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Looks like we get a little breather from February madness this month. Still, March isn't exactly lacking in theater options, from well-worn musicals to one-man (and one-woman) extravaganzas.
If Studio Theater's recent production of Grey Gardens wasn't enough for you, revisit the notorious central figure in Ganymede Arts' After the Garden (March 5).
Find out what they did for love when the touring production of A Chorus Line auditions for D.C. audiences at the National (March 10).
Composer Frank Wildhorn has his share of detractors in the musical theater world, but if last year's Ford's Theatre gala is any indication, the singers in A Civil War will certainly perform his score with passion (March 27).
Also this month
- For two nights only, check out Richard III: An Arab Tragedy at the Kennedy Center.
- It's all Greek to Shakespeare Theatre Company as they perform Ion (March 10).
- Olney's got a world premiere up its sleeve in King of the Jews (March 11).
- Forum Theatre's Marisol focuses on the plight of a copy editor (March 14).
- Two estranged friends try to avoid war in Theater J's latest, Benedictus (March 14).
- Another Kennedy Center cameo: Khamsoun ("Fifty"), a Tunisian work. (March 14)
- I only want to say...that Ted Neely's STILL in Jesus Christ Superstar, over at the Warner. (March 17).
- One woman's vision=Stoop Stories at Studio. (March 20).
- Check out the fruits of Arena's open casting call for the lead role in Crowns. (March 27).
- Woolly goes south in its intriguing-looking Antebellum (March 30).
Still playing
This weekend's your last chance to catch the lovely, if schizophrenic The Winter's Tale at Folger, the impressively performed The Heavens Are Hung In Black at Ford's, Mark Twain's Is He Dead at Olney, the touring production of A Bronx Tale and Theater J's The Accident; March 15 weekend marks the end for MetroStage's Cool Papa's Party, the very funny The Little Dog Laughed at Signature, Krapp's Last Tape at Keegan, Arena's A Delicate Balance and Catalyst's ambitious Roundheads and Peakheads; Solas Nua's Pumpgirl, Studio's The Receptionist and Synetic's dizzying Dante bow March 22; Shakespeare's Dog In The Manger wraps up at the end of the month; and High School Musical at Toby's plays on forever - or at least until June.
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Are there any really funny shows going on right now? I'm talking real humor. Not some corny amateurish improv group.
I'm talking Mr. Show meets Upright Citizens Brigade.
Washington Improv Theater is in the midst of a run right now, which includes our Tournament of the FIST.
If it helps, many of us - including me - have performed and/or trained at UCB Theatre. If you want sketch comedy like Mr. Show, you'll have to go somewhere else - WIT's all improvised.
Oh, and if by "amateurish" you mean we don't get paid to perform so that all the proceeds go back into the nonprofit theater company, then yes, we are amateurs.
Jinkies! I was just phishing you out. Now, I have you.
I was going to attend your FISTing show the other night but had to go home. Had a real nice $10 price on it too. Very affordable.Perhaps our paths will cross at the next show. You'll know me by my Scooby-Doo snicker. I feel your laughing pangs, I too worked for free, but it was worth it.
oh snap! yeah, FISTing's totally worth it.
That photo makes me feel funny inside...
also still playing: The Music Man @ the Washington Savoyards at the Atlas Theatre.
hahaha....since the description for MARISOL is a bit more complex, here's the full blurb:
Marisol, a young copyeditor from the Bronx, is visited one night by her guardian angel, who has some bad news. After preventing "one plane crash, one collapsed elevator, one massacre at the hands of a right-wing nut with an Uzi, and 66,603 separate sexual assaults," the angel has to abandon Marisol to wage war against God. Yes, that God. He is old and dying and taking the rest of the Universe down with him, so all the angels have rebelled. Leaving humans to fend for themselves.