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DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Directors of a Play in Professional Theatres

DC Theater Arts Staff 2015-01-03

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts’ honorees for Best Director of a Play in Professional Theatres go to” Cristina Alicea for Gidion’s Knot at Forum Theatre/NextStop Theatre Company co-production Izumi...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Performances in a Play in Professional Theatres

DC Theater Arts Staff 2015-01-03

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their Best of 2014: Best Performances in Plays in Professional Theatres go to: BEST ACTOR IN A PLAY Josh Adams as Billy Craven in The...

Ken Ludwig’s ‘Be My Baby’ Opens on January 23, 2015 at Vienna Theatre Company by Laura Fargotstein

Guest Author 2015-01-01

Vienna Theatre Company is rehearsing Ken Ludwig’s romantic comedy Be My Baby. Opening night is January 23, 2015 and will run for three weekends. Rehearsing during the holidays can be a scheduling...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Plays in Professional Theatres

DC Theater Arts Staff 2014-12-26

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2014 Best Plays in Professional Theatres go to: A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas at Olney Theatre Center A Raisin in the...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2014: Best Musicals in Professional Theatres

DC Theater Arts Staff 2014-12-23

The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts is honored to announce that their 2014 Best Musicals at Professional Theatres honors go to: A Year With Frog and Toad at Red Branch Theatre Company Avenue Q at Olney...

‘The Nutcracker’ at Round House Theatre

Gina Jun 2014-12-02

Offering a new fantastical family-friendly treat, Round House Theatre continues its 2014-15 season with a spectacularly re-imagined contemporary adaptation of a beloved classic – The Nutcracker, a new...

The Playwright’s Playground: Legacies and Storytelling – An Interview with Playwright Will Power of ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-10-17

Will Power is an award-winning playwright and performer, rapper, and international educator. Currently on the faculty at The Meadows School of the Arts/SMU, Power is also the Andrew W. Mellon...

Young Artists of America Presents a Master Class with Broadway Composer Jeanie Tesori This Saturday from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM at Round House Theatre in Bethesda

Joel Markowitz 2014-10-16

Young Artists of America Presents a Public Masterclass with Broadway composer JEANINE TESORI (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek the Musical, Caroline, or Change, and Violet) Saturday, October 18, 2014...

‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ at Round House Theatre

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-10-15

How do two unlikely celebrities become friends? Everyone has a public persona, but that persona is not necessarily their entire being. “I snuck in the back door,” Stepin Fetchit says sternly to...

Spine: Who’s the Fool in ‘Fool for Love’?

Robert Michael Oliver 2014-09-10

Round House Theatre has opened its 2014 season with Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love (1983), one of his many scripts–Curse of the Starving Class (1976), Buried Child (1979), True West (1980) and A Lie of...

‘Fool for Love’ at Round House Theatre

David Siegel 2014-09-09

Burnished to an earthy golden, Director Ryan Rilette’s absorbing, sensually deep, measured take on Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love(1983) is full of the stickiness of love and repulsion. There are...

The Playwright’s Playground: ‘Gidion’s Knot’ Playwright Johnna Adams Speaks About Her Process, Discipline, Inspiration, and Playwriting Paranoia

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-07-30

Johnna Adams. The playwriting voice of Johnna Adams is bold and unique and the genre and styles of her plays are an eclectic mix. In 2013, Johnna received a Steinberg/American Theatre Critics...

The Playwright’s Playground: Playwright Johnna Adams Discusses Giving Herself Permission to Write and Reveals ‘Gidion’s Knot’ Challenges and the Gordian Knot Analogy

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-07-29

Johnna Adams.The playwriting voice of Johnna Adams is bold and unique and the genre and styles of her plays are an eclectic mix. In 2013, Johnna received a Steinberg/American Theatre Critics...

An Extraordinary Cast of ‘Ordinary Days’ at Round House Theatre: Meet Erin Weaver

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-23

Here is the second interview with the extraordinary cast of Round House Theatre’s Ordinary Days. In Part 3: Meet Erin Weaver. Joel: Where have local theatregoers seen you perform this year? Erin: I...

An Extraordinary Cast of ‘Ordinary Days’ at Round House Theatre: Meet Janine DiVita

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-23

Here is the second interview with the extraordinary cast of Round House Theatre’s Ordinary Days. In Part 2: Meet Janine DiVita. Joel: Where have local theatregoers seen you perform this year? Janine:...

