Posts Tagged ‘arena stage’
Our Morning Roundup: DCPS Students Discover The Working Lunch
Dee Does The District doesn't appreciate a sad bit of race baiting reported from the marathon hearing on the DCPS teacher layoffs.
Harry Potter and the Urban School Nightmare despairs over their students' poor attendance. They write:
"Our school's enrollment is down, and attendance is lower than I've ever seen it. When I first started at my school, I routinely had between 25 and 30 students in my class each day. Now, I'm lucky if I get 12. Today, less than half of my students were in class, and last week the average was 55%. Now, the kids who are there every day are learning like FIENDS, but at this rate 45% of my kids are going to fail. So what gives?"
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Update: Arena Stage Loses Legacy of Light’s Carla Harting to Bike Accident
More on Carla Harting's bicycle mishap originally reported here.
“Break a leg” is the traditional, if superstitious, pre-curtain benediction for actors. It is not meant to be taken literally. Sadly, one of the stars of Arena Stage’s Legacy of Light, Carla Harting, suffered compound fractures in her left femur and tibia after getting hit by a car while biking near the Jefferson Memorial over the weekend. Coincidentally, just ten days earlier, many DC cyclists met at the Jefferson Memorial to embark on the annual Ride of Silence to commemorate those injured or killed while riding bicycles.
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Arena Stage Loses Carla Harting to Bike Accident
Carla Harting, the leading lady in Arena Stage's Legacy of Light, will be sitting out the production's remaining performances due to a broken leg. Woolly Mammoth's Jennifer Mendenhall will fill in for Harting through June 14, when the show ends.
Full press release after the jump. Bob Mondello's review of the Legacy of Light here.
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Our Morning Roundup: First Dog Edition
*INDOGURATION UPDATE: Yesterday afternoon, following the President's latest round of cautious optimism, Ted Kennedy presented the Obama famiy with Bo, a six-month-old Portugese water dog . The Post has video, a bombastic lede, and some Us Weekly-worthy niceties:
About 10 minutes later the First Family emerged again, racing up the hill, with the president doing a nifty maneuver to switch the leash from one hand to another to avoid getting tangled and tripping.
"Pshew! Close call," the episode concludes.
Woolly Mammoth Still Crazy After 30 Years
Maybe the recent theater-building frenzy has hit a wall, maybe economic reality has checked in, but D.C. theaters are cutting back a little for the 2009-10 season. In 2007-08, while the paint was still drying on Harman Hall, Shakespeare Theatre Company expanded from five to eight shows; next year they’re down to seven. And Arena Stage, instead of their usual subscription of eight shows, is offering only six.
But with no shortage of theater in DC, audiences value quality over quantity.
With 33 Variations and Next to Normal, Arena Stage Gives Its Regards to Broadway
Next to Normal at Arena
D.C.’s Arena Stage has been doing its fair share of boasting lately. In less than two months, goes the hype, not one but two Arena shows will be running simultaneously on Broadway. As if that weren't enough, Arena is calling itself the first regional theater to claim this honor twice, having sent a pair of shows to Broadway in the 1979-80 season as well.
What's their secret? What makes Arena Stage and D.C. in general such an attractive launching pad for a Broadway show?
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Dress Like Princess Leia and Win Tickets or Perhaps a Poster
Princess Leia! Wasn't she the one who saved the universe despite being, like, C-3PO's daughter or something? Well guess what? PRINCESS LEIA IS BACK!!!!!
Except now she lives in the D.C. area and is you.
In anticipation of Leia-portraya Carrie Fisher's one-woman show Wishful Drinking, which will bow Sept. 5, Arena Stage is holding a Princess Leia lookalike contest. Just take a picture of yourself dressed like Luke Skywalker's girlfriend or whatever (but don't stick Cinnabons on your ears and hold a spray bottle, because some wag has beaten you to it), and e-mail it here by Sept. 7, and you could win tickets to the show or at least bring a signed poster from Wishful Drinking back to your little robot farm on Tatooine.
Those are fleeting pleasures, though, compared to the pride you'll feel when your coworkers see you dressed like one of Jabba the Hutt's hootchies. Hey, those aren't the droids you're looking for!
