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Friday, December 2, 2011

Krapp’s Last Tape by John Barry

After watching the Gate Theatre production of Krapp’s Last Tape, I couldn’t help thinking that it’s a play that John Hurt has been waiting for decades to act in. First …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AM
Monday, November 14, 2011

American Buffalo by John Barry

CenterStage’s American Buffalo hits its high point when Teach (Jordan Lage), a bald guy with a mustache who sports a leisure jacket and bellbottom highwaters, pulls out a shiny silver gun …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PM
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Russian play about judicial corruption comes to the Capitol by John Barry

The City of Baltimore has recently found itself under the harsh gaze of the Russia Today: in a 500 word piece, shaped by an hour or so of immersion in Baltimore’s one-block red zone, and m…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12AM
Friday, October 21, 2011

Strand’s Jayme Kilburn takes us to the dark side of producing in Baltimore by John Barry

It Ain’t Easy Being a Founder, Director, Treasurer, Official Greeter, Artistic Director, and Ticket Seller for a Small Startup Theater in the Middle of Baltimore in the Middle of a Recessi…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:53PM
Friday, October 14, 2011

Karen Zacarias on her Book Club Play by John Barry

“when opening night comes … it’s like the play’s going out the door to go to college, and I’m giving it one more apple and one more kiss.”  When I finally reached DC pla…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12AM
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Portrait of Poe: with the help of actor Mark Sanders, Poe’s ghost fights eviction by Baltimore City by John Barry

“We do Bar Mitzvahs.” In the benefit production Portrait of Poe, that’s about as close to optimism as Edgar Allan Poe, gets on October 8, 2011, at Area 405. And the show hasn’t even …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:49PM
Thursday, October 6, 2011

South Pacific by John Barry

In an era where ‘sour’ seems to say it all, there’s one thing to like about South Pacific at Baltimore’s Hippodrome Theatre even before seeing it. This 1949 musical about America…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AM
Monday, October 3, 2011

British playwright Duncan Macmillan at Studio Theatre by John Barry

I came to DC’s Studio Theatre  to talk to Duncan Macmillan about his latest play, Lungs, which will be making the first part of its rolling world premier at Studio on October 2nd (it …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21PM
Saturday, September 24, 2011

With Baltimore Connections, a New York address, and Moscow Art Theater training, Studio Six Theatre puts the Alpha back into Acting by John Barry

This column is about Baltimore theater, and, admittedly, the connection between Studio Six (in New York City) and Baltimore is a little tenuous. The artistic director, Vaz Santosham has root…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AM
Monday, September 19, 2011

The creative force known as Kwame Kwei-Armah on heading CenterStage by John Barry

Baltimore inspired him, and now he intends to return the favor. “Cool. Savvy.” That branding for the 2011-2012 season dangles outside the CenterStage theater on Calvert Street in…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:08PM
Friday, September 2, 2011

Director Jim Knipple returns to shake up Baltimore theatre scene by John Barry

“I’m all about wild stuff”, he says, and shows he really means it with the baby-in-the-microwave play Bump! In the underworld of Baltimore’s theatre, success comes, but i…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AM
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Un Saddest’s underground Ten Minute Play Festival by John Barry

DCTS welcomes Baltimore columnist John Barry In the dark, sweaty, jam-packed basement of the Bell Foundry Building – located in a neighborhood off Baltimore’s Penn Station – Un Sa…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PM

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