Seven who stole the show this Fall By Joel Markowitz It’s highway robbery when all of a sudden in the middle of a play or musical, a performer comes on the stage and grabs the show away from the leads. You say, “Wow! Who was that person?” So, here are seven scene stealers from shows […]
Archives for November 2007
Christmas Comes to Broadway. The Strike Is Over.
Nov 29 — The Local One stagehand’s strike, begun the morning of November 10th, ended last night with a tentative agreement that could have some shows opening as early as today. The strike shuttered 27 of Broadway’s biggest shows, costing heartache to tourists and performers and lost revenues to the tune of $2 million per […]
A Christmas Carol, Take 1
Ed’s note: Will Synetic’s Christmas Carol thrill children and adults? DCTS reviewer Gary McMillan speaks for the adults, (See Take 2) and our young reviewer gives his perspective here. ————————————- A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili and Dan Istrate Produced by Synetic Theater at Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre Reviewed by Hunter Kieserman I […]
A Christmas Carol, Take 2
A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens, adapted by Nathan Weinberger Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili and Dan Istrate Choreographed by Irina Tsikurishvili Produced by Synetic Theater Reviewed by Gary McMillan Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh with the hounds of hell nipping at your heels. Synetic Theater has taken on the Dicken’s […]
Christmas Carol 1941
Christmas Carol 1941 By James Magruder Directed by Molly Smith Produced by Arena Stage Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson Who knew that the age-old Christmas Carol story could be adapted to wartime Washington, D.C and filled with such local and national history? Talented playwright James Magruder has internalized the familiar messages of memory, retribution, and […]
Happy Days
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett Directed by Deborah Warner Produced by The National Theatre of Great Britain Presented at the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy When Samuel Beckett’s wife asked him to write a cheerful play, he wrote Happy Days in which a mid-life woman is buried in an earth […]
Shining City
Shining City by Conor McPherson Directed by Joy Zinoman Produced by Studio Theatre Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy That there’s an element of mythical unworldliness in Conor McPherson’s mesmerizing play Shining City is implied in the title, that echoes scripture, “A city on a hill cannot be hid.” Or “Let your light shine before men.” The […]
Alone It Stands
Alone It Stands By John Breen Directed by Eric Lucas and Kerry Waters Lucas Produced by Keegan Theatre’s New Island Project Reviewed by Tim Treanor To understand the impact of Munster’s 1978 triumph over the New Zealand All Black team, you must imagine that the New England Patriots, fresh from its 63-0 triumph in the […]
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden Based upon the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett Directed by Michael J. Bobbit Produced by Adventure Theatre Reviewed by Jonny Perl Like a ballet that tells a story, The Secret Garden opens with a series of magnificent tale-telling dances. A snake in India is cleverly charmed. Mary’s parents suffer a horrid death […]
Inside Broadway
A Return Visit with Broadway Pundit Richard Seff By Joel Markowitz
Spunk
Spunk Based on the writings of Zora Neale Hurston Adapted by George C. Wolfe Music by Chic Street Man Directed by Ken Yatta Rogers Produced by Tribute Productions in association with African Continuum Theatre Conpany Reviewed by Stanley Stocker Spunk is framed by a single question posed at the beginning and again at the end […]
Waverly Gallery
The Waverly Gallery By Kenneth Lonergan Directed by Christopher Carroll and Dana Edwards Produced by Didactic Theatre Company Reviewed by Tim Treanor In The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan paints a subtle, honest, and exquisitely detailed picture of a family wracked by Alzheimer’s. It is a family portrait because Alzheimer’s doesn’t attack the sufferer alone: it […]