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On Stage: 'An Octoroon' – Washington Life Magazine

On Stage: 'An Octoroon' – Washington Life Magazine
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Theatre News: Olney Theatre Looks Back One Year with Cast, Director and Playwright of 'The Amateurs'

A Panel Discussion with Playwright, Jordan Harrison, Cast and Director
When I sat in the audience for the opening of “The Amateurs,” I did not know that one week later the theatre would go dark. As the first week of performances ended, the cast and crew had a better inkling as they looked out at an almost empty audience. They realized the play’s run was coming to its finale. One of the actors warned his parents if they wanted to see the show, they better come soon. Even they did not realize how long theaters would be dark. There is still no definite time when Olney Theatre Center and other venues will be able to officially open. Even then, the time when theaters can open at full capacity seems a long way off. Jordan Harrison, the playwright, did not think it would last more than one or two months.

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News/Opinion: Looking Back – 'The Amateurs' by Olney Theatre Center

James Konicek (Left) and Emily Townley (Right) in “The Amateurs.” Photo by Castracane Photography.
It is eerie to remember that just one year ago, on March 8, 2020, I went to review “The Amateurs” at the Olney Theatre Center. I attended with a close friend and fellow theatre buff. We did note that Montgomery County, where the theater is located, had recorded a few isolated cases of Covid-19. There were some empty seats that might have been attributed to the small outbreak and some people’s reluctance to go into an enclosed building and sit next to strangers. The play focused on an acting troupe that performed Morality Plays during “The Black Death,” or bubonic plague, the scourge of Europe in the Middle Ages. It illustrated how they, and other populations, dealt with the disease.

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Streaming 'Peter Pan, A Musical Adventure'

Streaming ‘Peter Pan, A Musical Adventure’
Chicago Shakespeare Theater's delightful hit
“Peter Pan” first took center stage in a London theater two days after Christmas in 1904. In advance of its opening, word got out that the play by Scottish author J.M. Barrie (1860–1937) was about a boy who didn’t want to grow up, who could fly, and who had adventures in a place called Neverland. The gossip was that the unusual play would be a bust, so everyone was surprised when it turned out to be a big hit.
It wasn’t just a huge success in its own time, though; Peter has never grown old. Indeed, he seems to be living forever having been immortalized in Disney’s animated movie (1953) and the film “Finding Neverland” (2004) starring Johnny Depp; in Broadway musicals, such as the production starring Mary Martin (1954), and revivals with Sandy Duncan (1979) and gymnast Cathy Rigby (1990). In modern culture, it became the name of a psychological syndrome, and even a moniker for a major peanut butter brand.

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