Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
A 1742 grist mill and miller’s house as a creative hub
The restored Manor Mill in Monkton, MD offers everything from classes, workshops, and a fine arts gallery to musical performances and poetry and prose readings. I spoke to the owner, Angelo Otterbein, about his vision.
Mary Zimmerman’s Matchbox Magic Flute
Mary Zimmerman’s Matchbox Magic Flute, a collaboration between The Goodman Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre Company, reimagines Mozart’s final opera as “a hybrid, a playful variation, more a creature of the theatre [than of] opera.” I spoke to Mary about her concept.
Go into the woods with Shakespeare at Everyman
Everyman Theatre is making a rare foray into the Shakespearean canon with its current production of the much-loved comic romance, A Midsummer Night’s Dream–playing through June 9th. This fresh, surprising new take* on the old classic looks to find new resonance, new twists, new laughs, new life, new bite, and a balance between heart and […]
The Washington Chorus Celebrates Timeless Choral Music
On Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 PM The Washington Chorus will present sacred choral works by Lili Boulanger, Igor Stravinsky, and Beethoven with National Philharmonic all under the leadership of TWC’s Artistic Director, Dr. Eugene Rogers who joined me to talk about the concert.
Safe Boating Week
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A swansong for Mark Cudek
Having founded the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble thirty-six years ago in 1988, Mark Cudek will conduct the group for the last time in a concert called “Music for Joan the Mad,” inspired by Marjorie Sandor’s book “The Secret Music at Tordesillas,” at Peabody and St. David’s Roland Park. Please click on the link below […]
Crossing borders and breaking boundaries with Spooky Action Theater
Spooky Action Theater’s artistic director, Elizabeth Dinkova, joined me by phone to unpack some of the humor, humanity, and heart at play in the latest production from this inventive DC-based theater compnay. She spoke with extra authority and insight having known the playwright, Philip Howze, since overlapping at drama school; having selected and programmed the […]
CINDY OF ARC jousts with the patriarchy at Theatre Project
I had the pleasure of chatting all the way across the Atlantic with writer/performer/creator Cynthia Kaplan about her new play Cindy of Arc, coming to Baltimore Theatre Project May 2nd-4th after a raucously successful stop at Intiman Theatre in Seattle. The journey of this piece has been a lengthy and arguably convoluted one, from extremely topical […]
The “mother of all musicals” takes the stage at CTM
Now playing through April 28th at Classic Theatre of Maryland is the beloved Broadway classic from 1959, Gypsy–featuring the music of Jule Styne, the lyrics of Stephen Sondheim, a book by Arthur Laurents, and more familiar standards of the repertoire than you can fit on your workout playlist. Under the direction of CTM Producing Artistic […]
