For a fast blast to the past of a speak-easy, a cool jazzy set is swinging at the Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab. With creative and stylistic verve, Pointless Theatre has organized the songs made famous by Cab Calloway in a back-story bringing the characters to life with cartoonish flair. The lyrics unfold to tell the […]
Archives for January 2014
Late: A Cowboy Song
“The best thing for the inside of a man,” Ronald Reagan once said, “is the outside of a horse.” In this odd, affecting early Sarah Ruhl play, the outside of a horse provides an odd, affecting comfort to the inside of Mary Smith (Sarah Olmstead Thomas), whose marriage to Crick Thorndigger (Chris Dinolfo) – basically […]
New video: Kathleen Turner on playing Mother Courage
” … irresistible” is how Kathleen Turner describes the invitation to return to Arena Stage (she was last here in Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins) to play the role of Mother Courage, directed by Molly Smith. The video interview by Arena Stage gives you a look inside the rehearsal of Mother […]
Win free tickets to Verdi’s La Traviata at Angelika Mosaic
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pairs of tickets to the screening of the opening night performance at Teatro alla Scala for LA TRAVIATA (recorded Dec. 7, 2013). As […]