Shakespeare Theatre Company announced yesterday that it will cancel its limited in-person production of Blindness in light of an increase in the number of DC coronavirus cases. The increase had caused DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to announce further restrictions on her revised Phase Two ReOpen DC plan which goes into effect November 25. “The health […]
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: Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre, a masterwork from Lauren Gunderson
If Silent Sky is an example of what has led Lauren Gunderson to be (as the program for the production states) the “most produced living playwright in America,” it is easy to understand why she would be such. Human beings are hard-wired to consume sweet things. And Silent Sky is a masterwork of a confection. […]
Special DCTS ticket deal: 35% off Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre
From Ford’s Theatre – Save on tickets to Silent Sky at Ford’s Theatre—a captivating play by Lauren Gunderson about trail-blazing astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt. A decade before women gained the right to vote, Leavitt and her fellow women “computers” transformed the science of astronomy. This inspiring drama explores the determination, passion and sacrifice of the women […]
Review: Fences at Ford’s Theatre
The staging of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Fences at Ford’s Theatre seemed made-to-order for a grand slam home run. The memorable backyard drama of father and son and husband and wife is probably the most accessible and popular of Wilson’s magnificent Century Cycle. And the casting of local big-leaguer Craig Wallace in […]
Review: Into the Woods. Enchantment and enlightenment await at Ford’s Theatre
Enchantment awaits those who enter Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s wildly inventive, darkly comic thicket of life lessons sprung from children’s fairy tales in a new revival at Ford’s Theatre. Sondheim and book writer James Lapine have packed the show to the gills with ideas about wish fulfillment and its consequences, the relationship between parents […]
Ford’s Theatre announces its 4 show 2019-2020 season
Ford’s Theatre will present two of the best-known theater stories in the English-speaking canon and two plays about outsiders in America in its 2019-2020 season, the company announced yesterday. The estimable Craig Wallace, long familiar to Ford’s audiences, will play the tortured Troy Maxson, a onetime Negro League star who now works on a sanitation […]
Ford’s Theatre’s Twelve Angry Men fails to follow through on its promises
Sheldon Epp’s Twelve Angry Men, his directorial debut at the historic Ford’s Theatre, promised a present-day take on the 1954 legal drama that follows jury deliberations in the murder trial of a teenager accused of killing his own father. In interviews leading up to the show’s opening, Epps noted that his production, first staged at […]
Director Sheldon Epps: Looking at Twelve Angry Men through the lens of the killing of Trayvon Martin
“About four years ago, I did my first production of this show at Pasadena Playhouse and what prompted it was some serious and robust conversations about race that were going on in our country that were prompted by the Trayvon Martin situation,”director Sheldon Epps said, as he prepares for the opening of Twelve Angry Men at […]
Ford’s Theatre and The Kennedy Center remain open through the shutdown
The two Washington-area theaters with a large Federal Government footprint will remain open during the partial shutdown of the Federal government, the companies reported. Ford’s Theatre, which is currently running its annual production of A Christmas Carol, will have no alternation in its production schedule. However, the theater, which is also a museum and historic […]
Review: Born Yesterday, the 1940s comedy at Ford’s Theatre takes serious aim at big money corruption
Wow. Just wow. Born Yesterday, a Tony-award winning play written in 1946 by Garson Kanin, feels likes a premonition come to fruition.
Review: The Wiz at Ford’s Theatre
Much like its storied source material, (Frank L. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), The Wiz is an American cultural institution. Seven Tony Awards in 1975. Numerous revivals. A 1978 film adaptation turned cult-classic. And a live staging on NBC in 2015. Yet, I’ve never seen it and chose, as I often do, to walk […]
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