David S. Kessler, an avid, area-wide theatergoer who this year broke through the other side of the stage by writing, producing and performing Wombat Drool at Capital Fringe, is the recipient of the 2015 Gary Lee Maker Award for outstanding audience member, DC Theatre Scene editor Lorraine Treanor announced today.
Archives for September 2015
UpClose: Liz Maestri, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Inheritance Canyon, Liz Maestri’s new play, debuts September 18, 2015, produced by Taffety Punk.
UpClose: Jennie Berman Eng, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Jennie Berman Eng’s new play, Whenever You’re Near Me I Feel Sick, debuts September 17, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre in Washington, DC.
Caps for Sale: The Musical at Adventure Theatre MTC
Caps For Sale: The Musical is the first show of the 64th season- yep, folks, 64 years- of Adventure Theatre, a children’s theatre company based in Glen Echo Park, Md. Haven’t been there before? A pity, then- you’ve been missing a treat all these years. After a half century producing professional theatre, they know a […]
Women Laughing Alone With Salad at Woolly Mammoth (review)
Well, folks, I’m not sure I should bother to tell anyone to go see this, as without a doubt it will have sold out before I finish writing this sentence. Word of mouth being what it is in this town, you’ve probably already heard that Woolly Mammoth’s got a runaway hit with this world premiere […]
UpClose: Karin Coonrod, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Karin Coonrod’s play texts&beheadings/ElizabethR debuts at Folger Theatre September 19, 2015. She is a theater maker whose work has been seen and heard across the country and around the world. She founded two theater companies – the Arden Party and Compagnia de Colombari. Her Shakespeare productions include: Theatre for a New Audience: Henry VI, Love’s […]
UpClose: Jessica Dickey, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Jessica Dickey is creator of the acclaimed The Amish Project, [produced here by Factory 449 in 2014], Charles Ives Take Me Home, and the Civil War reenactor play, Row After Row. Twice nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize, The New York Times recently named Dickey a “talent to watch.” The Guard is her Ford’s […]
Cosi fan Tutte, Mozart’s opera in the Torpedo Factory
As the title of one of last of Mozart’s operas suggests about women, “so do they all,” indeed! How perfect then to set this young lovers’ romp in the hedonistic, cynical and self-referential world of Andy Warhol’s Factory. And what better way to experience such an update of Così fan tutte than DC Public Opera’s […]
Kennedy Center and U.S. Botanic Garden team up to plant inspiration
“The great thing about kids is that they will tell you in real time how your show is when they see it during previews,” said David Kilpatrick, manager of the John F. Kennedy Center’s Theater for Young Audiences program. “They don’t hold back on what they think at all. I just love that interaction.”
UpClose: Andrea Assaf, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Andrea Assaf will perform her play, Eleven Reflections on September, September 15, 2015 at the Kennedy Center. She is the founding Artistic Director of Art2Action Inc., is a writer, performer, director, educator and cultural organizer. She has a Masters degree in Performance Studies and a BFA in Acting, both from NYU. She’s currently a “Building […]
UpClose: Shirley Samaniego, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Shirley Greller Samaniego’s play, Familiar Stranger, won first place in MDC’s 10 minute play contest for 2015. Her play. will be read at Mead Theatre Lab September 11 and 12, 2015.
UpClose: Ashley Amidon, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Ashley Amidon won second place in MDC’s 10 minute play contest for 2015. Her play. That’s That, is being read at Mead Theatre Lab September 11 and 12, 2015.