Aug 18, 2010 — As the chance to register to vote in this year’s Audience Choice Awards draws to a close – deadline is tonight at midnight – we are getting a lot of questions from readers confused by our new voting procedure. Since we don’t want anyone to be disappointed, we’ll do our best […]
Archives for August 2010
See South Pacific live from Broadway tonight
Aug 19, 2010 — What an enchanted evening tonight will be when PBS’s “Live from Lincoln Center” presents the 7-time Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical South Pacific. You can watch it locally on two PTS stations: WETA, Channel 26 at 8pm, re-broadcast on Aug 19 at 1am, 6am and 2pm, and again […]
Looking back on the Hispanic Theatre season
Looking back at the excellence in the 2009-2010 Hispanic Theatre season is really looking forward to more to come. This summer, after working in a coffee community, a voluntary collective of “fincas” (small farms), and living with a family in El Salvador, I emerge ever more wide-eyed and aware of the great need for more […]
Blumenfeld’s Dictionary of Musical Theater
Last May I told you about an “Encyclopedia of Theater” that was interesting but not very useful as a reference work. Well, I’ve found a useful volume to fill the need. In fact, two volumes filled with easy to find entries for the words/titles/names a theatre lover needs to check from time to time.
Audience Choice Award Nominations announced
This year, DC Theatre Scene writers and staff have given 212 nominations to the work of 42 area theatre companies and 118 performers and an additional 25 nominations for touring, (non-resident produced shows) for professional productions which opened in the DC area from August 15, 2009-August 1, 2010 You will find the list of companies […]
Separated at Birth
When the lights come up and the bodies start to crowd, do you come off as a scowler or a smiler? The rush hour platform’s peppered with both populations. On the one hand: Metro commuters who want nothing more than uninterrupted solitude on their ride from point A to point B. On the other hand:
Best Musicals and Best Musical Performances of 2009-2010
Musicals are my life and I saw a lot of them on DC-area stages in the past year – in professional theatres, community theatres, family theatres, children’s theatres, high schools, and programs that train young actors.
Casting Challenge: Pick your favorite musical and play and cast the leads
Question #3 in our series, getting ready for voting for the 2010 Audience Choice Awards. (In case you haven’t been following along, #1 is here, and #2 is here.) This fun exercise was dreamed up by Steven McKnight: Casting Challenge: Pick your favorite musical and play and cast the leads.
Cat’s Cradle
For two decades during the twentieth century, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. wrote some of the most important fiction coming out of America. The six novels which comprise his earliest and best work – Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat’s Cradle, God Bless You Mr. Rosewater, and Slaughterhouse-5 – were a riot of strange […]
Nunsense
The nuns from The Order of the Little Sisters of Scaggsville who we meet in Toby’s Dinner Theatre’s production of Nunsense are anything but the stern, strict, knuckle-rapping, humorless disciplinarians you may have heard about.
Who were the most memorable characters you saw portrayed this season?
Here is the second in our series of questions thinking back over the past season as we get ready for the 2010 Audience Choice Awards. Again, Steven McKnight came up with it. Who were the most memorable characters you saw portrayed on a DC stage this season?
Secrets of the Trade
Jonathan Tolins is a gifted playwright who has stayed pretty much in his own personal backyard in tackling his issues of the day. The Twilight of the Golds introduced him to me seventeen years ago when it featured Jennifer Grey on Broadway for a short run.