Over the past five years, winning words at the National Spelling Bee have been knaidel, guetapens, cymotrichous, stromuhr and Laodicean. Keep those in mind when Ford’s Theatre presents the quirky Tony-winning musical comedy The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, as actual audience members will be invited on stage to compete.
Archives for March 14, 2014
Source Festival play wins Osborn prize
The American Theatre Critics Association has announced that this year’s prestigious M. Elizabeth Osborn Award will go to Topher Payne from Atlanta, Georgia for Perfect Arrangement, a play which premiered in Washington at CulturalDC’s 2013 Source Festival, DC Theatre Scene has learned.
With Timon, American Shakespeare Center completes the Shakespeare canon
Last week I came to a conclusion: the best way to increase the entertainment value of a mediocre play, like Timon of Athens, is to give it to a repertory theater company. They’ll mix it in with three or four others, including a couple of better ones, and they’ll give the same small group of […]
Synetic’s next season ranges from Island of Dr. Moreau to Beauty and the Beast.
Synetic Theater Company has announced their 2014/15 season of original productions.