Marriage has undergone a few changes since the 1960s. Most notably, who can engage in it. While these changes are amazing in a civil rights sense, they can create some brambles when it comes to some older plays. Take I Do! I Do!, the 1966 Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt musical (based off the play […]
Archives for July 2013
A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World
This strangely titled play sets the atmosphere and eerie mood of post Salem Witch trials, set in 1702 and recalling the year ’92 when hysteria about the pervasive power of Satan was the rage, at least in Salem, Massachusetts with its infamous trials and executions.
Heartless by Sam Shepherd
Heartless, in many ways, is vintage Sam Shepard—a surreal, cubist kind of family drama with enigmatic characters, nods to iconic imagery and dialogue studded with non sequiturs that take the play into the realm of black comedy.
Capital Fringe: 1814! The War of 1812 Rock Opera
– by guest writer David Dudley – Like many world-changing ideas, the notion to create a rock opera based on the War of 1812 came upon us after a few drinks. This was in the early 1990s, when I was renting a room from my friend and bandmate Dave Israel in his rowhouse on Baltimore’s […]
Capital Fringe: heady collectables
– by guest writer Kelly Weckesser – It all began with an obsession of the human head. The collaborative process of creating heady collectables stemmed from Deep Vision Dance Company’s shared curiosity about head gestures. Look around, one simple head tilt expresses many thoughts and feelings. Imagine the inquisitive inclination of a puppy’s head when […]
Musical theatre’s got a new label: Yellow Sound
The drummer from the Broadway production of Avenue Q, Michael Croiter, is at the helm of his own record label and it is making major inroads into the business of musical theater recording. There aren’t many labels competing in the field, but we who have filled our shelves with the recent products of PS Classics, […]
Bartram and Hill on their new musical Spin at Signature
When the popular boy-band from the late-90s ‘N Sync broke up in 2002, Justin Timberlake rose to even greater fame as a solo performer and actor. But what if success had not followed Timberlake after leaving the group? Evan is just like Timberlake – he found early fame in a pop group but now his […]
Capital Fringe: Murder on the Bare Stage
– by guest writer Stephen Mead – George Bernard Shaw said “Imagination is the best scene-painter.” Sometimes people say they prefer radio to TV because the pictures are better. When you use your imagination to create a scene, stimulated by the words of a great writer, what you see in your head can be more […]
Dinosaur Babies
As the father of two daughters, ages 7 and 16, I have seen an endless amount of live children’s programing over the last decade and a half, and the tally includes approximately 50 puppet shows. So, as I headed to the Puppet Co. Playhouse at Glen Echo Park to see its latest offering, Dinosaur Babies by […]
Capital Fringe: The Agony and The Ecstasy of Steve Jobs: The Musical
— by guest writer Meghan Long — Do you ever wonder where your sh%t comes from? Those in the theatre community are no stranger to Mike Daisey. His engaging and epic work has spanned a vast array of topics – from the highs and lows of the American Theatre (How Theatre Failed America) to Burning […]
Capital Fringe: To Know a Veil
— by guest writer Emma Crane Jaster — I was first inspired to create To Know a Veil while traveling in Morocco a couple years ago. It was my first time in a predominantly Muslim country. As a Western woman, raised in America by a feminist mother, and as a dancer accustomed to expressing with […]
Cuba-themed Much Ado About Nothing will be Shakespeare Theatre’s Free For All
Derek Smith and Kathryn Meisle will return to the Sidney Harman Hall stage to reprise their roles as Benedick and Beatrice in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Free-For-All presentation of its 2011 Much Ado About Nothing.