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 [...]
Glen Weldon, who's been writing about theater for City Paper since January 2007, was awarded a two-week fellowship at the Annenberg NEA Arts Institute at the University of Southern California. The program, according to the announcement, provides "intensive training for theater critics and their editors who work outside the country's major media markets." Ouch! Hey, [...]
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 [...]
City List mistakenly listed Studio Theatre's Grey Gardens as closing on Dec. 21–wrong, wrong, wrong. The play runs until Jan. 4 at Studio Theatre. Here's what Trey Graham had to say about it:
Based on the cult-favorite Maysles brothers documentary about two socialites (Jackie O’s relatives, even!) rotting away in a vermin-plagued, plumbing-challenged East Hampton manse, [...]
Ask the average ex-evangelical Protestant what he misses most from his time in the Jesus Freak scene, and chances are he'll muse about the music. Outsiders find the hands-in-the-air routine creepy and cultish, but I sometimes miss the goosebumps and sense of elation that I felt during the crescendos on "Open the Eyes of my [...]
As some of you probably noticed yesterday, City List drops the ball every once in a while. Call it a sin of omission or too few hands on deck, we simply don't get into the section everything that we should. And it just so happens that City List missed a really important event for two [...]
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 [...]
The Stranger's Brendan Kiley offers 10 suggestions. No. 7? "Build bars."
Photo by Flickr user A Clear Blue Sky
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 [...]
The third annual Capital Fringe Festival opens tonight with a slate of 120 productions over 18 days at 20 venues in theaters, bars, tents and defunct Italian restaurants around town. City Paper will be covering the chaos on its Fringe & Purge blog, with veteran critics like Trey Graham and Glen Weldon, online producer Ted Scheinman and [...]
This past Thursday, to prodigious applause and a minimal throwing of old fruit, the City Paper launched its 2008 Fringe & Purge blog.
Ever since, we've been positively inundated with questions, compliments, and offers of a decidedly salacious nature. Rather than responding individually, I've decided to offer some answers right here, for all to see.
After [...]
