17 stories by "Gary Tischler"
Gary Tischler interviews New York actor Philip Goodwin, who is playing British theater critic Kenneth Tynan in 'Tynan' at The Studio Theatre in DC.
Impressive performances from Carmen Cusack and opera star David Pittsinger "tremendous stage presence; he's deceptively disarming physically, and emotionally powerful vocally."
Gary Tischler calls Director Joe Banno a 'triple threat' and interviews Joe who has directed over 100 opera, musical and theater productions.
In her life in the theater, Randy Danson has played a roll call of outsized women. Think of them:  Clytemnestra in The Oresteia, Agave in The Bacchae, Mae Garga in In the Jungle of the…
Lou Bellamy on Nat ‘King’ Cole, August Wilson and his company Penumbra Theatre Director Lou Bellamy is back in Washington, and we had the chance to talk with him about, among oth…
In his play The B Team, David Holstein, who, it should be noted also writes scripts for the Showtime series "Weeds", asks and partially answers a question kind of fundamental to our times: c…
A meditation on what it means to be an audience member A while back, at the opening of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Arena Stage, there was a reference, by George, Martha…
An interview with director/writer/choreographer and Artistic Director of Adventure Theatre Michael J. Bobbitt Michael J. Bobbitt is a dreamer and he dreams not impossible but big, good, do-a…
I've got a confession to make. I'm a virgin. When it comes to going to going to Landless Theatre Company, I've never done it. I don't know what I was waiting for. By ‘mash up’ La…
Philip Goodwin may be from Maine, he may live in New York, and have trained in England, but around here, he's a Washington actor. Goodwin feels the pull himself. "I have some of that New Eng…
Washington is full of hidden treasures, especially when it comes to culture and entertainment. You know – the concerts at many of the city's museums and cultural institutions, from the…
Back in the 1990s, when I first saw Fires in the Mirror, a play about a conflict in which African Americans and Orthodox Jews battled in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, I wanted …
David Pittsinger and Carmen Cusack may not be household names in the annals of theater, past or present. For sure, they can't be called theater legends, even in the age of instant hyperbole.…
Backstage after their performance, the actors, still exhilarated and buzzed, talk about the show, and the children in the audience. The puppets, for a few hours, are once again still and wai…
Now that Cherry Red Productions is back on the boards in Washington with a production of Justin Tanner's Wife Swappers, (at the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan), everyone seems to be having s…
Catching up with two of the stars from Candide Over the years, you see a lot of them, and sometimes you wonder. You know, the backup singer, the understudy, the impossibly young and good loo…
The next time someone asks “Why should I go to the theatre?” send them this. [Editor's intro:Â A lot can happen over coffee in Adams Morgan. It was to be just a meet-up to see…
