It feels wonderful to be performing Frida Vice Versa at Round House. My one-woman show flourishes on the conceit that the audience might be among Frida Kahlo’s students at La Esmeralda School for Painting in Mexico City in a Master class. Her teaching unfolds as a personal story-packaged as ten “lessons.” The first lesson becomes [...]
“Make it personal. If you’re not sweating, if you’re not scaring yourself to death, if you’re not asking yourself – ‘Do I dare to write this?’, why the hell should an audience pay money to see it?” Over the years of teaching play writing, I’ve dared my students to dare themselves when it comes to [...]
If you’ve ever seen a rehearsal room, you’re familiar with the imaginary world created there. Actors move about in a largely empty space, trying to relate to one another in the absence of any scenery or defined physical space. Only one element guides them along the way: spike tape. The rehearsal room floor is covered [...]
Happenstance Theater, founded and run by Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, is remounting their first creation, Prufbox, at Round House Silver Spring June 18 – 20, 2010. Prufbox was originally developed for the inaugural Capital Fringe Festival. We asked Mark and Sabrina for some insight into their work and the show: In this season of [...]
Putting a novel on stage is no easy task, and it becomes all the more daunting when it is one of the most beloved stories in all of English literature. Who among us doesn’t have their own image of the Bennett girls, a particular take on Mr. Darcy, or a picture in their mind’s eye [...]
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4545 East-West Highway at Waverly St.
Silver Spring
8641 Colesville Road (Next to AFI)
