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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Review: ‘Company’ at McLean Community Players by David Friscic

Stephen Sondheim’s gloriously urbane, stylistic and sophisticated musical Company was groundbreaking when it first arrived on Broadway in the Seventies and it still remains relevant today.…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:02PM

Review: ‘RIN: Tales From the Life of a Troubadour’ Starring Rinde Eckert at The Kennedy Center by David Friscic

The acclaimed writer, composer, librettist, physician, performer, and director Rinde Eckert delighted and amazed the crowd on Friday evening at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. Eckert …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AM
Saturday, February 4, 2017

Review #2: ‘Caroline, Or Change’ at Round House Theatre by David Friscic

Caroline, or Change, now playing at Bethesda’s Round House Theatre, is a musical clarion call for change at all levels. Whether it is personal change and transformation at the most persona…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:17AM
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Review: Carla Cooke at the Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club by David Friscic

There was a fabulous, swinging party on this past Sunday night and it all happened at the wonderful Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club as the dynamic and talented singer Ms. Carla Cooke …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:59PM
Monday, January 16, 2017

A Chat with Singer Carla Cooke: Performing a Tribute to her Father Sam Cooke at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club This Saturday, January 22nd @7:3 by David Friscic

I recently had the great privilege to have an engaging interview with the dynamic artist Carla Cooke, a wondrous singer in her own right and daughter of the singing legend Sam Cooke. Ms. Coo…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:59PM
Saturday, January 14, 2017

Review: ‘The Dictator’s Wife’ at Washington National Opera by David Friscic

A one-hour World Premiere opera is reason enough for the imagination to run rampant with artistic anticipation. So what a veritable array of riches it was to indulge the senses and challenge…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:05PM
Friday, December 2, 2016

Review: ‘Diana Ross – All the Best of Times’ with the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center by David Friscic

Singer extraordinaire Diana Ross is a musical legend and she proved it last night in a concert at The Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall. Presenting a showcase full of golden oldies as well as …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PM
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Review #2: ‘A View From the Bridge’ at The Kennedy Center by David Friscic

The stripped-down, minimalist and auteur-driven interpretation of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge delivers a tragic, elemental, and mythic dimension to this stirring play that delin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:09PM
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Review: The Washington Chorus Presents Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 5 by David Friscic

On Sunday, November 13, 2016, the pulsating, transcendent and visionary music of the modern musical giant of minimalist music, Philip Glass —came to vivid life in a unique and powerful…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:16PM
Monday, November 14, 2016

Review: Washington National Opera’s ‘The Daughter of the Regiment’ by David Friscic

If your operatic desire is to hear one glorious aria after another sung by two operatic voices that would make the gods envious –set against a deliriously “light-as-air” comically sent…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35AM
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Review #2: ‘Six Degrees of Separation’ at The Keegan Theatre by David Friscic

In John Guare’s wonderfully enigmatic and slightly precocious play, Six Degrees of Separation, now playing at The Keegan Theatre—the ripples of interconnection run rampant as the author …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:05AM
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

A Report on ‘No Word in Guyanese For Me’ at Rainbow Theatre Project by David Friscic

The dual intersections of tradition and the authenticity of the individual, autonomous human being compartmentalize, collide and—then —slowly merge in the Rainbow Theatre Project’s…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:27PM
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Review: Melba Moore at Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club by David Friscic

The indefatigable legendary singer and actress, Melba Moore, dazzled the crowd at the Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club Sunday evening. With a very strong family background in music and an early…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PM
Sunday, October 2, 2016

Review: ‘Angels in America: Perestroika’ at Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center by David Friscic

Prophetic Messages continue in the stunning second part of Tony Kushner’s masterwork, Angels in America: Perestroika –now appearing at the Round House Theatre as a joint production of th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:08PM
Saturday, October 1, 2016

An Interview with Tony Award Winner Melba Moore-Appearing at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club-Tomorrow, October 2nd at 8 PM Night by David Friscic

Tonight I had the great pleasure of a brief but extremely rewarding and stimulating telephone interview with the Tony Award-winning (Purlie) and Grammy and Emmy –Award nominated singer and…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:21PM
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Review: ‘Angels in America: Millennium Approaches’ at Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center by David Friscic

