The six short plays which make up the Source Festival collection Afterward lack the individual superstar brilliance of some of the plays in its other two collections, On the Cusp and In the Midst, but all of them are interesting and fun, and some of them are very good indeed.
Archives for June 2013
Far from Heaven
From a warmly remembered film of the same name, Scott Frankel and Michael Korie, together with director Michel Greif, have fashioned a warm and loving musical play.
Ann Hampton Callaway at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club
There’s a new place to hear live music in town and it’s exquisite. Old school movie house, short lived Nederlander venue (The Bethesda Theatre) turned live music venue, the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club has attracted an array of local and regional talent in recent months and this past weekend, a nationally-recognized artist graced […]
Short Plays at Source Fest: On the Cusp
It is a complicated and difficult art to do a ten-minute play. The playwright must establish his emotional tone immediately, and thereafter add to it. John Guare says that the playwright has fifteen minutes to win his audience over, but for the ten-minute playwright, the production is finished before the fifteen-minute mark is ever reached. […]
Meet our 2013 Capital Fringe staff
This year’s coverage of Capital Fringe will be bigger than ever thanks to our talented crew which includes writers, editors and general managers of the mayhem.
Short plays at Source Fest: In the Midst
Let’s face it: the principal reason you (or anyone) goes to an evening of ten-minute plays is to sample the future. Writing a compelling ten-minute play is an important step in a playwright’s development, in that it forces her to find the core of a story’s dramatic moment, and to bring it to us in […]
The Hampton Years
The world premiere The Hampton Years, lovingly mounted at Theater J, contains important nuggets of the country’s past without feeling pedantic or weighed down by its own history.
DoMore24 extends one more day. Theatres stand to benefit
Have you heard? Due to the onrush of donors which slowed their servers yesterday, DoMore24, the one day community wide giving program of the United Way of the National Capitol Area, is extended to midnight, today (Friday). Your support of just a little lunch money – they suggest donations of $12, $24, $48, but you […]
Source Festival opens this week with fresh works by next gen playwrights
A collection of 25 new works will be performed as part of CulturalDC’s Sixth Annual Source Festival, scheduled for June 7-30, and producer Jenny McConnell Frederick compares the three-week event to audiences flocking to Cannes or Sundance to view films. “It’s an absolutely amazing way to see fresh, hot theatre being made across the country,” […]
War Horse director Tom Morris on his latest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tom Morris is best known for being the director of War Horse, a show that stampeded its way to critical and popular glory on Broadway. He has just returned to this side of the Atlantic with his company, the Bristol Old Vic, to make their US debut with a new production of A Midsummer Night’s […]
Jenny Lee Stern stars as Patsy Cline at Infinity Theatre
Summer’s coming, and with it, Pippin co-producers Anna Roberts Ostroff and Alan Ostroff return to Annapolis to open Infinity Theatre’s third season of bringing New York talent to the region. This year, the romantic Bock/Harnock musical She Loves Me opens July 12th and the season-opener begins this weekend – Always … Patsy Cline starring Jenny […]
Spoleto Festival USA 2013: Celebrating 37 Years as the Most Comprehensive Arts Festival in the Country if not the World
This was my third time to the city, my second to Spoleto USA. This year, the trees of Charleston were what first grabbed my attention. These great ancient creatures with their long snake-like arms reach out and intertwine with other trees to form a sheltering canopy over certain parts of the old town.