DC Theatre Scene: All My Sons
It doesn’t take much to reach across the footlights at Keegan but it could be very precarious were it not done with such clarity, sensitivity and affection.
It doesn’t take much to reach across the footlights at Keegan but it could be very precarious were it not done with such clarity, sensitivity and affection.
The Keegan Theatre presents Arthur Miller’s Tony Award-winning play All My Sons, opening November 3, 2012 at the Church Street Theater in Washington, DC.
The Keegan Theatre is thrilled to announce its line-up for the 2012-2013 season, the company’s sixteenth.
Decades before Saturday Night Live, Caesar and company were inventing political sketch comedy. The writers faced network pressures to dumb down the show, as well as a growing right-wing political climate fueled by Senator Joe McCarthy. Laughter on the 23rd Floor is based on Simon’s 30 Rock–esque experiences on the show.
Who knew that Keegan Theatre, a company better known for staging Irish and American melodramas, and more recently musicals, could dive into Simon at his shtickiest and come up trumps.
An extended act of hero worship masquerading as a laff riot, Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor is filled with one-liners, peopled entirely by folks who either write or want to write jokes…
…think how funny “30 Rock” would be if it included some of the extraordinary 1950s comics who wrote for Caesar, like Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks.
It will undoubtedly make you laugh–and also think a little, too. The production has that certain “I don’t know what” about it that one always hopes to have at the theatre.
Do you want a laugh every 30 seconds?
If you are a Neil Simon fan, a fan of Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason, and a writer – and just want to go back to the good ol’ days – this is the show for you.
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