Chad Kimball, starring in the Broadway musical Memphis
The Musical in his Soul: Chad Kimball on his journey with Memphis It didn’t surprise me when Chad Kimball wowed the NYC critics with his animated, high energy, funny, bluesy, and loveable performance as disc jockey Huey Calhoun in the new musical Memphis.
Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?
Despite the whimsical title, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? is a serious conversation, about serious stuff. It is about art, and – this is the genius of Kornbluth, that eventually he always gets down to the bones of the thing – about love.
Marc Kudisch in Terrence McNally’s Golden Age
Terrence McNally's new play Golden Age, which just had its successful debut at Philadelphia Theatre Company, opens March 12th in the Kennedy Center’s Family Theatre with new rewrites and a new director (Walter Bobbie,
Mondo Andronicus
Who knew thundering electric guitars, buckets of blood, and Elizabethan tragedy would go together so well? Heavy metal and horror clash with the immortal words of Shakespeare in Molotov Theatre Group’s disturbing, funny, and bleak Mondo Andronicus.
Some Girl(s)
Here’s how you can tell when your play is working: you’ve got an Amen Corner. On the night I saw No Rules Theatre take its maiden voyage with a fine production of Some Girl(s), the Amen Corner was in full voice, gasping in shock and recognition at the audacity of the dialogue and the plot points. Brothers and sisters, welcome to Church – the Church of Neil LaBute.
REVIEWS
Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?
Despite the whimsical title, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? is a serious conversation, about serious stuff. It is about art, and – this is the genius of Kornbluth, that eventually he always gets down to the bones of the thing – about love. Read More →
Mondo Andronicus
Who knew thundering electric guitars, buckets of blood, and Elizabethan tragedy would go together so well? Heavy metal and horror clash with the immortal words of Shakespeare in Molotov Theatre Group’s disturbing, funny, and bleak Mondo Andronicus. Read More →
Some Girl(s)
Here’s how you can tell when your play is working: you’ve got an Amen Corner. On the night I saw No Rules Theatre take its maiden voyage with a fine production of Some Girl(s), the Amen Corner was in full voice, gasping in shock and recognition at the audacity of the dialogue and the plot points. Brothers and sisters, welcome to Church – the Church of Neil LaBute. Read More →
Mauritius
Top Pick! — Bay Theatre’s production of Mauritius is a rocket trip to a world both violent and profoundly cynical, where lives and relationships are held cheaply. Read More →
Amazons and Their Men
The Frau reclines into her seat, smoking a fine cigar; she distracts herself with artistic integrity, blissfully ignorant of the stomping boots of war outside her studio. This duly summarizes Jordan Harrison’s Amazons and their Men as presented by Forum Theatre. Read More →
Chumbale (Every Love Bird Needs a Nest)
When you consider that Facebook is banned in some communist countries today, Chumbale, an area premiere, is wickedly funny, and extraordinarily brave. Read More →
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Shakespeare’s greatest speeches – vote your favorite
Tim stated that the Crispian Day speech in Henry V is, perhaps, the greatest in all of Shakespeare. Is he right? We asked some of the Washington Area’s most fervent, and most expert, Shakespeareans to join Tim in selecting their three favorite speeches in the canon. Read More →
QuestFest’s wordless theater festival returns to DC area
Quest: Arts for Everyone, a Maryland-based organization “committed to using the arts to…enable individuals who have been marginalized to realize their full potential” will collaborate with The Theater Project and Creative Alliance of Baltimore and Washington’s Gallaudet University to stage QuestFest 2010, a two-week festival of primarily non-verbal theater, in the two cities. The festival will run from March 1 until the 14th. Read More →
Arena Stage to return home with a 45-project 60th season
Arena Stage will inaugurate its $125 million renovated facility, The Mead Center for American Theater, with a blizzard of productions in 2010-2011, kicking off its 60th season on Oct 23, 2010 with the first modern American musical, Oklahoma! , Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategoryNY THEATRE BUZZ
Next to Normal, Happy Now?, Present Laughter
In the early spring of 2008 I caught the first New York production of Next to Normal, off Broadway at Second Stage. I reviewed it favorably in this column. Now, eight months into its run in a revised...
Memphis, Yank!, and Ages of the Moon
As a charter member of the “It’s too loud!” and the “Where are the melodies?” clubs of musical theatre lovers, I kept delaying my visit to Memphis, thinking it wouldn’t do much for me except...
A Little Night Music, Fanny, Mr. and Mrs. Fitch
I am refreshed! Dan Moses Schrier and Gareth Owen may not be familiar names to you (they were not to me), but they are my new heroes. For they prove conclusively that musical theatre sound need not be...
Read More Posts From This CategoryTHEATRE SCHMOOZE
Chad Kimball, starring in the Broadway musical Memphis
The Musical in his Soul: Chad Kimball on his journey with Memphis It didn’t surprise me when Chad Kimball wowed the NYC critics with his animated, high energy, funny, bluesy, and loveable performance...
Musical Scene Stealers – Winter, 2010
Two young undertakers, two angels and their lover, a colorful instrumentalist and singer, a pie-baking assistant, a quarreling and vocally gifted couple, a distraught girlfriend who’s gone to pot, Read More →
High Fidelity interviews: Andrew Baughman, Stephen Gregory Smith and Julie Herber
How do these guys and gals keep putting on these amazing productions of musicals that just didn’t do too well in NYC, and turn them into winners? I saw High Fidelity on Broadway, and loved the music...
Read More Posts From This CategoryPODCASTS
Marc Kudisch in Terrence McNally’s Golden Age
Terrence McNally’s new play Golden Age, which just had its successful debut at Philadelphia Theatre Company, opens March 12th in the Kennedy Center’s Family Theatre with new rewrites and a new director (Walter Bobbie, Interview with Marc Kudisch [21:56m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (397) Read More →
NEWSical The Musical’s Michael West
Joel sits down with funnyman Michael West in his dressing room at the 47th Street Theatre. Michael opens his trunk of many voices and out comes Bill Clinton (“a southern Elmer Fudd”), Al Gore (“a gay kindergarten teacher”), Liza Minnelli, Carol Channing, Sammy Davis, Jr., Robert Goulet, and Harvey Fierstein. With special guest: NEWSical director Mark Waldrop. Standard Podcast [32:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (272) Read More →
The Gift of the Magi
The Audible Group, the soundsmiths who bring you the Audience Choice Awards radioplay every year and last December’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, has created another all-star offering in this new audio interpretation of “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry. The Gift of the Magi from The Audible Group [11:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (413) Read More →
Read More Posts From This CategoryFrog and Toad
Tom Wopat at Strathmore
Sweeney Todd
Some Girls
Mahalia
The Light in the Piazza
The Glass Menagerie
March Theatre Guide
Troublesome Gap . Episode 2
