Strange Interlude rehearsals continue. We entered rehearsals with a carefully edited script, but it has kept on changing and evolving. There were times when we would stop, in the middle of rehearsing a scene, and put some dialogue back in. I know the play pretty much by heart at this point, and I could see […]
Archives for March 1, 2012
Steinberg Award finalists announced
The $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award will go to a play which portrays a modern American family coping with death, illness, addiction, abandonment or the challenges of beginning anew in a new country, the American Theatre Critics Association announced Wednesday. ATCA will announce the winner and give two $7500 citations to plays from among six finalists […]
Guess the next Sondheim musical
The stunningly prolific musical theater genius Stephen Sondheim has something up his sleeve. But he’s not telling us what it is. Not exactly. Not just yet.
Pinky Swear seeks sound designer for Killing Women
Pinky Swear Productions is a small theatre company in DC that has recently graduated from doing Fringe shows to full productions. We’re looking for a sound designer for our next show, Killing Women, a dark workplace comedy about the complications of upward mobility and recruiting for a band of assassins. It takes place in an […]
Frank Ferrante has bet his life on Groucho
On Saturday, March 3rd, Frank Ferrante will perform his acclaimed solo show An Evening with Groucho at the Alden Theatre in McLean Virginia. Last week, we had the chance to talk about the man he has come to know well over the last 25 years, the one and only Groucho Marx.