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Director Jessica Burgess on speaking the language of Cho

Posted: February 29th, 2012, 8:56am MST by John Barry

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“There are sixty nine hundred languages in the world,” according to the linguist George, the central of Julia Cho’s The Language Archive.” Half of them are doomed to disappear in the next century.” But there’s one language that, in this Forum Theatre production, is alive and well: ceaseless bickering among couples entering late middle age. [...]
You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown

Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:11pm MST by Jayne Blanchard

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Nothing wishy-washy about Olney Theatre Center’s exuberant, child-sized production of the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Here, the Peanuts gang is rendered with such bright, broad strokes they seem to have leapt from the pen of Charles M. Schulz himself. (from left) Paul Wyatt as Linus, James Gardiner as Snoopy, Janine Sunday as [...]
Betty Blue Eyes – Original London Cast Recording

Posted: February 28th, 2012, 10:00am MST by Brad Hathaway

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This is a disc that may be of more interest intellectually than aesthetically for American fans of musical theatre. It is a classic illustration of a basic truth of the musical theatre – Broadway and London’s West End are more than 3,470 miles away from each other. They span a gap greater than the crow [...]
Natsu Onoda Power, creator of Astro Boy and the God of Comics

Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:05am MST by Roy Maurer

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Renaissance woman Natsu Onoda Power is generating a reputation for original, highly inventive performance pieces. Writer, director, designer, theater prof at Georgetown University, Onoda Power is being celebrated for her collaborative, creative process, her exuberant drive and her brilliant devising of new ways to experience theater. The gifted and sweetly humble playwright met with DC [...]
The Magic Flute

Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:31am MST by Debbie Jackson

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Mozart’s Magic Flute at The Puppet Company is as engaging and expressive as it gets for full family fun and entertainment. The story is true to the original with the major songs and arias in tact and colorful characters who bring you into the story. Queen of the Night and Prince Tamino ( Photo: Christopher [...]
Cosi fan tutte

Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:08am MST by Susan Galbraith

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Così fan tutte is one of Mozart’s less popular works and is revered more amongst the cognoscenti than general audiences. Despite its beautiful music, the story has always seemed thin to me, the plot hard to sustain convincingly for its length. Acclaimed director and designer Jonathan Miller has reset this classic tale of love and [...]
the 2012 Helen Hayes Awards — and the nominees are …

Posted: February 27th, 2012, 12:06am MST by Hunter Styles

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An impressive array of veteran artists and rookie contenders share the nominees’ list for this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, now in its 28th year celebrating achievement in Washington, DC professional theatre. “Washington theatre not only entertains — it transforms,” said Victor Shargai, the Chairman of the Board of Directors at the newly-named TheatreWashington, which presents [...]
Soul stirring Aisha de Haas heats up Josephine Tonight! at Metro Stage

Posted: February 27th, 2012, 6:34pm MST by Susan Galbraith

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Recently I sat down with Aisha de Haas, jazz chanteuse, Broadway singer, and repertory actress. I had just watched her performance in Metro Stage’s Josephine Tonight! where she’d knocked my socks off playing both Josephine Baker’s mother, Carrie, and “Big Bertha Smith”, Josephine’s vaudeville mentor. I wanted to learn more about this powerhouse singer. Aisha [...]
From Shuffle to Showboat

Posted: February 27th, 2012, 9:55am MST by Steve Hallex

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I want you to imagine it is 1927; the week after Christmas. You have bought your tickets, and now your chilly bones sit in a dark corner of Florenz Ziegfeld’s Theater in New York. The billed show is Show Boat by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. But it isn’t starting; it has already begun. [...]
Mime and Clowning classes by Happenstance at Shakespeare Theatre

Posted: February 27th, 2012, 6:59am MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Shakespeare Theatre Company is accepting registration for two classes being taught by Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, who together create original stylized works as Happenstance Theater. Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell (Photo: Mark Silva) Jaster leads a class titled ‘Mime Intensive.’ Explore techniques and exercises from Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau. Jaster, who studied with [...]
Intersections Festival at the Atlas features 700 performers

Posted: February 25th, 2012, 3:35pm MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Philanthropist Jane Lang, who turned the abandoned Atlas 1930′s movie house on H Street into the Atlas Performing Arts Center, a $20 million, modern, state of the art venue was interested in more than running a new facility. She was also interested in those places where dance, music, film and live performance touch one another, and [...]
Two world premieres, new LaBute to head up CATF 2012 festival

Posted: February 25th, 2012, 1:06pm MST by Lorraine Treanor

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The Contemporary American Theater Festival, held each year in Shepherdstown, West Virinia is one of the Washington area’s favorite out of town summer festivals. This year’s season, just announced, will feature world premieres by Bess Wohl and Johnna Adams, a new Neil LaBute play about secrets between siblings, a story about an interrogation of Nazi war [...]
El Inmigrante (The Immigrant)

Posted: February 24th, 2012, 10:27am MST by Rosalind Lacy

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Why do they keep crossing the border? Slide projections of hate-graffiti flash by on a back wall screen: “We Are Against Immigrants,” “Get out, Nicaraguans,” “Illiterate Immigrant,” followed by by a newspaper headline, “Three Costa Ricans Held in Nicaragua.” Border crossings taking place between Nicaragua and Costa Rica, two Mesoamerican countries are unusual for us [...]
Gingrich on stage at Busboys and Poets in Hyattsville

Posted: February 24th, 2012, 9:06am MST by John Feffer

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Republican firebrand Newt Gingrich is known for his dramatic flourishes, whether the Contract with America from 1994 or his more recent proposal to colonize the Moon. During this primary season, he has been on stage at press conferences, Republican debates, and numerous campaign events. Soon, in a drama only partly of his own making, he’ll [...]
Imagination Stage publishes P. Nokio as an eBook

