What: Jack Marshall, the guy who compiles the exhaustive (and sometimes exhausting) audience guides at The American Century Theater, sits down for an onstage chat with three of D.C.'s very best working actors: Kate Eastwood Norris, Naomi Jacobson, and Rick Foucheux.
Why: At one point or another, I've interviewed (or at least leaned against a lobby [...]
The performers you see on area stages? They're professionals. They work their tails off to entertain you, to move you, to get it right night after night.
Sometimes that can be dull. Sometimes that can lead to moments like this one, in which singer Tracy Lynn Olivera — currently appearing as Fantine in the Signature [...]
Don't know yet if we're going to have time/space/money in the print paper to re-review The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, which is getting a much-deserved revival at the H Street Playhouse.
So let this be your cue: Go buy a ticket. The April-May run of Stephen Adly Guirguis' play was probably the single most [...]
The allure of spaces like Round House Silver Spring, of course, is that you can do an intimate show in them.
One drawback, however: If you're running just a teeny bit late for your own show, you may find yourself hurrying past the queued-up patrons.
At 15 minutes before your announced curtain time.
Because there's not so [...]
Monday, in the theater world, is pretty much universally a "dark night" — meaning theaters don't schedule performances then. It's the night actors get to socialize, the night light-board ops get to catch up on their TiVo'd Gossip Girl, the night stage managers get to spend time with their stamp collections.
Except when there's a benefit, [...]
OK, so it's actually just another attempt at guerilla theater-marketing: Charter Theatre honcho Keith Bridges stars (alongside actor-playwright Chris Stezin) in a 7-minute drama about why Charter won't be staging Richard Washer's Quartet, originally announced for the new-play specialists' January-February slot.
Watch (agog) as Bridges explains his emergency back-up plan to his 3-year-old daughter Rosie: "Sweetie, [...]
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, sing along with the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details [...]
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]
Every Thursday, we round up Pay-Whats and other cheap seats at local theaters. Just so's your weekend is a little easier.
Before we start, remember the general rules: (A) Reservations for these? Not so much. (B) They're offered on a space-available basis, so have a backup plan. (C) Click each theater name for details and contact [...]
"There needs to be a sense of gargoyles ..."
—from the opening stage directions of birds.
Rorschach Theatre put up a reading of Jennifer Maisel's "urban fairy tale" (wait, didn't Rorschach just do one of those?) at 2 o'clock today. I lasted through the longish first act, then fled.
Not because I didn't want to find out [...]
