2013 — Page 20 — DC Theater Arts Archive

‘Pink Martini’ at Wolf Trap by Teal Ruland

Teal Ruland 2013-07-02

When I listen to Pink Martini, I often feel that I should either be sipping a martini in a dark and cool lounge, or else drinking delicious, hot cAdd Mediaoffee outside a café in Paris on a summer...

‘Ring of Fire: The Johnny Cash Musical Show’ at Riverside Center Dinner Theater by Flora Scott

Flora Scott 2013-07-02

There used to be a time when going to the county fair was the highlight of everyone’s summer. There’s be the agricultural and livestock show for Pop, the arts and crafts for Ma (or vice versa), and...

Jane C. Boyle on Playing Reverend Mother in ‘Nunsense’ at Toby’s Baltimore

Amanda Gunther 2013-07-02

The irreverent comedy Nunsense is really serving up the laughs over at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Baltimore! This sensational summer comedy is bringing a quintet of seriously silly nuns to the stage for...

‘Baby Universe’ at The Studio Theatre by Justin Schneider

Justin Schneider 2013-07-02

Baby Universe starts out dark. Actually, dark may not even be a strong enough term for the mood. Grim. Fatalistic. The last man to escape the Earth’s surface for the safety of underground bunkers is...

Rep Stage Names Suzanne E. Beal and Joseph W. Ritsch as New Co-Producing Artistic Directors by Mike Scrivener

Guest Author 2013-07-02

Suzanne E. Beal and Joseph W. Ritsch Named New Co-Producing Artistic Directors of Rep Stage A past vice president of Frederick Community College and the associate artistic director of Baltimore’s Iron...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs: The Musical’ by Meghan Long, Producer

Guest Author 2013-07-02

Do you ever wonder where your sh%t comes from? Those in the theatre community are no stranger to Mike Daisey and his work. His engaging and epic work has spanned a vast array of topics – from the...

2013 Capital Fringe Preview: Interview with ‘Fallbeil’ Playwright Liz Maestri by Cate Brewer

Cate Brewer 2013-07-02

Cate Brewer interviews Liz Maestri on her play Fallbeil, which will be playing at this year’s Capital Fringe Festival . Cate: What peaked your interest in historical fiction as a genre? Liz: I didn’t...

Straight No Chaser at Wolf Trap by Jessica Vaughan

Jessica Vaughan 2013-07-01

Straight No Chaser, the 10-man a cappella phenomenon, put on a great show of top forty hits, enduring classics and crowd favorites on a steamy night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap. They rose to...

‘Frozen Planet In Concert’ at Wolf Trap by Erica Laxson

Erica Laxson 2013-07-01

Frozen Planet in Concert is a High Definition Arctic adventure brought to new life with live orchestration performed by Washington’s own talented NSO. Explore a vivid and unbelievably close up look at...

DC Area’s T. Scott Ross, Greg Bosworth, and Carrie A. Johnson on Appearing in ‘Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story’ at Wolf Trap on July 2nd & 3rd

Joel Markowitz 2013-07-01

Three local actors are in the cast of Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story which stops at Wolf Trap’s Filene Center tomorrow and Wednesday night. I asked T. Scott Ross, Greg Bosworth, and Carrie A. Johnson...

Edward Staudenmayer on Playing Lord Evelyn Oakleigh in ‘Anything Goes’ by Joel Markowitz

Joel Markowitz 2013-07-01

It didn’t surprise me when Edward Staudenmayer stopped the show with his outrageous performance of “The Gypsy in Me” (with Rachel York) in Anything Goes at The Kennedy Center. I have been a big fan of...

‘Taming of the Shrew’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-06-30

Be prepared to wrangle up a tempest in the form of a lady, that is, as Chesapeake Shakespeare Company presents the second half of its rotating repertory outdoor summer series at the Patapsco Female...

‘Red Herring’ at Silver Spring Stage by Jessica Vaughan

Jessica Vaughan 2013-06-30

Silver Spring Stage puts on a 1950’s screwball comedy murder mystery, espionage, romance – about communists and a whole lot of fish in Red Herring to close out their 2013 season. It’s a sweet and...

‘Peter Pan and Wendy’ at Imagination Stage by Julia L. Exline

Julia Amis 2013-06-30

Imagination Stage presents Peter Pan and Wendy, a musical adaptation of a longtime family favorite by Alyn Cardarelli and Steve Goers. Kathryn Chase Bryer directs this hilarious and enthralling...

