In case you need a reminder, the 2015 Tony Awards are on CBS this Sunday night, starting at 8pm (ET), with Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming hosting from the stage of Radio City Music Hall. It’s true, the evening will probably continue to be one big commercial for Broadway. Still, the show promises to have […]
Archives for June 2015
Jason Schlafstein on Flying V’s new fight show: Heroes & Monsters
At this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, Flying V Theatre was awarded the John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. Beginning on June 11th, the troupe will unveil its first production since that award brought the five-year-old company onto the radar of some theatergoers who may not yet have been aware of them.
The Trap from Ambassador Theater. Ultimately disturbing (review)
Something is amiss in a converted church on 20th Street, which the trenchcoated guards by the door – members of the cast – make plain. This is the world of The Trap, Ambassador Theater’s latest production, by Tadeusz Rózewicz, drawing inspiration from the biography of Czech surrealist writer Franz Kafka.
Stage Briefs by Keith Loria
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from Shakespeare Theatre, Imagination Stage, Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Synetic Theater and La-Ti-Do.
NSFW at Round House: A raunchy, biting satire with brains and surprising heart (review)
Ripped from the pages of Maxim and Cosmopolitan, Round House Theatre’s rollicking satire “NSFW” offers a timely, raunchy, and deeply affecting look at the media’s objectification of women. It begs the question: Does the media create the problem, or do they just exploit our own bad habits?
New from The Welders: happiness (and other reasons to die) Review
We are in darkness. A shatteringly loud gunshot explodes. The lights go up. There is a body under a cover, and a gruesome splattering of blood all over the room. Particularly disgusting: a huge splotch of gore on the refrigerator. Several people rush into the room. They are confused, then upset, then angry. Octogenarian Ella […]
Source Festival, opening June 5, hopes to grab third straight New Play Award
DC’s Source Festival of new plays will try to extend its two-year streak of award-winning plays when it opens Friday, June 5 at – this will surprise you – the Source Theatre, 1835 14th Street NW in DC. In 2013, the Source Festival debuted Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement, which won that year’s Osborne Award for […]
Today is Do More 24. Time to start giving
Today is that one day out of the year when the community joins together to celebrate and support the work of nonprofits through www.DoMore24.org. How effective is the campaign? Last year, 11,000 donors gave $1.1 million dollars in 24 hours.
Liberating Madwoman of Chaillot: Laurence Senelick on his new translation at WSC Avant Bard
One curiosity of the theater – though it is being seen more and more in film as well – is a script that has been translated from another language. When we watch a play in translation, whether it’s one of the recent runs of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya that have come through DC or a 2000 […]
MET gives Good People an outstanding production (review)
How does the old song go? “If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all.” That sums up Margaret Walsh, whose hand to mouth existence is as normal for her as breathing. Margie (that’s a hard “g”) is from Southie, or South Boston, where the working class residents scrape by and make […]
A Man for All Seasons at NextStop Theatre (review)
One thing I will say about Robert Bolt’s political drama A Man for All Seasons – it is a lot funnier than I remembered. Perhaps it is our changing sensibilities but I think it also speaks to the sensitivities NextStop Theatre Company brings to their current production.
Dispatch from the Prague Fringe Festival, 2015.
– Alliance for New-Music Theater was invited to bring Kafka’s Metamorphosis to this year’s Prague Fringe Festival. Susan Galbraith takes us there as a Fringe goer and producer – We’re back at the Prague Fringe Festival , now in its fourteenth season, an annual pilgrimage for many – coming from places like Coventry (England) to […]