washingtonpost.com - BackstageBackstageStudio, Planning a Power-Packed Year- April 19, 2005 Studio Theatre's upcoming season is heavy with plays recently showcased in New York that "have to do with power," says Artistic Director Joy Zinoman. The 2005-2006 roster also includes an unprecedented number of works by female writers and two with "huge women's roles," says Zinoman.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64509-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Finding Next Stage- April 19, 2005 The Stanislavsky Theater Studio is ending its 4 12-year residency at the Church Street Theater and will spend the rest of the season reorganizing to better achieve its mission to "teach, perform and serve."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52777-2005Jan31.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... 'Omnium,' Drawing Strong Reactions- April 19, 2005 Audience members are talking back to the actors with unaccustomed frequency during "Omnium Gatherum," which runs through May 8 at Olney Theatre Center. The play imagines a post-911 dinner party hosted by a Martha Stewartesque domestic diva. She serves haute cuisine to seven wildly divergent guests -- the title, according to one character, means "a collection of peculiar souls" -- some of them possibly based on familiar public personalities. Between bites of salmon and gulps of wine they...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45335-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Death, the Uninvited Wedding Guest- April 19, 2005 Two distant disasters and homesickness fueled the imagination of playwright Sean Reycraft a year before he wrote "One Good Marriage," now at MetroStage in Alexandria.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20895-2004Nov29.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Celebrating Friends, 'Strangers'- April 19, 2005 Jeanette Buck's play "There Are No Strangers" is about post-traumatic stress disorder and the nature of healing. It is also a thank-you note to her friends in the Washington theater community and elsewhere.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26594-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_style/columns/b... Russell, Shooting From the Lip- April 19, 2005 The political satirist takes to the Ford's Theatre stage -- coincidentally (or not) during this inauguration week -- to sift through the past year and the election.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16777-2005Jan17.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Dancing With Chekhov- April 19, 2005 Washington theater veterans Nancy Robinette and Edward Gero have never worked together as intimately as they do in Studio Theatre's "Afterplay."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8312-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_style/columns/b... Revise & Shine- April 19, 2005 The 86-year-old playwright Arthur Laurents is following his passion, staging a drastically revised version of "Hallelujah, Baby!" at Arena Stage.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62352-2004Dec13.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... A Mammoth Undertaking- April 19, 2005 Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's first full season in its new space at Seventh and D streets NW will consist of five plays, four of them world premieres.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55440-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_style/columns/... Home Theater- April 19, 2005 The small Keegan Theatre took a giant step last weekend, becoming the resident acting company at Alexandria's recently renovated Old Town Theater.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6039-2004Nov22.html?nav=rss_style/columns/b... |