On Around Town, talking Choir Boy, Life Sucks, and The Widow Lincoln.
Chris Klimek
http://watch.weta.org/viralplayer/2365420189
Three new Around Town play reviews means three new opportunities to attempt to smile on command and to speak in concise sentences that end rather than trail off. (I'll keep working on it.) This time, host Robert Aubry Davis and Washington Post arts writer Jane Horwitz and I discuss Studio Theatre's Choir Boy, Theater J's Life Sucks, Or the Present Ridiculous, and Ford's Theatre's The Widow Lincoln. That's two shows I liked a lot, respectively, plus one I liked, well, more than many others did. (My Washington City Paper reviews are here, here, and here.) I am informed that one of these aired on WETA right after Downton Abbey last night, which I am certain is the best lead-in I shall ever get. We're the A Different World of public broadcasting!
These videos used to be embeddable and now they appear to be less so, which means slightly more clicking from you if you want to see me stammer and Robert and Jane speak like the articulate, professional adult human beings they are. I am informed that the Choir Boy video aired on WETA right after Downton Abbey last night. I would've worn my sport jacket to the taping had I known that would happen, if not a tuxedo and tails.
Life Sucks, or The Present Ridiculous:
http://watch.weta.org/viralplayer/2365420136
The Widow Lincoln: