In keeping with Brave Spirits Theatre's commitment to producing overlooked works from Shakespeare's contemporaries, the company's staging of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher's A KING AND NO KING marks a DC metro area professional premiere. An excellent cast and a modern approach by director Cassie Ash and the creative team make this production worthwhile.
59E59 Theaters (Elysabeth Kleinhans, Artistic Director; Peter Tear, Executive Producer; Brian Beirne, Managing Director) is proud to announce the line-up of shows for the 2015 Winter Season. All performances take place at 59E59 Theaters (59 East 59th Street, between Park and Madison Avenues). Ticket prices and performance schedules vary. For tickets, call Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online at www.59e59.org.
The Pillow Book takes off from the current vogue of non-consecutive story-telling; everyone wants to emulate the mystification of Pulp Fiction, with its sudden reveals of not only what will happen, but of what did happen. And recently there has been an additional vogue, which I call Cubistic story-telling, in which the characters and their lives turn out multiple ways, without an authoritative single story line. The approaches can also be combined. Such works always make the viewer struggle to follow the conflicting and shuffled storylines, but seldom leave the viewer in the dust. The dust, however, is where Anna Moench's The Pillow Book will leave you. The more is the pity. Anna Moench writes beautifully, and the acting and directing in this collaboration of two interesting fringe companies is uniformly good. But the conflicting storylines shred each other.
Cohesion Theatre Company and The Strand Theater Company are proud to announce their partnership on the Baltimore premiere production of The Pillow Book. Written by native Baltimore playwright Anna Moench, The Pillow Book is a journey through the real, the imagined, the absurd, and the parallel. Deb and John are married. Deb and John are strangers. Deb saves John's life on a mountain. John blinds Deb on the Serengeti. Told with a cast of three, The Pillow Book examines the life in and around one couple's past, present, and the possibilities that could have been.
Quotidian Theatre Company presents Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, April 20 - May 20 at The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815. Tickets are $25, or $20 for students or seniors, paid for at the door in cash or by check. Call 301-816-1023 or email quotidiantheatre@comcast.net to reserve.
Quotidian Theatre Company presents Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, April 20 - May 20 at The Writer's Center, 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda, MD 20815. Tickets are $25, or $20 for students or seniors, paid for at the door in cash or by check. Call 301-816-1023 or email quotidiantheatre@comcast.net to reserve.
Dynamic writing duo Edna Ferber (the author of Show Boat) and George S. Kaufman (coauthor of The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It with You, and other hit comedies) brought high comedy and laughter to American audiences in the 1930s with their witty, stylish hits Stage Door, The Royal Family, and Dinner at Eight. Stage Door was a huge Broadway success in 1936 at the Music Box Theatre (staged by Kaufman) and was made into a star-studded Hollywood movie featuring a young Katherine Hepburn. The play, however, is rarely done in modern times because of the large cast. A magnificent vehicle for theatre actresses, Stage Door is the kind of seldom-produced classic comedy that The American Century Theater was created to produce-and will be presenting in April of 2011.
Dynamic writing duo Edna Ferber (the author of Show Boat) and George S. Kaufman (coauthor of The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It with You, and other hit comedies) brought high comedy and laughter to American audiences in the 1930s with their witty, stylish hits Stage Door, The Royal Family, and Dinner at Eight. Stage Door was a huge Broadway success in 1936 at the Music Box Theatre (staged by Kaufman) and was made into a star-studded Hollywood movie featuring a young Katherine Hepburn. The play, however, is rarely done in modern times because of the large cast. A magnificent vehicle for theatre actresses, Stage Door is the kind of seldom-produced classic comedy that The American Century Theater was created to produce-and will be presenting in April of 2011.
In its first-ever production of Shakespeare's HAMLET, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company gets most everything right ... except for the prince.
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company opens its 2010-2011 season with a clever yet inconsistent adaptation of two plays by Aristophanes.
Representatives of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company have joined delegates from over 100 Shakespeare-producing theatres and festivals from the USA and Canada attending the twentieth annual conference of the Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA) this week at Shakespeare's Globe in London.
One more weekend to see Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's innovate staging of Shakespeare's JULIUS CAESAR.
Top Honors for the best of local regional theatre productions in 2007.
The Up and Comers and The Masters: 46 men, women, and a few youngsters who made their mark on the Baltimore theatre scene in 2007.
WHO: Rep Stage WHAT: A Shayna Maidel WHEN: Through November 4.Wed - Thurs at 7:30PM, Fri - Sat at 8PM, Sat - Sun at 2:30PM. HOW MUCH: $17 - $25, general, Students $12 any performance. TICKETS AND INFORMATION: 410-772-4900 or www.repstage.org
WHO: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company WHAT: William Shakespeare's As You Like It WHEN: Friday and Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 5PM, through July 8: Sun. 6/10, Fri 6/15, Sat 6/23*, Sun 6/24, Fri 6/29, Sat 6/30, Sat 7/7, Sun 7/8. Saturday, June 23rd, As You Like It at 4PM, Henry V at 8PM. WHERE: Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Ellicott City. HOW MUCH: Adults $25, Seniors 65+ $22. Buy tickets to both, and they are just $40.00. Kids are FREE with paying adult. CONTACT: 410-313-8874 or www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company presents annual summer of outdoor Shakespeare in true repertory. This year, they are closing the prestigious Shakespeare in Washington Festival.
WHO: Fells Point Corner Theatre WHAT: Burn This WHEN: Fri, Sat at 8PM, Sun at 2PM through April 15 HOW MUCH: $15.00, $12.00 with BWW Discount
WHO: Chesapeake Shakespeare Company WHAT: The Front Page WHEN: Friday - Saturday at 8PM, Sunday at 2PM WHERE & HOW MUCH: Go to www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com for tickets and information.
Special discount for BWW readers to the opening weekend of The Front Page, featuring several local favorites!
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