Center Stage has announced a change to its schedule: Christopher Durang’s Tony Award-winning comedy, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, a Center Stage co-production with Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Previews begin April 16, opening night is April 23, and the scheduled run is through May 25, 2014.
Archives for December 2013
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
Pastiche is back in town, settled in for a run on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Some brave and disparate talents got together with a 1907 novel by Roy Horniman, already used as the source of the 1949 film starring Alec Guinness. Both were called “Kind Hearts and Coronets” and now a new group […]
Building bombs in a bugged apartment: Edgar and Annabel at Studio Theatre
Who wouldn’t want to watch a gang of political insurgents belt out 90s power-ballads in a karaoke faceoff while simultaneously building a bomb?
A new kind of nativity: A Mighty Day at Anacostia Playhouse
It seems every December, theaters are packed with plays and stagings of the Nativity story, but The Anacostia Playhouse is putting on a version like no other with Raquis Da’Juan Petree’s musical comedy, Wasn’t That A Mighty Day? Imagine a modern church group getting together to perform their annual Christmas show only with cat-fights, a […]
British online radio for musicals lovers to feature 9 complete musicals for the holidays.
Musical theatre lovers everywhere might enjoy this audio reach across the pond. UK online radio JemmThree, The staff of UK’s online radio site JemmThree, all avowed musicals fanatics, deliver 24 hours of show tunes, cheerily commenting about the songs and recent performances in the West End. So, not the standard automated playlists you may be […]
It’s their turn: Joe Calarco and Sherri L. Edelen talk about Gypsy at Signature
Stephen Sondheim is the Shakespeare of musical theatre, Joe Calarco told me. To extend the comparison, does that make the role of Mama Rose in Gypsy Sondheim’s Lear?
Who wouldn’t love a man like this? A tribute to Daniel Escobar
We are sad to report that actor Daniel R. Escobar, a Helen Hayes and Mary Goldwater Award-winning actor who subsequently made his mark in a half-dozen television shows, died Thursday, December 12, 2013 in Los Angeles of heart failure. He was forty-nine.
Learning from August Wilson. Todd Kreidler remembers his friend and mentor
Move Over, Chris Rock. This might not lead you to expect something about the coming of age of August Wilson. However, I learned during a conversation with Todd Kreidler, a close associate of Wilson’s, that it was among the titles kicked around by Wilson during the development of what eventually became How I Learned What […]
The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me
The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me, a new opera based on Jeanette Winterson’s acclaimed children’s novel, premiered in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Saturday night. Washington National Opera’s Artistic Director Francesca Zambello is interested in music and theatre that speaks to us today, and The Lion, The Unicorn and Me is no exception.
Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens’ classic yarn seems less of a carol, as we call it, and more of a campfire tale, yet it has come to represent all that is wonderful about the holidays: redemption, joy, forgiveness. To say that Ebenezer Scrooge has been overdone—top hats, coat tails, canes, and soiled nightshirts—would be blasphemy [we show 6 […]
An Irish Carol
The fine actor Matthew J. Keenan recontextualizes Dickens’ Christmas Carol in this play, and his company, Keegan Theatre, is producing it for the third consecutive year. Keenan, a native of Ireland who has no other playwriting credits, has written an honest piece of work, which takes no shortcuts in its effort to achieve an authentic […]
The Commons of Pensacola
Amanda Peet is an actress with impressive credits on stage (Awake and Sing), on screen (“Something’s Gotta Give”, “Igby Goes Down”), the TV series “Studio 60 on Sunset Strip”, and she will soon be seen on HBO in “Togetherness”. Unusual then that she should now be arriving on the New York stage, courtesy of the […]