Geoffrey: “Henry, just a quick note before you go back out… you’re fired.” Henry: “On what basis?” Geoffrey: “Well, I could just say that I don’t like you, but that isn’t really specific enough and this is all about specifics, isn’t it? So, the truth is, I don’t like you, and I don’t like your […]
Archives for September 3, 2013
Monday at Page-to-Stage 2013
The Kennedy Center’s 12th annual Page-to-Stage event was an all you-can-eat buffet last Monday. Not to worry if the flavors and tastes run together. Everyone won in this Labor Day Weekend event which ran the weekend before the DC theatre season cranks up in earnest. Small companies may boast they’ve landed the big venue gig; […]
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Life in the Galway countryside gets rather soggy, but playwright Martin McDonagh can strike a match just about anywhere. The first few scenes of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the jet-black 1996 comedy that did much to launch McDonagh’s career, feel bleak but mostly benign. But leave it to McDonagh, and his diabolically sharp wit, […]
Miss Saigon
Signature Theatre certainly has had numerous successes with putting new spins on large scale musicals so it perhaps comes as no surprise – particularly for those who saw its production of Les Misérables several years back – that Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and company have decided to do it again. This time the focal point […]
From Fringe to Vegas: I < 3 Hummels performs at Bally's
Some people long for Hummels – the tiny porcelain figurines of children in lederhosen. Some people long for love. And some people long for love and Hummels, and they’ll be gathered at the North American Convention of the M.I. Hummel Club at Bally’s Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on September 7 to watch I […]