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A Cate Blanchett DuBois-powered Streetcar

Streetcar is part of the cultural atmosphere. People who never see theater can quote it. The portrayal of Blanche most remembered is either Vivien Leigh's, from the 1951 movie, or Marge Simpson's. Chiseling out a fully committed, persuasive version of ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Cate Blanchett,  Vivien Leigh,  Marlon Brando,  Elia Kazan,  Ingmar Bergman

Shut Up and Swing: (Half of) Travis at Jammin' Java

More than ever on the concert circuit, nostalgia is the move. With everyone from Liz Phair to Public Enemy to The Pixies (and those are just the P's) devoting gigs and sometimes entire tours to reviving their seminal albums in sequence, lots of ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pixies,  Liz Phair,  Bruce Springsteen

People (Don't) Change: Nick Lowe at Wolf Trap

Nick Lowe likes to keep things simple these days. Nick Lowe titled the career-spanning compilation he released earlier this year Quiet Please, and it ain't false advertising. The softer, sadder, more introspective country-soul phase Lowe commenced ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  19 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nick Lowe

DCist Interview: Mike Birbiglia

It was sort of touch and go for a few months. They were like, "We think we're gonna use the story." I found out later they built an entire episode around it. The "Fear of Sleep" episode was built on my story. Then [TAL creator and host Ira Glass] and I ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ira Glass,  Mike Birbiglia,  New York Times Company,  Woody Allen,  Tricky

DCist Interview: Nick Hornby

In your new novel, Juliet, Naked we once again have a character — Duncan — who is obsessed with pop music like Rob from High Fidelity was. What appeals to you as a storyteller about obsessives? Well, they're funny I think. They tend to have lost ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Nick Hornby,  Walt Whitman,  Jane Austen,  John Cusack,  Woody Allen

The International Anthems: U2 @ FedEx Field

Since you didn’t ask, we also got the tour’s most baffling inclusion, “Your Blue Room,” its final verse recited by a cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station. Oh, you can’t hum that one? It’s an ambient interlude from the 1995 album of ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: U2 (musician),  FedEx,  Bono,  Adam Clayton,  Brian Eno

Bigger Than the Sound: Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ 9:30

Or rather, Karen does. The others, Tim Burton lookalikes all, just stay out of her way. From the insistent bounce of the opening “Dull Life” to the overdriven “Y Control” that closed the set proper, O(rzolek) began every tune with a scarf wrapped ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Tim Burton,  Brian Johnson,  Chrissie Hynde,  Spike Jonze,  Yeah Yeah Yeahs (musician)

For Virgin Free Fest, the Fourth Time's the Charm

All downsizing should be so benign. Everyone knows the fourth installment is a bitch to get right. Witness Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Or Batman and Robin. Or The Phantom Menace. Or Thunderball. We could go on. (Virgin Mobile Festival and the ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  31 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Richard Branson,  Chuck Berry,  The Hold Steady (musician),  Flavor Flav,  Wale (musician)

Fringe Festival: Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue - The Saints

Now here's some Christian rock we can get behind. Ringmaster Steve McWilliams might want to work on deepening his pipes to give more oomph to his hyperbolic tent-show preacher schtick, and on the whole, the eight-player troupe's singing maybe isn't ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  22 Jul 2009

Fringe Festival: Bad Hamlet

Poor Prince Hamlet can't bring himself to slay his treacherous, usurping Uncle Claudius while the guy's at prayer. To be, or not to be. That is the . . . point? Mayhaps. Every script goes through revisions. The script of a play -- Hamlet, say -- ...

From CHRIS KLIMEK, DCist,  21 Jul 2009

Related Topics: William Shakespeare

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