Podcasts by: Joel Markowitz A LANDLESS PSYCHO AND SPRING YOURSELF TO THE ATLANTIC THEATRE BEFORE AUGUST 5TH. WE’RE ALL GETTING DROWSY WAITING FOR THAT BAKER TO ARRIVE I’m kvelling (smiling with immense pride). I bump into DC actors everywhere in NYC productions. It reminds me how far our theatre community has come, and the great […]

  ON THE WAY TO MAME As I am writing this, I’m on the run – -getting ready to meet 50 members of the Ushers Theatre-going Social Group at The Kennedy Center to finally see Mame tonight at 7:30 PM. Before the show begins, I have to join members for dinner at the overpriced Kennedy […]

“THAT’LL BE THE DAY” WHEN “3 DIVAS” (times two) “TAKE THE A TRAIN” TO “AMSTERDAM” It may be humid, but we have some extremely hot musicals during June, July and August at our local theatres. I hear you kvetchin, “That’ll Be The Day” when I schlep with my kids to Columbia, Maryland to see anybody […]

Help me. I’m getting paranoid. Is my real name “Job” (pronounced JOHB) not “Joel”?  Every time I go to the theatre, some gum chewing, slow-as-molasses candy opening, coughing, hacking, cell phone ringing, non-stop talking, playbill crunching theatre goer sits in front of me, or next to me or behind me, and my blood pressure rises. […]

WAITING FOR STUDIO THEATRE’S PRODUCTION, OR Fond frozen memories of Caroline, or Change – from the Public Theatre to the Eugene O’Neill Theatre, and how a musical about a smoking, fuming, bitter maid changed me and taught me the lesson of “common cents.” There will be beaucoup “joy” at Studio Theatre starting May 17th when […]

First in the series, Theatre Schmooze by Joel Markowitz Can we schmooze about the many musicals that will grace our area stages this summer and next season? How can Signature Theatre top Urinetown, which recently flushed out the competition at The Helen Hayes Awards? For us Sondheimites, relief comes in the form of their eagerly […]