On July 13th at Friends Meeting Washington, and again on July 19th as part of the brand new District Fringe (both performances at 2pm), Theatre 51 brings vivid life to historical truth in a world premiere play, Now to Ashes, written by Sarah Pultz and Renae Erichsen. The two authors joined me to talk a […]
PuppetCo, based at Glen Echo Park, is giving families–and audiences of all ages–a chance to lighten up and liven up a steamy June, with a world premiere, company-devised spin on some classic fairy tales. Through June 29th, the company is presenting Twisted Tales: Three Goldilocks Gruff in their playhouse at Glen Echo. More information and tickets […]
Even at its best, theater–ephemeral art though it be to experience–is hardly the work of a moment to create or present; and sometimes unexpected hurdles can make a complicated process even more challenging. Plays may take years to gestate and of course classics last for centuries. But every now and then the best-laid plans of […]
“Late-blooming Vaudevillians” is how Happenstance Theatre pitches the comic double bill of Diz and Izzy Aster, a theatrical duo who bring their period harmonies and fictitiously fractious marital disharmony to the stage via the expert clowning and seasoned wit of Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell. Selections of this tried-and-true material–which includes everything from classic slapstick […]
Pack up your go-go boots and head on down to Constellation Theatre in DC, where you can celebrate the advent of spring in all its amorous, chaotic glory with a modern musical adaptation of Sir Philip Sidney’s 16th-century pastoral-romantic classic, The Arcadia, running May 1st through June 1st in a revival directed by Allison Arkell […]
Local storytellers of all sorts take the stage for the second annual Baltimore Story Fest, running May 1-4 at Baltimore Theatre Project and in a special Mother’s Day-themed feature May 10 at Howard County Center for the Arts. The now-annual showcase of storytelling talent–featuring an array of styles, a range of perspectives, and a broad […]
The legendary, iconic, groundbreaking celebrity duo of vaudevillians, Bert Williams and George Walker, comes back to potent and poignant life in a revival of Vincent E. Smith’s 1986 hit, the eponymously titled Williams and Walker, running April 24-26 at Murphy Fine Arts Center at Morgan State University. Directed by Dwight R. B. Cook, who joined […]
Iron Crow Theatre returns to Baltimore Theatre Project weekends from April 11 through April 27 with a rare revival of HOW TO TRANSCEND A HAPPY MARRIAGE, Sarah Ruhl’s 2017 comically thoughtful–or thoughtfully comedic–romp through monogamy, polyamory, relationship geometries of all sorts, and mealtime. While not her most recent work at this point, the play arguably […]
Like JRR Tolkien, Seamus Heaney, and countless other saga-spinners and wordsmiths before, Marcus Kyd has long found himself fascinated by, maybe even a little obsessed with, the epic tale of Beowulf. Enough so that this redoubtable, fearless, multi-talented actor-director-producer–one of the founders and longtime company members of Taffety Punk theater ensemble–considered memorizing and reciting the […]
IN SERIES TO PRESENT POPPEA, MARCH 21st-23rd at BALTIMORE THEATRE PROJECT When Claudio Monteverdi capped an illustrious, sometimes contentious career with his final opera, L’incoronazione di Poppaea, in the 1640s, he provided a vivid example of some of his most forward-thinking and experimental notions. Ideas at once innovative and imitative, radical and neo-classical, pursuing a […]
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