From her New York City apartment, playwright Caridad Svich graciously agreed to an hour-long phone chat last week, to talk about the GALA’s staging of The House of the Spirits/La casa de los espiritus, based on the best-selling, eponymous novel, by the award-winning Chilean-American author Isabel Allende.
Archives for January 2013
Monologue Madness 2013 – actor registration opens this morning
Wake up! – DC area actors – grab your coffee, then dig out your primo 90 second audition monologue. You know. The God-I’m-great-you-gotta-cast-me one. Because signups for Monologue Madness start at 10 a.m. this morning online, and, if Year 2 was any indication, slots will fill up pretty quickly.
Terri White in Barbara Cook’s Spotlight
Most recently seen at The Kennedy Center in Eric Schaeffer’s lavish production of Stephen Sondheim’s Follies, Terri White has returned to the Washington, DC area, but this time with a single spotlight shining on her.
Contractions at Studio Theatre extended
Enthusiastic box office response has earned another 5 performances this week for Mike Bartlett’s searing satire Contractions starring Holly Twyford and Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan.
Glee 4:11 – Sadie Hawkins
Why Glee, have you gone and changed on me? Me being out of the Glee loop for the last several months may have actually benefited this week’s adventures at McKinley High and NYADA. See, part of what often frustrates me about this show is how wildly it shifts in tone from episode to episode. Or […]
The Minotaur
If most teenage girls described their brother as a beast, we would chalk it up to youthful exaggeration. In Ariadne’s case it is literally true since her half-brother is The Minotaur, the eponymous character in Rorschach Theatre’s joint world premiere of a quirky, thoughtful, and entertaining new play by Anna Ziegler.
Theatre community supports the March for Gun Control this Saturday.
Local and national leaders, joined by members of the DC area theatre community, will take part in Saturday’s March on Washington for Gun Control in support of President Obama’s plan for preventing gun violence.
Nice Work If You Can Get It (revisited)
This musical pastiche, put together with bits and pieces of a dozen old musical comedies, opened 9 months ago at the Imperial on Broadway, and it’s very much still there, doing business that defies the mostly negative reviews that first greeted it.
Toyland
It seems like a perfect premise for The Puppet Co — a master toymaker is kidnapped but escapes in time to lead a parade of beautiful new toys. Christopher Piper does double duty portraying the toymaker and, along with fellow master puppeteer Tony Strowd, manipulates a host of characters.
A young actor prepares to lead his band of brothers in Folger’s Henry V
This week, on the west side of the U. S. Capitol, with millions watching, President Barack Obama gave his second inaugural address calling for unity as we seize the future together. Just a few short blocks away, a leader from the pages of history prepared to deliver rousing speeches for a more intimate audience.
Winnie the Pooh
The winning cast members of Adventure Theatre’s Winnie the Pooh bring the characters to life in this loving, living adaptation. The old familiar events are there, but the pacing and style from director Jerry Whiddon and the engaging songs, lyrics and musical passages add a whole new dimension to the experience.
Signature Theatre gets in the Shakespeare spirit with $25 Stalls tickets
Joe Calarco’s groundbreaking play Shakespeare’s R&J breaks new ground again when it opens in the theatre more accustomed to the sights and sounds of Sondheim. Signature Theatre is producing the play (it’s first Shakespeare) in the round and in the MAX theatre.