Announcement of Nominations
8th Annual Washington Area Theatre Community Honors
THE WATCH AWARDS
Nominations Announced: January 20, 2008 – 7:30 pm at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA
Award Ceremony: Sunday, March 2, 2008 – 7:00 pm at The Birchmere, Alexandria, VA. Tickets $15.50 at the Birchmere Box Office or through Ticketmaster (plus service charge)
Listen to our review of the Vienna Theatre Company’s production of Prelude to a Kiss [MP3 6:15 2.9MB]; or read the transcript.
We’ve been wanting to explore using video for some of our reviews or interviews. During yesterday’s snow storm, I experimented with combining our audio review of Dominion Stage’s The Wild Party with the press photos they provided us. I will admit I’m not thrilled with how this turned out, but for a first attempt, it’s not bad. Adding captions to the photos will help, and our audio was far too long, which ended up that each photo is displayed for around 30 seconds. Some of the photos are very blurry, because of the way video and photo compression kicked in with all of the processing that was done.
We’re wondering if having video reviews or interviews would be useful or not. Let us know.
Listen to our review of the Little Theatre of Alexandria’s production of Saturday, Sunday, Monday [MP3 5:14 2.4MB]; or read the transcript.
Listen to our review of the Colonial Players’ production of Enchanted April [MP3 7:20 3.4MB]; or read the transcript.
Listen to our review of the Silver Spring Stage production of Seascape [MP3 6:00 2.8MB]; or read the transcript.
Listen to our review of The Children’s Theatre production of Cinderella [MP3 4:31 2.1MB]; or read the transcript.
This week we are planning to review these shows:
January 16: Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Little Theatre of Alexandria, Alexandria, Virginia
January 18: Prelude to a Kiss, Vienna Theatre Company, Vienna, Virginia
January 19: Red, Hot & Cole, McLean Community Players, McLean, Virginia
January 20: The Boys Next Door, Montgomery Playhouse, Gaithersburg, Maryland
For the next week (Monday, January 21 through [...]
The program reads, “It’s such a fine line between a good man and a bad.” This theme could not be better represented than by the musical Jekyll & Hyde, recently performed at Briar Woods High School. The Robert Louis Stevenson novel was adapted for the stage by Steve Cuden and Frank Wildhorn, with music by [...]
Listen to our review of the Dominion Stage production of The Wild Party [MP3 9:08 4.2MB]; or read the transcript.
