Tag: Tracey Elaine Chessum
Review: ‘Assassins’ at Pallas Theatre Collective
This season for whatever reason—and far be it from me to speculate—three theater companies in the nation's capital are presenting Stephen Sondheim's tunefully insolent...
Review: ‘Crazy Mary Lincoln’ at Pallas Theatre Collective
Crazy Mary Lincoln, has received an appealing, open-hearted, ardent regional premiere production from Pallas Theatre Collective. The musical focuses new light on the long,...
Review: ‘Lost in Wonderland’ at Pallas Theatre Collective
‘Lost in Wonderland’: Journeys Through an Author’s Imagination
Have you ever wanted to ask a famous, classic author, say a Mark Twain or an Edgar...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2015 #15: Best Directors of Musicals in Professional...
The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2015 Best Directors of Musicals in Professional Theatres honors go to:
Patrick A'Hearn for The Music...
‘code name: Cynthia’ at Pallas Theatre Collective
Stephen Sondheim would do well to watch his back. Pallas Theatre Collective has just mounted a new musical, code name: Cynthia, that is just...
A New Spy Musical Ready to Seduce DC Audiences at Pallas...
Summer 2015 is turning out to be the season of original musicals making their premieres with Washington area theaters. One of the most anticipated...
Announcing Pallas Theatre Collective’s Fifth Season by Caroline Brent
Tickets are now on sale for Pallas Theatre Collective's fifth season, titled A Season of Washington – A Season of Women. Each work this season focuses...
‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ at Pallas Theatre Collective
A Gothic horror story that’s dense with symbolism, light on plot, and written in 1839 may not seem like ideal source material for a...
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ at Pallas Theatre Collective
Were Betty Friedan and H.P. Lovecraft to have a baby, Pallas Theatre Collective’s new musical, might be their demented offspring. The show (with music...
‘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....
Part 3: ‘On the Road From Canterbury to Pointless Theatre’ by...
Found Object Puppetry
Puppetry is one of the world’s oldest performance styles. It is an art that spans millennia, continents, cultures, and mediums. Whether it...
‘Tomfoolery’ at Elden Street Players by Andrew Baughman
Let’s get one thing out of the way. Tomfoolery, Cameron Mackintosh and Robin Ray’s 1980 revue of “words and music of Tom Lehrer,” is...
Filichia on Friday: ‘The 2013 Broadway University Mid-Term Exam’ by Peter...
Here is this week's new article from Peter Filichia's column on Kritzerland called 'Filichia on Friday.' It's an honor being allowed to bring Peter's column...
Part 2: ‘On the Road From Canterbury to Pointless Theatre’ by...
I’ve never been on a blind date, but I imagine it comes with a whole set of crazy emotions, ranging from excitement, to curiosity,...
‘The Tempest: Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On’ at Pallas...
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our little life is rounded with sleep.” William Shakespeare’s words straight from The Tempest....
‘The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on’ Part 6...
So…after countless hours rehearsing, processing videos, recording voiceovers, constructing a giant chessboard, and studying dream theory, WE’VE MADE IT! Pallas Theatre’s The Tempest: Such...
Part 1: ‘On the Road From Canterbury to Pointless Theatre’ by...
I’m thrilled to be kicking off this series of articles about our upcoming show Canterbury for DC Theater Arts by talking about the long...
Part 5: “The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on”:...
You have heard from The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on’s director, designers, board members, artistic directors…but what about the actors? This...
Part 4: ‘The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on:Chessboards...
Pallas Theatre Collective’s The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on – Chessboards and Sea-faring.
Last week, Board President John Horman gave you a...
‘A View of The Tempest: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made...
I have a confession to make: I first joined the Pallas Theatre Collective family not as a board member, but as a cast member!...