Direct from its world premiere at Lyric Stage, Irving, Texas in October 2009, where it won the coveted Best New Play or Musical award from the Dallas-Fort Worth Drama Critics Forum, The Road to Qatar! began previews on January 25th at The York Theatre in NYC.
Lumina’s musicalized Canterbury Tales – putting it all together
I’ll be frank with you – I didn’t know much about Lumina Studio Theatre until I read a ‘rave’ for Lumina’s The Comedy of Errors … at Colonus?. by DCTS reviewer Leslie Weisman in which she called the production “a remarkably inventive and accomplished effort by the young company.”
Ed Dixon from Sunset Boulevard
The Greatest Star of All: Ed Dixon on playing Max Von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard. It’s rare when an actor gets a chance to reprise a role he loves, and that’s what happened to Ed Dixon when Eric Schaeffer asked him to play the mysterious Max Von Mayerling in Signature Theatre’s popular production of Andrew […]
Interview with Oscar Andrew Hammerstein III
This winter, DC fell in love again with three Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, starting with the critically acclaimed and SOLD OUT production of Oklahoma! at Arena Stage, The National Tour of South Pacific which dropped anchor at The Kennedy Center’s Opera House, and Cinderella which is still entertaining young theatregoers and their families at Toby’s Dinner Theatre […]
Chris Sizemore, Margo Seibert and Tracy Lynn Olivera on Candide
Local actors Chris Sizemore, Margo Seibert and Tracy Lynn Olivera on being in the cast of Candide I was elated when I learned that three of my favorite actors in the DC area were appearing in Candide at The Shakespeare Theatre Company. As the musical enters its last week in DC, Chris Sizemore, Margo Seibert […]
Oy Vey! Schmoozing with The Kinsey Sicks
I thought I was interviewing the four outrageously loveable, funny and eccentric members of The Kinsey Sicks who are tearing up the mistletoe at Theater J. But, instead, eight showed up – since sometimes the KS actors/writers responded as their boy names and sometimes as their character’s girl names.
Wrapping up the year with Musical Scene Stealers
I saw a lot of musicals the last three months so sitting down and going through programs and notes to select this talented new group of “Scene Stealers’ was so much fun, and also very challenging.
An enchanted chat with South Pacific star David Pittsinger
I have interviewed dozens of performers for DC Theatre Scene, but my chat with David Pittsinger is one of my all-time favorites. DC audiences will be hearing one of the greatest baritones in the world when David sings the role of Emile de Becque in South Pacific at The Kennedy Center’s Opera House. As I […]
Oklahoma!’s showstoppers June Schreiner and Cody Williams
When I walked into the new Mead Center lobby during intermission on Oklahoma!‘s opening night, I heard several critics and theatergoers asking the same question over and over: “Who are these two young actors?” They were referring to June Schreiner and Cody Williams who had just ‘stolen’ the first act with their rousing performances of […]
Playwright and director Joe Calarco
Joe Calarco on his new play Walter Cronkite is Dead This year has been a very busy one for playwright/director Joe Calarco: he’s directed three plays – In Transit for Primary Stages, Burnt Part Boys for Playwrights Horizon, both in New York, and The Memory Play for Barrington Stage Company in Massachusetts and picked up […]
Schmoozing at this year’s ShowBiz Expo
I wish I could have taken all the actors and producers in town with me to this year’s ShowBiz Expo at the New York Hilton (at 54th Street and 6th Avenue). It’s a great place to meet producers, editors, filmmakers, publicists, designers, talent managers, agents, and directors who are in ‘the business’, and attend their […]
Lulu Fall on being a member of the Hair tribe
Lulu’s Back in Town I was so thrilled to hear that DC’s own Lulu Fall was cast in the National Tour of Hair, now playing through this weekend in The Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Lulu’s got it all – she’s a great singer, dancer, and actress, has a bubbly personality and is stunningly gorgeous. I […]