Pretty soon, every season will be Fringe Season. What once was solely a summer phenomenon has blossomed into an all-year producing organization. This November, FallFRINGE is back!
Archives for October 2011
Karen Zacarias on her Book Club Play
“when opening night comes … it’s like the play’s going out the door to go to college, and I’m giving it one more apple and one more kiss.” When I finally reached DC playwright Karen Zacarías, this mother of three was in the final stages of tweaking The Book Club Play, which was on the verge […]
Breast In Show
Thanks for the mammaries. Breast wishes. Tits a Wonderful Life. You can cry over breast cancer—or you can laugh. Composer, lyricist and playwright Joan Cushing does both—as well as pens some new tunes—in the first original musical about saving the ta-tas, Breast In Show.
Les Misérables cast performs Broadway Cares benefit Oct 24th in DC
The National Tour cast of Les Misérables, currently onstage at the Kennedy Center, will step out on October 24 to present a concert to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, an organization which supports individuals afflicted by critical health issues, including but not limited to AIDS. Tickets are $15, or $10 for students.
All-star cast to stage reading of The Normal Heart for Forum fundraiser
Forum Theatre will stage a reading of Larry Kramer’s Tony Award-winning The Normal Heart on Monday, November 7 at 7.30 as a fundraiser for the company.
Portrait of Poe: with the help of actor Mark Sanders, Poe’s ghost fights eviction by Baltimore City
“We do Bar Mitzvahs.” In the benefit production Portrait of Poe, that’s about as close to optimism as Edgar Allan Poe, gets on October 8, 2011, at Area 405. And the show hasn’t even begun. Having revealed his freelancer roots – anything for money! – Poe (in the body of Baltimore actor and writer Mark […]
When the Dancing Stopped: The Real Story of the Morro Castle Disaster …
How a disaster at sea changed the Cole Porter musical Anything Goes There are times when a theatre buff comes across something he (or she) wants to share with others of like mind which doesn’t happen to be a theatrical book, cd or dvd. This is one of those times.
after the quake
We have, by virtue of our earthquake last August, an inkling of what the people of Kobe, Japan suffered sixteen years ago. The deep inharmonious rumble – the incomprehensible undulation of the floor – the evacuation – the questions; the weak jokes – and everywhere, the chittering of television news reports. Now add to that […]
Nevermore
It must be Matt Month. How else can you explain not one but two musical productions in the area featuring the music of composer Matt Conner?
Man and Boy
Frank Langella’s performance is spell-weaving In late 1963, Terrence Rattigan’s play Man and Boy opened on Broadway with a cast headed by film star Charles Boyer, where it limped along for 54 performances. It followed the London run, which was also brief.
Our Town
There is magic afoot in Ellicott City, specifically at the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park (PFI for short), often referred to simply as “The Ruins.” PFI, which once housed a girls’ boarding school, sits atop the highest hill in Ellicott City.
The Rivals
What Constellation Theatre Company giveth, Center Stage taketh away. Comedies of manners and farce usually send this critic screaming into the night and searching for a bar that serves cocktails in birdbath-sized glasses, but Constellation’s delightful production of A Flea in Her Ear made me soften my stance on these theatrical genres. That, however, proved […]