Enthusiastic box office response has earned another 5 performances this week for Mike Bartlett’s searing satire Contractions starring Holly Twyford and Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan.
The Minotaur
If most teenage girls described their brother as a beast, we would chalk it up to youthful exaggeration. In Ariadne’s case it is literally true since her half-brother is The Minotaur, the eponymous character in Rorschach Theatre’s joint world premiere of a quirky, thoughtful, and entertaining new play by Anna Ziegler.
Theatre community supports the March for Gun Control this Saturday.
Local and national leaders, joined by members of the DC area theatre community, will take part in Saturday’s March on Washington for Gun Control in support of President Obama’s plan for preventing gun violence.
Nice Work If You Can Get It (revisited)
This musical pastiche, put together with bits and pieces of a dozen old musical comedies, opened 9 months ago at the Imperial on Broadway, and it’s very much still there, doing business that defies the mostly negative reviews that first greeted it.
A young actor prepares to lead his band of brothers in Folger’s Henry V
This week, on the west side of the U. S. Capitol, with millions watching, President Barack Obama gave his second inaugural address calling for unity as we seize the future together. Just a few short blocks away, a leader from the pages of history prepared to deliver rousing speeches for a more intimate audience.
Winnie the Pooh
The winning cast members of Adventure Theatre’s Winnie the Pooh bring the characters to life in this loving, living adaptation. The old familiar events are there, but the pacing and style from director Jerry Whiddon and the engaging songs, lyrics and musical passages add a whole new dimension to the experience.
Signature Theatre gets in the Shakespeare spirit with $25 Stalls tickets
Joe Calarco’s groundbreaking play Shakespeare’s R&J breaks new ground again when it opens in the theatre more accustomed to the sights and sounds of Sondheim. Signature Theatre is producing the play (it’s first Shakespeare) in the round and in the MAX theatre.
August: Osage County
A gorgeous new space deserves an equally stunning production. Everyman Theatre has pulled off this challenging feat with its sparkling renovation of the old Town Theater movie palace and its shattering and laugh-out-loud staging of playwright Tracy Letts’ mama drama August: Osage County.
Zorro
As any fan of Fifty Shades of Grey will tell you, chicks dig guys in black masks. Before Christian Grey, the Dark Knight and other masked morsels, there was Zorro, who also had a way with a sword and a whip, no double-entendres intended. First appearing in 1919 in the pulp-fiction tale The Curse of Capistrano, […]
Can I Really Date a Guy Who Wears a Yarmulke?
Religion is a touchy subject among people of different religions. It can become an even touchier subject among people of the same religion. At least people with different beliefs can leave it at that: they believe different things. Those who share a religious code, but maybe not the same ardency in adhering to it, can […]
The Mountaintop
It is not fanciful to compare Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrate today, with Moses. Like the biblical figure, Dr. King led his people out of captivity. Like Moses, the Georgia preacher struggled with his fractious followers, who were drawn to false idols in the face of their leader’s stern and exacting principles. […]
WATCH community theatre nominations announced
Sunday night, January 20th, in Alexandria, Virginia, nominations for the the 13th annual Washington Area Community Theatre Awards (WATCH) were announced from the stage of the Little Theatre of Alexandria.