An Extraordinary Cast of ‘Ordinary Days’ at Round House Theatre: Meet Will Gartshore

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-20

Here is the first interview with the extraordinary cast of Round House Theatre’s Ordinary Days. In Part 1: Meet Will Gartshore. Joel: Where have local theatregoers seen you perform this year? Will:...

Frank Britton Returns as Pontius Pilate Beginning Tomorrow Night Through Saturday Night in ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-10

Forum Theatre has announced that Frank Britton, recovering from injuries sustained in an attack on Tuesday, May 30th, is returning for the final 5 performances in the role of Pontius Pilate in The...

5 Top Scene Stealers of the Week-Week Ending 6/5/14

Joel Markowitz 2014-06-05

Here are our 5 Top Scene Stealers for the week ending June 5, 2014. Congrats to all our honorees! ______ (1) Florrie Bagel as Sister Mary Patrick singing “Sunday Morning Fever” in Sister Act at...

‘Ordinary Days’ at Round House Theatre

David Friscic 2014-06-03

There is certainly nothing ordinary about Round House Theatre’s current production entitled Ordinary Days. Indeed, how often does one come across a totally “sung-through” meditation on relationships...

SPINE: Theatre, History & Culture in the Belly of the Beast: ‘The Last Days of Judas, Jesus, Justice, and the Born Again?’

Robert Michael Oliver 2014-06-01

“When will the cold Christ Quit breathing twice” Robert Hazel, American Poet Apparently never, or at least not until a new god, Christ’s child perhaps, takes his place on Mount New York City. Until...

‘Brother Hal’ at Lumina Studio Theatre

Francine Schwartz 2014-05-06

I was so impressed by Lumina Studio Theatre’s Brother Hal, adapted from Shakespeare’s Henry V by David Minton and Jamie Raskin, which was performed on Sunday, May 4th at Round House Theatre in Silver...

‘Two Trains Running’ at Round House Theatre

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-04-08

“There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death.” – August Wilson Change is in the air. It’s 1969, a pivotal year of change and a turning point in American history when...

Round House Theatre Announces its 2014-2015 Season by Sarah Pressler

Guest Author 2014-03-07

Round House Theatre announces its 2014/15 season: FOOL FOR LOVE By Sam Shepard FETCH CLAY, MAKE MAN By Will Power The NUTCRACKER By Tommy Rapley, Jake Minton, Phillip Klapperich, and Kevin O’Donnell...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra ‘Off The Cuff CSI: Mozart’ at Strathmore by Keith Tittermary

Keith Tittermary 2014-03-01

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died at the young age of 35 in 1791, and there was a lot of mystery surrounding his death. Did he succumb to rheumatic fever? A kidney disease? Or was he poisoned? Mozart was a...

Meet the Playwrights of Arena Stage’s ‘Playwrights’ Arena’: Part 1: Jacqueline E. Lawton

Joel Markowitz 2014-02-28

The Playwrights’ Arena a new play initiative developed by the American Voices New Play Institute. Centering on a small collaborative group of local playwrights dedicated to the support and development...

‘Orlando’ at WSC Avant Bard by Sophia Howes

Sophia Howes 2014-02-27

Orlando: Right You Are, if You Think You Are In Some Like It Hot (directed by Billy Wilder) Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis, on the lam after witnessing a mob killing, pose as girls in an all-girls band...

‘Pluto’ at Forum Theatre by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2014-02-25

“If I speak in the tongue of men or angels but do not have love I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” 1 Corinthians 13 or so the Bible says. What greater thing could there be to have in...

Dramaturg Jenn Book Haselswerdt on ‘Orlando’ at WSC Avant Bard

Guest Author 2014-02-25

When Amber asked me if I would come on as dramaturg for Orlando, I was thrilled. The book has long been on my “must-read” list, and what better time to start? Little did I know that working on the...

‘Seminar’ at Round House Theatre by David Friscic

David Friscic 2014-02-12

Floating windows at the top of the stage! That Is not, necessarily, the first thing you marvel at in the Round House Theatre’s current and stimulating new play Seminar for, indeed, all the elements of...

Synesthesia: Audio-Described Performances in February 2014 by Yvonne French

Yvonne French 2014-02-01

Synesthesia: Audio-Described Performances in February 2014 ______ Tuesday, February 4, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 15, at 2 p.m. Audio Describer: Richard Collins; Program Notes: Sylvia Rosenthal...

The Playwright’s Playground: Part 1: ‘Meena’s Dream – Process and Performance: An Interview with Anu Yadav’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-01-17

Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversation, and...