Lorraine Treanor, our Director of Marketing, had these thoughts about our first Fringe. Hats off to the organizers of Capital Fringe for proving that Washington has a huge hunger for Fringe. As a producer (of Mamas, DOn’t Let Your Cowboys Grow Up to Be Actors) I attended the first Fringe meeting last summer where we […]
Tim’s Thoughts On Fringe
Senior Reviewer Tim Treanor had these thoughts about our first Fringe The Fringe itself was an unalloyed success. It’s one of the best things I’ve seen Washington area theater do. What it shows is that there is immense talent waiting to get out and express itself. Most of the Fringe stars were folks I had […]
Stupid Frailty
What begins as a familiar riff on Internet dating morphs into an unsettling meditation on death. How does this happen? Credit Laura Zam, who inhabits a fictional character named Maggie Goldfarb. Tiny and attired in a shabby little ballerina’s outfit, Maggie radiates vulnerability from the first moment she walks down the stairs and assumes a […]
Synetic Company members discuss Faust
Editors Note: This is Lorraine’s first Interview and the first interview with our Blue Snow Ball Mics. Expect very cool things from our new equipment. Synetic Theatre’s powerful production of Faust has successfully transferred from the Rosslyn Spectrum where it opened in April to the Family Theatre at the Kennedy Center where it plays for […]
Joel Markowitz of Ushers fame tapped for new role at DC Theatre Reviews
Joel Markowitz founder of the Ushers theatre social group will be joining us as a staff musical columnist and Podcast Interviewer. Mr. Markowitz will conduct interviews with the artists behind the scenes of DC’s hottest musicals and offer insight and commentary on the DC theatre scene. The Ushers website can be found here.
A Podcast Interview with Rorschach’s Lindsay Allen
DC Theatre Beat recently visited Rorschach Theatre to see their production of A Bright Room Called Day. After being mesmerized by tremendous acting and a near perfect marriage of live theatre and video effects we had the chance to sit down with Helen Hayes nominated actress Lindsay Allen and discuss her character in the show, […]
An Interview with Charles Marowitz – Director and Playwright of Silent Partners
Silent Partners is a play which examines the relationship between radical playwright Bertolt Brecht and his English-language translator, Eric Bentley. In a profound and compelling way, it measures the moral price people are willing to pay for greatness, or for closeness to it. DCtheatrereviews.com, in its first podcast ever, interviews Charles Marowitz, the playwright […]
Snaps from the Prom, Helen Hayes Awards party, 2006
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The Sex Habits of American Women
by Ronnie Ruff I grew up in the late fifties when housewives all looked like June Cleaver, or at least the ones on TV did. No one talked about sex and at the age of eight I received a slap across the lips when I mentioned to my dad that a childhood friend had described […]
Almost Whole
By: Tim Treanor Whole Against the Sky, at Trumpet Vine Theatre Paul Donnelly’s new play, Whole Against the Sky, has much going for it. The dialogue is witty, the characterizations are sharp, and there are scenes of enormous emotional authenticity and power. The play is still a few rewrites away from being the strong theater […]
The Autumn Garden — The American Century Theater
By Tim Treanor The Autumn Garden by Lillian Hellmen at The American Century Theater Imagine, if you will, a roomful of morose men and women of late middle years. They are too old for optimism or other forms of self-deception, and so pass their time in reading, heavy drinking, and aiming barbed witticisms at each […]
We Needed The Rain
By: Debbie Minter Jackson The Rainmaker Arena Stage The Rainmaker feels so contemporary; it’s hard to believe it’s been around for fifty years. Packed with themes of love and yearning, laced with messages about self-worth, confidence, and the redemptive power of truth, there’s a reason why it was so successful on Broadway, as a movie–who can […]