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Woolly Keeps the Audience Running Full Circle

When it comes to Woolly Mammoth's season-opening production of Full Circle, sometimes you just have to run with it. Literally. This is a show where the audience relocates from separate rooms to a central location, from the complex lobby to the main ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Sarah Marshall,  Charles L Mee

DCist's November Theater Preview

November's proving to be a month of classics in D.C. From A Christmas Carol to Camelot, old favorites are showing up quite a bit on local stages. Here's what's playing around town. Signature Theatre is hoping to bring some new life into the musical ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  2 Nov 2009

Folger's Festive Much Ado About Nothing

The setting, while not really transforming this production of the classic tale of bickering lovers into something new, awards a carefree, colorful spirit to the proceedings. The closing wedding scene is visually brought to life with bright, feathered ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  2 Nov 2009

An Adding Machine That Comes Up Short

There's a cliché out there that an opening number can make or break a show. Unfortunately, the first song in Adding Machine: A Musical, now being staged by Studio Theatre, contributes to the "break" side of the equation. Though the first scene's ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Gregory Smith,  David Benoit

The Demon in Synetic's Dracula

After countless adaptations and revisions, what does the story of Dracula continue to bring to the table? Is it a cautionary tale? Case study of a haunting figure? An excuse for oozing sexuality? An almost comical villain at this point? Synetic ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  20 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Bram Stoker

DCist's October Theater Preview

October is here, so any companies still preparing to launch their fall seasons have pretty much done so. The result: lots of shows to choose from this month. Forum Theater gives its own treatment to Tony Kushner's regarded Angels In America (Oct. 5). ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  2 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Tony Kushner,  Ben Jonson,  Neil Simon,  Cate Blanchett

Book Your Calendar for The National Book Festival

It's two days from now, September 26. Do you know where John Irving is? The answer, naturally, is the National Book Festival, the literary-themed event that spreads across the National Mall each fall. Though Laura Bush founded the event back in 2001, ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: John Irving,  Laura Bush,  John Grisham,  Jodi Picoult,  Judy Blume

A Not Too Compelling a Portrait of Dorian Gray

I can't help thinking that Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray would have little interest in the character of the same name embodied by Roderick Hill in Round House's season opener, the world premiere of a new production of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Sure, ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Oscar Wilde,  Bill Clinton,  Eminem

Signature's Salute to Kander & Ebb, First You Dream

There's not a lot of extra stuff binding together the songs that make up First You Dream, Signature Theatre's extensive tribute to the music of Broadway greats Kander & Ebb. There's no thin plot driving the piece along; no real theme beyond the ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  16 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Chita Rivera

DCist's September Theater Preview

Woo! We made it through the dog days of August and finally have a substantial amount of theater opening this month. Here are some of the highlights. The Kennedy Center's Page-To-Stage festival, which focuses on readings, offers glimpses into ...

From MISSY FREDERICK, DCist,  2 Sep 2009

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