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News Archive - December
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12-21 |
Potomac Stages Takes Holiday Hiatus
- Resumes News & Reviews January 3
With today's
publication of new reviews and news, Potomac Stages
completes the coverage of theater in the Potomac Region
for 2007 as the staff takes a vacation until January.
It has been a good year for theater lovers
in the region and we look forward to an even better
2008. We wish all our readers the very best of holidays
and hope they will all join us again in January to
share the new year's theater adventures with us. |
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12-20 |
Wolf Trap Announces Theater
Bookings For Next Summer
Wolf Trap has announced the major theater attractions
which will be offered during the summer of 2008.
Riverdance will again make a stop at the National
Park for the Performing Arts just off the Dulles Access
Road in Vienna, Virginia. Major touring productions of
Rent and Les Misérables, as well as the
annual visit from the New York Gilbert and Sullivan
Players, are on the schedule, as is another visit from
Garrison Keillor who
will broadcast his National Public Radio show, A
Prairie Home Companion, from the stage of
the Filene Center.
Tickets, which range from $8 to $25 for the lawn and
from $38 to $80 for inside seating, are now on sale. |
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12-19 |
Avery Brooks' Injury Forces Cancellation of Tamburlane
Through Saturday
The Shakespeare Theatre Company has had to cancel
performances of
Tamburlaine
in the Sidney Harman Hall due to an injury suffered by
Avery Brooks who plays the title character. Brooks'
original understudy had already left the cast due to a
family emergency before Brooks suffered his injury. Bill
Christ is assuming the understudy duties and should be
ready to play the role if Brooks is not able to return by
Wednesday evening, December 26. In the meantime, the
company has had to cancel the performances originally
slated for this Thursday, Friday and Sunday evenings and
Saturday afternoon. The production is scheduled to play
through January 6 in repertory with
Edward II.
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12-18 |
Leesburg's Oatlands Offers Cider, Cookies & A
Christmas Carol
The Carriage House Theater at Leesburg's
Oatlands Plantation, which dates to 1804, will stage a
dramatic reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas
Carol in the estate restored to glory by Mr. and Mrs. William Eustis
in the early 1900's. With complimentary cider and cookies prior to the show,
the holiday event is slated for 7 o'clock on December
20, 21 and 22 and then 6 o'clock on the 23rd.
Click here for contact
information and directions. |
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12-17 |
GALA's Tivoli and Young Playwrights'
Theater Team For Nation of Immigrants Project Tonight
Through Wednesday
Playwright Patrick Crowley worked with students in
community and in-school workshops to develop a play on
the "hot button topic" of immigration through the
auspices of the Young Playwrights' Theatre. The result
will receive its world professional premiere tonight
through Wednesday in the Tivoli Theatre home of GALA
Hispanic Theatre. Tonight's performance has been
designated "Pay What You Can" with a $10 suggested
amount. Tuesday and Wednesday the tickets will be $15
each. All performances are scheduled for 7:30 curtains
and the theater specifies that the production includes
adult concepts and language. |
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12-14 |
Portrait Gallery Presents Program
On Marian Anderson's Life
Jewell Robinson will narrate a presentation of the
life of soprano Marian Anderson - including the famous
concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the
invitation of Eleanor Roosevelt when the Daughters of
the American Revolutions denied her the opportunity to
sing in Constitution Hall because she was an African
American woman. Soprano Janice Chandler-Eteme will sing
Anderson's music. The presentation will be in the Nan
Tucker McEvoy Auditorium in the National Portrait
Gallery on G Street NW at 7 o'clock Monday evening,
December 17. The performance is free but seating is
limited. Reservations can be made by calling
202-633-8520. |
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12-13 |
Hear Radio-Play of A Christmas
Carol On Your Phone Sunday Night
The American Century Theater
will produce a free one-hour performance of A
Christmas Carol this Sunday evening as a radio-play
using a teleconferencing system so that anyone around
the country can call in to listen live at 8 o'clock
Eastern Standard Time. The cast will be calling in on
their telephones and sound designer Keith Bell will call
in the sound effects. The cast will feature American
Century Theater regulars including Esther Covington, Joe
Cronin, Tom Dillickrath, David Elias, Bruce Follmer,
Alice Fuller, Kathryn Fuller, Tracy Krulick, John
Tremain May, Lauren May, Mary McGowan, Paul McLane, Mary
Millben Amy Quiggens, Bruce Alan Rauscher, Michael
Replogle, Richard Rohan, Nan Savard, John Tweel, Glenn
White, and Andy Clemence as Scrooge. Their will be no
charge to the listening audience. To listen, call the
toll-free line 1-866-212-0875 and enter passcode 4930306
followed by #. To best approximate the experience
of listening to a radio broadcast, use a speaker phone. |
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12-12 |
Revisit Potomac Stages' Holiday Gift Guide - New Items
Added
The 2007 Holiday Gift Guide which we published at the
beginning of the month has been expanded with additional
