It’s not a Halloween trick. Two theatre companies, facing opposition to their presence, are preparing legal defenses in order to protect their rights to remain in their DC locations. Here is now you can help them.
Archives for October 2012
The Rocky Horror Show
Richard O’Brien’s garish and goofy cult classic The Rocky Horror Show is both a Bible and a coloring book. Any troupe playful enough to take it up must honor the show’s signature look, feel, and frisky traditions even as it seeks a genuine pop and irreverance all its own.
Trespassing
DC is just the city for a company like Ambassador Theater. Home to a constant tide of diplomats, businessmen, and wandering tourists, this town must re-translate every day to keep the population flowing. Ambassador knows its audience is up for some cross-cultural fun and games, and they’re clearly excited about this new project: the US […]
Beauty and the Beast
The timeless tale of appreciating kindness and inner beauty comes to life with beautifully stylized marionettes at the Puppet Co. In the loving hands of real-life husband and wife Christopher and MayField Piper, the story has even more resonance as they share the tale of looking beneath the surface to find true love.
Broadway’s Rebecca is in court, but you can hear Europe’s versions now
One might have hoped that by now we’d be talking about an Original Broadway Cast album of Sylvester Lévay’s Broadway debut as a composer of major musicals. Instead all tongues that wag about current events on “The Great White Way” are wagging in heads that are shaking in disbelief as the project – the huge […]
Aaron Posner and Tom Teasley collaborate on The Conference of the Birds
The Conference of the Birds is a theatrical event that has traveled from an “empty space,” to villages in Africa. Now it comes to the stage of the Folger Theatre.
Hellspawn II: Black Aggie Speaks
On December 6, 1885, Miriam Hooper “Clover” Adams, clever, accomplished and rich, took a vial of potassium cyanide to her lips and quaffed it down. She was dead before the vial hit the floor.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Compass Rose is a theater and a training institution, and so has selected a play which can serve as training to all of us. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1935, in the deep South, and on its surface appears to be a story of racial injustice. But the genius of Harper Lee’s novel, […]
Our Class
Illuminating a dark chapter in Poland’s history, Our Class at Theater J features a strong acting ensemble and assured direction by Derek Goldman.
DruidMurphy: Famine
Sometimes a play leaves you with so sweet an ache it lingers for days – so searing is the truth and beauty of it. Such is Tom Murphy’s Famine as I experienced it on opening night.
Jesus Christ / Jesucristo
“My Lord, why have you abandoned me?” cries Jesus, his last words from his heart that rock our souls without deadening our ears. Argentine actor, the gifted Mariano Mazzei as Jesus, looks directly at us from the cross, and into our souls with penetrating eyes. And in playwright Mariano Moro’s stunning poetic outpouring in Jesucristo, […]
DruidMurphy: A Whistle in the Dark
A Whistle in the Dark by Tom Murphy, bears all the marks of a work of that club, dubbed “angry young men,” who penned gritty, primal works that rocked audiences and revolutionized British theatre in the 1960’s. A Whistle in the Dark, the Irish playwright’s first full length play was written at the age of […]