Tag: Matt Reckeweg
A futurist flashback for sci-fi fans in ‘R.U.R.’ from We Happy...
The 1921 script foresees the human consequences of robotic technology and AI a century before their time. By SOPHIA HOWES
Review: ‘The Rite of Spring’ by Pointless Theatre Company
When The Rite of Spring, a ballet with a score by Igor Stravinsky, premiered in 1913, theater-goers were so shocked by Stravinsky’s relentless, stabbing...
Review: ‘.d0t:: a RotoPlastic Ballet’ at Pointless Theatre Company
When you hear the phrase “futuristic dystopia where the human race has almost died out, leaving a single human and a civilization of robots,”...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #12: Best Direction of Plays in Professional...
Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Direction of Plays in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees!
THE BEST DIRECTION OF...
Review: ‘Hugo Ball: a Dada puppet AdveNTuRe!!/?1!!?? at Pointless Theatre Company
The whooshing, passionate ride that is Hugo Ball: a Dada puppet AdveNTuRe!!/?1!!?? – an original piece by DC's perennial enfant terrible, Pointless Theatre Company...
‘A Very Pointless Holiday Spectacular’ at Pointless Theatre Company
I don't usually go in for all of that holiday crap. If you ask me, ’tis the season for saccharine platitudes and interminable carols...
‘Doctor Caligari’ at Pointless Theatre Company
The Pointless Theatre Company troupe has taken on a major “dare” in adapting a landmark silent expressionist cult film into to a live stage...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2015 #18: Best Directors of a Play in...
The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2015 Best Directors of Plays in Professional Theatres go to:
Chris Abraham for Winners and Losers...
‘The Nutcracker’ at The Puppet Co.
I have seen and reviewed The Puppet Co.'s production of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker several times, and each time I see it I fall in...
Pointless Theatre Premieres 2 Puppet Spectacles Tomorrow at 7 PM Through...
One might think that puppets are just for kids. Not so. Pointless Theatre Company, a D.C. company founded by UMD School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance...
‘Sleeping Beauty: A Puppet Ballet’ at Pointless Theatre Co. at Mead...
Have you ever thought that the ballet needed more puppets? Or is it just me? For those of us troubled by this glaring oversight,...
‘Urinetown’ at Act Two @ Levine’s Pre-Professional Program
Do you suppose composer Mark Hollamann and writer Greg Kotis got the loo-dicrous idea for Urinetown while waiting in line for the facilities during...
Composer Jason Robert Brown on ‘Songs for a New World’ on...
Composer Jason Robert Brown will be coming to Potomac, MD and to Columbia, MD next weekend to conduct and perform Songs for a New...
Pointless Theatre Company To Be Awarded The John Aniello Award at...
There was some wonderful news yesterday from theatreWashington that the 2014 John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company will be presented to Pointless...
‘Cab Calloway’s Minnie the Moocher’ at Pointless Theatre Co. at Mead...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped in a old cartoon? One of those aggressively manic black-and-white pieces where...
‘The Nutcracker’ at The Puppet Company by Julia L. Exline
The Puppet Co. presents Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, a holiday classic beautifully re-imagined through puppetry. The multi-talented Christopher Piper, who holds the titles...
Pointless Theatre Announces Its 2013-2014 Season by Scott Whalen
Pointless Theatre Announces 2013-2014 Season
Pointless Theatre, DC’s premiere puppet company, announces its 2013-2014 season, featuring new adaptations of two previous productions from Pointless:Cab Calloway’s...
Auditons on November 21st and 23rd for Young Artists of America’s...
Young Artists of America is pleased to announce audition dates for its upcoming March 2014 production of
SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
The production will feature...
‘The Amazing & Marvelous Cabinets of Kismet’ at Wit’s End Puppets...
How do we determine our place in the world? How do we give our lives meaning? And how do we do both of these...
‘Canterbury’ at Pointless Theatre by Pat Davis
It is not exactly Chaucer’s England. Here there are moat bears. There is chocolate, too, along with women who want inordinate quantities of it....