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Robert Richmond is batting 1,000 this season with two stellar stagings at Folger Theatre. Earlier this season he directed Henry V which was one of the best Shakespeare stagings I’ve ever seen, and currently his Twelfth Night is again delighting audiences . Previous Folger Theatre credits include Othello , Henry VIII and Julius Caesar. Regionally Robert’s work has been seen at Roanoke Island Historical [...]
Hearing the great Tony Award winning Broadway baritone Brian Stokes Mitchell sing some of Broadway’s most famous songs is one of today’s great pleasures. Add to that The Choral Arts Society Chorus made up of 175 plus vocalists, conducted by Scott Tucker, and you have something truly memorable. This Mother’s Day concert entitled Broadway’s Show-Stoppers [...]
Adam Pascal’s career as a performer is twofold. He has been seen on Broadway in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, Cabaret, the original cast of Rent and is currently playing Billy Flynn in the long running revival of Chicago. That is one side of Pascal’s talent. The other is that he is a very [...]
Emily K. Townley is currently playing the role of Elizabeth in Skin Tight which makes up half of the two one-act productions at Studio Theatre called Pas De Deux. She previously appeared at Studio Theatre in Rock ‘N’ Roll and The Bright and Bold Design. Most recently Emily was seen in Tryst at Washington Stage Guild. She is a company member of Woolly [...]
Return with me now to a day gone by. When musicals had big orchestras, solid storylines, great music, and not a chandelier or helicopter in sight. MTG readers, now through May 26th you can see something that has all that. All you have to do is go and get a ticket to Washington National Opera’s [...]
Nancy Opel is currently playing Dolly Levi in Hello, Dolly! at Ford’s Theatre. She is also making her DC area debut with this production. Nancy recently appeared in Broadway’s Memphis, Paradise Found (London), and The Toxic Avenger (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics and Lucille Lortel nominations). Other Broadway credits include Gypsy (with Patti Lupone [...]
Yak Yak everyone, the popular children’s book series and comic strip Big Nate has arrived at Adventure Theatre MTC in a sparkling world premiere musical featuring some of DC’s best and brightest performers and penned by Olney Theatre Center’s new Artistic Director Jason Loewith and longtime conductor and new Associate Producer of Olney Theatre Center, [...]
There are few places in the DC area where puppetry is performed today, but in the surroundings of Glen Echo Park it is alive and well with the Puppet Co. Artistic Director Christopher Piper is preserving a slowly dying art form, and for the last 8 years his company has been bringing his wonderful presentations [...]
Jon Robin Baitz’s Tony Award winning play Other Desert Cities is one of those plays that upon first viewing in NYC I said “Wow!!” I found it to be extremely well acted and really well written. The story is very dramatic, as it explores what happens when a child, who has had a breakdown, comes [...]
Francesca Zambello is the Artistic Director of Washington National Opera and the director of WNO’S current production of Show Boat now playing at The Kennedy Center. Previously she has served as its Artistic Advisor. She has directed many WNO productions, including Of Mice and Men (debut in 2001), Fidelio (2003), Die Walküre (2003 and 2007), Billy Budd (2004), Porgy and Bess (2005 and 2010), Das Rheingold (2006), Siegfried (2009), and Salome (2010). [...]
Steve Pickering is currently serving double duty at Shakespeare Theatre Company. He portrays the lead role in Wallenstein and Cominius and a Volscian Lord in Coriolanus. The plays are in repertory through June 2nd. Steve has previously been seen at STC in King Lear. He has been seen on Broadway,on tour and in London in [...]
Kyle Donnelly is the director of Other Desert Cities which is currently playing at Arena Stage. Kyle was the associate artistic director at Arena Stage from 1992 to 1998. Productions at Arena Stage include Ah, Wilderness!, Dancing at Lughnasa (Helen Hayes Award, Best Production), Polk County (Helen Hayes Award, Best Musical) and numerous others. She directed [...]
Erin Weaver is currently playing Catherine Hiatt is Signature Theatre’s wonderful production of The Last 5 Years. She was last seen at Signature in Xanadu as Kira (Helen Hayes nomination). DC Area credits include at Folger Theatre: Comedy of Errors (Luciana), Arcadia (Thomasina) which won her a Helen Hayes Award, and The Tempest (Miranda) ; Round House [...]
Michael Glenn is currently playing Gordon in Olney Theatre Center’s productiuon of Neville’s Island. Michael has been a Washington based actor for over a decade and has performed with many DC area companies. Select area credits include Good People at Arena Stage, Clybourne Park at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Cat’s Cradle, The Hothouse, Rosencrantz & [...]
