The 2015 Helen Hayes Awards honoring professional productions in the DC area produced in 2014 Who can forget these? (Video created by Chiet Productions for theatreWashington) All nominees and the recipients as announced April 6, 2015 at the Lincoln Theatre Feel free to express your congrats or condolences in the Comments below John Aniello Award […]
Archives for April 2015
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – indeed!
Adventure Theatre tackled L. Frank Baum’s epic story and brought it to life with a playful script by Jacqueline E. Lawton that highlights key messages of appreciating the wonderful world at one’s own fingertips.
Lights Rise on Grace at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
There is not much of a story to Lights Rise on Grace, but what there is is told beautifully, and with – it must be said – grace. It begins like Romeo and Juliet, (an observation a character also makes): Large (DeLance Minefee), an African-American teenager, and Grace (Jeena Yi), a young woman of Chinese […]
How we’ll bring you the Helen Hayes Awards show, starting tonight
If you aren’t already a ticketholder for tonight’s Helen Hayes Awards, you can join the packed theatre crowd via webcast. Click here at 8pm to view the show, direct from the Lincoln Theatre. DCTS will have a team of reporters in attendance. John Dellaporta will be Tweeting at both the ceremony and the after party […]
Are Theatre Critics … Critical? A critic re-examines his position
It wasn’t exactly an ambush, but the first question actor Bernardo Cubria posed to me as a guest on his theatre podcast was about a complaint that actors have about critics. I was his sixtieth guest, and his first theatre critic. Why do so many reviews, he asked, just summarize the plot and not give […]
Next! First look at the upcoming 2015-2016 theatre season
This is my favorite time of year, when artistic directors lay down those cards they’ve been holding so closely, and announce their upcoming seasons. With twenty companies already reporting at least a portion of their schedules, we can already predict that theatre in the Washington DC area is far from shrinking; it will easily surpass […]
Season at a Glance, 2015-2016
August 1, 2015– July 31, 2016 Click to see What’s on stage now family friendly
Shattering performances of Fugard’s The Island at MetroStage
Would you go to prison for a play, to defend what that play said about the world? What would that play look like? You can see for yourself at MetroStage in Alexandria, with Athol Fugard’s The Island, a part of the explosive canon of theater protesting South African apartheid in the ‘60’s, ‘70’s, and ‘80’s.
Tonya Beckman, Passion Play savior: one week from first rehearsal to first audience
“I went into it expecting to be terrified. Hanging up after talking to the agency, I thought to myself, ‘Oh, I’ve just guaranteed myself two weeks of total stress.’ But it hasn’t been that way.”
Next season, DC theatres will restrict themselves to one play per season
As just announced on DramaUrge: Slow Theatergoing. Taking a chapter out of “One Book, One Community,” theaters will focus productions on one play per season. It is hoped that patrons will have a chance to see a show that everyone’s talking about before it closes while building on the model of Shear Madness. Parking Fee […]