Ganymede Arts Artistic Director Jeffrey Johnson is organizing a special benefit concert titled “Go Mama Gone” on Sunday, March 13 in support of the popular home decorative store go mama go! and the family of its founder, theater benefactor Noi Chudnoff. The store, which closes its doors on March 31st, has been left with some debts which he hopes the benefit can help […]
Falsettos’ Family Therapist and the Bar-Mitzvah boy
Noah Chiet and Tony Gudell on playing Jason and Mendel in Ganymede Arts’ Falsettos I’ve seen Noah Chiet perform in several productions at Musical Theater Center, and I knew that if he was given the chance to play a lead role in a musical, he would have the audience and critics applauding. So, it didn’t […]
Falsettos
Turning thirteen comes with its share of bad luck. The precocious young Jason (Noah Chiet) sees his upcoming bar mitzvah as an entry into adulthood, but the move from point A to point B can prove to be a rocky one. As director Jeffrey Johnson’s modest, intelligent production gently reminds us, our life paths are […]
Naked Boys Singing
The theatre can be a great venue for envisioning life through metaphor. But, sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. And a man can, at times, find it best to be thoroughly naked, regardless of whether he’s feeling emotionally exposed. So writing out a justification for Naked Boys Singing – a droll little cabaret with […]
After the Garden: Edith Beale Live at Reno Sweeney
If you’ve seen the documentary (The Beales of Grey Gardens) and/or the musical (Grey Gardens) you already know “Little Edie” Beale. If you are a hard core fan of this absurdly pathetic character and cannot wait for the upcoming Jessica Lange/Drew Barrymore movie, you can feed your appetite further with Ganymede Arts’ world premiere production, […]
Community Mourns the Passing of Noi Chudnoff
A New Name and Vision for ATW
As reported last night in DCist: DCist has had the opportunity to enjoy a number of Actors’ Theater of Washington productions over the years. But we’ve learned that the theater company, which targets Washington’s gay and lesbian community, will be expanding its focus and rebranding its identity. ATW will soon begin to operate as Ganymede […]
Tramps and Vamps
Reviewed by Tim Treanor Tramps and Vamps (Ruffian on the Stair/Vampire Lesbians of Sodom), Actors Theater of Washington The great immortal succubus, stage name La Condesa (Nanna Ingvarsson) requires the blood of virgin women to continue living – or rather continue undying. A woman (Rick Hammerly) of indeterminate age (she says fourteen), having experienced the […]
A Boston Marriage At Source
By: Ronnie Ruff Boston Marriage – The Actor’s Theatre Of Washington Anyone who has loved someone and thought they might be losing them can appreciate what Boston Marriage is really about. Not so much about the witty and terribly funny barbs that fly to and fro — the play is about is love and the […]
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