2014 — Page 10 — DC Theater Arts Archive

New and Seasoned Performers Shine at Arts Collective@HCC’s ‘Coffee House Under the Stars’

Susan Brall 2014-09-27

Arts Collective@ HCC began its 20th year on Friday night with an old tradition. The Collective used the format of the Coffee House, put it out on a beautiful patio at the Horowitz Center and used it...

Patti LuPone at ArtSpeak! at Blake High School

Marlene Hall 2014-09-27

Last night I enjoyed an evening with American icon, Tony, Grammy, and Olivier Award winner Patti LuPone at Blake High School at ArtSpeak!. ArtSpeak! has been around 18 years and the 850 people who...

‘Lucky Stiff’ at Being Revived and The Fredericktowne Players

Andrew L. Baughman 2014-09-27

“Something funny’s going on” in Frederick, and it is Being Revived and The Fredericktowne Players’ co-production of the rarely performed Lucky Stiff, an early work by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty...

It’s a Bittersweet Homecoming for ‘Evita’ Stars Sean MacLaughlin (Juan Peron) and Caroline Bowman (Evita)

Carolyn Kelemen 2014-09-26

It’s a bittersweet homecoming for Evita stars The final stop on the Evita tour at The Kennedy Center is bittersweet for hometown stars, Sean MacLaughlin (Juan Peron) and Caroline Bowman (Evita). Both...

The Playwright’s Playground: The Lonely and The Brave -‘Marie Antoinette’ Playwright David Adjmi Discusses Audience Engagement and the Rigors of Writing a Memoir by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-09-26

There is great passion and intensity with Award-winning Playwright, David Adjmi. “I want to be able to live up to my ambition. I want to feel that I can be a part of the theater in a significant way.”...

‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Henry Cyr 2014-09-26

No More Yielding But a Dream First things first – get thee to the new home for the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC)! Located at 7 South Calvert Street in Downtown Baltimore; they have built a...

Aquila Theatre Brings ‘Wuthering Heights’ to George Mason University’s Center for the Arts on October 5th and ‘The Tempest’ to Hylton Performing Arts Center on October 11th

David Siegel 2014-09-26

Enduring works of live theater continue to be performed; even in this fast-changing digital age, with disruption to so much long-held, accepted wisdom. Classic works of literature and theater keep on...

‘Working for Peanuts’: Meet the Cast of Reston Community Players’ ‘You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown’-Part 1: Alana Sharp and Eric Hughes

Diane Jackson Schnoor 2014-09-26

In the first in a series of interviews with the cast and director of Reston Community Players’ You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, meet Alana Sharp, who plays the psychoanalyzing Lucy Van Pelt, and Eric...

A ‘Tiny’ Interview with Director Jessica Aimone of ‘The Tiny House Plays’ and Playwright Danielle Mohlman

Sea Griffin 2014-09-26

I got super-excited when I found out Pinky Swear is doing an immersive theatre piece (or pieces) at DC’s own Tiny House community, Boneyard Studios. I’m a huge fan of tiny houses and what they...

The Playwright’s Playground: The Lonely and the Brave – An Interview with ‘Marie Antoinette’ Playwright David Adjmi

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-09-25

Writing is deeply personal. For David Adjmi, playwright of Marie Antoinette, writing is not only personal it is something that is stirring, deeply passionate, and all encompassing. In the process of...

Nibbles And Sips Around Town: A Green Wolf Resides on 14th Street, Tapping the Trees, A Visit to Maple Avenue Restaurant, Station 4 Goes to Valencia for Inspiration and Porchetta for a Crowd at Jackson 20

Jordan Wright 2014-09-25

A Green Wolf Resides on 14th Street, Tapping the Trees, A Visit to Maple Avenue Restaurant, Station 4 Goes to Valencia for Inspiration and Porchetta for a Crowd at Jackson 20 One of the most frequent...

‘All That Bethesda Jazz’: Meet The Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club Proprietor Rick Brown and Events Manager Karla Rosenfeld Azachi

Joel Markowitz 2014-09-24

Meet Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club’s Proprietor Rick Brown You grew up in the DC area. What was the DC area jazz scene like when you were growing up, how has it changed, and how would you...

