Tag: Washington DC Metro
Spine: Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at Folger Theatre
Oh, what a difference 200 years make!
Jane Austen's novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published anonymously in 1811.
Folger's Sense and Sensibility, adapted by Kate Hamill...
Review: ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ at Washington National Opera
“Perdono no merita chi agli altri non da.” So say the words carved into the wall above the stage in the Washington National Opera’s...
Review: ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at Westchester Broadway Theatre
Saturday Night Fever: The Musical, directed by Richard Stafford, is currently playing at Westchester Broadway Theatre. The musical is based on the well-known 1977 Paramount/RSO film starring...
Meet the Cast and Director of Providence Players’ ‘Amadeus’ Part 3:...
Amadeus, the late Peter Shaffer’s Tony and Academy award winning masterpiece opens next week, September 30, 2016, at the James Lee Community Center Theater...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘One Way Red’
Mars is an atypyical subject for a piece of theatre, but with entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and the Mars One project setting their sights...
Review: ‘Stupid Fucking Bird’ at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia
It was just two and a half years ago that the Arden Theatre presented a version of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters that used a...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Julius Caesar, Spared Parts’
A playwright friend recently recalled something the Russian director Dimitry Krymov said: "I want to be interested beyond my understanding. My understanding can catch...
Review: ‘Electra’ at Villanova University, in Villanova, PA
The mists of ancient history paint the birth of theater as religious ritual that gradually transmuted into drama.The Ancient Greeks always considered attending a...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘The VS. Series’
Zany, gut-wrenching and stimulating, Bryant Edwards’ The VS. Series features five vignettes, each helmed by different writers and directors. In order, these matches are...
Come to KAT’s ‘Cabaret’: Part 2: Meet Chuck Dluhy
In Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast of Kensington Arts Theatre’s (KAT) Cabaret, meet Chuck Dluhy.
Joel: Where have local theatergoers seen...
Dangereuse: ‘The Lovers with a Thousand Faces’: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at...
Romeo and Juliet at the Shakespeare Theatre is a revelatory theatre experience. Director Alan Paul’s version of Romeo and Juliet has a complexity and...
Who’s in Town?: An Interview With Anaïs Mitchell, Appearing with John...
Anaïs Mitchell is a singer-songwriter and musician who has been called the queen of modern folk music. Her 2010 album Hadestown, a folk-opera based...
2016 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Review: ‘Jungle’ at Bradley’s Bucks
Man and beast struggle and evolve in the post-apocalyptic world of Jungle, the latest work and first Fringe offering of the all-male dance troupe...
Who’s in Town?: John Gallagher, Jr. on Appearing with Anaïs Mitchell...
John Gallagher, Jr. is a Tony-Award winning actor and musician. He won a Tony-Award in 2007 for his portrayal of Mortiz Stiefel in the...
An Interview with Frankie Sin and Donny Vomit on ‘Shocked...
One of the things I love most about the burlesque and sideshow community is the sheer love for the craft and joy of performing...
In the Moment: ‘The 100th Meridian Project’ at George Mason University
Climate change is a sharp pointed object in the current 2016 political season. The language strewn about is often hot and more often than...
In the Moment: ‘Sense and Sensibility’ at Folger Theatre
Folger Theatre’s take on Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility is just gonna charm you with its ingenious high-velocity agility, while depicting the tastefully hide-bound,...
Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene…
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet...
Review: Kathleen Madigan: The Mermaid Lady Tour at the Lyric Opera...
Prolific comedian and TV personality Kathleen Madigan brought her new The Mermaid Lady standup tour to Baltimore Saturday night at the Lyric Opera House, featuring...
Magic Time! ‘How To… Sex Education’ at Rabble Crew Productions
Rabble Crew Productions has a proclivity for mounting edgy, sex-themed theater in fringey places around town. Last December they did Madeline Farrington’s Glory Us at...