2013 Capital Fringe Preview: ‘Thank You for Staring’ by Patrice Gerideau

Guest Author 2013-06-30

You are so Ugly… Can you imagine hearing those words everyday of your life? I can. In my twenties, I developed a skin condition, vitiligo, which caused me to lose pigment on the right side of my face....

Filichia on Friday: ‘June’s Leftovers and July’s Brainteaser’ by Peter Filichia

Peter Filichia 2013-06-30

Here is a new article from Peter Filichia’s column on Kritzerland called ‘Filichia on Friday.’ It’s an honor to bring Peter’s column every week to our readers on DCMetroTheaterArts. This week: June’s...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘How to Have it All: The Musical ’ by Jessica North Macie

Guest Author 2013-06-30

Alumni of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts return to the Fringe stage for the fifth straight year, now with a new company name and a brand new musical. Fully Charged Productions debuts How...

‘Ass Chronicles’ at DC Black Theatre Festival by Yvonne French

Yvonne French 2013-06-30

Ass Chronicles is a booty call and a call to booty power. Playwright Empress Joyner was inspired by The Vagina Monologues, for which she was cast in New York. Her own play starts with ‘Musical...

Landless Theatre Company’s Third Annual Mashup Festival: ‘Re-Animated Edition’ by Amanda Gunther

Amanda Gunther 2013-06-29

Landless Theatre Company’s Third Annual Mashup Festival brought two teams of super creative genius together to form one long running festival of hilarity and hysterics, combining the most unlikely...

‘XX Chromosome Genome Project’ at Hamilton Arts Center by ZSun-nee Matema

ZSun-nee Matema 2013-06-29

XX Chromosome Genome Project, playing at the Hamilton Arts Center Black Box Theater in Baltimore, is a sensuous, riveting tale of women on the brink of self-acceptance and emancipation. Written &...

‘Pasties & Popcorn’ at DC Shorts by John Harding

John Harding 2013-06-29

The VisArts Center in Rockville is a rather respectable venue for a program titled Pasties & Popcorn. But there you are, amid a nearly full house in the upstairs convention room on Friday, June 28,...

June 28, 2013 Capital Fringe Festival Preview by Jessica Vaughan

Jessica Vaughan 2013-06-29

It’s July in DC, which means it’s hot, it’s humid, and it’s time for Fringe! On the last day of June at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, 21 shows brought their A game for the annual Fringe Preview. The...

The Temptations at Wolf Trap by Anne Tsang

Anne Tsang 2013-06-29

Just like in The Temptations song “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” I sure did love the way the Temptations and The Four Tops did the things they do last night at the Filene Center at Wolftrap. The...

Synesthesia: Audio-Described Performance Set for ‘One Night with Janice Joplin’ at Arena Stage by Yvonne French

Yvonne French 2013-06-29

The Metropolitan Washington Ear, Inc., announced that it will provide audio description of One Night with Janis Joplin, back by popular demand after opening last fall. One Night with Janis Joplin is...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘heady collectables’ by Nicole A. Martinell

Guest Author 2013-06-28

heady collectables is sure to thrill this year’s Capital Fringe goers, as zany dancers bob, float and dart about the stage. This clever representation of American ‘head-slang’ is a fun hour-long...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by Kiersten Dittrich

Guest Author 2013-06-28

This year, We Happy Few Productions tackles the perennially-staged ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare at the Capital Fringe Festival. In 2013, which seems like the year of ROMEO AND JULIETs, why...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Godiva Dates & One Night Stands’ by Matthew Ripa

Guest Author 2013-06-28

DOORWAY ARTS ENSEMBLE AND REGIE CABICO PREMIERE HIS NEW SOLO SHOW: GODIVA DATES & ONE NIGHT STANDS AT CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL Godiva Dates & One Night Stands is a tour de force of poetic virtuosity &...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘Impossible to Translate But I’ll Try – True-Life Israeli Stories’ by Noa Baum

Guest Author 2013-06-28

Acclaimed Storyteller Noa Baum shares delicious Israeli stories never seen on the news, in her Capital Fringe debut of: Impossible to Translate But I’ll Try – True-Life Israeli Stories. Impossible To...