‘Miss Electricity’ at NextStop Theatre Company

Joel Markowitz 2014-09-24

There were some very happy young theatregoers and their parents at NextStop Theatre Company when I attended the very fun and electrifying production of Kathryn Walat’s Miss Electricity, directed with...

Audience Member Barbara Bear Awarded the ‘Gary Lee Maker Award’

Joel Markowitz 2014-09-23

Barbara Bear, audience member and theatre patron extraordinaire was awarded the 2014 Gary Lee Maker Award by DC Theatre Scene. She joins past winners David Tannous (2011) in Tom Holzman and Alison...

‘Three Sistahs’ at MetroStage

Michael Poandl 2014-09-23

Who says lightning never strikes the same place twice? All MetroStage has to do is keep bringing back Three Sistahs, the foot-tapping, gut-busting and tear-jerking family drama now back in its third...

In the Moment: An Interview with the Fredgren Studio Theater

David Siegel 2014-09-23

A place to create is critical to the performing arts and artist. In Northern Virginia available space for emerging performing arts companies can be both difficult to locate and costly. So when a brand...

‘A Raisin in the Sun’ at Compass Rose Theater

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-09-23

I don’t believe He brought me this far (to leave me.) In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun was a groundbreaking, electrifying original work of theater when it made its debut on Broadway....

National Symphony Orchestra Eighty-Fourth Season Opening Ball Concert at The Kennedy Center

Emily Cao 2014-09-22

Last night the National Symphony Orchestra debuted its eighty-forth season in The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall, one of the most anticipated musical events of the year, with a delightful evening of...

‘The Seven Year Itch’ at American Century Theater

Wendi Winters 2014-09-22

An unadulterated look at a one man’s plans for an affair The American Century Theater enters its 20th – and final – season itching to make a lasting impression. This the company does with its...

‘God of Carnage’ at Silver Spring Stage

Anne Vandercook 2014-09-22

God of Carnage, originally Le Dieu du Carnage, was written by famed Art playwright Yasmina Reza (ART), and was first produced in 2006. After critical success in Europe it opened with a new American...

In the Moment: This Saturday 9/27/14: ‘ARTS by George!’ at George Mason University: An Interview with Co-Chair Mark Shugoll

David Siegel 2014-09-22

ARTS by George, a signature event gala that supports scholarships and the Great Performance series at George Mason University, has raised more than $1 million. The co-chairs of this year’s gala are...

Wanda Sykes With Special Guest Keith Robinson at Strathmore

Ramona Harper 2014-09-22

The Music Center at Strathmore welcomed Wanda Sykes for the first-time to the Marriott Concert Stage to a sold-out crowd of adoring Wanda Sykes fans. Veteran comedian, writer, actress and Emmy...

‘Stuart Little’ at Adventure Theatre-MTC

Julia Amis 2014-09-22

Adventure Theatre MTC opens their 63rd (wow!) season with Stuart Little, based on the award-winning children’s book by E.B. White and adapted for the stage by Joseph Robinette. Colin Hovde directs...

‘Aladdin & the Magic Lamp’ at Pumpkin Theatre

Letricia Loftin 2014-09-22

Pure giddy-ness, energy running at about a ten, and heart felt childlike laughter, literally!! – That is what the atmosphere encompassed as we walked in Pumpkin Theatre. But of course, that should’ve...

‘Amadeus’ at CENTERSTAGE

Gina Jun 2014-09-22

Under the visionary leadership and cultivation of Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah, CENTERSTAGE kicks off its 2014/15 season in high gear with an epic new revival of Peter Shaffer’s Tony...

‘Florencia in the Amazon’ at Washington National Opera

David Friscic 2014-09-22

A mystical and lushly romantic journey down the Amazon River is only the beginning of the fully absorbing and richly textured production of the current offering of the Washington National Opera (WNO),...

‘Broadway’s Next Hit Musical’ at Hylton Performing Arts Center

David Siegel 2014-09-21

Cue the bright lights. Quick witted, theatrically smart, and skillful improv artistry took to the stage of the gleaming Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas bringing good cheer to the full-house...

