Christopher Henley, the long-time Artistic Director of WSC Avant Bard, will step down from that position in order to spend more time with his family, the company announced today. Tom Prewitt will succeed Henley in the position.
Archives for February 2013
Metamorphoses
The water drew me in. The performance kept me there. And now the indelible images flood my memory as I replay the scenes of men and women being at one with the water, floating age-old stories into the air and back again.
Venus Offers a Season Full of World Premieres
Venus Theatre, the Laurel, Maryland troupe which specializes in plays about the experiences of women, will offer a four-play season in 2013 in which three of the works are world premieres, the company has announced.
The 2013 Oscars – a theaterlover’s guide
Normally the Academy Award nominations are an annual opportunity for film fans to gripe about how out-of-touch the Hollywood establishment is with quality filmmaking. But something strange happened on the way to the red carpet this year: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences actually produced a decent and diverse crop of contenders. And […]
Canterbury
I missed Canterbury Tales day in AP English. I missed Canterbury Tales day in college, too. In fact, I’m ashamed to admit that the closest I’ve come to Chaucer’s widely celebrated work is downloading it (for free!) on my Kindle, and feeling satisfied to include it my library titled “Classics…. To Read Later.”
Glee 4:14 – I Do
In which the expression “I Do” can be applied everywhere but the most obvious place. Glee generally goes for the obvious with its titles, and “I Do” certainly can be read that way. However, since Emma “didn’t”, it forces a little extra perception about who, in fact, said “I do” in the hour, and to whom.
Glengarry Glen Ross
Spend one minute with this sweat-browed clan of real estate agents, racing at full gallop through this most wickedly entertaining of David Mamet’s dark comedies, and you’ll see right away that this ain’t their first rodeo.
Molotov goes to the movies for its next murderous season
Three macabre plays which were later transformed into movies will make up the 2013-2014 season for Molotov Theatre Group, the company announced this Valentine’s Day.
Get a job at Arena Stage
In Good People, the David Lindsay-Abaire play now playing at Arena Stage, Margaret, a single mother, loses her job and faces eviction. The story takes place in South Boston, but the reality of the difficulty of finding work in today’s tight economy resonates in communities across the country, including here in the Washington, DC area. Inspired by the […]
Pomme Koch, backstage at Folger’s Henry V
To paraphrase Tom Lehrer: Be prepared. That’s the understudy’s solemn creed. Our colleague, the astute theatre observer John Glass, noted that a recent performance of Henry V necessitated a sudden replacement of a cast member. Correctly sensing a good story in the waiting, he interviewed one of the actors affected, Pomme Koch.
Shakespeare’s R&J
Shakespeare’s R&J is a dance, exquisitely choreographed by Joe Calarco with words and music by William Shakespeare. It is the Bard’s great tragedy, done up almost to the word, but recontextualized, as the passage of almost four hundred years might recontextualize it. Or, put another way, it is exhibit A in behalf of the case […]
Surviving, Southie-style, in Good People at Arena Stage
We talk with Johanna Day, who plays Good People‘s central character, and director Jackie Maxwell Margie Walsh is good people. A single parent, who has to work hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck, to survive and take care of her special needs daughter. A great night for Margie is to kick back with her friends and […]