The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, which has turned out professional actors for forty-three years, will no longer be affiliated with Studio Theatre after this summer, founder Joy Zinoman revealed in a post on medium.com yesterday. “With no warning, the leadership of Studio Theatre — which I founded three years after the first class of the […]
Archives for February 13, 2019
The Wolves review. Teens playing teens pays off for NextStop in Sarah DeLappe’s Pulitzer-nominated play
Imagine a mass of humans in a great hubbub and babble of conversation. It could be the House of Representatives before the gavel sounds, or the nave of a church in the moment before services commence. The conversations ricochet off the walls and intersect with each other. They could be about the Khmer Rouge, for […]
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2019/2020 season – Simon Godwin’s announces: new ‘classics’, new children’s musical and 2019’s Free For All
William Shakespeare will get two of the six slots in Simon Godwin’s debut season at Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC), along with four playwrights never before seen on STC’s stages: James Baldwin, Emma Rice, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and Lauren Gunderson. STC began their announcement, the first such season announcement from any area production company, by sharing the […]
Review: Anatole: Mouse Magnifique, ageless fun at Imagination Stage
Imagination Stage has put together a tasty spread of charming adventures in their musical production of Anatole: Mouse Magnifique. The show has a smorgasbord of delights that consider not only what would be entertaining for the kids in the audience, but also what would satisfy the adults accompanying them. Anatole is based on the children’s […]
Review: GALA’s El viejo, el joven y el mar (The Old Man, the Youth, and the Sea)
Twentieth-century Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno wasn’t afraid to criticize Spain’s government. Though Irma Correa’s El viejo, el joven y el mar is a fictional depiction of Unamuno’s life, it is set against the historical backdrop of Miguel Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship over Spain, a dictatorship that Unamuno openly spoke out against, despite the consequences. Thankfully, […]