NextStop Theatre Company, the Herndon-based professional theatre company which has grown out of one of the DC-area’s best community theaters, announced an ambitious five-production season for 2013-2014 last Friday.
Archives for April 2013
Wallenstein
Wallenstein’s director Michael Kahn, poet laureate Robert Pinsky who adapted the original work by Schiller, and lead actor Steve Pickering, all share with the central figure of Wallenstein a sense of enormous vision, purposeful ambition, and potential greatness. Together, they have mounted a much-neglected dramatic classic to speak to today’s audience through this iconic historical […]
Michael Kahn to direct world premiere Colaizzo play at Signature Theatre
Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn returns to Signature this fall for the first time in nearly twenty years to direct the world premiere of Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill, the new play by Paul Downs Colaizzo.
The Assembled Parties
Richard Greenberg is a prolific playwright whose Take Me Out established him some years ago as a welcome new voice. That play about the locker room aspects of a baseball team and the coming out of one its major players won about every award going including the Tony as Best Play.
Smash 2:11 The Dress Rehearsal
Amazing what a little perspective shift can accomplish. Throughout this week’s installment, Karen and Jimmy behave at what I can only assume is their most petulant level ever. They both, at varying points, lash out, privately and publicly, at Derek Wills, as he makes changes to Hit List that are not necessarily in their favor. They […]
The Price
If you’re an Arthur Miller devotee, you’ll probably have mixed feelings about The Price. But if you’ve yet to see Death of a Salesman or The Crucible or All My Sons or any of Miller’s earlier, better-known works, what some may see as second-tier Arthur Miller will seem to you like first-tier theatre. And in […]
Cabaret Latino at Source
Who needs cherry blossoms when you have baritone José Sacín’s voice in full bloom? Fern-like, tropical trees line the Source Theatre’s audience entrance to invite us into a lush, breezy-cool nightclub staging. We are seated in a tiered grandstand arrangement. Six tables in a semi-circle, confronting an upright piano against white fabric and leaf-patterned backdrops, […]
Free WSC reading of Orlando tonight at Artisphere
WSC Avant Bard returns to Artisphere tonight at 8pm for a reading of Sarah Ruhl’s new adaptatation of the Virginia Woolf novel Orlando. Based in part on the life of Woolf’s lover Vita Sackville-West, the novel has been described as “the most charming love-letter in literature.” Reading the roles will be Sara Barker and Kim Curtis, […]
Eleemosynary
Family. F-A-M-I-L-Y. It can be difficult no matter how easily you can spell it, no matter how eccentric you choose to be in order to escape it, no matter how far you run from it. Which is exactly how Echo (Maya Brettell), Dorothea (Ilona Dulaski) and Artie (Janel Miley) attempt to make sense of it […]
Artists respond to the Boston bombings
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” –Leonard Bernstein It’s already starting. The Gothamist reports that last night the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Peter Jay Sharp building became a canvas, displaying messages of support for Boston. Share what you’ve seen […]
Ryan Rilette on directing Bill Cain’s How to Write a New Book for the Bible
For the current production of Bill Cain’s deeply personal How to Write a New Book for the Bible, Ryan Rilette, producing artistic director at Round House Theatre, has moved to the director’s chair for the first time since taking the reins at the Bethesda theatre. The former producing artistic director of Marin Theatre Company in California’s […]
Next step in our digital music evolution
A look at the top on-demand streaming music libraries “Could it be? Yes it could. / Something’s coming, something good.” So Mr. Sondheim wrote over half a century ago.Then he was writing about young love. Now it is time to make that same prediction, but this time it is about all things music.