Say the name “Carmen Miranda” and immediately images of a crazy lady with a fruit bucket on her head probably pop into your brain. But there was so much more to this iconic star than the fruit.
UpClose: Patti Kalil, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Pointless Theatre’s production of Gimme a Band! Gimme a Banana! The Carmen Miranda Story by Mel Bieler and Patti Kalil debuts October 15, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre.
UpClose: Mel Bieler, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Gimme a Band! Gimme a Banana! The Carmen Miranda Story by Mel Bieler and Patti Kalil debuts October 15, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre, produced by Pointless Theatre.
Puppet gets major role in classic horror Doctor Caligari
What keeps you up at night, little brother? Is it that seemingly random tax audit notice you received in the mail yesterday? Perhaps your spouse has become distant, or else developed a disconcerting interest in someone who is not you. Did your boss forget your name at work yesterday? Or is it that odd-looking fellow […]
Puppet ballet or staged silent horror remake. It’s all Pointless.
If you’ve ever taken a film history class or are just a movie buff, chances are you’ve seen the 1920 notorious German silent suspense film, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari. “It’s not only an important piece for development of European avant-garde, but it’s one of the first movies,” says Matt Reckeweg, co-artistic director of Pointless Theatre. […]
A Very Pointless Holiday Spectacular
There’s something about raunchy elves and an over the top Mrs. Claus as a potty-mouthed, grind-worthy, well-endowed and knows how to flaunt it M.C. that tickles even if the actual jokes aren’t that funny. Mrs. Claus and her cheerful cadre of talented elves brighten the holidays working with what they’ve got, which from a very […]
The family known as the award winning Pointless Theatre Company
“Shamelessly co-dependent is what we like to say.” So Patti Kalil, co-artistic director, describes Pointless Theatre. She is sitting beside a brightly painted backdrop before rehearsal for the company’s next show, Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet – which has since opened and runs until May 3rd at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint. She is […]
Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet
The words “puppet show” and “groundbreaking” don’t often share the same sentence, but DC’s Pointless Theatre Group is out to change that, one performance at a time. Pointless is building upon its outside-the-box legacy with the fantastical Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet, which stretches the confines of the intimate Mead Theatre Lab with dazzling artistry […]
Cab Calloway’s Minnie the Moocher
For a fast blast to the past of a speak-easy, a cool jazzy set is swinging at the Flashpoint Mead Theatre Lab. With creative and stylistic verve, Pointless Theatre has organized the songs made famous by Cab Calloway in a back-story bringing the characters to life with cartoonish flair. The lyrics unfold to tell the […]
Canterbury
I missed Canterbury Tales day in AP English. I missed Canterbury Tales day in college, too. In fact, I’m ashamed to admit that the closest I’ve come to Chaucer’s widely celebrated work is downloading it (for free!) on my Kindle, and feeling satisfied to include it my library titled “Classics…. To Read Later.”