Move Over, Chris Rock. This might not lead you to expect something about the coming of age of August Wilson. However, I learned during a conversation with Todd Kreidler, a close associate of…
“I’m discovering something new.” Todd Kreidler was referring to his temporary DC digs. He had just arrived and was exploring them during our phone interview. Earlier in the…
What could possibly be more exciting for a DC theatre-lover than this? Mikhail Baryshnikov, indisputably the best-known classical dancer in the world, has arrived in town. And it’s not…
“I walked out of the audition feeling as if I had just had sex with a stranger.” Was this said to me by someone remembering the heyday of the 60s avant-garde; an audition for Dio…
Anthony Rapp is ready. On a recent evening, he was at the National Theatre. Along with the rest of the If/Then company, he was rehearsing that show’s finale. He told me about looking o…
Check out the latest run of dog and pony dc’s Beertown, at Round House Silver Spring through Oct. 19th. Read the actor bios in the program. When you do, you will read one that might be…
How's this for an actor demonstrating stunning range: Bruce Randolph Nelson's next project is playing the driven, intense (eventually suicidal) artist Mark Rothko in John Logan's Tony-winnin…
Trivia question: what Tony Award was Michael Kahn nominated for in 1983? Second trivia question: who was sitting in front of him at the awards ceremony? I’ll reveal the answer to the f…
Here’s a job that you might not expect to be the sort that will prepare you to run a theatre company later in life: usher. On the other hand, maybe it’s the perfect sort of on-th…
I attended the theatreWashington summit a few weeks ago. I read the recent Nelson Pressley article in The Washington Post on one of the topics addressed at the meeting, whether to split e…
“It’s about trust…like a stage dive.” Most Artistic Directors of local theatre companies would probably not compare a change in ticketing policy to taking a flying ju…
In Minneapolis, a company called Mixed Blood garnered national attention when it introduced its policy of “radical hospitality,” essentially shifting to a “free entry”…
– Christopher Henley, former Artistic Director of WSC Avant Bard, knows first hand what it takes to lure theatregoers to unfamiliar places. – It’s a sad, sad story, as old …
“Three years, five plays, pass it on.” -Renee Calarco This is a thumbnail portrait of The Welders, one of the newest, and most unique, organizations to pop up on the DC theatrica…
I’m in a rehearsal room a few weeks ago. I’ve just seen a sequence about same-sex activity among dolphins. The sequence is extremely informative. Statistics and other data are fo…
“Find an ending, please.” No, this is not what was asked of the audience on Saturday night at Shear Madness, one of those (otherwise quite conventional) plays at which the ending…