Chad Bauman, a fixture at Arena Stage since 2007, will become Managing Director of Milwaukee Repertory Theater effective June 1, the Company announced today.
Archives for April 2013
The Helen Hayes Awards show – Bit by bit, they’re putting it together
How do they do it? We talk with Jerry Whiddon, Renee Calarco and Linda Levy Grossman Every year, the Helen Hayes Awards show prompts some musing on tradition. Why is it that on this night above all others we gather together, much of DC’s theatre community under one roof, and put on a special show?
Shipwrecked without a clue – Inside British comedy Neville’s Island at Olney Theatre
An Interview with Olney Theatre’s Jason King Jones and actor Michael Russotto Take four middle-managers from a Manchester business firm – think the UK version of “The Office.” Now hurl them into a rough and tumble setting where these members of the British middle class are literally fish out of water, being trapped on a tiny […]
At Folger, All Shakespeare, All Season 2013-2014
Folger Theatre will feature four of the Bard of Avon’s finest plays in its 2013-2014 season, the company announced today.
Robert O’Hara on directing Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop
Turning a man into myth isn’t complicated — it happens easily, even naturally, over time. But finding the man at the root of the the myth can be trickier, and unfolding his page out of history into his original three dimensions takes a careful touch. Robert O’Hara leads an effort to do such an honor […]
Playwright John Carter – how do reviews affect a new play?
By anyone’s definition, John Carter is one pretty hip guy. As past vocations, he lists merchant seaman, railroadman and writer for hire. His poetry placed him as front man for rock groups Eros and Luna, and a performance at the Library of Congress.
American Utopias
Mike Daisey is a rare kind of artist, one who can forsake all theatrical bells and whistles and still captivate an audience via sheer charisma and wry wit. In the Woolly Mammoth premiere of his incisive new monologue American Utopias, Daisey uses his preacher’s magnetism and fierce creativity to examine the surprising, if fuzzy, links […]
Mike Daisey on his latest Woolly show, American Utopias
Mike Daisey’s colorful reputation precedes him. He has spent many years becoming one of America’s most unusual, outspoken, and admired solo performers (he would say, more accurately, a ‘monologist’), performing several new shows every year as he attempts, often in very funny ways, to make sense of the charms, foibles, and hypocrisies of the human […]
Written for Helen Hayes, now at TACT: Happy Birthday
Anita Loos, the charming and talented screenplay writer and novelist, was having a sort of mid life crisis in her career and in her personal life in 1946. Ms. Loos was 58 years old at the time, and had finally left her husband, John Emerson, an abusive hypochondriac who stole money and credit from her. […]
Hello, Dolly!
The joint Signature Theatre/Ford’s Theatre mini-version of the classic tart of a musical Hello Dolly! is charming and delightful, if a bit lackluster.
Gilbert & Sullivan’s Greatest Hits
A DVD that should have been titled “Gilbert and Sullivan and Ford” has been released on Video Artists International under the title “Gilbert and Sullivan’s Greatest Hits.” Fewer than 50 of the 96 minutes of the material are from “Tennessee” Ernie Ford’s television show, but they are the delights of the disc.
Mary T. and Lizzy K. debuts at Arena Stage
There are some things money can’t buy; for everything else there’s the White House credit card. Mary Todd Lincoln had no qualms about spending major First Lady funds on clothing. But her disinterest in cost — in the value of the labor that goes into building those gloves, skirts and dresses she so compulsively collected […]