by Guest Writer Jon Jon Johnson This all started on a whim. I’ve always wanted to try my hand at devising a piece. While season planning for Avalanche Theatre Company’s 2012-2013 season, I mentioned this desire to my eternal partner-in-crime, known in the real world as Elizabeth Hansen. At the same time we both thought,”… […]
Archives for June 2013
Capital Fringe: Dance of the Wasp and Spider
– by guest writer Larry E. Blossom – All you have to say is, “Newtown, Aurora, Columbine.” Instantly, as if they have been scorched into a collective memory, we are transported to tragic deaths and horrific violence. And the questions follow: What, or who makes a shooter? Why do neighbors always seem shocked when that […]
Capital Fringe: The Goddess Diaries
– by guest writer Carol Lee Campbell- I created The Goddess Diaries as an experiment after years working as a women’s advocate in the Washington area. In 2008, I joined with a friend and co-produced Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues as a fundraiser for our local church. I loved how it worked on many levels to […]
“We own this building!” Keegan officially buys Church Street Theatre and announces its next season
Mark Rhea was rehearsing an emotional moment in Rabbit Hole – a difficult, heartbreaking play and next on the Keegan agenda – with his real-life wife, Susan. “It was this high-tension scene,” Rhea explained later. “I was in it with my wonderful wife, and suddenly I thought – we own this building!”
Slings and Arrows: Season 1:02 Geoffrey’s Return
[wpcol_1third id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_1third] [wpcol_1third id=”” class=”” style=””] This week’s guest: (see her reactions below)[/wpcol_1third] [wpcol_1third_end id=”” class=”” style=””] [/wpcol_1third_end] Nahum: “Oliver Welles…he died last night.” Kate: “So I’m not fired?” (a moment of genuine grief and processing by Kate) Kate: “So what’s going to happen to Hamlet?” Nahum: “Hamlet will […]
Capital Fringe: Mark Twain’s Riverboat Extravaganza!
– by guest writer John Hamilton – After wrapping up our first official show The Sleeping Beauty in Summer 2010, director Matt Reckeweg started talking about the future of Pointless Theatre. At the time, it seemed as if our puppet ballet would be our biggest enterprise, but he told me about two shows that he had […]
Capital Fringe: Carry a Big Stick
– by guest writer Paul Handy – Carry a Big Stick is not your typical Capital Fringe show. It takes us back to September 1901, and tells the story of the accidental president, Teddy Roosevelt, who enters office under the worst possible condition – the assassination of William McKinley. TR longs to become president in […]
Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy
Michael Kantor’s documentary, Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy, examines the extent to which the Broadway musical has been essentially a Jewish creation. It is a loving tribute to a heritage for which all the world should be grateful given the dozens of well known and indeed hundreds if not thousands of lesser known Jewish composers […]
Angel Street
Angel Street (titled Gaslight when English audiences first saw it) is a 1938 suspense thriller. The lovingly rendered production at Olney Theatre Center demonstrates why it was successful both as a Broadway play and a motion picture.
Woolly Mammoth now owns its D Street theatre
Two theatre companies recently became owners of their own performing spaces. This weekend, we attended the celebration of the purchase of Church Street Theatre by its resident company Keegan Theatre (more on that soon.) The second piece of good news arrived on Friday, June 22nd, when Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced that it had purchased […]
Capital Fringe: Waiting for Orson
– by guest writer Ian Leahy – “His name… He said he wants me to call him Orson. He won’t look like an alien. He said he’d try and find a person’s body willing to let him overtake it for a little while…”
Capital Fringe: Four Women
– by guest writer Clarissa McKithen – Four Women is not a performance, but a journey. Not a traditional play, but a glimpse into the multiple dimensions of black womanhood. This production was inspired by Nina Simone’s song with the same title that describes four archetypes of black women – Aunt Sarah, Safronia, Sweet Thing, […]