items for people searching for gifts that will please
theater lovers. If you have other suggestions for the
gift guide, drop us an email at
brad@PotomacStages.com. In the
meantime, click
click here to
check out the items currently in the guide. |
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12-11 |
Grammy Nominations Announced For Best Musical Show Album
The Grammy's have announced the nominees in the 101
categories within 31 fields for recordings released
between October 1, 2006 and September 30, 2007. The
winners will be announced in February. The five albums
which will compete for this year's Grammy Award for Best
Musical Show Album are:
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A Chorus Line
- Broadway Revival Recording - Masterworks Broadway
(David Caddick, producer)
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Company -
Broadway Revival Recording - Nonesuch Records/PS
Classics (Tommy Krasker, producer)
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Grey Gardens
- Original Broadway Cast Recording - PS Classics
(Steven Epstein, producer)
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Spring
Awakening - Original Broadway Cast Recording -
Decca Broadway (Duncan Sheik, producer)
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West Side
Story - 50th Anniversary Recording - Decca
Broadway (Nick Patrick, producer)
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12-10 |
Forum Offers First of Two Free Readings in OpenForum Tonight
While presenting Jean Anouilh's modern version of
Antigone at the H Street Playhouse,
Forum Theatre will offer two free readings on successive
Monday nights. Tonight it will be Clifford Odets' Til
The Day I Die which was written as an opener for his
short play Waiting For Lefty, which became his best known
product. Next Monday night, the series continues with
Charles Mee's Iphigenia 2.0. Both readings begin at 8:00
pm. |
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12-7 |
Quest Sponsors Visual Theater Themed
Festival Again In January
Quest-Fest, an international festival of theater with
an emphasis on the visual element designed to reach
audiences without regard to hearing impairment or, for
that matter, language barriers, will be held again in
January, 2008, in Maryland venues. The organizers list
over a dozen productions ranging from Mosaic
incorporating mime, movement, gesture, dance, and sign
language performed by the traveling troupe of Quest
Productions at the Towson University's Ruth Marder
Studio Theatre to Ramesh Meyyappan of Singapore
performing Dario Fo's solo-show Mistero Buffo at
the Baltimore Theatre Project on West Preston Street to
Other Volumes - A Visual Theater Showcase of four
short productions to be performed at Round House Silver
Spring. The festival runs January 14 - 27. The full
schedule is at www.questfest.org. |
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12-6 |
Weekend Getaway? Visit Shepherdstown WV To Hear Richard
Dresser Speak
Playwright Richard Dresser, author of
Rounding Third,
Augusta and
The Pursuit of Happiness, each of which was
produced at Contemporary American Theatre Festivals in
Shepherdstown WV over the past four years, will perform
scenes from his works and discuss the sources of
inspiration for his plays at a reception and script
signing event this Saturday evening in Shepherdstown,
some
65 miles northwest of the
Beltway.
The event will be held in Shepherd University's newly
renovated Reynolds Hall. Tickets are $20 and can be
purchased by calling 304-876-3304. |
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12-5 |
Conservatory of Dramatic Arts
Recognized for Arts Management Achievements
The National Conservatory of
Dramatic Arts has been selected by the Cultural Alliance
of Greater Washington for its first-ever Outstanding
Arts Management Achievement Award. The award recognizes
the contributions of the staff and management as well as
the education and training programs of the conservatory
which is located in upper Georgetown. |
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12-4 |
Ushers Name Signature's The
Studio Their Favorite Show of November
The many theater lovers
who usher throughout the Potomac Region and who
participate in the Ushers' Favorite Show Award
program sponsored by Potomac Stages have selected the
Signature Theatre production of Christopher d'Amboise's
dance play
The Studio as their favorite of all the shows they saw during the
month of November. The production is slated to run
through this weekend. At the end of the year, the Ushers
will select their favorite show from all the shows that
won the monthly awards during 2007. If you usher at
local theaters and would like to participate in the
Ushers' Favorite Show Award program, send an email
message to
Ushers@PotomacStages.com. |
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12-3 |
Potomac Stages' Prepares Holiday
Gift Guide Again This Year - Any Additions?
Last year we published a
guide to theater-related
gifts for the holiday season and our readers told us
they appreciated it. Again this year, we publish the
guide with new suggestions as well as repeating the
suggestions that we think are still a good idea for
gifting a theater lover on your list. We will leave the
link to the gift guide on the "Latest Reviews" list on
our front page throughout this holiday month so readers
can easily call it up. In addition, we will add items as
we become aware of them. If you have a book or recording
or other item you think should be included in the list,
drop us an email at
brad@PotomacStages.com with your suggestion. |
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