Jim Brochu has won raves from all our local critics and audiences for his powerful, hysterical, and astounding performance as Broadway veteran and painter Zero Mostel in Zero Hour, now at Theater J.
Corrieanne Stein – back from Broadway
From Musical Theater Center to Billy Elliot to Annie She’s 13, attends Robert Frost Middle School, just starred in MTC’s Annie and, in the past year, performed in over 300 performances on Broadway as a ballet girl in the Tony Award Winning Best Musical Billy Elliot.
The Producers’ Ben Dibble
June 19, 2009 – With less than an hour before curtain for Mel Brooks’ musical The Producers, actor Ben Dibble sat down with Joel Markowitz backstage at Walnut Street Theatre.
Forbidden Broadway’s Jennie Eisenhower
June 19 — My Philadelphia trip began with this hysterical interview with the bubbly and outrageous Jennie Eisenhower, just before the evening curtain for Forbidden Broadway’s Greatest Hits.
New York season highs and lows and Tony hopes
DC Theatre Scene columnists Richard Seff and Joel Markowitz discuss the New York Theatre season and their Tony Awards hopes, performances that were left off out of the Tony nominations, and their predictions for the major categories.
Valerie Harper on playing Tallulah Bankhead in Looped
She may be best known for playing her Emmy Award winning role of Rhoda Morgenstern on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, but the stage is Valerie Harper’s first love and she has returned to it playing the witty and wicked Tallulah Bankhead in Arena Stage’s Broadway-bound production of Looped. Valerie chatted with Joel Markowitz in […]
Tony nominee, 9 to 5’s Marc Kudisch
He’s the guy audiences love to hate, and this year, he’s earned a Tony Award nomination as the lying, sexist, bigot Franklin Hart, Jr. in 9 to 5: The Musical. Marc Kudisch is any producer’s go-to guy for seductive bad guys;
Comedy sparks comedy duo interview: Josh Lefkowitz and Shirley Serotsky, The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall
Joel Markowitz interviews actor Josh Lefkowitz and director Shirley Serotsky about their collaboration on The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall, now playing at Theater J. Almost a comedy routine in itself, this 30 minute interview shows what happens when you drop a talented monologist who is used to his ‘solo space’ into a show with […]
Walmartopia
As tech rehearsals began, Joel Markowitz sat down with husband and wife team, Director Melissa Baughman and actor and Landless Theatre Company’s Producing Artistic Director Andrew Baughman to talk about their outrageous production of the Off-Broadway musical hit Walmartopia.
Maureen McGovern
She is in her 37th year onstage as a folk singer, a cabaret star and musical theatre actress, and now Maureen McGovern is bringing her solo show A Long And Winding Road to Arena Stage in Crystal City, after workshops in Florida and Boston. Maureen sat down with Joel Markowitz to talk about the songs she […]
From Crowns – E. Faye Butler and Zurin Villanueva
They’ve Got Hatitude! They’ve come from different times and places – E. Faye Butler, the Chicago born musicals star whose favorite roles include Caroline, or Change, The Gospel According to Fishman, Saving Amy, and Polk County, and Zurin Villanueva, Brooklynite, Howard University student, and winner of Arena Stage’s Finding Yolanda talent search. In Crowns, E. […]
Dante’s Ben Cunis and Paata Tsikurishvili
by Joel Markowitz A conversation with Synetic Theater Artistic Director Paata Tsikurishvili, director of Dante and Ben Cunis, co-adaptor, who appears in the title role. Three hours before their call at Rosslyn Spectrum, Paata Tsikurishvili and Ben Cunis sat down with Joel Markowitz to talk about the daunting task of creating a play out of […]