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Ladies and gentleman, this is your reviewer speaking. Climb aboard a luxury ocean liner for an evening of hit tunes by Cole Porter and award winning choreography by Kathleen Marshall. Your ship is called the Anything Goes and it departs from Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Once onboard be prepared to find mistaken identities, medaling debutante [...]
Jessica Frances Dukes is currently giving a performance for the ages in Beneatha’s Place at Centerstage where she plays the title role. As if that weren’t enough she is also playing in Clybourne Park in the dual roles of Francine and Lena. Both plays make up The Raisin Cycle which runs at Baltimore’s Centerstage through [...]
‘A Quick 5′ has always said that part of its purpose was to introduce the reader to some brand new talent in the DC area. Today’s column is about just that. Korinn Walfall is currently performing the role of Eponine in Les Misérables at the Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts. Her big number [...]
Bethesda Blues and Jazz Club is a new venue that is starting to host some of our best singers in a gorgeous art deco surrounding. This past Saturday they did it in grand style. Ann Hampton Callaway is a singer that reminds me of a time when singers had distinctive traits to their sound. Sarah [...]
The Theatre Lab School of The Dramatic Arts has presented a bunch of musicals in the past that go outside of the box. Musicals that make us theatre geeks stand up and take notice. Titles like Jane Eyre and Side Show are just a couple of the many shows presented. Currently they are taking on [...]
Singer /Composer Ann Hampton Callaway is probably best known to the masses as the composer and vocalist for the theme song to TV’s The Nanny. But there is so much more to her career than just that theme song. She has been seen on Broadway in Swing and has performed with such artists as jazz [...]
If I say the term physical theatre to you, what do you think of? Most likely your answer will be Synetic right? Well yes, Synetic with its dazzling choreography and intense approach is one form of physical theatre. But while Synetic is the only company in our area that performs in this style, there are [...]
Stephen Sondheim’s musicals have been a long standing tradition at Signature Theatre since its inception, so it is fitting that the 2012/2013 season at Signature ends with one of Sondheim’s best. Company premiered on Broadway 43 years ago and has had several revivals in NYC, including one where the actors played their own instruments. Signature [...]
Shuler Hensley is currently playing The Critic in the new adaptation of The Guardsman at the Kennedy Center. You might have seen him on tour a few years ago playing the Monster in Young Frankenstein which he also starred in on Broadway and recieved Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award nominations for his portrayal. [...]
Ah remember the 1970s? Let’s see, we had bellbottoms, big afros, and on Broadway big hit shows like A Chorus Line and Annie. Yes, there were plenty of hits but there were lots of misses as well. Wonderful catastrophes like Truckload and who can forget the only musical in history with trampolines as the main [...]
Tom Stoppard’s semi-autobiographical play The Real Thing won a Tony Award in 1984 and starred Jeremy Irons, Glenn Close and Christine Baranski who won for Best Supporting Actress. It is easy to see why Studio Theatre and Artistic Director David Muse chose this play to be part of its current season. It gives a chance [...]
For the past two seasons NBC gave musical theatre geeks like me a reason to tune in weekly. It was to watch what started out as a look into what it’s like to put on a big Broadway musical. As we followed the characters each week we wondered who would ultimately end up with the [...]
Here is the scenario. A cricket in Connecticut gets a whiff of some food in a picnic basket and ends up in a busy Times Square subway station where he becomes a sensation for his musical talents. How do you translate this to the stage? Well…. you commission a second generation world class musician to [...]
