewed by Tamera Izlar Read Debbie Minter Jackson’s companion report Race, Injustice, Healing and Hope The elegant Round House Theatre, with its courteous, friendly front of house staff, did little to prepare […]
Studio Turns 30 This Weekend
This weekend, Studio Theatre celebrates the beginning of its 30th year with a weekend long celebration including a reading of the first play produced by Studio, Lanford Wilson’s The Rimers of Eldritch. Amazingly, Studio Theatre was able to assemble the original cast, who have flown in from all over the country for the event. For the […]
Merrily We Roll Along
Dreamgirls
Well
Well By Lisa Kron Produced by Arena Stage Directed by Kyle Donnelly Reviewed by Janice Cane Well is a fantastically original play that explores both personal and societal issues. Well, it’s really a play within a play. Or no, wait, it’s really a theatrical exploration inside a theatrical exploration. Or is it a play within […]
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher Adapted by Nathan Weinberger and Paata Tsikurishvili from a short story by Edgar Allan Poe Produced by Synetic Theater Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili Reviewed by Tim Treanor For the first twenty minutes, The Fall of the House of Usher is the best thing I have ever seen Synetic […]
Yaegel T. Welch on My Children My Africa
Personally Speaking: Actor Yaegel T. Welch Cast member of My Children! My Africa! Interviewed by Joel Markowitz He commands the stage with emotion, power and strength. He’s Yaegel T. Welch, a talented young actor who is playing Thami Mbikwana in Studio Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of the Athol Fugard play. Peter Marks called him […]
No Exit
No Exit By Jean-Paul Sartre Translated by Paul Bowles Directed by Robert McNamara Produced by Scena Theatre Reviewed by Tim Treanor The remarkable thing, considering how celebrated Jean-Paul Sartre is as a chronicler of the human condition’s hopelessness, is how conventional No Exit really is. It is not an existential treatise, it is a morality […]
Kids Musical Petite Rouge in NYMF
Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood, the musical that rocked Imagination Stage two years ago, opens at New York’s Musical Theatre Festival’s 45th Street Theatre on Tuesday, Sept 25th and runs through Tues, Oct 6th. Written by prolific local playwright Joan Cushing (best known for Junie B. Jones and the Miss Nelson series), and directed and choreographed […]
Amy Ziff schmoozes with Joel Markowitz
ACCIDENTAL CELLIST: Schmoozing With Amy Ziff by Joel Markowitz