We are trying quite hard to catch up on posting our reviews from the last two shows from the weekend, Leesburg’s No Exit and Prince George Little Theatre’s Barefoot in the Park. Laura has a history of vision problems, and had a flareup on Sunday evening and Monday morning. So we spent Monday and Tuesday [...]
Listen to Mike talk with Shannon Khatcheressian from 2nd Flight Productions [MP3 9:45 4.5MB] about Closer (opening this Friday), Shannon’s preference of on stage vs. back stage, and her WATCH nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play. The transcript is also available.
We have a busy week of shows we are scheduled to review. And we’ve been very sick since Sunday evening, so hopefully we’ll be able to make it out to all of these shows. We’ll be getting two more reviews from last weekend posted on Wednesday.
February 13: West Side Story, Port Tobacco Players, La Plata, [...]
The Wiz
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
The Ellington Theatre, Washington, DC
$20/$15 12 and under
Through February 15th
One fully expects a production by the famous Duke Ellington School of the Arts (DESA) to be incredible, and the collaborative effort put in to The Wiz does not disappoint. From the beautiful costumes and scenery to the high soaring [...]
The Young Hearts are producing the musical Pippin as a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The Young Hearts was created after Ryan McLaughlin died in December 1999 at the age of 13, from t-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, an uncommon form of leukemia. Since then his family and friends have raised money to be [...]
Listen to our review of Castaways Repertory Theatre’s production of Twelve Angry Men [MP3 4:33 2.1MB]; or read the transcript.
Listen to our review of Zoon Vader’s production of Godspell [MP3 5:24 2.5MB]; or read the transcript.
These are the ShowBizradio reviews of the 2007 shows that were nominated for a WATCH award. We reviewed 39 of the 46 nominated productions. Excellent work all around, and congratulations to the nominees. Get your tickets for the March 2nd awards ceremony now, available at The Birchmere box office (in person) or TicketMaster (by phone/web, service charge will apply). The list is in chronologic order; the number in parenthesis at the end of each line is the number of nominations the production earned.
The Heritage Theatre Company, a non-Equity company in Silver Spring, Maryland, still has several roles to fill for it’s September 12 - October 11, production of Pueblo, the Stanley R. Greenberg drama about the 1968 U.S.S. Pueblo incident and the courageous crew who survived it. This is an all-male cast. Several roles — including ‘Commander [...]
Springfield Community Theatre will be holding auditions this week (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday) at 7:30pm at Immanuel United Methodist Church in Annandale. Rehearsals will take place next week, February 11th through the 15th. Performances will be Saturday the 16th through Tuesday the 19th at 7:30.
Richard Cory, by A.R. Gurney, will be performed as a staged [...]
