What’s not to like about an evening of lesser known Stephen Sondheim songs? Although the 1980 musical revue Marry Me a Little, conceived and developed by Craig Lucas and Norman Rae, is certainly historically noteworthy for exposing musical theatre aficionados to nearly twenty of the venerable composer’s ‘trunk songs,’ as currently presented at Creative Cauldron, […]
Archives for October 2013
Crossing over: Conversation with choreographer Diane Coburn Bruning
Diane Coburn Bruning, Founder and Artistic Director of Chamber Dance Project, is an award-winning choreographer who has worked with dance, theatre and opera companies throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year fellowship from The National Endowment for the Arts, two fellowships New York Foundation for the Arts, the McKnight […]
Still shut down, Ford’s Theatre announces new location for Laramie Project performances
As most of you know, Ford’s Theatre has been closed due to the federal government shutdown, forcing a disruption in the schedule of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tectonic Theater Project. Once the theatre is allowed to reopen, performances will continue as originally scheduled.
World premiere of Horton Foote’s The Old Friends
It would have been a fitting tribute to Horton Foote had he been able to see two of his progeny packin’ ’em in during the same season on and off Broadway. For The Trip to Bountiful at the Sondheim Theatre and now The Old Friends at the Pershing Square Signature Theatre way out west on […]
The Two-Character Play
In Tennessee Williams’ The Two-Character Play, the brother-and-sister acting team of Felice (David Bryan Jackson) and Clare (Lee Mikeska Gardner) are backstage, ready to open “The Two-Character Play” in which they play two agorophibic siblings, Felice and Clare whose lives have been defined by a childhood tragedy: their father shot and killed their mother and […]
Center Stage audiences experience Bayley’s refugee drama from inside a shipping container
Most visitors to the Baltimore Book Festival weren’t expecting to stumble upon some great theatre parked in the middle of Mount Vernon Square. But if you had the good fortune to visit Center Stage’s booth at a few select times, the big clanging doors of a shipping container swung open just for you and fourteen […]
Big Fish
I suggest that Norbert Leo Butz run for President in 2016. I’d make it “Mayor of New York City” this coming November, for we shall need him then, but he’ll be otherwise engaged at the Neil Simon Theatre, where he opened October 6 in a new musical, Big Fish. My suggestion may sound foolish to […]
Adventure Theatre MTC and Puppet Co shuttered during shutdown
Just announced – Adventure Theatre MTC’s production of Good Night Moon has become a casualty of the federal government shutdown. While the company itself receives no federal funding, today’s announcement explained, it is located on National Park Grounds in Glen Echo Park which is closed. “Our hearts go out to other organizations and families affected […]
The Sunshine Boys
Comedy is a lot like music, constantly evolving according to tastes, culture, and age. Ask your grandmother who the best comedian around is; it’s doubtful she’ll respond with “Aziz Ansari” or “Louis C. K.” (If your grandmother would indeed respond in such a way, congratulations on having the hippest grandmother.) But while tastes may change, […]
Unearthing Art: Director Stevie Zimmerman Discusses The Pitmen Painters
An accomplished teacher and educator as well as a talented director, Stevie Zimmerman has become rather adept at bringing out the creative potential in people. So it’s fitting to have her at the helm of The Pitmen Painters, Lee Hall’s 2007 play about the unlikely rise of an art movement among a largely untrained group […]
The Affordable Care Act – a health care insider tells all
The government’s shut down. But the Health Care Insurance Exchanges are open and that means all you uninsured theater artists and professionals can sign up for health insurance. And we’re talking health insurance that you can probably afford and that contains more ample and complete benefits than you have had in the past. And you […]
The 39 Steps
The deal about The 39 Steps is not that it’s a theatrical reproduction of the great Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name. It’s that it’s what such a reproduction would look like on a budget equal to a one way Metro ticket. It would be, of course, hilarious.