Courtland Milloy writes about the play Anne and Emmett, performed on Friday evening, after the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum last week. Read the complete article at: Holocaust Museum Tragedy Provides Actors With All the Motivation They Need.
“I find the process of making movies absolutely boring. It’s so fragmented. You wait and wait and wait and then, look, as Jack Lemmon says, ‘It’s magic time.’ In the theater, once the curtain goes up, the actor is in charge.” – James Whitmore
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Over the past few months, ShowBizRadio has been experimenting with linking to interesting articles and relevant reviews published elsewhere. But the ShowBizRadio site wasn’t designed to make it easy to browse for articles about specific groups or from other publications. So we’ve set up a new site that is only a collection of all the […]
tick, tick…Boom Elden Street Players Industrial Strength Theatre, Herndon, VA $22/$19 Students and Seniors Through August 23rd Brad Hathaway of Potomac Stages reviews Elden Street Players’ production of Tick, Tick… BOOM!: An absorbing, well-told story. An often sparkling, rockish score. A sharp, emotionally engaging performance in the lead role. A solid sound from a four-piece […]
tick, tick…Boom Elden Street Players Industrial Strength Theatre, Herndon, VA $22/$19 Students and Seniors Through August 23rd Michael Toscano for the Washington Post reviews Elden Street Players’ production of Tick, Tick… BOOM!: Tick, tick…BOOM! is that rare look at a young person’s angst and anxiety that doesn’t seem stale to those of us who passed […]
Mark Blankenship writes for the New York Times about the work that happens backstage to keep a production moving along: WITH only four actors playing over 20 roles, “Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps” is madcap onstage. But life in the wings is just as manic. For 90 minutes crew members snake past one another with […]
Gypsy Port Tobacco Players Port Tobacco Players Theater, La Plata, MD Playing through August 10th Dickson Mercer for the Southern Maryland News reviews Port Tobacco Players’ production of Gypsy: Less than two months ago, Lisa Kay Morton made a solid case for being Southern Maryland’s ultimate stage mother when she spearheaded the Stageworks Festival in […]
Michael Toscano for the Washington Post writes about the impact that the Little Theatre of Alexandria has had over the past 75 years: Little Theatre of Alexandria, one of the Washington area’s oldest theater companies, is kicking off a special birthday celebration this weekend that will last for much of the summer. LTA was formed […]
Matt Reville for the Sun Gazette reviews Act III Theatre Company’s production of A Year With Frog & Toad: The name sums it all up: audiences spent some time watching the seasons change with two amphibian buddies who share just about everything but personality types. Read the complete article at: ‘Frog and Toad’ Delivers Plenty […]