Frankenstein’s Robert Bradley Interviewed on DCmetrotheaterarts.com!
“Robert Bradley stars as ‘Walton,’ a young sea captain who serves as Victor Frankenstein’s confidante, and as a narrator for the opera. Bradley’s band Aries has shared the stage with such legends as Sebastian Bach, Dio Disciples, and Symphony X and were recently 98 Rock’s Band of the Month for December of 2012. In local theatre, Bradley recently played the lead role of “Kar” in Baltimore Rock Opera Society’s Valhella (for which he was named a 2012 Best Musical Actor on DCMetroTheatrearts).”
Read the full interview here! You can also hear him sing Iron Maiden!
JUNE 8 – 30
GALA HISPANIC THEATRE AT TIVOLI
3333 14th St. NW, Washington, DC
June 14-30 (Thursdays-Saturdays at 8PM and Sundays at 3PM): $24 Premium Seating; $16 Regular PWYC PREVIEW JUNE 8 at 8PM $15 Previews June 9 at 3PM and June 13 at 8PMTickets go on sale May 13!
Landless Theatre is ALIIIIVE!!!
Miss us? We hope so! Our 2012-2013 season plans were on hold while we worked towards opening OUR OWN EXCLUSIVE SPACE, however we are back to the drawing board. It appears that it will be at least one more “Landless” season for LTC in 2013-2014, but we are aiming to open our own space by Fall 2014!
In the meantime, we are back…with a vengeance! LTC will be mounting three new productions to celebrate our 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY at our new venue: GALA Hispanic Theatre at Tivoli, and also as part of the Capital Fringe Festival:
June 2013 at GALA Hispanic Theatre at Tivoli
The World Premiere of Richard Campbell’s FRANKENSTEIN
Landless has been pushing the envelope of FUN and OFF-BEAT DC Theatre since 2003. In honor of our 10th anniversary, Landless Theatre Company is producing a World Premiere Prog-Metal Rock Opera: Richard Campbell’s Frankenstein!
This face-melting new piece was discovered by up-and-coming UK rock composer Richard Campbell (www.richardcampbellmusic.co.uk), which is sure to rock your balls off as no theatre production ever before! Richard Campbell is a young UK composer who is destined to be a force in the prog-rock scene (his work is featured on Rock Band).
The production is directed & produced by Melissa Baughman, and the team who brought you DIAMOND DEAD (2008 Best Musical Pick of the Capital Fringe) and PRESIDENT HARDING IS A ROCK STAR (2008 and 2012 Washington Post Critic’s Picks). Music direction will be featured by Jack Sossman (BROS), and the cast features dynamic, local rock vocalist and actors:
IRENE JERICHO (Cassandra Syndrome), ROBERT BRADLEY (Aries), GREG BOWEN (BROS) LTC’s ANDREW BAUGHMAN (Diamond Dead, President Harding is a Rock Star).
Production Designers included JARED DAVIS (artbyjared.com), CHRIS HOLLAND and ELIZABETH REEVES (The Broken Continent).
June 2013 LTC’s 3rd Annual Mash-up Festival
This year’s Mashup Fest will feature new mash-up parodies from local playwrights:
• THE WALKING FRED by Maurice Martin (R.U.X.)
• TRUE BLOOD SPATTER by Kerri Sheehan (Nights at St. Januarius)
• SAVING PRIVATE POO by LTC Resident Artist Steve Custer & Ian Hoch
• And so much more…
July 2013 at Capital Fringe Festival
HAUTE MESS by The Other Baldwins
Landless tears up the fashion industry in this scathing satire from the creators of Spidermusical and Perez Hilton Saves The Universe (or at least the greater Los Angeles area), directed by Ian Allen (former A.D. of DC’s Cherry Red Productions).
Stay tuned for more updates including the announcement of our 2013-2014 season!
LTC Brings ‘Davey Jones’ Locker’ to Silver Spring! Rated ARRGH!