‘You’re Gonna Love Tomorrrow’ at the Red Branch Theatre Company

John Harding 2014-09-21

Musical theater doesn’t get more challenging than Stephen Sondheim — for audiences and performers alike. So hurrah for Columbia’s fearless Red Branch Theatre Co. for bringing us the Sondheim revue...

‘Godspell’ at Port Tobacco Players

Diane Jackson Schnoor 2014-09-21

One of the challenges of staging Godspell, Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak’s charming and oft-revived production of the Gospel according to Matthew, is to find ways to reinvent the story...

‘Marie Antoinette’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company

Robert Michael Oliver 2014-09-21

In Woolly Mammoth’s Marie Antoinette the doomed, dark-shades donning Queen of France enters with two ladies-in-waiting. She slips off her robe, revealing an oh-so-modern two-piece bathing suit. She...

‘The Reel Deal’: Watch Kyle Osborne’s Movie Review Video of ‘The Maze Runner’ AND ‘This Is Where I Leave You’

Kyle Osborne 2014-09-21

Here are the Washington, DC area showtimes for The Maze Runner AND This Is Where I Leave You. The Maze Runner website. This Is Where I Leave You website. LINKS Kyle Osborne’s Video Movie Review of...

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra: Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 in G Major at Strathmore

Anne Vandercook 2014-09-20

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has been pleasing the ears of its patrons for almost a century. Established in 1816, the Orchestra is the first and only orchestra in the United States to have home...

Magic Time: ‘Toast’ at dog & ponydc

John Stoltenberg 2014-09-20

I last partook of this tasty audience-integration treat from dog&pony dc last December when I saw Toast as a workshop production in the Kogod Cradle Series. The immersive experience was all about...

Joe Calarco on Being Named Resident Director and Director of New Works at Signature Theatre

Joel Markowitz 2014-09-20

After a very busy week, after being named Resident Director and Director of New Works at Signature Theatre, Multiple Helen Hayes Award-winning director/playwright Joe Calarco, who has directed 14...

‘Nevermore’ at Pandemonium Theatrical Productions

Emma Marie Lord 2014-09-20

Pandemonium’s Workhouse Arts Center could not have been more well-suited for Nevermore, a dark and intimate musical about the life of Edgar Allan Poe, with music by Matt Conner and the book by Grace...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Scene Stealers-Week Ending 9/18/14

Joel Markowitz 2014-09-19

Here are this week’s Scene Stealers. Congrats to all our honorees. ______ Jennifer Berry as Blanche DuBois and Anna Fagan as Stella Kowalski in the Final Scene of The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s A...

The Playwright’s Playground: Michele Shay Discusses the Influence of August Wilson, Her Artistic Journey, and Lessons Learned from a Life in the Theater

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-09-19

For Michele Shay, directing Seven Guitars is not simply directing another play; it’s personal and a vivid part of her story. “We are addicted to ‘story’ and we become inspired by each others lives,”...

‘The Shoplifters’ at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

Robert Michael Oliver 2014-09-19

The under-affluent of this country find small change on America’s stages: under-represented more often than not, they are the butt of jokes and edgy satires and, on DC stages, are presented as...

A Chat with Patti LuPone on ‘Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda’ on September 27th, 2014 at ‘Arts by George’ at George Mason University

Joel Markowitz 2014-09-18

Two-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone and I had a conversation about her upcoming performance of Coulda Woulda Shoulda coming up at George Mason University’s Arts by George on September 27th at The...

‘Masquerade’ at Wolf Pack Theatre Company

Joel Markowitz 2014-09-18

When I was watching Wolf Pack Theatre Company’s intense Masquerade last night, written and directed by William D. Leary, I shook my head several times and covered my ears at other times because what I...

Michele Shay, Director of August Wilson’s ‘Seven Guitars,’ Shares His Philosophy and Wisdom, and Discusses Her Inspired Production at No Rules Theatre Company

Sydney-Chanele Dawkins 2014-09-18

“We are addicted to ‘story’ and we become inspired by each others lives,” says Michele Shay, the Director of No Rules Theatre Company’s current production of August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. My...