What can two DC artistic directors – separated by more than twenty years of producing experience – learn from one another? Long time producer, Martin Blank of American Ensemble Theater and Jason Schlafstein, Co-Founder of the fledgling Flying V sit down with one another to find out.
Archives for November 2, 2011
Cabaret Macabre
Happenstance Theater has found a winsome way to keep Halloween in our hearts all year long—the chills, the thrills, the frights, the things that go bump in the night. The troupe’s Cabaret Macabre celebrates the season of the witch, the Day of the Dead and every doomsday in-between with a decorously lurid vaudeville dedicated to […]
The How and the Why
A central question for any two character play is whether the playwright can keep the audience interested. Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why succeeds through an intelligent blend of personal, political, and intellectual conflicts in an absorbing new production at 1st Stage.