To help us understand what it takes to get a new musical from the page to the Broadway stage, the creators of the new musical in development The Tapioca Miracle are allowing Joel Markowitz exclusive access to the show’s development process and performances.
Archives for June 2009
Five Flights
In Adam Bock’s Five Flights, dad so loved his dead wife, he built a huge, human-sized aviary as a Taj Mahal for her soul. Now, recently deceased, dad has left his heirs its crumbling structure.
The women of Philadelphia’s Grey Gardens: Lisa Peterson, Joy Franz and Hollis Resnik
I’m off for a theatre weekend in the “City of Brotherly Love” with DCTS’ editor Lorraine Treanor to see three classic musicals: Grey Gardens, Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits
Next Fall, Dirty Blonde, Stunning and Everyday Rapture
Technically, New York’s new season begins on June 1, so mine began with a bang. I had no idea what to expect of Next Fall, a Naked Angels production at the small Peter Jay Sharp Theatre .
Shakespeare’s R & J
Consider four young men – let’s call them Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio and Tybalt, but really, they could be anyone – on the very cusp of their adolescence. Chemicals course through their bloodstreams, calling their brains to love and violence.
Spooky Dog and the Teen-Age Gang Mysteries
Ever wonder how your favorite cartoon characters would fare outside their television world? Landless Theatre Company successfully answers that question by giving a certain gang of mystery-solving youths and their hungry pooch a dose of reality
Fever/Dream
Playwright Sheila Callaghan gives us an hilarious play that pops the American corporate blimp. In director Howard Shalwitz and this superlative Woolly Mammoth production,
Play reading about Nixon foe benefits National Women’s Law Center
Monologuist Josh Kornbluth describes Washington as a town where “politics can be theatrical and theatre can be political.” That will be particularly true next Tuesday, June 16th at 7 pm
Toxic Avenger’s John Rando
It’s a brand new day for New Jersey, thanks to Broadway director John Rando’s latest hit The Toxic Avenger. John Rando will always be remembered for his Tony winning staging of one of my favorite musicals – Urinetown.
Actor David Marks dead at 49
Veteran comic actor David Marks, a Helen Hayes laureate for his performance as an uncanny handyman in Arena’s Briar Patch, died in his Washington home last Wednesday following a heart attack. He was 49.
Lincolnesque
A delusional janitor, believing he is Abraham Lincoln, helps write speeches that inspire a political campaign. In lesser hands, this premise would run sitcom thin.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Usually, the success of Cyrano de Bergerac depends upon the perfomance of the actor playing the French swordsman with the heart of a poet and the prodigious proboscis. Yet in the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s quality outdoor staging of the classic work,
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