What wonderful serendipity in Baltimore this October. On one side of Fayette Street, the Hippodrome Theatre recently hosted the musical The Color Purple with heroine Miss Celie realizing her dreams and worth, after a life hard-used and abused by her husband, in her creation of comfortable, practical pants for women.
M. Butterfly at Everyman Theatre (review)
David Henry Hwang’s Tony-winning play, M. Butterfly, was an electrifying treatise on gender and East-West tensions and tragic preconceptions when it premiered in 1988 with John Lithgow and B.D. Wong in the title roles of a fictionalized French diplomat stationed in China who manages a 20-year love affair with a Peking Opera actress without conceding […]
Noises Off at Everyman, “… delirious depiction of backstage dramatics” (review)
An enterprising Everyman Theatre board member calculated there are 152 laughs in Noises Off. Surely, he jests. There is easily three times that number in Everyman’s gonzo production under the banana-peel direction of artistic director Vincent M. Lancisi.
Dawn Ursula played in 7 productions in 2016. How did she manage it?
In our look back at 2016, we tallied the number of roles played by area actors. One of the surprises was that 68 actors were cast in between 4 and 6 shows. Dawn Ursula, however, surpassed that. Last year, she appeared in 7 productions: Dot at Everyman Theatre, Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 at Round House Theatre, Redder Blood at […]
Most memorable moments on DC area stages in 2016
As this year closes, perhaps you, like we, are thinking back over your own year spent watching the various riches spread before us by Washington area theatres. I asked our staff for their most vivid memories. We hope you will share your own as comments for us all to savor.
Trailers that sell the live theatre sizzle. DC Theatre Scene’s picks for best video trailers
Turning a stage show into an enticing video is an art. There are three trailers which I think are among this year’s most outstanding. And, best of all, if they happen to convince you to see the show, tickets are still available.
Funny, pungent, fierce. Dot at Everyman Theatre (review)
A holiday comedy about a family matriarch’s failing brain—what could be merrier? In truth, Coleman Domingo’s Dot is an absolute delight no matter what time of year. Funny, pungent and fierce, Dot is a noisy, necessary play about the need for home and the resilience of family—no matter what form it takes.
The Roommate at Everyman Theatre (review)
Enter your 50s and you become invisible. People look right through 50-something women as if you are not there; waiters ignore you and bartenders don’t flirt with you; store personnel stare right past you to wait on the pretty young things.
Wait Until Dark at Everyman Theatre (review)
Listen up, guys and molls. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher has pumped lead, film noir lead, see, into that chestnut Wait Until Dark and it’s a looker. Youse need to leg it to Everyman Theatre because this show is the jakes.
Everyman Theatre’s on The Cooking Channel tonight at 10pm
Everyman Theatre’s opening night parties are always grand affairs. But their Great American Rep Opening Night party last April, celebrating their productions of Death of a Salesman and Streetcar Named Desire,became an even more heightened affair thanks to The Cooking Channel. Last March, producers of the new series Cake Hunters came to Baltimore looking for great […]
A Streetcar Named Desire at Everyman Theatre (review)
Oh, what a night in Baltimore Wednesday. One year after the Freddie Gray violence, there was a festive air downtown as people of all stripes thronged the streets, cafes and restaurants as they made their way to the Bruce Springsteen concert, the Orioles game or the theaters. Iconic cries rang in the air—“Bruuuuuuuuuce!” “OOOOOOOOOO’s!” and […]
Death of a Salesman at Everyman Theatre (review)
A sunny April Sunday and distractions such as spring cleaning, the Orioles or neglected reading beckon. Instead, all of those things are cast aside for sitting quietly in the dark for nearly three hours and having your heart broken.