‘Landless will present Davey Jones’ Locker, an original “pirate musical extravaganza” loosely based upon The Flying Dutchman legend… In Davey Jones’ Locker, a band of four scurvy pirates tell the musical tale of a Governor’s runaway daughter who gets a one-way ticket to Davey Jones’ Locker when her rascal buccaneer lover forces her to walk the plank – complete with Pirate Drinking Game and other audience participation.’ – DC Metro Theatre Arts
Davey Jones Locker will run at The Piratz Tavern, located at:
8402 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD
Showtimes:
Saturday, November 10th at 9 PM
Saturday, November 17th at 9 PM
Sunday, November 18th at 6PM
No cover. Call 301/588-9001, or visit Piratz Tavern’s website for more information.
Sign of The End in 2012? Landless… has Landed!
Get Ready For Some Exciting News!
As Landless Theatre Company prepares to ignite its 10th Anniversary Season this September,
we are opening our own space in Adams Morgan, steps away from the DC Arts Center where you have attended our productions for a decade. Our move will not only allow the company to grow exponentially in our mission to bring theatre to the theatre challenged, but the Landless Studio will also be a hub for other companies and emerging professional artists dedicated to building a FUN arts scene for audiences in DC.
Like a lovable little cockroach, Landless Theatre has survived 10 years of changing times of economic prosperity and recession – and we remain dedicated to keeping our ticket prices low for you. We have done it with out any public funding, living within our means primarily on ticket revenue, and working with over one hundred professional artists who have volunteered countless hours to support the organization for the love of the art, and you, the audience. At last, Landless is ready to plant its flag in Washington, DC.
We can’t do this alone – we need your help! Landless is launching a campaign to raise $20K this summer to help us cover start-up costs of the new Landless Studio. Give a little, or give a lot, but please help us take our little company to the next level. Landless Theatre Company is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and all donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Click here to see how you can support the Landless transformation
Where Dreams Come True, LTC Presents XANADU
Landless Theatre Company presents:
XANADU
The roller-skating, audience participation
disco musical extravaganza!
October 12-27 ∙ Fridays & Saturdays at 8:00 PM
Performances at Frederick Cultural Arts Center:
15 West Patrick St. Frederick, MD
Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Music & Lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar
Based on the Universal Pictures Film
Screenplay by Richard Danus and Marc Rubel
Originally produced on Broadway by Robert Ahrens, Dick Vickery, Tara Smith, B. Swibel, Sara Murchison, Dale Smith & Cari Smulyan
Produced by special arrangement with Music Theatre International
Tickets $20
To purchase tickets online, click here.
D.C. Capital Fringe Festival 2012
Move over Obama & Romney: Here Comes Someone Cheesier!
Landless Theatre Company remounts the rock musical President Harding Is A Rock Star, created by Obie Award winning writer and musician Kyle Jarrow (A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant, Whisper House), and directed by Melissa Baughman (Diamond Dead, 2008 Best Musical Pick of the Fringe). The production was named a Washington Post Editor’s Pick in 2008, declaring that “Harding Wins The Zany Vote!”
Our 21st President Warren G. Harding was a hard-living, hard-loving rock star. He rode a rock star’s tide of fame into office, reaping the benefit of the American Women’s new right to vote. Then he gambled away White House china and cabinet positions, fathered an illegitimate child with a teenage mistress in the Oval Office, and died an early rock star’s death before completing his term.
If he’s remembered today at all, it’s for being one of the most inconsequential presidents in U.S. History. Performance presented at Fort Fringe’s Baldacchino’s Gypsy Tent Bar – 607 New York Avenue, in Washington, DC:
Purchase tickets by clicking on the following performances:
Jul 13th 8:15 PM
Jul 15th 2:45 PM
Jul 17th 7:00 PM
Jul 21st 1:15 PM
Jul 26th 5:45 PM
Jul 28th 7:15 PM
or purchase tickets here, at Fort Fringe – 607 New York Avenue, in Washington, DC, or call (866) 811-4111.
Brush up on the history of Warren G. Harding, President & Rock Star!
Open Call Audition for LTC’s XANADU
The Landless Theatre Company announces an open call audition for select roles in our upcoming production of XANADU on Sunday, September 16, 6:00-9:00 PM at Frederick Cultural Arts Center in Frederick, MD.
