It isn’t often that a production will justify a reviewer’s use of the delightful word “pixilated,” especially as a homonym. That said, if ever there was a time, it is now. In Michel Lemieux and Victor Pilon’s utterly transfixing and transporting 4D tribute to Scots-Canadian pioneer filmmaker Norman McLaren, here for a brief three-day engagement […]
Archives for October 2011
Mike Daisey urges a deeper look at the legacy of Steve Jobs
In the end, Steve Jobs failed to “think different,” in the deepest way In his brilliant monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, seen here at Woolly Mammoth last March, Mike Daisey laid out both his obsession with Steve Jobs and Apple’s technology, and the shocking truths he discovered in a visit to […]
The Ides of March
Beau Willimon’s 2008 play Farragut North, about the cynical choices of a young political press spokesman, gets a Hollywood makeover that expands, but doesn’t necessarily improve it.
This Rorschach inkblot looks like a phoenix
It is 2009, and we are in the midst of a recession. A bad one. Good small theaters – Catalyst, Firebelly, Didactic, Meat and Potatoes,– are gone, swept out in a blood tide of depressed ticket sales and diminished donations. And Rorschach – the most inventive, and one of the best of them all gets […]
Lighting Designer Ayun Fedorcha (1957 – 2011)
Ayun Fedorcha, a Helen-Hayes nominated lighting designer who served as resident artist for two Washington companies, passed away after a long illness on September 28th. She was 53.
South Pacific
In an era where ‘sour’ seems to say it all, there’s one thing to like about South Pacific at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre even before seeing it. This 1949 musical about American Seabees stuck on an island paradise in the middle of World War II is a flashback to an age when Americans had a pretty […]
Chicago
A web of betrayal, scandal, and murder is brewing deep in the heart of Columbia, MD. In their crowd-pleasing production of Chicago, Toby’s Dinner Theatre puts their own stamp on the sordid story of Roxie Hart and Velma Kelly, transporting audiences from the cozy performance space into a tale of criminal intrigue as big as […]
Lungs
Feeling a bit overwhelmed by some of the magnificent productions on DC theater boards, their elegant sets and colorful costumes either enhancing or competing with the luscious language emanating from lushly made-up mouths of too many characters to count without a playbook? If so, does Studio Theatre have a play for you.
Aladdin’s Luck
Overlooked by the powerful, and eager for a chance to prove himself, Aladdin hungers for some sign of magic to pick him up out of life’s daily routine. The same can be said of the target audience for Aladdin’s Luck: children, ages four and up, some of whom are seeing live theatre for the first […]
Million Dollar Quartet – Original Broadway Cast Recording
It’s about time! Finally, after the show has ended its Broadway run, we can buy the cast recording of Million Dollar Quartet in a record store or online.
Wit
Cancer is the great equalizer. You can be smart, dim-witted, a marshmallow or a field marshal—its ruthless, endlessly propagating cells ravage everyone the same.
Natascia Diaz on playing the dramatic lead at MetroStage
More accustomed to sequins and spotlights, Natascia Diaz talks about her role as Denise Savage in John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo Some people go to theater for the glamour of it, and imagine the stage as a place of magic, a frictionless universe where heightened adventures bloom and dissolve into cotton candy dreams in […]