Ah, Wilderness! By Eugene O’Neill Produced by American Century Theatre Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! shows a light, playful side of the playwright that we probably otherwise wouldn’t know was there. Yes, there are undertones and hints of the themes that possess his dark and long days’ journeys — references to […]
Archives for September 2007
Gil Mead Celebration
THE RHYTHM MAN IS HONORED GIL MEAD: A CELEBRATION Monday, Sept 17th in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall Written by Joel Markowitz Photos of the evening’s performers taken at the after party by Joel Markowitz With the lush sounds of strings playing “Bali Ha’I,” from the overture of South Pacific, the Celebration Orchestra, […]
Ready to Expand Our DCTS Staff
We have some new and very exciting features about to be added to DC Theatre Scene. Here are just a few: expanded performance coverage, our new children’s theatre website KidsStage.com, more audio features, new video features We are looking for a few more friends with skills in marketing, graphics design, writing, video production, audio engineering, WordPress editing, grants […]
My Children! My Africa!
My Children! My Africa! Directed by Serge Seiden Produced by Studio Theatre Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson No one writes like Athol Fugard. And nothing touches like a Fugard drama. He sets up scenes with such amazing grace and develops such true-to-life characters that you feel that you not only know them, but have known […]
Titanic
Titanic: The Musical Story & Book by Peter Stone Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston Produced by Toby’s: The Dinner Theatre of Columbia Reviewed by Gary McMillan Occasionally, the American Theatre Wing has awarded a Tony “for adding luster to the Broadway season” (for example, Liza Minnelli in 1974). Occasionally, in a season of lackluster […]
One More Encore
Last winter’s play about two Belfast boys whose boyhoods fell in the midst of The Troubles is coming back for an encore. Keegan Theatre just announced the return of Owen McCafferty’s Mojo Mickybo, once again featuring Christopher Dinolfo as Mojo and Michael Innocenti as Mickybo. The play, directed by Eric Lucas and last seen at Theatre on the Run, comes […]
Merrily We Roll Along
Merrily We Roll Along Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim Book by Peter George Furth Directed by Eric Schaeffer Produced by Signature Theatre Reviewed by Gary McMillan There are some shows that audiences love to hate. Merrily would seem to be the Sondheim show people hate to love.
Accident
Accident Written and performed by Amy Ziff Produced by Theater J at Studio Theatre 2ndStage Reviewed by Ronnie Ruff. Ok…. sorry to say but DC Favorite Amy Ziff is dead. The poor gal slipped in the tub and had a run in with a very sharp straight razor. Smoothly shaved legs have never cost so […]
A Free Performance Honors Gil Mead
Celebrate the life of Gilbert Mead This Monday Evening This Monday, September 17th, a very special performance titled Gil Mead: A Celebration. will be held at the Kennedy Center to celebrate the life of Gilbert Mead, gentle man, NASA physicist, cultural philanthropist, who died this past May of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Together with his wife Jaylee Mead, they […]
Titanic
Sail On, Great Ship Titanic! Titanic: The Musical Toby’s – The Dinner Theatre of Columbia Interviews by Joel Markowitz It was the Press Opening Night of Titanic: The Musical, and I had the opportunity to sit down with its director, co-director and two other performers.
Sidney Harman Hall Opens Saturday
Shakespeare Theatre Company Unveils Its Newest Theatre Washington’s newest theatre will be open to the public for the first time this Saturday, Sept 15, when Shakespeare Theatre Company marks the opening of the Sidney Harman Hall at 610 F St. NW. The new 775-seat venue joins the 451 seat Lansburgh Theatre (Seventh and E Streets […]
Rorschach Takes on the Brothers Grimm
In case you missed the reference in today’s Audience Choice Awards show, Rorschach Theatre has given 6 playwrights – Norman Allen, Randy Baker, James Hesla, Jacqueline E. Lawton, Anne M. McCaw, Gwyddion Suilebhan – 6 days to Myth Appropriate tales from the Brothers Grimm. This is the first of what promises to be an annual Magic in […]