No appointments, sign-in begins at 6 PM. Please prepare 16 bars from XANADU, or in the style of the show. We are seeking 6 young actors (18-30) who can roller-skate to fill the following roles:
KIRA (CLIO): The youngest of the Zeus’s daughters and the muses, who falls in love with Sonny. Pretty. Adventurous. 18-25 yrs old. G3 – C6. Speaks with a fake Australian accent for most of the show.
SONNY MALONE: A self-critical, mortal, chalk artist who falls in love with Kira (Cleo). Handsome. Very 80′s. 18-30 yrs old.
D3 – C5.
TERPSICORE: Played by a man. One of Kira’s older sisters and fellow muse. Doubles as SIREN, TUBES SINGER, HERMES and CENTAUR. G3 – C5
THALIA: Played by a man. One of Kira’s older sisters and fellow muse. Doubles as SIREN, YOUNG DANNY, TUBES SINGER, CYCLOPS. Must be a tap dancer. G3 – C5.
ERATO: One of Kira’s older sisters and fellow muse. Doubles as SIREN, ANDREWS SISTER, EROS, HERA.
B3 – C5
EUTERPE: One of Kira’s older sisters and fellow muse. Doubles as SIREN, ANDREWS SISTER, THETIS. B3 – C6
Callbacks will be held on Monday, 9/17. Performances will be held October 12-27, Fridays and Saturdays at 8PM (6 total performances). Rehearsals begin immediately. All rehearsals and performances held at Frederick Cultural Arts Center. Non union. Non paid. This production will be a fundraiser for Landless Theatre’s new venue and 2013 season.
Frederick Cultural Arts Center
15 West Patrick Street. Frederick, MD 21701
Email casting@landlesstheatrecompany.org for more information.
SpiderMusical Closing: A Last Chance for Awesome!
Closing Weekend of SpiderMusical:
A Second Chance for Awesome
Poster by Ernie Achenbach
It is closing weekend of Landless Theatre Company’s
DC premiere of:
SPIDERMUSICAL: A Second Chance for Awesome
None of the Budget. All of the Danger.
April 26-29 (Thursday-Sunday) at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $25
DC Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
To purchase tickets online, click here.
Directions to the theatre can be found here.
Move Over Obama and Romney…Here Comes Someone Cheesier!
President Warren G. Harding was a hard-living, hard-loving rock star.
This year at the Capital Fringe Festival, Landless Theatre revives its 2008 rock spectacle, President Harding is a Rock Star, written by Kyle Jarrow (A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant) and produced by director Melissa Baughman and the team that brought you Diamond Dead (2008 Best Musical Pick of the Fringe).
Landless’ 2008 Production was named a Washington Post Editors’ Pick:
If you threw a “Saturday Night Live” election skit into a blender with an American history textbook and an electric guitarist, you might get a diversion very much like Kyle Jarrow’s rock musical… [it] tightrope-walks pleasantly between the sophomoric and the ingeniously absurdist.
WeLoveDC Says Spidermusical is a “Perfect Blend of Humor and Performance”
Cast of Spidermusical: A Second Chance For Awesome
Photo by Amanda Williams Photography
Here’s what Patrick Pho, a writer at local website WeLoveDC, has to say about Spidermusical:
Instead of high wire acrobatics, Landless employs an action figure tied to a stick. You won’t find fancy costumes in this show, instead actors don animal masks that look like they were plucked from the local Toys ‘R Us. The show is hilariously campy without going over the top. It is the perfect blend of humor and performance.
He goes on to say:
While the jury is still out on Broadway’s Turn Off the Dark, I’m ready to make a judgement for Landless’ Spidermusical. It is an entertaining romp whose low-budget cheese results in awesomeness that doesn’t need a second chance to make you laugh.
Read the rest of Pho’s review here.
Spidermusical HIGHLY RECOMMENDED by DC Theatre Scene
Mickey D. DaGuiso and Melissa O'Brien clash
with Matt Baughman in Spidermusical.
Photo by Amanda Williams Photography.
Another rave review for Spidermusical!