2013 Capital Fringe Festival Show Preview: ‘The Young Wife’ by K. Brochocka

Guest Author 2013-06-28

A rare one-woman opera crosses the Atlantic Not yet twenty years old, a sheltered girl named Gabriela was forced to marry a greedy lieutenant who only valued her for her dowry. She was miserable and...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Tell-Tale’ by Grain of Sand Theatre

Guest Author 2013-06-28

How do you put something back together? How do you keep it from falling apart? How do you stand up out of bed if your bed is the wall and you’re already standing? These are some of the questions Grain...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Crime Buster Blast-Off 3000’ by The Bradford Güild

Guest Author 2013-06-28

The following poem was written by Musical Director Ian McDermott, in the year 1999. It is the basis for the entire production. He was nine years old* when he wrote it. What will the new Millennium...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Four Women’ by Clarissa McKithen

Guest Author 2013-06-28

Four Women is not a performance, but a journey. Not a performance, but an experience into the multiple dimensions of black womanhood. This production was inspired by Nina Simone’s song with the same...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Waiting for Orson’ by Ian Leahy

Guest Author 2013-06-27

“His name… He said he wants me to call him Orson. He won’t look like an alien. He said he’d try and find a person’s body willing to let him overtake it for a little while…” Waiting for Orson’s...

‘Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration Featuring Warren Haynes’ at Wolf Trap by Mike Spain

Mike Spain 2013-06-27

Warren Haynes made his first visit to Wolf Trap a memorable one as the featured artist in the National Symphony Orchestra’s Jerry Garcia Symphonic Celebration. His blazing guitar and soulful voice cut...

‘Counting Crows and The Wallflowers’ at Wolf Trap by Anne Tsang

Anne Tsang 2013-06-27

It was a scorcher last night at the Filene Center at Wolf Trap…and I’m not just referring to the heat. Counting Crows and The Wallflowers put on a hot, hot, hot show! The night started off with a...

“From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook” To Air On Select Public Television Stations his July starring 300 Newtown Student Performers & Over 100 Broadway Performers

Joel Markowitz 2013-06-27

From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook To Air On Select Public Television Stations This July STARRING 300 NEWTOWN STUDENT PERFORMERS and OVER 100 BROADWAY PERFORMERS “From Broadway...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘McPherson Madness’ by Kelly Canavan

Guest Author 2013-06-27

McPherson Madness is what happens when revolution hits family, friendships, and romance head-on in a freezing tarp-tropolis on K Street, in in Washington, DC In February 2012, activist and playwright...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ’43 and a ½: The Greatest Deaths of Shakespeare’s Tragedies’ by Emily Crockett and Sun King Davis

Guest Author 2013-06-27

“Exeunt!” It’s a fancy Shakespearean word that means nothing fancier than “everybody leaves.” Yet it brings to mind flourishing capes, actors strutting dramatically into the wings, and velvet curtains...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘Polaroid Stories’ by Lauren R. Alexander

Guest Author 2013-06-27

A fucked up love story for a Fringe Festival premiere. After a wildly successful production of Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories at American University in November 2012, Blind Pug Arts Collective picked...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Young Olympians & the Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure Ever!’ by Vanessa Strickland

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Debuting in DC this summer, The Young Olympians & the Most Amazingly Awesome Adventure Ever! (aka “YO“) is an all-ages musical with a story rooted in Greek mythology. Drawing inspiration from pop...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘What’s in the BOX?!’ by Justin Purvis

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Pride. Wrath. Lust. Greed. What do these things have in common, other than being on Rock Tender’s ‘things about me that the ladies love’ list? They are sins, and more specifically some of the Seven...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview ‘H Street Housewives’ by Jenny Splitter

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Chickens in the backyard. Flame wars on the mommy listserv. Slutty househusbands and a plot to change H Street forever. H Street Housewives is the story of four housewives – the homeschooling...

2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘The Burlesque of Broadway’ by Laura Maravilla

Guest Author 2013-06-27

Who doesn’t love a good musical? Or making fun of a good musical?! Burlesque Classique presents The Burlesque of Broadway at the Capital Fringe Festival this summer. Nothing is sacred in this sassy,...

‘One Night with Janis Joplin’ Begins Performances on Broadway on 9/20 With Opening Night on 10/10 at The Lyceum

Joel Markowitz 2013-06-26

One Night with Janis Joplin is coming to Broadway and will begin previews at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre – 149 West 45th Street – on Friday, September 20, 2013. Opening night is on Thursday, October 10,...

Cirque Du Soleil’s ‘Quidam’ Comes To The Patriot Center and Interview with Diaboloist William Wei-Liang Lin by Jordan Wright

Jordan Wright 2013-06-26

The critically acclaimed Cirque du Soleil is bringing Quidam to our area next month. The captivating extravaganza which has toured five continents and been seen by millions over its 17-year history,...