Bell by Jim Lehrer, starring Rick Foucheux, runs through September 21 When we caught up with Rick Foucheux, he had just begun rehearsals for Bell, the new solo play written by veteran TV journalist and author Jim Lehrer. The short rehearsal period comes to a close this week as the play’s subject, Alexander Graham Bell […]
Archives for September 2013
First look at Faction of Fools’ Don Juan
Don Juan, Faction of Fools’ newest production, opens this Thursday. Are they ready? And can the intrepid Fools make the fight choreography work in costumes, wigs and, this being commedia, masks? Photographer Ryan Maxwell dropped in on a tech rehearsal at Gallaudet University.
Gift of Forgotten Tongues
Have you ever wondered how much of our culture and civilization is shaped by language? That’s one of many interesting themes in the world premiere of Gift of Forgotten Tongues by Fengar Gael at Venus Theatre. Gael is the talented playwright whose Devil Dog Six gave Venus Theatre a major bright spot in last year’s […]
Potted Potter
Potted Potter flies into DC weaving a comic spell Potted Potter, the unauthorized Harry Potter parody experience, succeeds in combining a love for J.K. Rowling’s magical universe, and improvisational comedy, thanks to two captivating performers.
Completely Hollywood (Abridged)
One word, and only one word, captures the Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s production of Completely Hollywood (Abridged): Boring. Boring. Boring. Boring. Tedious minutes tick away without a whit of laughter. Stale gags bolster dated jokes. And the actors (Jack Evans, Matt Lee, and James McGarvey) stumble over one another, trying to burn brightest.
Chelsea Packard: My Yellow Brick Road
Signature Theatre’s popular Sizzlin’ Summer Cabaret series may have just wrapped up, but the ambitious theatre company is certainly not done with providing DC area music lovers another large dose of cabaret performances. This week, Signature Theatre’s first Autumn Cabaret Festival got underway and over the next three weeks it will include performances from musical […]
Broke-ology gets a 1 week extension
The family drama Broke-ology by Nathan Louis Jackson in the new Anacostia Playhouse has been given a one week extension. The Theater Alliance production is now set to close Sunday, September 15th, the company announced today.
Anything Goes: A History of American Musical Theatre
My theater shelves are already groaning with books about the history of musical theater. Some are well researched but terribly dry reference works. Some are entertaining but hardly definitive source documents. Many of them bear the imprint “OUP” as in Oxford University Press. Today OUP releases another one, and I’m just going to have to […]
Mike Daisey: 29 stories in 29 days at Public Theater
Mike Daisey enjoys a challenge. His traditional monologues take on, or create controversies (Apple products, consumerism, theatre’s provincialism, the American Dream at Disney World, Bradley Manning.) Last summer he challenged the monologue form itself when he stepped away from his table to perform the 24-hour marathon All Hours of the Day in Portland, Oregon.
Back on the Line: Parker Drown and Carl Randolph from A Chorus Line
For Part 2 of our interviews with members of the “line,” Jeff Walker spoke with local performers Parker Drown and Carl Randolph.
Slings and Arrows: Season 2:04 “Fair is Foul and Foul is Fair”
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 […]
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; […]