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David Friscic

David has always had a passionate interest in the arts from acting in professional dinner theatre and community theatre to reviewing film and local theatre in college.  He is thrilled to be working with Broadway World as a reviewer.   

An enthusiastic interest in writing has shown itself in a BA in English/Education and an MA with honors in English Literature. He also studied Theology at the Catholic University of America and taught English in elementary and middle schools for several years.

David has recently retired from a very challenging thirty-year career at the National Science Foundation as a Technical Information Specialist in the Office of the Polar Programs.  Duties included the opportunity to go to Antarctica twice and Greenland once in support of the research community.   

David lives in Bethesda, MD and has taken courses at the Writer’s Center of Bethesda.  He has served on committees at his condominium community. 

David enjoys swimming, traveling and reading. David’s primary interest, however, is the arts and all it encompasses including opera, symphony, dance, cabaret, concerts, plays and musicals.  He counts meeting Lillian Gish, Glenda Jackson, Liv Ullmann, Liza Minnelli, Lily Tomlin, Sophia Loren, Maureen Stapleton, Alan Cumming, Geraldine Page and Sandy Dennis as some of the more exciting encounters of his life. 

David is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association.

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Review: 1776 at Kennedy Center

Review: 1776 at Kennedy Center

July 2, 2023

1776 is now being given a triumphantly moving and vigorous radically deconstructed interpretation at the Kennedy Center.

Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET PROGRAM A at Kennedy Center

Review: NEW YORK CITY BALLET PROGRAM A at Kennedy Center

June 9, 2023

Growing up with the New York City Ballet (NYCB)nearby during my high school and college years (as they had their summer residency at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs), I was thrilled to turn around many years later to see the Kennedy Center present an evening of some of the Ne

Review: GOOD BONES at Studio Theatre

Review: GOOD BONES at Studio Theatre

May 19, 2023

A solid, well-crafted, and thought-provoking play---Good Bones is about four individuals coping in various ways with issues of onrushing gentrification, loss of community, and reconnection.

Review: LA BOHÈME at Kennedy Center

Review: LA BOHÈME at Kennedy Center

May 17, 2023

The glorious music of Puccini remains the principal reason to see the Washington National Opera’s (WNO)current production of the beloved classic opera La bohème.

Review: MY FAIR LADY at National Theatre

Review: MY FAIR LADY at National Theatre

April 10, 2023

The musical revival of My Fair Lady, that came to the National Theatre this past holiday weekend, proves that this classic musical with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe is an indestructible warhorse of a show that never grows stale.

Feature: Coming Home Full Circle With Chita Rivera

Feature: Coming Home Full Circle With Chita Rivera

April 7, 2023

It was a like coming home with Chita Rivera full circle and approaching a kind of comfortable closure when I attended the Signature Theatre’s Sondheim Award Gala 2023 honoring the Broadway legend Chita Rivera at the Italian Embassy in Washington.

Review: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES at Arena Stage

Review: ANGELS IN AMERICA, PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACHES at Arena Stage

April 3, 2023

A seismic theatrical jolt shot through the theatre world this past Thursday evening when a startling, radically deconstructed production of Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches opened at the Arena Stage; this interpretation grabs you like a “fever-dream” of the mind.

Review: RISING at Kennedy Center

Review: RISING at Kennedy Center

March 29, 2023

Acclaimed Tenor Lawrence Brownlee treated his audience, at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, with an afternoon of engaging, sensitive vocal interpretations of some of the world’s most talented African American composers.

Review: PACIFIC OVERTURES at Signature Theatre

Review: PACIFIC OVERTURES at Signature Theatre

March 17, 2023

The clash of cultures –between West and East—is portrayed with poetic and musical flourish in Signature Theatre’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s rarefied and insightful Pacific Overtures.

Review: THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Keegan Theatre

Review: THE LIFESPAN OF A FACT at Keegan Theatre

February 1, 2023

In a world of fake news, alternate facts, social media frenzy and an increasingly opinionated and polarized public/audience, the issues raised in the intellectually challenging play The Lifespan of a Fact are more relevant than ever.

Review: ENGLISH at Studio Theatre

Review: ENGLISH at Studio Theatre

January 18, 2023

Is learning a new language a hindrance to your heart’s love of your cultural heritage, is it purely functional, or is it a means of gaining enrichment and new understanding? Is precise pronunciation meant to trip lightly off the tongue in any language or is it best to take pride in your original a

Review: A SOLDIER'S PLAY at Kennedy Center

Review: A SOLDIER'S PLAY at Kennedy Center

December 18, 2022

A searing indictment of prejudice and racism in all its permutations wrapped in a fascinating “whodunit” mystery ----the compelling Pulitzer-Prize winning play by Charles Fuller, A Soldier’s Play, is now a knockout of a production at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater.

Review: CHICAGO at National Theatre

Review: CHICAGO at National Theatre

November 17, 2022

It is no secret why the musical Chicago, now playing at the National Theatre, is such a long-running hit lauded by the public and critics alike.

Review: PEOPLE, PLACES &THINGS at Studio Theatre

Review: PEOPLE, PLACES &THINGS at Studio Theatre

November 15, 2022

People, Places and Things are a constant trigger for addiction and anxiety in the probing and intellectually thrilling production of People, Places & Things now playing at the Studio Theatre.

Review: EINSTEIN'S WIFE at ExPats Theatre

Review: EINSTEIN'S WIFE at ExPats Theatre

October 3, 2022

A dramatic and ruminative journey through the personal history of two famous figures, Albert Einstein, and his wife Mileva Marić, takes place in an afterlife limbo in Einstein’s Wife.




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