Sunday, April 15, 2012
Rockville Musical Theatre is performing the musical Baby in the intimate The Gaithersburg Arts Barn. The show has a score by David Shire and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and a book by Sy…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 14, 2012
The Designers: Colin K. Bills, David Ghatan, and Matt Rowe Joel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award, and what was your first react…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44AM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2012
Schmoozing with Helen Hayes Awards nominees Ben Cook and Chris Dinolfo Joel: Where were you when you found out that you had been nominated for a Helen Hayes Award and what was your first …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2012
I am so happy to begin a series of short interviews with this year’s Helen Hayes Award nominees with five of my favorite local actors – Catherine Flye, Mitchell Hébert, Je…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Last night a reception was held at Rivers at the Watergate in Washington, DC to honor this year’s Helen Hayes Awards nominees. It was a wonderful event filled with lots of schmoozing, …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:46AM[SHARE]Monday, April 9, 2012
Kathryn Kelley is portraying the poet Emily Dickinson in Bay Theatre Company’s production of The Belle of Amherst, and is receiving raves from local critics and audiences. I asked Kath…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM[SHARE]Friday, April 6, 2012
Parallel Exit Physical Comedy Theatre has made an international name for itself while bringing its unique brand of physical comedy to festivals around the world. Following in the footsteps o…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 4, 2012
I was talking to my friend Kenny a few weeks ago and he told me about a co-worker named Grace whose son Kyle Carter was in the tour of In the Heights. Since In the Heights is one of my al…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AM[SHARE]Monday, April 2, 2012
Erik Liberman has had a very busy year on and off the stage. When I heard he was going to play The Baker in Centerstage’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, I jumpe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:44AM[SHARE]Friday, March 30, 2012
We’ll be sharing columnist Peter Filichia’s weekly Friday column on Kritzerland with our DCMTA readers every Friday beginning today. Peter is my mentor and convinced me to write …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 27, 2012
It was a night to remember when Eitan Mazia made his entrance in The Phantom of the Opera at a packed auditorium at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, MD, in Young Artists of America&…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PM[SHARE]Sunday, March 25, 2012
Why would Molotov Theatre Group pick a Shakespearean classic to produce? I asked Molotov member Kevin Finkelstein to fill us in. “The decision to do Shakespeare is a selfish one: in ad…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 24, 2012
I have been a weekly regular guest with Judy Stadt for years talking about theatre in DC, Philly and NYC and other things…like what was happening in my life. I call it free therapy eve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:11PM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
Lumina Studio Theatre is presenting Chekhov’s Three Sisters this weekend at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, in Silver Spring, MD. Three Sisters follows the dre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:53AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2012
I fell in love with Sherman Yellen’s musical The Rothschilds when I was a kid growing up in Buffalo, NY. I was thrilled when I heard that his musical Josephine Tonight was about to…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 17, 2012
There are two more performance tonight – at  6:30 & 8:30 pm of Tasty Monster Productions’ new musical Personals -A Love Story for the Rest of Us at Adventure Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:27AM[SHARE]Friday, March 16, 2012
Tonight and Tomorrow night -March 16 and 17 at 7:30 PM - Young Artists of America is presenting Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera at The Auditorium at Winston …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 15, 2012
Beginning tonight at 8 PM, Inclusive Theatre Companies of ArtStream, Inc, are presenting two original one-act musicals: Star Corps IV: The Search for Mind Zap and Oh My, An…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:08PM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2012
Last night the Washington Area Theater Community Honors ‘WATCH AWARDS’ for excellence in Community Theatre were announced at Birchmere in Alexandria, VA. The big winner was The L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28AM[SHARE]Monday, July 4, 2011
Joe Markowitz previews what's opening on DC area stages in July and chooses 8 top picks for the month.
SOURCE: dc.broadwayworld.com at 12:32AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Maryland Theatre Guide's Joel Markowitz interviews winners of this year's Drama Desk Awards in the Press Room. A look back as Ovation is about to broadcast 90 minutes of highlights on Sat Ju…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:22PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 1, 2011
All I could ask myself after watching the glorious performances of Edward Gero and Sasha Olinick as the tortured Salieri and the fart-filled Amadeus was, "What took so long for someone to ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2011
How do you describe Jenny Jules' performance as Mama Nadi in Arena Stage's emotionally powerful production of Lynn Nottage's Ruined? These words immediately come to mind: fierce, compassiona…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2011
A look at 7 Broadway spring musicals, and a Stephen Schwartz opera Before the Tony Awards are upon us, I wanted to talk about some of the musicals I saw in NYC this spring. There was a tsuna…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:34PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
They’ve come to Signature Theatre to sing side by side with two-time Helen Hayes Award-winner Sherri L. Edelen in the just opened Side by Side by Sondheim. They are  two of my…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:15AM[SHARE]Friday, May 6, 2011
I had to slow down a bit after having heart surgery the end of February, so I carefully selected shows I thought I'd have a great time seeing and for the most part I chose wisely. The critic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AM[SHARE]Friday, April 29, 2011
It wasn't Alice or the White Rabbit or The Mad Hatter that made everyone go 'gaga' the night I saw the new musical Wonderland on Broadway- it was a tail-swinging, tail-playing Jose Llana wea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:13AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
I hear that Florrie Bagel, Parker Drown and Sam Ludwig are wowing audiences and critics with their powerful performances in Speech & Debate at Rep Stage. This is a change of pace for the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Jahi Kearse is a hoofer, a singer, a musician, a powerful actor, and a songwriter who critics and DC area theatregoers have enthusiastically embraced his performances in MetroStage's Cool Pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:59PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
I had seen The Color Purple the week it opened on Broadway in December 2005, with LaChanze and Elisabeth Withers-Mendes in the roles of Celie and Shug Avery and they were absolutely wonderfu…
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