Tag: Germany
‘Cabaret’ at The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts
The Theatre Lab lived up to its reputation as one of the most beloved and well-respected acting training grounds in the DC metro area...
2015 Capital Fringe Preview #19: ‘God: The One Man Show’ by...
Hi, Rich Potter here.
When I was 6 years old, the girl down the street told me about God, and how He created everything.
I asked,...
‘The Trap’ at Ambassador Theater
The gaunt and haunted figure of Franz Kafka obsessed the renowned Polish poet, novelist, and dramatist Tadeusz Różewicz (1921-2014). His two-act play The Trap—part expressionistic, part...
‘The Human Capacity’ at University of Maryland School of Theatre, Dance,...
“Everyone is born with the capacity for cruelty and for mercy.” It’s what we do with that capacity that defines our fate. The University...
A Q&A with Mezzo-Soprano Magdalena Wór on Her Training in Washington...
Mezzo-soprano Magdalena Wór pretty much creates an unforgettable impression everywhere she performs. Her strikingly rich voice – it’s been called “plush,” “chocolatey” and other...
Mahler’s Ninth with the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center
If you choose to let it, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 9 can scare you to death. Or you can let its vast scope and...
‘A Bright Room Called Day’ at Nu Sass Productions
With its Small Batch Audience Series created for an especially limited number of patrons per performance, Nu Sass Productions is out to transform the...
Magic Time! Passion for a Play: A Q&A With Michael Dove,...
Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play is an epic three-part play set in three eras—Queen Elizabeth's England, Adolf Hitler's Germany, and Ronald Reagan's America. It’s a fancifully...
‘The Imperative to Reconcile’: A Conversation with Ari Roth by John...
In the week following Ari Roth’s firing as Artistic Director of Theater J, I talked with him about his vision of theater. It was...
Standout CDs of Three Rising Classical Artists: Einav Yarden, Yevgeny Kutik,...
Debut recordings by emerging classical performers face enormous challenges. There’s the issue of finding unique material or a unique voice after so much music...
‘No Exit’ at The Highwood Theatre
Jean-Paul Sartre was not only a great playwright, but one of the leading philosophers of the 20th Century. He wrote No Exit during the...
An Interview with Scena Theatre’s ‘Handbag’ Director Robert McNamara and Cast...
I had the honor of interviewing Director Robert McNamara and cast members Anne Nottage, Amanda Forstrom, and Haely Jardas from Scena Theatre's Handbag, which begins performances...
An Interview With Washington, DC Piano Sensation Thomas Pandolfi About Classical...
If Thomas Pandolfi hasn’t done all that a pianist can do to present an exceptionally broad range of music to an engaged public, he...
School in Crisis in Michele Riml’s ‘Rage’
In Michele Riml’s Rage, winner of the 2005 Sydney Risk Prize and 2008 winner of the Jessie Richardson Award, an after school counseling session unexpectedly...
Cinema Speak With Sydney-Chanele: Film Review – ‘A Most Wanted Man’
A perfect performance is not what qualifies great acting, it's an impassioned one.
The laid out intensity and confident determination of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's absorbing...
Capital Fringe 2014 Review: ‘Uniform’
You can easily miss him. Lying on the floor in dim light, dressed in grey, still as death, he is easily overlooked. It is...
‘Verdict’ at Thunderous Productions
Agatha Christie. The name immediately draws to mind thrilling murder mysteries of the ‘who-dunnit’ era of the utmost suspenseful caliber. Thunderous Productions in the...
Meet the Cast of No Rules Theatre Company’s ‘Boeing Boeing’: Part...
In Part 4 of a series of interviews with the cast of No Rules Theatre Company’s production of Boeing Boeing, meet Sherry Berg.
Joel: Tell us where...
‘Boeing Boeing’ at No Rules Theatre Company
An American, Italian, and German stewardess walk into an apartment in Paris… sound like a classic joke? Well, almost – in fact, it’s the...
Meet the Cast of No Rules Theatre Company’s ‘Boeing Boeing’: Part...
In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of No Rules Theatre Company’s production of Boeing Boeing, meet Jamie Smithson.
Joel: Where have you...