Our city has a long history of conflating people with their chosen profession. Of course, being Washington, there are large subsets of our residents who can’t disclose what they do for a living without getting into some pretty hot water. code name: Cynthia, the latest show from Pallas Theatre Collective, steeps us in that hot […]
Archives for August 2015
Oliver! The Musical from Adventure Theatre MTC (review)
Oliver! The Musical is an ambitious undertaking blending top young talent with seasoned professionals on a prestigious stage, and man does it pop and zing! Director Joseph Ritsch brings the story to life with a gritty realism. There’s no spoonful of sugar to help any of these real life traumas go down. Dickens is gothic […]
Martin Blank’s play about superspy Jonathan Pollard to become feature film
The Law of Return, DC-area playwright Martin Blank’s three-actor work about superspy Jonathan Pollard, is set to become a feature film with Blank as screenwriter. Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group will develop the film, Variety reported Tuesday.
The 2015-2016 DC area theatre season opens this week
With 286 shows announced, and 24 companies still to be revealed, the new season, which begins this week, can already be predicted to surpass the busy 2014-2015 season.