It didn’t surprise me that Elden Street Players (ESP) would tackle Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story by Stephen Dolginoff. On their Web site, Past President Rich Klare writes “Our brand of theatre is not for everyone, for which we make no apologies. We try to offer theatre that is challenging and thought provoking, as well as entertaining.” […]
Archives for April 2011
Saudade: Songs of Longing & Celebration (Nostalgia y Cancion)
After a resounding success in March with WAM2, In Series Artistic Director Carla Hubner takes another daring leap by bringing together the unexpected. Now back on home turf in the more intimate Source theatre space, In Series stages Saudade: Songs of Longing & Celebration, a show for poetry lovers. It is an intimate jazz-Brazz revue that […]
The Glass Menagerie
The Tennessee Williams Centennial Festival has closed, but 1st Stage’s sensitive and skilled rendition of The Glass Menagerie allows us to revel in the talent of the great Tennessee Williams once again.
New Woolly Mammoth season to bring us to the end of the world
Some say the world will end in fire, the poet Robert Frost observed, and some say in ice, but at Woolly Mammoth next season the world will end with a rampage of feral pigs, a hip-hop Thomas Jefferson selling snack food, a post-apocalyptic nation mourning its beloved cartoon character (this is a musical), Midwesterners yearning […]
Nick Adams and J. Elaine Marcos from Broadway’s Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical
Nick Adams and J. Elaine Marcos talk to us about playing Adam/Felicia and Cynthia They both wear outrageous colorful and eye-popping costumes and dance and sing their hearts out in the entertaining Broadway production of Priscilla Queen of the Desert The Musical. What are the challenges of performing in a high-energy, quick-costume-changing, and visually stunning […]
The Resurrectionist King
The Resurrectionist King, now being given active voice by Active Cultures, tells a pretty good story. Regrettably, it tells that story in the second Act, after the passage of forty-five tedious, predictable, unfunny minutes. The second Act is a moral boxing match on the subject of grave-robbing, a ghoulish practice essential to the teaching of […]
Priscilla Queen of the Desert – Broadway cast recording
Good news + Bad news = Good disc! The delightful Broadway cast album of this not quite so delightful Broadway show is a fun listen. It may stay in your CD player longer than you’d expect … and get re-inserted when your spirits need a bit of a lift.
A chat with An Ideal Husband’s Lord Goring – Cameron Folmar
The audience and I went ‘wilde’ watching Cameron Folmar’s performance of Lord Goring in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s The Ideal Husband. It wasn’t just the playwright’s clever words, it was Cameron’s wry delivery, charm, smile and style that may us laugh so loud and often. Cameron Folmar was born to play this role!
Liberty Smith
As many in the music-theatre world will tell you, three main genres of musicals are being produced today. There’s your “classic” fare from the golden days of 30’s and 40’s American musical. There’s your Sondheim and Sondheim spinoffs. And then there’s Disney. The last is marked by amiable tunes supported by somewhat witty if anachronistic lyrics in […]
Stick Fly
No need to finagle an invite to the LeVay family’s handsomely appointed summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. Just get a ticket to Everyman Theatre’s deliciously enjoyable production of Lydia R. Diamond’s Stick Fly, kick back and savor this household’s unique blend of hospitality and dysfunction.
Three Men on a Horse and Cactus Flower
If you’re the sort of theatre goer who enjoys taking old plays off the library shelf, dusting them off, having a look at what went down well in past decades, New York has a grand assortment for you, on and off Broadway.
The Worthys, DC’s newest theatre award, comes from left field
We were stunned, as we are sure you will be, to read that Washington has a new award for theatrical excellence, The Worthy Awards, named in honor of Nationals ballplayer, Bayson Worth, and that it will be presented today either at the ball park or the National Mall (actual location not announced as of this […]