Articles Tagged With: Giuliana Weiss

Romeo & Juliet a Comedy at The Rude Mechanicals

“Fear is like a rhubarb enema!” might just be the wildest thing I’ve ever heard come out of the mouth of a player at a Rude Mechanical’s show. And I’ve seen their King John! My one regret (aside from seeing their King John) is that I couldn’t hear the rest of the line— delivered in utter brilliance by Marin (Linda “Spencer” Dye) the fraidy-cat servant to Roselo because both myself and the rest of the audience were laughing so hard it drowned out whatever insanity came next.

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Matt Wetzel (left) as Cat in the Hat with Amy Hayne Rapnicki (right) as Gertrude McFuzz in Seussical the Musical at Silhouette Stages 📷 Shealyn Jae Photography

Seussical at Silhouette Stages

There’s a way things are done when one does a musical. It’s all been done and it’s all been said.

But not when it comes to this production of Seussical, Stephen Foreman, what in WHO has gotten into your head?

Wait— strike that! Reverse it? No, that’s another show, my brain’s a fuzzy mop.

Let me start this thing over— let me start from the top!

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Tick, tick…BOOM! at Greenbelt Arts Center

Why do we seek out ecstasy in all the wrong places? A potent question that Jonathan Larson askes in his ‘starter musical’ Tick…tick, BOOM! Unpopular opinion, as this show tends to be potent enough for the ‘theatrical catnip crowd’ but if Larson had lived? This show would still be sitting on a shelf, collecting dust somewhere. Or at the very least been heavily rewritten, reconfigured, and modernized to feel somewhat more relevant and less self-aggrandizing/narcissistic pity-party.

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(L to R) Ryan Kieft, Stephen Foreman, Clark Elliott, John Sheldon in A Man of No Importance ???? Anthony Rivera

A Man of No Importance at Greenbelt Arts Center

author: Alan Duda

 

“It’s not Immodest, it’s Art!”

Alfie Byrne loves art. Specifically the works of Oscar Wilde. Which he reads daily to the commuters of the Dublin bus he conducts. And nightly as he conducts Wilde’s plays for his community theater at St. Imelda’s church. And everyone loved their Importance of Being Earnest. But as Wilde himself discovered, not everyone loves the idea of them putting on Salome.

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