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Catillation is an obsolete word meaning: to lick one's plate. It has nothing to do with cats, except that they catillate quite a bit.
Category Archives: Media Review
The Right Words Can Change The World: Review of Bad Books at Round House
Wit and irony sparkle from the start of Bad Books, as Kate Eastwood Norris and Holly Twyford engage in a face-off about control of children’s reading. Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Books, event, reporting, review, Round House Theatre
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Plaster on the Corn: Review of Shucked at the National Theatre
You want to do a musical comedy about corn? Are you worried about being accused of writing folksy, hokey humor and groaner puns? Here’s the answer: lean into it! Continue reading
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Tagged D.C., National Theatre, reporting, review, Shucked
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Pie in the Sky: Review of “Waitress” at Olney Theatre Center
If the singing and acting weren’t so enthusiastic and entertaining, this play might be upstaged by the hydraulics. Continue reading
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Tagged event, Olney, Olney Theatre Center, Pie, reporting, review, Waitress the Musical
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Review: What the Constitution Means To Me at Round House Theatre
Before I saw Round House’s production of What the Constitution Means To Me, I was only vaguely aware that this play was about a teenager debating the Constitution. I hoped that it would not be tedious, or tendentious, as that description suggests – but it’s only ninety minutes long, so how bad could it be?
I was totally unprepared for how energetic, funny, poignant, timely, and engaging this production is, with its fine performance by Kimberly Gilbert in the part originated by the playwright Heidi Schreck. Continue reading
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Tagged event, Heidi Schreck, reporting, review, Round House Theatre, What the Constitution Means to Me
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Worth Its Weight in Gelt
So for something completely different from all those Nutcrackers and Hallelujahs this season, Round House presents a mash-up of Dickens, Fiddler on the Roof, and wised-up Millennial humor – and it’s hilarious. Continue reading
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Tagged A Hanukkah Carol, event, reporting, review, Round House Theatre
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Truthful and Not-as-Truthful: Review of Spring Break at Round House
There’s a terrific event happening this weekend at Round House Theatre. On Friday night, I caught the first of three performances of the 22nd Annual Sarah Metzger Memorial Play, Spring Break, by the Teen Performance Company, Continue reading
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Mincemeat, Smoked Salmon and So Much Booze: The Seafarer Review
Four comrades meet for a poker party one Christmas Eve night, with a stranger invited to make up the number for five-card draw. Continue reading
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Strutting and Fretting and Grilling and Eating
Since it’s a well-known fact that Shakespeare adapted the plots of existing plays for his own masterworks, no shade should be cast on Fat Ham’s playwright James Ijames for lifting the plot and major characters from Hamlet. What he builds on this scaffolding is all his own, totally enjoyable, and even a little profound. Continue reading
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Tagged Fat Ham, Hamlet, reporting, review, Shakespeare, Studio Theatre
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Holey Socks, Holy Smokes!
The success of a two-hander play depends on two things: the script and the relationship between the two players. In The Mountaintop, one sex has a slight advantage: she’s literally heavenly. Continue reading
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Tagged event, Martin Luther King jr, review, Round House Theatre, The Fourth Wall, The Mountaintop
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