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Archive for September, 2012

Cast Size

By • Sep 19th, 2012 • Category: An Actor's Advice

Cast size is not an unreasonable criteria for determining what plays you may want to be in. A basic knowledge of what sort of atmosphere and dynamic any given cast size provides can help you make this decision.




Port City Playhouse Medea

By • Sep 17th, 2012 • Category: Reviews

Medea, with her overwhelming passions and command of magic, is a force of nature — a force beyond nature, perhaps — but this is a story without a hero.




GALA Hispanic Theatre El desdén con el desdén (In Spite of Love)

By • Sep 17th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

Director Hugo Medrano’s production is mostly conservative/traditional. His take on 17th Century Spanish aristocrats is Renaissance flashy.




1st Stage Suite Surrender

By • Sep 17th, 2012 • Category: Reviews

Suite Surrender was a hilarious show, with a lot of believability to the normally unbelievable situations that occur in a farce. Come to 1st Stage to be absolutely entertained and amused.




Little Theatre of Alexandria Funny Money

By • Sep 15th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Virginia

Director Shawn Byers keeps the pace of the multiplying complications spinning along smartly. The eight-person cast displays excellent comic timing, making the best of Cooney’s frequent laugh lines.




Jaylee Mead

By • Sep 15th, 2012 • Category: News, Virginia

Jaylee Mead passed away this week. While I never met her, all DC area theater-lovers have been impacted by her generosity and love of theater.




Hard Bargain Players And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson

By • Sep 13th, 2012 • Category: Reviews

And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson was a somber show with occasional laughter, and perhaps some tears will be jerked when emotions run high, but overall was well performed.




Phoenix Festival Theater Grease

By • Sep 12th, 2012 • Category: Maryland, Reviews

Phoenix Festival Theater’s Grease was fun and worth seeing.




Folger Theatre/Globe Theatre Hamlet

By • Sep 11th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

This production is a good reminder that, notwithstanding the local vogue for “silent” Shakespeare, the power and glory of Shakespeare resides principally in his words and actors’ interpretations of them.




Constellation Theatre Company Taking Steps

By • Sep 11th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DC

Taking Steps is a delightful evening of light theatre guaranteed to satisfy.