Quick. Without looking at the title of this column, who was the only person to win the Tony Award for Best Director of a Musical on Broadway, the Oscar for the Best Director of a Movie and the Emmy for the Best Director of a Television Special … and do it all in one year? […]
Archives for February 2014
American Idiot
American Idiot celebrates a year in the life of the early 21st Century American dudebro. Based on the multi-platinum 2004 album by pop-punk 90’s survivors Green Day, Idiot follows the misadventures of a band of three suburban dudes looking to make it in the big city. Quickly, the trio are separated into a triptych of […]
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? bites—with wit and cruelty—and, at times, is touching in a completely sad way. But mostly, it’s offensive. Unpleasant. Repulsive. Leaves you squirming in your seat, feeling as if you’ve just had a buzzy night that snapped from happy hour to massive hangover with ten too […]
Director Lindsey Snyder on creating NextStop’s Richard III
“Here’s a representation of a culture that doesn’t get a lot of stage time. We had an audience last week that included 51 deaf community members. That was about three-quarters of the theater. Which I think is really important. We have a huge deaf community here that doesn’t always have the ability to see themselves […]
Arena Stage’s first Summit, headed by Peter Marks, sparks online debate
About a month ago, Washington Post critic Peter Marks announced “The Summit,” a special series of three panel discussions. Arena Stage’s artistic director, Molly Smith, had offered Marks the opportunity to create and moderate the series as he saw fit, so on Monday night he began by bringing a quintet of local artistic directors to […]
The Wedding Dress
Only perfect-pitch direction and excellent casting could get this quirky expressionist work off the ground. Luckily Spooky Theater has just what it takes to get juices flowing like you wouldn’t believe.
Old friends, Jerry Whiddon and Marty Lodge on Seminar at Round House
Director Jerry Whiddon and actor Marty Lodge are back at Round House continuing a long friendship and professional collaboration. Jerry Whiddon was co-founder and producing Artistic Director of the company for twenty years. He helmed Travels with My Aunt, Our Town and The Swan, to name but a few. As an actor, Whiddon appeared as […]
Sheldon Harnick’s Malpractice Makes Perfect
Molière (real name: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) was the mid-seventeenth century French fellow who liked to poke fun at virtually everyone who lived in his time. He ridiculed hypochondriacs, misers, braggarts and blowhards, and took particular relish at having a go at the medical profession in Le Médecin Malgré Lui, his hit play of the l665-66 season […]
Win free tickets to La Boheme 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 each screening of Puccini’s La Boheme, as performed by the Royal Opera House, recorded July, 2013. Teeming with period […]
We Are Proud to Present…
Winston Churchill said, “History is written by the victors.” Nowhere is this more true than with colonial history, where the conquerors’ truth often dominates and the subjugated viewpoint is suppressed or lost completely. In We Are Proud to Present…, a diverse acting company balances the relative truths of occupier and occupied in their dramatic staging […]
Rainbow Theatre Project: GBLT company going beyond the expected
“While we may be trying to have all these lofty ideals, we still want people to have a good time.” H. Lee Gable, Producing Artistic Director for the Rainbow Theatre Project, knows that putting on a pleasing theatre production is about much more than the final product you see onstage, or even the rehearsal that […]
Sleeping Beauty
The story of Sleeping Beauty gets a whimsical fun-filled touch at Puppet Co. With its trademark sometimes snarky banter filled with modern references and sensibility, the company tells the timeless, age-old tale highlighting the unfortunate effects of uncontrolled anger.
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