Social, political, and historical forces collide and converge to mirror the conflicted inner worlds of the fascinating characters in Playwright Tony Kushner’s audacious, insightfully subve…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:27AM
Monday, August 22, 2016

Review: Kristen Chenoweth at Wolf Trap by David Friscic

On a hot, humid summer evening at the Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center last night, the lithe and absolutely charismatic Broadway, television, and singing sensation Kristen Chenoweth brought …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:02AM
Friday, August 19, 2016

Review: Barbra Streisand: ‘Barbra: The Music…The Mem’ries…The Magic!’ by David Friscic

A diva in the best sense of the word, Barbra Streisand has always understood that only an artistic perfectionist could span decades inspiring generations with her God-given vocal instrument…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:53PM
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Review: ‘The Lonesome West’ at The Keegan Theatre by David Friscic

The Keegan Theatre’s current and provocatively darkly comic production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West, written by the brilliant, raffish and audacious Irish playwright (The Beaut…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:27AM
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Review: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ at The Kennedy Center by David Friscic

The appropriately psychologically penetrating and vivid production of The Merchant of Venice (now playing at The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater) embraces all the conundrums of William…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:55PM
Sunday, July 10, 2016

2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Computer That Loved’ by David Friscic

In his enigmatic but slight one-man show, entitled The Computer That Loved, written and performed by Erik Mueller (as part of the exciting Fringe Festival) a real-life story is presented in …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:27AM
Friday, July 8, 2016

2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The DOMA Diaries’ by David Friscic

Thrilling progressive history and the trajectory of societal forces colliding with basic human rights is delineated through the prism of three couples who are fighting for their dignity as L…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:25AM
Saturday, June 25, 2016

Review: ‘Get Used to It! A Musical Revue!’ at Rainbow Theatre Project by David Friscic

The current production being produced by the theatrically provocative and cutting-edge Rainbow Theatre Project —entitled Get Used To It! A Musical Revue!–may be a bit of a mislea…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:26PM
Friday, June 17, 2016

Review: ‘Kinky Boots’ at The Kennedy Center by David Friscic

In The Kennedy Center’s current production of the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, a cornucopia of vibrant color runs riot through this exuberant and defiant celebration of diversit…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:17PM
Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Review: ‘Carmina 35’ at The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC by David Friscic

It was an extremely innovative and conceptually brilliant idea to celebrate 35 wonderful years of the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) in a sophisticated, elegant and somewhat ser…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:23AM
Sunday, May 8, 2016

Review: ‘The Ring Cycle’: ‘Twilight of the Gods –The Ring of the Nibelung –Part Three’ at Washington National Opera by David Friscic

Mother Earth is crying in despair and degradation in Director Francesca Zambella’s audaciously brilliant interpretation of the final opera of Wagner’s artistically magnificent Ring Cycle…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:43AM
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Review: ‘The Ring Cycle’: ‘Siegfried-The Ring of the Nibelung-Part Two’ at Washington National Opera by David Friscic

The epic tale continues as the Washington National Opera’s production of Siegfried –The Ring of the Nibelung-Part Two played to a very appreciative audience last night at The Kennedy Cen…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29PM
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Review: ‘The Ring Cycle’: ‘The Valkyrie –The Ring of the Nibelung-Part One’ at Washington National Opera by David Friscic

Love in all of its many manifestations runs rampant throughout the Washington National Opera’s most recent offering in the continuing tale of The Ring Cycle—-namely, The Valkyrie –…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03PM
Sunday, May 1, 2016

Review: ‘The Ring Cycle’: ‘The Rhinegold’ at Washington National Opera by David Friscic

German composer Richard Wagner’s much heralded and talked about (over the past many decades!) Ring Cycle opened at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Saturday evening with the first opera i…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:17PM
Monday, April 25, 2016

Review #2: ‘I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Milk’ at Strathmore by David Friscic

Composer Andrew Lippa’s pulsating music shoots like a jolt of adrenaline throughout the super-charged heightened music of the World Premiere Concept Opera I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:55AM
Sunday, April 17, 2016

Review: ‘Laugher and Reflection with Carol Burnett-A Conversation Where the Audience Asks the Questions’ at Strathmore by David Friscic

Comedienne extraordinaire Carol Burnett brought her distinctive and legendary persona to the Music Center at Strathmore last night and the audience responded with glee and deserved appreciat…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:35PM

All that Chat

2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards