Podcasts about rep stage

Sarah and Edward are SO excited to have this smart, hilarious actor, and trailblazing pioneer of the theatre industry on the show. Davon Williams truly embodies a Rich Bitch, leading the way for change, and betterment of the industry in which he works. His work includes the controversial podcast The Receipts (RIP) which exposed some industry TEA and DRAMA! Though he is best known for getting The Black Theatre Matters Bill legislation passed within the Actors Equity Association, he now has settled back into being a full time actor. Most recently, Davon performed in Falsettos at Rep Stage in Columbia, Maryland as the first Black person to play the role of Whizzer in the final product of the show (the show was originally three different pieces that was eventually rolled into one). You can find Davon across platforms at @daywilling Follow your hosts Sarah Seeds and Edward Miskie for the next episode!

It's time for another visit with Midday's theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck, who stops by each week with her reviews of Maryland's regional stage. Today, she joins guest host Ashley Sterner to tell us about the world-premiere production of Ghost/Writer, the new drama by trans Black playwright Dane Figueroa Edidi at Rep Stage in Columbia. The theater's program describes Edidi's new work as "part history play, part ghost story." "Ghost/Writer spans time and place," it continues, "to examine the intersections of race and gender, inviting us to explore the role of love, justice and joy in a world where the spirits of the past have yet to be laid to rest." Directed by Danielle A. Drakes, the play stars Edidi herself, along with co-star Chris Stinson. Ghost/Writer continues at Rep Stage through February 26. Click the theater link for more information. Ghost/Writer is the second-to-last offering from Rep Stage. After a creative, 30-year partnership, Howard County Community College will cease hosting the professional theater company following its April 27-May 14 run of Falsettos, William Finn and James Lapine's groundbreaking, Tony Award-winning musical.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's time for another visit with Midday's theater critic, J. Wynn Rousuck, who joins us each week with her reviews of Maryland's regional stage. Today, she tells us about the new Spotlighters Theater production of [title of show]. The small-scale musical about two guys writing a musical was written, in fact, by those two guys: Jeff Bowen (music and lyrics) and Hunter Bell (book). Their self-referential play, which explores the creative and artistically transformative journey required to mount a stage musical, is directed by Stephen Foreman, with musical direction by Mandee Ferrier Roberts, and a four-member cast that includes Alex Gubler as Hunter, Nick Cherone as Jeff, Neva Sullivan as Heidi, and Natalie Stolurow as Susan. There have been some late changes to the play's production schedule. Spotlighters Theatre has announced that due to a number of positive COVID-19 tests among the cast & crew, its performances of [title of show] for Thur, Jan 26 through Sun, Jan 29 are CANCELED. Patrons with tickets for Sat, Jan 21, and for Jan 26, 27, 28 and 29, should check their email for a message from AHSpotlighters@gmail.com, with instructions for how to reschedule their tickets for a future performance of [title of show], or to convert their ticket purchase into a donation, a ticket credit, or to request a refund. [title of show] will be performed at Spotlighters Theatre from February 2-5. For more information, follow the theater link. ___________________________________________ Judy and Tom also discuss the announcements that two esteemed local theaters will be closing. Single Carrot Theatre, which has been an innovative force in Baltimore for the past 15 years, is canceling the one show left in its final season, but will continue its educational programs through the end of the academic year. Rep Stage, the professional theater-in-residence at Howard County Community College in Columbia, will be closing permanently after completing the two productions remaining in the current season.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arlington actor Regina Aquino returned as a guest on "Embracing Arlington Arts Talks" to discuss her new one-person show "We're Gonna Die" opening at Roundhouse Theatre. Find out how it felt going on stage with a limited audience for the first time, how she prepared for the role, and why she thinks the show is uplifting. Also learn about her exciting new venture as a director coming in August, as well as the first play she has written along with her other gigs at Adventure Theatre, Rep Stage and the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival. Phenomenal work during a pandemic!

(Because of special programming, our theater review this week could not be broadcast live, so we are posting it today to Midday's Webpage and podcast.)Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins us with another of her weekly reviews of the Maryland stage. Today, she spotlights the world premiere production by Rep Stage of E2, playwright Bob Bartlett's contemporary re-telling of Christopher Marlowe's 1593 drama, Edward II. In Marlowe's play, the infamous English monarch's homosexual relationship with a ----favourite---- named Gaveston, scandalizes his queen, sparks bloody discord within his court and eventually brings his reign to a tragic end. In Bartlett's play, King Edward's drama becomes a modern-day tale of rising anti-LGBTQ sentiment around the world; Marlowe's sprawling court is pared to just five characters forced to wrestle with the personal costs of political power.Directed at Rep Stage by Joseph W. Ritsch, Bartlett's play features Zachary L. Powell as Edward II, Alejandro Ruiz as Gaveston, Dane Figueroa Edidi as Queen Isabella, Robbie Gay as Mortimer, and Zach Rakotomaniraka as Edward III.E2 continues at Rep Stage (at Howard Community College) through Sunday, November 17. For ticket information, click here.

Technical Director Natalie Bell and Senior Director of Operations Marissa LaRose sit down with us to discuss the experience of being a woman in the production field. Inspired by creative women everywhere, Grace Anastasiadis and Suzanne Beal from Rep Stage share their experiences in creating the Women in Theater Conference.To learn more and to register for the Women in Theatre Conference, visit: https://www.repstage.org/women-in-theatre/index.html

In this week’s podcast, Rep Stage in Maryland has a video series hosted by the producing artistic director called A Conversation With…, there’s a new podcast I found called The Fabulous Invalid and I saw Detroit ‘67 by Dominique Morisseau last night at the Carousel Theatre venue which is part of Clarence Brown Theatre on the campus of University of Tennessee. To join the mailing list text TREADINGTHEBOARD to 22828. ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS Joseph Ritsch, producing artistic director of Rep Stage (MD), hosts a video series called A Conversation With... & interviews director Paige Hernandez. The Fabulous Invalid podcast, episode 23 - The American Theatre Wing, an Oral History, the book. SOMETHING I HAD TO SHARE WITH YOU... Had a really nice night at the theatre yesterday seeing Dominique Morisseau's Detroit '67 at Clarence Brown Theatre To buy your issue of Treading The Boards click here. THANKS FOR LISTENING &  HAVE A CREATIVE DAY!

Jami Brandli is an award-winning playwright based in Los Angeles and a faculty member in Lesley University's MFA in Creative Writing program. In this episode she discusses "making it" as a playwright, writing strong female characters and her trilogy based on Greek mythology with Emily Earle, Lesley's social media specialist. Jami’s plays include Technicolor Life, S.O.E., M-Theory, ¡SOLDADERA!, Sisters Three, Through the Eye of a Needle, Medusa’s Song, O: A Rhapsody in Divorce and BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) which was named in The Kilroys Top 46 List in 2014. Her work has been produced/developed at New Dramatists, WordBRIDGE, The Lark, New York Theatre Workshop, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Launch Pad, The Antaeus Company, Chalk REP, The Road, among other venues. Current 2018-2019 Humanitas Prize PLAY LA playwright. Winner of John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award, Holland New Voices Award and Aurora Theatre Company's GAP Prize. Technicolor Life premiered at REP Stage as part of the 2015 Women’s Voices Theater Festival and recently received its Australian premiere at The Depot Theatre. In 2018, BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) receives a joint-world premiere with Moxie Theatre (San Diego) and Promethean Theatre (Chicago), ending with Moving Arts’ production this fall at Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles (LA Time’s Critic’s Choice). Sisters Three will receive its world premiere with The Inkwell Theater (Los Angeles) in December, and Through the Eye of a Needle also received its world premiere at The Road Theatre (Los Angeles) this past spring. She’s been a finalist for the 2016 PEN Literary Award for Drama, Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Fellowship, Princess Grace Award, O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and the Disney ABC TV Fellowship and was also nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Her short works are published with TCG and Smith & Kraus. A proud member of the Playwrights Union, the Antaeus Playwrights Lab, and The Dramatist Guild, Jami teaches dramatic writing at Lesley University's low-residency MFA program. She is represented by the Robert A Freedman Agency and Gramercy Park Entertainment. For more information, visit our show notes.

Today, Midday theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins Tom with her review of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, now playing at the Rep Stage in Columbia. From the pages of the Penny Dreadful, to the stage and screen, the story of the 'Demon Barber of Fleet Street' has been adapted many times over over the years. But, be it a fable of love or revenge, the shocking deeds of the murderous barber, his accomplice, the lovelorn baker Mrs. Lovett, and her dubious recipe for meat pies, have frightened and enchanted audiences for over a century. Joseph W. Ritsch Directs and Choreographs the Tony Award-winning Steven Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler musical, which is set in the impoverished lanes of Victorian London.Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street continues at the Rep Stage through Sunday September 23rd.

Theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck joins us today with reviews of two plays now running in the region: Red Velvet, by the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, and All She Must Possess, a world premiere at Rep Stage, on the Howard Community College campus.Chesapeake Shakespeare's Red Velvet (profiled on Midday's January 31st show) tells the story of Ira Aldridge, a celebrated and controversial African American actor who won international renown for his groundbreaking portrayal of Shakespeare's Othello at a London theater in 1833. The play by Lolita Chakrabati is directed by Shirley Basfield Dunlap, and features Christian R. Gibbs as Ira Aldridge and Yuri Lomakin as a London theater manager.All She Must Possess, directed at the Rep Stage by Joseph Ritsch, is the world premiere of a play by Susan McCully, who portrays the lives of Baltimore's Victorian-era Cone sisters -- Dr. Claribel and Etta Cone. The iconic pair's passion for collecting art and curios from around the world brings them into the rarified company of many of the artistic and literary geniuses of their day, including avant-garde writer Gertrude Stein.Red Velvet at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, and All She Must Possess at Rep Stage in Columbia, both continue through February 25.

Episode 19 with the incomparable Valerie Lash is now live! Valerie is the dean of the Arts and Humanities Division at Howard Community College, a professor of theatre,the founding artistic director of Rep Stage and the executive producer of Arts Collective. She is a great friend and one of our heroes. Our conversation was fantastic and we hope you enjoy it!