There are many reasons to find deep satisfaction in the arrival on Broadway of the play Indecent, a fascinating tale wondrously staged about a century-old Jewish drama that featured a scandalizing kiss between two women, whose Broadway cast was prosecuted for obscenity.
Archives for April 2017
The Magic Play has real tricks up its sleeve, and a real point to make about us (review)
Is it sacrilegious to suggest that Easter was a good day to see The Magic Play, since the story of Easter, if true, is the greatest magic act in human history? I here use magic in its broadest sense: as the phenomena we, in all our well-honed rationality, cannot explain but which is true nonetheless.
Joseph Ritsch gives us a close look into Dorian’s Closet, Rep Stage’s new musical
Dorian’s Closet is a musical about the life of the drag performer Dorian Corey, mainstay of the Harlem ball scene and “Mother” of the House of Corey. She died in 1993, just a few years after the documentary Paris Is Burning (the definitive exploration of ball culture) had given her heightened exposure.
.d0t: a RotoPlastic Ballet, short and very much on point (review)
With puppetry, projection, lighting, and video timed perfectly to a live, original, nerdcore rap score, .d0t:: a RotoPlastic Ballet runs like clockwork, even as it tells the stories of machines destroying the perfect System.
Local stars sign up to perform at MetroStage cabaret honoring Joel Markowitz
UPDATE: The cabaret has sold out. Thanks to all of you and to the performers for once again proving once again that the love of this community brings us all together in times of need. Contributions are still being accepted at Joel’s GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/help-joel-playbill/donate —— Natascia Diaz, Sam Ludwig, Michael Sharp and Roz White are among the […]
We Happy Few’s Henry V shifts the focus to the rabble (review)
You would expect a company which derives its name from a speech in Henry V to do a good job with the play itself, and by and large We Happy Few acquits itself well. But there are shortcomings in both the concept and the execution, and they prevent the production, now running in the Capitol […]
Life after Studio: Joy Zinoman, A free, fierce spirit for 35 years and counting
“Since it was my decision and my timing and my will, it was easy, on that level,” Joy Zinoman said when I asked her if it had been easy to stop leading The Studio Theatre, the company she founded and then ran for thirty-five eventful, memorable years.
Constellation’s next season where the unexpected meets the wild
The Constellation Theatre Company, operating out of the Source theater on 14th Street NW, has decided to focus on stories from the first half of the last century for their 2017-2018 ‘Survival’ season. A classic horror film; a story about a party which gets way out of hand way too fast; a play which opens […]
1st Stage next season ranges from Guirgis to Bartlett and a musical
1st Stage’s 2017-2018 will feature two plays by acknowledged masters, two other plays by up-and-coming artists (including a world premiere from a local playwright) and an evening of solo performances.
Boeing Boeing at NextStop, French farce about back when the skies were friendly (review)
Mad Man meets Mad Women: that’s the farce that is Boeing Boeing, now being staged at NextStop Theatre.
Joel Markowitz to receive lifetime Gary Maker Award at gala cabaret, May 1
Joel Markowitz is a man passionately in love with theatre, its audiences and its artists. He has played a major role in the DC area theatre scene for more than 25 years. He founded the Ushers Theatre Group, played a crucial early role in DC Theatre Scene, and Maryland Theatre Guide, and founded and currently serves as publisher […]
2017 tour of Chicago starring Brandy Norwood (review)
Had I not seen Chicago’s run at the National Theatre eight years ago, maybe I’d consider the current production at the Kennedy Center great instead of good. But I did, so I don’t.