If a night of good theatre is a main course unto itself, then the Mashup Festival at Landless is more like a pizza delivered after everyone else has gone to bed. The fun is in the shrugging indulgence of an added late-night meal, not in the quality of the food itself. The festival, now playing […]
The Creature rules in Landless Theatre’s Frankenstein
Saturday evening was all Halloween and hardware at Landless Theatre Company’s prog-metal production of Frankenstein. In this, the company’s most ambitious show to date, the cast was ably supported by the ghoulishly face-painted band members. The four musicians delivered full-throttle, driving drumbeats and aggressive guitar riffs interwoven with some complex musical motifs associated with the […]
Frankenstein – a mixer for the heavy metal and musical theatre crowds. Fear not.
I’ve been instructed to enter GALA Hispanic Theatre from the roof of a neighboring grocery store. I’m on my way to a tech rehearsal for Landless Theatre Company’s world premiere of Richard Campbell’s Frankenstein, and the front door of the theater will be locked. I climb the stairs of Giant’s parking garage, and am loafing […]
Landless returns for a third chance for awesome
If your taste in musical theatre tends to the grunge, the gory or the absolutely silly, then you must be a longtime fan of Landless Theatre. For nearly 10 years, they’ve built a core audience for shows like Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Gutenberg the Musical, Bat Boy the Musical, Walmartopia, and other musicals more respectable companies […]
Spidermusical: A Second Chance for Awesome
A Spider-Man musical must not have seemed like the nosedive off a skyscraper it turned out to be back on that first day, when Broadway producers gave Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark the green light. But by the time Team Taymor finally hauled their spoof-ready behemoth of a show out into the limelight, it seemed […]
Some secrets behind SPIDERMUSICAL at Landless
Interview with Andrew Baughman and Melissa Baughman of Landless Theatre – With this interview, DC Theatre Scene is thrilled to introduce our newest writer, Joe Brack, DC area actor, teacher and writer. – Beneath the pleasing din of Indian radio and the bustle of Adams Morgan, on an unseasonably gorgeous Sunday afternoon, I am sharing […]
Devil Boys from Beyond
Landless Theatre is at it again. Yes, the company that brings you inane post-modern theatre, has hit another one: Devil Boys from Beyond, premiering this February, and though it’s a triple to the right field wall rather than a grand slam, it’s still worthy of a trip to Adams-Morgan.
Landless Mashup Festival – Family Edition
The Dark Knightmare Before Christmas and Breaking Hunger Recent years have seen the music industry taken over by “mashup artists” – DJs who meld numerous popular songs into a surprising, coherent whole. There’s a similar philosophy at work behind the second year of Landless Theatre Company’s wacky, genial Mashup Festival, which invites audiences to see some […]
Landless’ Mashup Festival – late night edition
Night of the Living Golden Girls and TarXXXanadu This Saturday, I attended DCTS’ annual party at a lovely Thai restaurant near DuPont Circle. I must say that every moment was enjoyable, but the party really started with Tim Treanor’s toast, followed by the obligatory game of Who Said That. As we sipped our non-adult adult […]
Cannibal! The Musical
“God has cared for these trees,” said naturalist John Muir on one of his Western expeditions a century ago. “He has saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods… But he cannot save them from fools.”
Rock Bottom: A Rock Opus
Working in the theatre, you quickly learn that you can’t please everyone all the time. Sometimes audiences steer clear of a show because it looks too dark or upsetting. Maybe the content is offensive, or the story line doesn’t appeal. Sometimes it’s just that strange, sinking feeling that everyone involved, simply put, is trying too […]
The B Team
In his play The B Team, David Holstein, who, it should be noted also writes scripts for the Showtime series “Weeds”, asks and partially answers a question kind of fundamental to our times: can terrorists—and terrorism and suicide bombers—be funny? The answer will likely come out as something like this: well, yeah, kinda, maybe, sometimes, […]