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Monday, May 25, 2015

South Pacific, the national tour by Gary Tischler

Impressive performances from Carmen Cusack and opera star David Pittsinger "tremendous stage presence; he's deceptively disarming physically, and emotionally powerful vocally."

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM

Interview with Director Joe Banno by Gary Tischler

Gary Tischler calls Director Joe Banno a 'triple threat' and interviews Joe who has directed over 100 opera, musical and theater productions.

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM

Actor Philip Goodwin on playing British theater critic Kenneth Tynan by Gary Tischler

Gary Tischler interviews New York actor Philip Goodwin, who is playing British theater critic Kenneth Tynan in 'Tynan' at The Studio Theatre in DC.

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM
Monday, June 27, 2011

Randy Danson’s Wicked return to town by Gary Tischler

In her life in the theater, Randy Danson has played a roll call of outsized women. Think of them:  Clytemnestra in The Oresteia, Agave in The Bacchae, Mae Garga in In the Jungle of the Cit…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AM
Saturday, June 11, 2011

Nat ‘King’ Cole director Lou Bellamy by Gary Tischler

Lou Bellamy on Nat ‘King’ Cole, August Wilson and his company Penumbra Theatre Director Lou Bellamy is back in Washington, and we had the chance to talk with him about, among oth…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PM
Thursday, June 2, 2011

The B Team by Gary Tischler

In his play The B Team, David Holstein, who, it should be noted also writes scripts for the Showtime series “Weeds”, asks and partially answers a question kind of fundamental to our time…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:35AM
Friday, April 22, 2011

Being the audience – life experienced all together by Gary Tischler

A meditation on what it means to be an audience member A while back, at the opening of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Arena Stage, there was a reference, by George, Ma…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Michael Bobbitt’s Excellent Adventure by Gary Tischler

An interview with director/writer/choreographer and Artistic Director of Adventure Theatre Michael J. Bobbitt Michael J. Bobbitt is a dreamer and he dreams not impossible but big, good, do-a…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AM
Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Landless Mash Up Fest, Part 1 by Gary Tischler

I’ve got a confession to make. I’m a virgin. When it comes to going to going to Landless Theatre Company, I’ve never done it. I don’t know what I was waiting for. By ‘mash up&#…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AM
Sunday, February 6, 2011

Philip Goodwin on playing Kenneth Tynan by Gary Tischler

Philip Goodwin may be from Maine, he may live in New York, and have trained in England, but around here, he’s a Washington actor. Goodwin feels the pull himself. “I have some of that New…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:59PM
Friday, January 21, 2011

Joe Banno by Gary Tischler

Washington is full of hidden treasures, especially when it comes to culture and entertainment. You know – the concerts at many of the city’s museums and cultural institutions, from t…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PM
Friday, January 14, 2011

Anna Deavere Smith by Gary Tischler

Back in the 1990s, when I first saw Fires in the Mirror, a play about a conflict in which African Americans and Orthodox Jews battled in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, I wanted …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AM
Monday, December 20, 2010

South Pacific by Gary Tischler

David Pittsinger and Carmen Cusack may not be household names in the annals of theater, past or present. For sure, they can’t be called theater legends, even in the age of instant hyperbol…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AM
Friday, December 17, 2010

Backstage with The Nutcracker by Gary Tischler

Backstage after their performance, the actors, still exhilarated and buzzed, talk about the show, and the children in the audience. The puppets, for a few hours, are once again still and wai…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AM
Sunday, December 12, 2010

Welcome back, Cherry Red by Gary Tischler

Now that Cherry Red Productions is back on the boards in Washington with a production of Justin Tanner’s Wife Swappers, (at the DC Arts Center in Adams Morgan), everyone seems to be having…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:31AM
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Lauren Molina and Geoff Parkard by Gary Tischler

Catching up with two of the stars from Candide Over the years, you see a lot of them, and sometimes you wonder. You know, the backup singer, the understudy, the impossibly young and good loo…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AM
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Live Theater: There’s no app for it by Gary Tischler

The next time someone asks “Why should I go to the theatre?” send them this. [Editor's intro:  A lot can happen over coffee in Adams Morgan. It was to be just a meet-up to see w…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:33PM

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