While the cherry blossoms are blooming - over 30 productions will be taking root on DC area stages in April. So come visit the Nation's Capital and see a show or two or more. There's something playing for everyone.
APRIL 2011 MUST-SEES:
(1) FROM APRIL 1ST TO 10TH, DOKTOR KABOOM!, AT THE KENNEDY CENTER'S FAMILY THEATER, IN WASHINGTON, DC.
You look at David Epley in the video below and on his website and you just know you want to spend some time with him. He has beaucoup personality and he looks like a barrel of fun. His three passions are science, math (the two subjects that weren't my favorites in school) and performing. David attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and then for over two decades - he wrote, performed and directed original interactive comedy.
"Doktor Kaboom! is an amazing educational tour of the modern scientific method, using humor and comedy while demonstrating spectacular applications of the physical sciences. Doktor Kaboom! is an interactive one-man Science variety show suitable for all audiences. He now brings his passions together with an explosive style that refuses to allow his audiences time to catch a breath" With a name like Kaboom, you know David's show will be a blast!
Watch videos of Dr. Kaboom here. Dr. Kaboom!'s website is here.
(2) FROM APRIL 2ND TO 10TH, SAUDADE: SONGS OF LONGING & CELEBRATION, AT THE IN SERIES AT SOURCE, WASHINGTON, DC.
The In Series continues its wonderful season with a special anniversary event. Director and spoken word artist Jenifer Deal, vocalist/instrumentalist Cecilia Esquivel, Guitarist Dani Cortaza, bassist Ephriam Wolfolk, and pianist (Artistic Producing Director and Founder) Carla Huebner will help the audience experience 'saudade' - the magical Brazilian word meaning a melancholic longing - the human desire for something which is gone and perhaps was only dreamed.
"Through musical and poetic testimony, we will joyfully celebrate love, life, memory and the innate human longing for connection. With Latin American Songbook favorites including, "El dia que me quieras" (The Day You Love Me) Tango, Samba em Preludio (Samba Prelude), Bossa Nova; "Capullito de alheli", (Fragrant Little Blossom), Bolero. "En mi viejo San Juan" (In My Old San Juan), "Bolero", "Cuando pa' Chile me voy" (When I Go Back to Chile), Cueca and poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Frost, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda, we get to the heart of saudade."
A reception follows the last show, recognizing the participants of the In Series' 'Finding Gabriela DC Youth Poetry Contest'. Can you feel the rhythm yet?
(3) FROM APRIL 9TH TO MAY 15TH, NATIONAL PASTIME, AT KEEGAN THEATRE AT CHURCH STREET THEATER, IN WASHINGTON, DC.
There's nothing more exciting than seeing a World Premiere Musical, and being a life-long Yankees fan, I am looking forward to seeing if Keegan Theatre hits a home run with the new musical National Pastime. Music and lyrics are by Al Tapper, and the book is by Tony Sportiello. It's co-directed by Mark A. Rhea and Susan Marie Rhea, who brought us Keegan's Helen Hayes Award-winning production of Rent, and musical directed by Jake Null.
