“Actors! You’re all the same! You’re all a bunch of selfish, whiny children! Well fuck you all! Fuck off, you fuckers!” – Maria
Archives for July 2, 2013
Capital Fringe: A Guide To Dancing Naked
– by guest writer Brynn Tucker – I first got the idea for A Guide to Dancing Naked while dancing naked by myself in my apartment. I said to myself: I do this all the time, and no one knows I do this! Not even my boyfriend who lives with me! I’ve become a professional […]
Peter Pan and Wendy
Lots of fresh new insights abound in this cheerful rendition of Peter Pan and Wendy at Imagination Stage. The well-known story feels bubbly fresh in the hands of director Kathryn Chase Bryer who orchestrates the cast’s multiple entrances with Peter, covering every inch of the stage and sending them out through the audience seeking affirmation […]
Source Festival extends Perfect Arrangement
CulturalDC’s Source Festival just added 3 more performances for its festival hit, Topher Payne’s comedy Perfect Arrangement. The premiere is about two closeted Georgetown couples in the 50s, whose perfect arrangement is to pose as straight couples. It works until their government jobs place them in the midst of the gay witch hunts. Tim Treanor […]
Lumina and Round House respond to Round House Silver Spring issue
Lumina Studio’s Artistic Director David Minton, on Sunday, called a Lumina report that a Lumina spokesperson had given DC Theatre Scene “strictly internal and used to generate new ideas” and characterized its release as “a mistake.” Complaints about the space’s management, Minton said, “had nothing to do with suggesting a change to the single operator […]
Dr. Seuss’s Cat in the Hat
The principal lesson of Adventure Theatre’s curiously inert and un-Adventuresome production of the Dr. Seuss classic appears to be watch out for mom, since the shenanigans our laid-back Cat in the Hat (Rick Hammerly) proposes to Sally (Jessica Shearer) and her brother (Tyler Herman) are so mild and slo-mo that they could be offensive only […]
Beating Broadway – How to Create Stories for Musicals That Get Standing Ovations
Writing a musical is a task that takes both talent and training. No one textbook can give you all you need even if you have all the talent in the world. However, while there are many textbooks in print on how to write specific kinds of products – novels, movies, television series, poetry, songs, plays […]