Somehow I missed the beginning of Aaron Posner’s Romeo and Juliet. Not the famous beginning — “Two households, both alike in dignity,” — but the real one, which must have happened while I was reading the playbill or writing notes about the set (“Black poles in blue light. Skeleton of a building with an elevator […]
Archives for October 2013
Go, Dog, Go!
Unlike productions aimed at adults, where a myriad of biases and opinions tend to create arguments over what worked and what didn’t in a new play, I have always found the easiest way to judge a children’s theater performance is by the excitement and smiles I see on the faces of the children. If a […]
Slings and Arrows: Season 3:01 “Divided Kingdom”
“Some people don’t handle success very well.” – Anna Anybody else smell the dread in the air?
dance of the holy ghosts
Memory can be a devious thing. It can snake around you like tendrils of cigar smoke and cloud your reason or it can keep you company so snugly you feel no need to seek other amity.
The Marcy and Zina Show
The thing I hate about cabaret singers is that you can’t critique them. Cabaret is communicating your humanity – good cabaret singers make you care about them and disarm critics. They sing/speak like you’re hanging out in the kitchen over homemade chocolate chip cookies and a bottle of wine, perhaps occasionally and casually remembering that […]
Extremities
Molotov Theatre Group sounds like a place where a play might explode. The company’s motto is “Art Imitates Death,” and though that assertion doesn’t make sense to me, it’s true that their production of Extremities, a play by William Mastrosimone which became a movie starring Farah Fawcett, feels dangerous at first.
Adventure Theatre MTC re-opens and extends Goodnight Moon
With the government shutdown ended yesterday, Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland has re-opened, and the two companies in residence there have announced the resumption of their schedules. Puppet Co continues with its Tiny Tots program. Peter and the Wolf opens today. Details are here. Adventure Theatre MTC, which has announced a loss of […]
We Will Rock You
Tease and gel your hair into a heavy metal mullet, slap some glitter on those cheeks and traipse on down in your platform shoes to the Hippodrome in Baltimore to catch the North American premiere of the high tech, high energy, rock-high inducing Queen tribute musical, We Will Rock You.
This
Playwright Melissa James Gibson wants you to know that “this”- whatever it is you’re dealing with at the moment – may be entirely “dinky” in the grand scheme of things.
Through Perelman’s generosity, The Laramie Project returns to Ford’s today
A $25,000 donation by Ford’s Theatre Trustee Ronald O. Perelman has assured that the theater building will be open for the remainder of its planned run of The Laramie Project, notwithstanding the shutdown of the Federal government, the company announced yesterday. The Laramie Project begins its run at the Ford’s Theatre building tonight.
Giant, Original Cast Recording
Michael John LaChiusa doesn’t write easy musicals. He writes complex, multi-themed and often huge works based on challenging material.
In the Forest, She Grew Fangs
Good theater can sometimes grab you by the throat, but rarely does it drag you from your bed and leave a bloody trail to the open window. Rarer still can this gruesome scene leave you pensive, even laughing. In the Forest, She Grew Fangs, written by Stephen Spotswood and directed by Ryan Taylor, hits the […]