After Avant Bard’s successful Helen Hayes Award-nominated production of The Gospel at Colonus last season (the original cast was nominated for “Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical – Helen” category), the company has staged a remount, now running through March 25. Sandra L. Holloway, who served as choreographer last time around, has directed the show, based […]
Archives for March 2018
NextStop announces its sixth professional season for 2018/2019
NextStop Theatre Company has offered professional theater to Herndon, VA and environs for five years, but for years before that the theater’s venue was home to one of the best community theaters in the DMV, the Elden Street Players. Thus the company has decided to kick off its sixth professional season (and the 30th season […]
Maria Manuela Goyanes to step into the role of Woolly Mammoth Artistic Director next fall
Maria Manuela Goyanes, The Public Theater’s Director of Producing and Artistic Planning, will be the new Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theater, the company announced today.
Contestants announced for Monologue Madness. Watch them compete March 22
With the sounds of shuffling headshots in the background, actors stretched and conducted vocal exercises outside of an Arena Stage rehearsal hall Sunday. It was a standard scene for an open call audition. But these actors weren’t auditioning for the usual DC play or musical: they were gunning for a spot in this year’s Monologue […]
Taylor Mac-Nificent. Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Abridged (review)
It was a divinely beautiful sequence. Down the aisles of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater strode the Bowie State University Pep Band. They spread out in front of and on the stage and backed up Taylor Mac on a rendition of David Bowie’s “Heroes.” Five minutes earlier, I myself had been on that stage, summoned, […]
Two Tracy Letts plays make the final list for Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association new play prize
According to the press release from the American Theatre Critics Association the organization has selected six finalists for the Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, recognizing playwrights for the best scripts that premiered professionally outside New York City during 2017.
Olney Theatre’s 2018/2019 season: 4 musicals in its 9 play mainstage series
There will be a whole lotta theater going on at Olney Theatre Center next season. In addition to its nine-production subscription series, Artistic Director Jason Loewith and his crew will welcome The National Players for two summer productions, stage three Theater for Young Audience productions, produce the concert version of three audacious musicals and present, […]
Every Brilliant Thing at Olney Theatre Center (review)
The Narrator (Alexander Strain), stands on the top step of an aisle and says that he has three words for anyone in the audience who is contemplating suicide: his voice lowers to nearly a whisper: “Don’t do it.”
Synetic Season to feature voiceless Shakespeare and New Voices
Synetic Theater has dialed up its customary quota of Silent Shakespeare productions for its 2018-2019 season, but the new theatrical year will also mark another production for Synetic Family Theater and the company’s New Voices project.
The Intruders takes on gentrification in DC (review)
Hope Lynne Price-Lindsay’s The Intruders is an entertaining satire about the contemporary wave of gentrification in DC that packs lots of laughs, but fails to do more than scratch the surface of a pressing issue. Directed by Vera J. Katz, and produced by The New Millennium Howard Players, The Intruders is one of over one […]
queens review: Martyna Majok’s new play crowds a Queens basement with poor immigrant women
In queens, the latest resonant, heartfelt play by Martyna Majok, a Polish immigrant woman named Renia reigns over a crumby basement in the New York City borough of Queens, but she sees it as her home, her world, and her salvation.
Washington National Opera stages Verdi’s greatest opera Don Carlo(review)
The icy blast that whipped through Washington this past week blew in a work rarely seen to the Kennedy Center’s Opera House Saturday night that both tested one’s brain stamina and also brought some terrific revelations to Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo. It’s a curious opera and poses quite a few challenges, but the production has […]