Arena Stage announces its upcoming 10 production season which features the return of such powerhouse performers as Mary Bridget Davies (One Night with Janis Joplin), Kathleen Turner (Mother Courage and Her Children) and Maurice Hines (Tappin’ Through Life), the American classic Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the musical revue Smokey Joe’s Café, the pre-Broadway presentation of The Velocity of […]
Archives for February 26, 2013
It’s sock puppets doing Rocky Horror. It’s free. Do you need more?
If you saw Nu Sass’s sock puppet version of Into the Woods: In Concert last year, you have probably already snagged reservations to this year’s Socky Horror Puppet Show. If you missed it, here’s a chance to make up for that mistake. Ten actors, puppets at the hand, are taking on all the characters and, yes, in Rocky […]
The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations
Before I launched Theater Shelf, my reviews appeared on the website Potomac Stages. One of my favorites of all the books I reviewed for that outlet was Steven Suskin’s “The Sound of Broadway Music: A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations.” Wanting to spread the word of this fascinating and invaluable book to my newer readership, […]