Take advantage of the brief opportunity to see The In Series’ opera, I Pagliacci. Even if you don’t know opera you might discover that you are already familiar with one of the best known arias in all of the repertoire, Vesti la giubba, by composer Ruggero Leoncavallo. Joe Banno has directed a pair of “pocket […]
Archives for January 11, 2011
Being Harold Pinter reading illuminates the work of Belarus underground theatre
On Monday, January 17th, DC area actors join actors in other cities in reading Being Harold Pinter, the newest work by Belarus Free Theatre. The play incorporates letters from Belarusian political prisoners with excerpts from Harold Pinter’s lifetime of writings, especially his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Ben Brantley, writing for the NY Times, has […]
Merman, Martin and Cook – Oh My!
That amazing time machine, video recordings, is at it again! Theatre lovers have a new opportunity to revisit the 1950s and 1960s when network television offered performances by some of Broadway’s biggest stars singing some of the great songs of the American musical stage. A company called Video Artists International is building an impressive catalogue […]