I wish I could have taken all the actors and producers in town with me to this year’s ShowBiz Expo at the New York Hilton (at 54th Street and 6th Avenue). It’s a great place to meet producers, editors, filmmakers, publicists, designers, talent managers, agents, and directors who are in ‘the business’, and attend their […]
Archives for November 2010
The Master and Margarita
The Synetic Theater troupe erupted onto the Lansburgh Theatre stage last Thursday with its own wildly, hyperkinetic vision of Mikhail Bulgakov’s surrealistic novel, The Master and Margarita. Directed by Synetic’s founder, Paata Tsikurishvili and choreographed by his wife, and ensemble co-founder, Irina Tsikurishvili — both of whom also star in the title roles — this […]
Walter Cronkite Is Dead
Politics is like the weather: the only thing predictable about it is its unpredictability. It changes – and changes back, and changes again – with a speed that keeps us from ever getting too comfortable. On TV, especially, we track politics like we track the weather: streams and currents of hot and cold temperament swirling […]
The Seafarer
The Seafarer makes an interesting addition to the traditional holiday fare that theatres are offering. Quotidian Theatre Company’s latest production is a story of sin and redemption set in an Irish home on Christmas Eve. Despite a slow start, the play eventually evolves into a compelling story of salvation.
One Night with Fanny Brice – CD
If you follow “Our Reviews” on DC Theatre Scene you have already seen Debbie Jackson‘s positive review of the American Century Theater’s production of this show which runs through November 27 at the Rosslyn Spectrum. If you follow “Their Reviews” on the site you may also have found a link to my less positive review […]
Harry Connick, Jr on his Happy Elf
There was plenty of excitement at Montgomery College on Saturday, November 13th when I arrived to interview Harry Connick, Jr. before the press opening of The Happy Elf. Harry Connick Jr. was very grateful that Adventure Theatre and Montgomery College were co-producing this first full production of his new children’s musical.
The Pitmen Painters
In the words of William Feaver, the author of the book on which this play by Lee Hall is based, “It’s often said the play’s the thing. Here though, projected above the heads of the actors — demonstrating once again that art making is art appreciation and art appreciation is also a zest for life—pictures, […]
Romeo and Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending
Fresh from winning both Best Overall Show and Audience Choice Best Comedy at this summer’s Pick of the Fringe Awards, Romeo and Juliet: Choose Your Own Ending is back with both a bang and a whimper, courtesy of two characters who in the original are relatively minor. Here they come forcefully into their own, in […]
Lulu Fall on being a member of the Hair tribe
Lulu’s Back in Town I was so thrilled to hear that DC’s own Lulu Fall was cast in the National Tour of Hair, now playing through this weekend in The Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Lulu’s got it all – she’s a great singer, dancer, and actress, has a bubbly personality and is stunningly gorgeous. I […]
The Happy Elf
Just when you thought you couldn’t take yet another chirpy Holiday story, along comes something with enough zip, creativity and spark to send you rushing to decorate anything that even resembles a tree. That’s what The Happy Elf will do, with mistletoe, and snow flakes to spare.
Superior Donuts
No man is a donut, but it is possible to be as inert and insubstantial as a day-old cruller, and it is roughly this state that Arthur Przybyszewski (Richard Cotovsky), the owner of the eponymous Chicago pastry shop in Tracy Letts’ latest work, has achieved.
Venus at the crossroads
Deb Randall is at a personal and artistic crossroads. As founder and artistic director of Venus Theatre, she has kept the company alive, pretty much on her own, for ten years. Staging plays written, produced and directed by women in a small space at 21 C Street in Laurel’s historic downtown area—where she’s been since […]