Godzilla is a product of pop culture; some say the birth of pop culture. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your point of view, he has never become a part of my sphere of knowledge. Sure I laughed at the movie clips along with my friends and I even found the whole sci-fi scene rather (How […]
Exclusive Interview with Michael Baron
DCTR Interviews Michael Baron, director of Signature’s The Sex Habits Of American Women Hello Michael, The Sex Habits Of American Women is such a visual production — tell us about the strong emotional currents that flow beneath the play’s stylish surface. My goal with the designers was to recreate a 1950’s world and show what […]
Cole Porter’s Anything Goes at Olney Theatre Center
Cole Porter’s Anything Goes is infectious, once it gets stuck in your head it sticks around for days, weeks even. At the grocery in front of the frozen veggies you find yourself humming that infectious tune, likewise at the Starbucks getting your big mocha latte and at the metro stop. hell… even at your desk at work! The […]
Irish Authors Held Hostage
I did not really know what to expect at a show with the rather wacky title of Irish Authors Held Hostage but I purchased my large cup of java at the Warehouse coffee bar and made my way through the long drab hallway leading back to the Warehouse forty-five seat black box. As I approached […]
Free professional theatre? Spooky Action takes a chance
We want to reach into your life, not your pocket. Richard Henrich Spooky Action Theatre presents a challenge – will more people come if theatre is free? DC Theatre Reviews suggests taking Spooky Action up on it’s offer. Take a chance on new companies. Spooky Action Theater presents – Rameau’s Nephew Richard Henrich, Founding Artistic Director […]
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Want a book?
Solas Nua is busy giving out books all over DC today. You can get yours at Love Café, Warehouse Café, The Embassy of Ireland, Chinatown Metro, Metro Center, Dupont Circle Metro, Capitol South Metro and outside M.L.K. Library. Also there is a piece in today’s Post about The Mai and the company. Christina Talcott chatted […]
Bart Whiteman, died Mar 14, 2006
Bart Whiteman, educator, writer, theater founder, director, producer, financier and beloved father and husband, passed on the evening of March 14, 2006 from heart failure. As an actor, Bart performed at the Arena Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre, at the Folger, the Kennedy Center, Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts, and with just about every […]
Review: The Mai, Irish tragedy liltingly told by Solas Nua
Irish playwright Marina Carr offers many observations of importance in The Mai currently mounted at The Josephine Butler Arts Center in Columbia Heights. One of note is “Everyone is deranged — Some people just hide it better.” Another and the central theme of the play is “There are two kinds of people — there are those […]
Great theatre? Get out and find it!
Since I have been reviewing theatre in DC I have had the great opportunity to see some pretty incredible theatre from companies just starting out. Recently many of these “fringe” companies got a boost from a two page spread in our paper of record that outlined an exciting kind of theatre that many DC theatre […]
This Lime Tree Bower
Come on in and sit around the table with Dan Brick, Eric Lucas and Joe Baker.. Let them tell you an Irish tale full of laughs and fine lessons learned; storytelling is something these lads are very, very good at. These three actors take this play by Conor McPherson and turn it inside out, upside […]
Words That Fly
By: Ronnie Ruff Eleemosynary Catalyst Theater Spelling Bees, flying children and the joy of articulate vernacular are all part of the simple diversion that is Lee Blessing’s Eleemosynary. This is a story of three bright women; a mother, daughter and grandmother and the ties that bind them together. There is nothing traditional about these women or their […]
Nevermore – Signature Theatre
By Ronnie Ruff Photos by Carol Pratt Nevermore Director Eric Schaeffer describes his show as a cross between musical theatre and Cirque du Soleil. The show has the feel of such an event, the excitement, the anticipation of what is to come, this is usually the case with a brand new show. But there is […]