These are the plays that won’t let go. They are there as I drift off to sleep, or, unbidden, come to me during the day. This happens more often now, as work here slows to a close. You probably have your list of best plays and performances. This is not that list. These seem to […]
Review: Independent Claus from Best Medicine. Not one of its best
You’re never quite sure which Claus is independent in Jackob G. Hofmann’s meandering, pointless 70-minute video comedy until the very end, and by that point it doesn’t matter. In Best Medicine Rep’s An Independent Claus, Kris Kringle (Terence Heffernan) is a Bad Santa – a crude, womanizing misogynist whose constant traveling companion is a half-consummated […]
Review: Roaring, Best Medicine’s 20’s comedy, a fun diversion
Roaring is a peek at the tumultuous 1920’s as seen through the eyes of a plucky go-getter, Mabel Daniels (Kara Burri). In this fun-filled digital original by Best Medicine Rep’s John Morogiello, we witness history unfold as Mabel romps through the decade finding her own way while history unfolds under her feet. Determined to call […]
DCTS Performance Guide for the 2020/2021 theatre season
While planning theatre in the time of Covid requires faith and flexibility on everyone’s part, we thought it valuable to show you the shows our companies hope to present. Some are virtual. Some will be in theatres once that becomes possible. This is a listing of performances. Not included are readings, panels and discussions. We’ll keep […]
Review: Stories I May Not Tell from Best Medicine Rep
John Morogiello yearns, lives and breathes theater. Stories I May Not Tell is a sneak peek in the mind of a playwright so stuffed with story ideas that characters and scenes cascade out of him in waves of exuberant expressions. Talking to the audience presentation style, Morogiello provides one of the most effective enactments of […]
Review: The Crater Sisters’ Christmas Special
Just when you thought you couldn’t take another holiday show, up pops The Crater Sisters’ Christmas Special at Best Medicine Rep. Bouncing along with creativity and zest, this Christmas special shows the transcendent power of love and care and slams through the doldrums with holiday cheer. I caught the world premiere last year and went […]
Best Medicine Rep’s got 4 comedies for Season 3
Best Medicine Rep, the DMV’s only theater company devoted to comedy, will present a 2019-2020 season composed of a fresh comedy from the West Coast, a reprise of a successful 2018 production, and two world premieres for 2020. Helen on Wheels will kick off the season. Cricket Daniel’s comedy is about Helen the hellion Wheeler, […]
Review: Play Date from Best Medicine Rep
We hear the sound of children in the front room through baby monitors, while we watch their parents carry on with all kinds of shenanigans in John Morogiello’s comedy Play Date. Kira Burri and Evan Crump play the hosting couple who have everything going for them – at least on the surface. He’s a successful […]
Review: Engaging Shaw, an engaging romantic comedy
Engaging Shaw is a fun-loving romp of a parlor comedy that hits its mark at Best Medicine. The script by John Morogiello imagines one of the truly most gifted social writers in history confronted with the embodiment of everything he has railed against, in the form of a woman who seems tailor made to fit […]
Gaithersburg’s comedy theatre, Best Medicine Rep, to feature its funniest playwright: John Morogiello
Best Medicine Rep Company, the Gaithersburg theater helmed by noted comic playwright John Morogiello, will feature three plays written by Morogiello himself in its 4-play 2018-2019 season. Can you imagine George Bernard Shaw in love? I mean with anyone other than himself? Me neither. And yet it happened, when an heiress named Charlotte Payne-Townshend caught […]
Gems found at Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage 2017
Debbie Minter Jackson sends back this report from her visit to the Saturday, September 2, opening day of this year’s Page-to-Stage festival at the Kennedy Center and brings back some standouts that, hopefully will find their way from the page to local stages .
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