Posted: February 24th, 2012, 8:30am MST by Lorraine Treanor

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With their announcement today, Imagination Stage has taken a creative leap from the stage to the page. P. Nokio, the popular hip-hop musical playing at Imagination Stage, is now available in eBook form for Amazon’s Kindle for $2.99 and, coming soon, for Barnes & Noble’s Nook. Click to buy P.Nokio: A Hip-Hop Musical is the company’s first book adaptation [...]
Auditions for Rodgers and Hammerstein revue March 2

Posted: February 24th, 2012, 6:11am MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Washington Savoyards announces auditions for the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical revue A Grand Night for Singing. Directed by Kurt Boehm. This is an open call, Non-Equity. All performers will be paid. No appointments necessary Please bring a 32 bar cut of any R & H song that shows your range and style of voice, current picture [...]
Open call Sun, Feb 26 for burlesque performers for Fringe production

Posted: February 24th, 2012, 5:29am MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Seeking burlesque performers and actors/variety performers who can do burlesque! 4&9 Productions is seeking 3 female or female-presenting principal burlesque performers for our 2012 Capital Fringe Festival show, Cupcake Cabaret: A Brief History of ‘Bad’ Women. In artistic partnership with The Soundry, Cupcake Cabaret is a multi-media show about the development of burlesque in the 20th [...]
The Oscars: your Stage to Screen Cheat Sheet

Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:27am MST by Andrew Lapin

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The Academy Awards are almost upon us once again, and this Sunday night, the entire film industry will hold its breath while a bunch of old, white men tell us what they liked this year. Here, for the discerning theatergoer, is a stage-to-screen-to-Oscar guide to the most notable nominations (from our point of view, anyway). [...]
Two Free Productions In Baltimore this Weekend

Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:58am MST by John Barry

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Two interesting shows are coming up this weekend, that I’d just put out on alert in Baltimore. They’re both mind and genre-bending. And they’re free. First at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Choreographer Rachel Cohen is leading Racoco/Rx Dance company in Would/A Body. I’ll leave it to the press release to describe what exactly [...]
Astro Boy and the God of Comics

Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:42am MST by Scott Meslow

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It’s clear from minute one of Astro Boy and the God of Comics that writer and director Natsu Onoda Power is in very familiar (and very beloved) territory. Ms. Power – whose 2009 book, “God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post World War II Manga,” was the first full-length study of Tezuka [...]
Notes from the first week of rehearsal

Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 3:49pm MST by Michael Kahn

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Last week I discussed the careful editing process which Eugene O’Neill practically demands from his theatrical collaborators. Like all of O’Neill’s plays, Strange Interlude is profound and intuitive and also a little over-written. This week, I’ve finished tableworking the play with the actors and we’re on our feet now, continuing to explore.[1] The first week [...]
Arena Stage marketer Chad Bauman accepts new post at Smithsonian

Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 12:22pm MST by Lorraine Treanor

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In 2008, arts marketer Chad Bauman was handed one of the toughest marketing jobs in town. Arena Stage would vacate its SE home base for two years, while crews moved in to construct a brand new facility. Arena would have two full seasons in two widely separated venues- Crystal City in Virginia and U Street [...]
Civilization (all you can eat)

Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 11:11am MST by Tim Treanor

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Let me get to the bottom line about Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat), now playing at Woolly Mammoth. I like it a great deal, and I don’t know why. Civilization is one of those shows – Robert O’Hara’s Bootycandy was another – where several seemingly unrelated stories are shown as brief episodes, and [...]
Into the Dollhouse

Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 10:09am MST by Hunter Styles

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Big dreams start small. Just think of that dollhouse you had growing up. Inside that diminutive frame is a multiverse of stories. In a child’s hands, a new version of reality is brought to life every day. For the dolls inside, life must be as disorienting as it is exciting: the days and nights fly [...]
Hugh Martin: Hidden Treasures (Songs for Stage and Screen (1941 – 2010)

Posted: February 21st, 2012, 2:14pm MST by Brad Hathaway

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Let’s see. Should I do a recording review of this CD of 29 songs by the man who wrote the memorable songs for the sparkling movie “Meet Me In St. Louis” and Broadway’s “Improbable Musical Comedy” High Spirits? Or should I do a book review of the accompanying 84 page book which is much too [...]

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Posted: February 29th, 2012, 8:56am MST by John Barry

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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 12:11pm MST by Jayne Blanchard

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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 10:00am MST by Brad Hathaway

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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 9:05am MST by Roy Maurer

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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:31am MST by Debbie Jackson

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Posted: February 28th, 2012, 6:08am MST by Susan Galbraith

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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 12:06am MST by Hunter Styles

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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 6:34pm MST by Susan Galbraith

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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 9:55am MST by Steve Hallex

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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 6:59am MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Posted: February 25th, 2012, 3:35pm MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Posted: February 25th, 2012, 1:06pm MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Posted: February 24th, 2012, 10:27am MST by Rosalind Lacy

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Posted: February 24th, 2012, 9:06am MST by John Feffer

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Posted: February 24th, 2012, 8:30am MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Posted: February 24th, 2012, 6:11am MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Posted: February 24th, 2012, 5:29am MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 8:27am MST by Andrew Lapin

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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:58am MST by John Barry

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Posted: February 23rd, 2012, 6:42am MST by Scott Meslow

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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 3:49pm MST by Michael Kahn

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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 12:22pm MST by Lorraine Treanor

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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 11:11am MST by Tim Treanor

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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 10:09am MST by Hunter Styles

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Posted: February 21st, 2012, 2:14pm MST by Brad Hathaway

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