Only a human child can save the land of Fantastica. Such stuff as dreams are made on-or at least children’s fantasy. The Neverending Story is such a fantasy, brought to life by Imagination Stage. Read more…
If we could harvest the energy on stage at the National Theatre, the nation’s dependence on fossil fuels would be a thing of the past. Read more…
When Disneyland first opened, guests had to purchase tickets for the rides and attractions. Tickets ranged from “A” to “E” with the “E” tickets reserved for the best, most thrilling and amazing rides and attractions. Well, in true Disney fashion, the current production of The Lion King is definitely an “E” ticket. Read more…
A gal, a pal, a cabal…Kabbalah! This perfect Storm has been brewing for centuries - brewing within us, from the days of the first Adam’s atoms, when we sought to find the words - “let there be light,” say, or “we hold these truths to be self-evident” - which would open the secrets of the invisible universe, and make new worlds come into being. Read more…
Red Noses
By Peter Barnes
Produced by the Washington Shakespeare Company
Directed by Jay Hardee and John Geoffrion
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
Red Noses is a deadly earnest meditation on the redemptive power of laughter, a soggy, self-sabotaging pudding of a play not advanced by the Washington Shakespeare Company’s strident production of it. Imagine the work of the great George Carlin
Wrapping Up the SeasonThe 2007-08 season in New York is now history and considering the deplorable condition in which the world outside finds itself, it was a remarkably healthy one. The numbers were good, the number of new plays was outstanding, the quality of musical revivals was remarkable, the quality of new musicals not so hot. But all of the entries offered roles to the multi-talented folk who perform and do other creative things to make audiences happy. Read more…
⊆June 19th, 2008
As you know, musicals are my passion and this spring, these were the five musical actors and actresses who stole a scene or two and the hearts of their audiences. Read more…
⊆June 19th, 2008
A Conversation with Broadway Actor Hugh Panaro
Part of our series that looks at the Philadelphia theatre scene
Interviewed by Joel Markowitz Read more…
⊆July 1st, 2008By now, Ed Gero and Conrad Feininger are deeply familiar with Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. They first played them in Nixon’s Nixon at Round House Theatre in 1999, and are reprising their spot-on portrayals, again for Round House Theatre. Read more…
⊆June 27th, 2008
Interviewed by Joel Markowitz
Part of our look at Philadelphia’s spring season
⊆June 11th, 2008
This summer, DC Theatre Scene will be adding coverage of four major festivals to our regular review and podcast schedules. Here’s the run-down. Read more…
⊆June 25th, 2008
This week, if any of those tour buses block your crosswalk, be kind. The passengers may not be monument-loving tourists, but some 90+ theatre people here to check out the DC area theatre scene. And not just theatre people. Theatre critics. Read more…
⊆June 19th, 2008
We don’t know who Tony or Oscar were, but we do know who created the award for New York’s best supporting players: Broadway vet and DCTS columnist Richard Seff. Read more…
⊆June 12th, 2008
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