Harvey, a great classic of the American theater (it won the Pulitzer in 1944, beating out The Glass Menagerie) now at 1st Stage in McLean, is a story in which the hero, Elwood P. Dowd (Jonathan Lee Taylor), is a dipsomaniac who has as a best friend a pooka — that is to say, a […]
Archives for November 2015
Love theatre? Here’s your hashtag
Today, November 18, has been declared Love Theatre day and 300+ theatre companies in the UK and elsewhere are celebrating through the live Twitter feed #LoveTheatre.
Brilliant! Guys and Dolls at Olney Theatre Center
Guys And Dolls is playing at Olney Theatre Center! Directing his first show at this venerable venue, the well-known Jerry Whiddon is raising the roof with a brilliant cast that radiates enough energy to light the Empire State Building. This must-see show promises to be a blockbuster hit.
Arthur Miller at 100.Two Revivals: A View from the Bridge
A View From The Bridge, one of Arthur Miller’s most popular plays, has been on Broadway four times before, most recently just five years ago, starring Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson in an impressive Broadway debut.
Arthur Miller at 100.Two Revivals: Incident at Vichy
Two separate revivals of plays by Arthur Miller on the centennial of his birth illustrate two core aims of his work: “I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world,” he said. And: Playwriting is “a kind of license to say the unspeakable….”
Brigadoon casts its spell at Compass Rose
The mystical village of Brigadoon is a blessed place, appearing out of the Scottish Highlands’ mists once every hundred years with its 18th Century innocence and delightfullness intact.
Appomattox at Washington National Opera
Philip Glass has been called by some the greatest living composer. His new work, Appomattox, received a world premiere in its expanded and revised state by Washington National Opera on Saturday. It is bold, sweeping, dreamlike, socially relevant, and ultimately deeply spiritual.
It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play at Washington Stage Guild
I am usually a strict adherent to the “No Christmas till after Thanksgiving” edict, but I am happy I broke my own rule and started my holiday season a little early with Washington Stage Guild.
Misery Review: Bruce Willis’ Broadway debut in faded copy of Stephen King
Misery on Broadway is the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s story about a writer who’s imprisoned by a berserk fan. It’s not as good as either King’s novel nor the movie, but it’s likely to appeal to those who don’t know either, and to the number one fans of Bruce Willis.
It’s a fine twist on Oliver! for Arena Stage
“Contemporary’ may not be the first word when one thinks of classic 1968 Broadway musical Oliver!, but that’s exactly what Arena Stage has delivered in their update of the Dickensian classic. Arena and Director Molly Smith have given Oliver! a conceptual facelift with a syncopated rescoring, hip-hop influenced choreography and roof-raising soulful vocals that manage […]
Henrietta continued, with Henri IV, Part 2 from Brave Spirits
There’s a question plaguing Hollywood today when it comes to wildly successful and praised new works: should we make a sequel and can it possibly be as good as the original? And while many blame film studios’ lame superhero franchise cash grabs as a recent phenomenon, the sequel is at least as old as Shakespeare.
The Apple Family Cycle: Sorry and Regular Singing at Studio Theatre
Remember when Election Day actually meant something? In my family, the adults ran to the polling place first thing and at night my grandfather threw a results party with shucked oysters and beer for the watchers as I dutifully wrote the latest statistics gleaned from TV on my playroom chalkboard.