After the smashing success of last year’s inaugural District Improv Festival, the District Improv Company, with help from the Washington Improv Theater, will once again host three days of long-form improv shows at night and workshops during the day, Sept. 24-28 at Source.
Archives for September 2014
Forum Theatre Wins $12K Grant from American Theatre Wing
Forum Theatre, the Silver Spring-based company which brought such plays as The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Angels in America and Gidion’s Knot, among others, to DC over the last five years, has won a $12,000 National Theatre Company grant from the American Theatre Wing, ATW announced yesterday.
Win free tickets to RSC’s Two Gentlemen of Verona 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 The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona recorded live on September 3, […]
A. R. Gurney and The Wayside Motor Inn at Signature, New York
A.R.Gurney is a national treasure, who earned his sobriquet slowly and surely by writing over forty plays in the past 60 years, rivaling his contemporary Sir Alan Ayckbourn in productivity. Like his British colleague, Gurney chose to stick pretty close to home in writing about his own clan — the middle class WASPs and their […]
TOAST from dog & pony DC
Have you ever watched an Apple, IBM, or Google commercial and wondered ”Why couldn’t I do that?” dog & pony DC asks would-be innovators to flex their mental muscles in Toast, an interactive, empowering production wherein quirky inventors guide the audience toward game-changing technological advances.
Kimberly Gilbert on Marie Antoinette and the power of Yes
Kimberly Gilbert is starring in David Adjimi’s Marie Antoinette, running through October 12th at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Alan Katz had a chance to talk with her a few days before opening night. AK: I’m going to start this off the way I start off all of these interviews; who are you and what have you […]
Take Me Out at 1st Stage
Baseball is the all-American blank slate, and Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out draws a dazzling array of ideas, jokes, poetry, meanings and tragedies large and small all over it. It celebrates baseball because people find something to celebrate in baseball, and it sees America’s triumphs and woes reflected in it because other people do. In […]
Ticket giveaway to see Kevin Kline and Maggie Smith in My Old Lady
DCTS has partnered with the new Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market 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 see My Old Lady, adapted by playwright Israel Horovitz from his stage play. Broke after three failed marriages and […]
Metamorphosis from Alliance for New Music-Theatre
People change, especially in stories. Challenging circumstances shape characters, crystalizing them into emboldened heroes. In Franz Kafka’s famous short story Metamorphosis, however, hard times produce not a hero but an insect, and the story’s heroic deeds are scaled accordingly. With weirdness and comedy, the Alliance for New Music-Theatre stages Kafka’s story about a young man’s […]
Colossal’s leading men: Michael Patrick Thornton and Joseph Carlson
The triumph and courage seen in Colossal, now onstage at Olney Theatre Center, is played out in a manner unlike most well-made plays. It’s not only centered on a former college football player; the guts and glory of the gridiron also serves as the basis for the play’s structure. According to actor Joseph Carlson, “It’s […]
The Globe’s Twelfth Night comes to Angelika Pop-Up
On Thursday, September 18, at 7 PM, and Wednesday, September 24 at 2PM, Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, 550 Penn Street NE, will present the filmed version of the Globe Theatre’s acclaimed 2012 production of Twelfth Night, which had an extended run on Broadway last year. I took a look at the film – and […]
Memphis: the Musical at Toby’s Dinner Theatre
One of the things you have to know about Memphis: the Musical is that the hardest and hardest-working gig on the DC theatre scene has to be an actor/server at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. They hustle for a whole night, starting as waiters for the buffet-style restaurant, taking drink and dessert orders all before they prep […]