“The moral of the story? You don’t need eighty million dollars to turn a piece of junk into something priceless. Landless Theatre Company doesn’t have the massive budget of its green-gobblin’ progenitor up in New York — hell, they don’t even have Bono and The Edge! — but with Spidermusical: A Second Chance For Awesome, they’ve taken a giant leap that actually lands…
Go see it, get bitten. It’s super.”
-Hunter Styles, DC Theatre Scene
Spidermusical Gets a Five-Star Review from DC Metro Theater Arts
Mickey D. DaGuiso as Spider One. Photo by Amanda Williams Photography.
Spidermusical received a rave review by DC Metro Theater Arts writer Amanda Gunther. From her article:
Look up in the sky! Slinging through the trees! It’s a bird – it’s a plane – it’s – a nerdy teenage boy in a comical musical farce? Yes! … It’s got pizzazz! It’s got music! It’s got a laugh-a-minute book by Randy Blair and Tim Drucker and a fun score by Matthew Roi Berger with lyrics by Mr. Blair, that audiences everywhere will love! This is the must-see rollicking musical comedy of the season!
Directed by Melissa Baughman, this Second Chance for Awesome is exactly that… Baughman brings a talented cast of actors to this production giving you all the excitement of a musical, the action of a comic book and all the hilarity of a spoof. It’s a great mockup of Spiderman – all the recognizable characters are there: Spider One, Mary Joan, the mad scientist and his obnoxious spoiled rich son. Add in some fighting, hilarious solo numbers and ridiculous plot twists – and you’ve got one hell of a show.
Read the full review here.
Behind the Web Interview on LTC & Spidermusical
Melissa Baughman & Andrew Baughman
DC Theatre Scene published an in-depth interview with LTC’s producing artistic director, Andrew Lloyd Baughman, and Melissa Baughman, director of the upcoming DC regional premiere of SPIDERMUSICAL: A Second Chance for Awesome.
Here’s a preview…
“When I hear Landless Theatre, I think of…Evil Dead, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long Blog, and High Fidelity. You seem to have a strong connection to film and especially to more kinds of cult films. Why is that?
Andrew: Our mission is specifically to try to generate new audiences for live theatre, so with everything we do, we try to hit some kind of different cult audience or some kind of audience that might not normally be coming out to see theatre. A lot of the shows we do, I guess, are geared towards young audience, 20-somethings, 30-somethings, that’s probably the biggest tie-in. People in that age group tend to go to the movies.
Melissa: So, we rope them in with both…
Mickey D. DaGuiso as Peter Partker & Melissa O'Brien as Mary Joan in Spidermusical. Photo by Amanda William Photography.
What is the show? I assume we have our Peter character and other fan favorites, but what is this show really about?
Melissa: It’s about Peter who gets bit by a radioactive spider and is visited by the spirit of a spider, and he becomes the Spider-One, kind of a loser superhero. You know, he goes around saving people and has an arch-nemesis…
With a piece like this, it’s a story everybody knows…What is the biggest opportunity you have presenting this show?
Andrew: I think our opportunity is to surpass, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (NY Broadway Production)…the full title of {our} show is actually, “SPIDERMUSICAL. A Second Chance at Awesome.”, so that’s what we’re going for.
Melissa: No, it doesn’t. Lots of that awesome is free.”
To read the interview, click here. To purchase tickets online, click here.
LTC’s Spidey Sense is Tingling!
Landless Theatre Company presents a DC premiere:
SPIDERMUSICAL: A Second Chance for Awesome
None of the Budget. All of the Danger.
April 5-29 (Thursdays-Sundays) at 7:30 pm
Tickets: $25
DC Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
To purchase tickets online, click here.
Landless Gets a Nod from TheatreWashington
TheatreWashington.org, the Washington, D.C. area’s inside guide to theatre, mentioned Landless in a blog post, “10 Reasons Why I Go to the Theatre.” Read the full blog post here.
LTC’s Spidermusical Actress Interviewed by CBS
A CBS interview with Melissa O’Brien, star of the upcoming Landless production of Spidermusical: The Unauthorized Story.
To read the interview, click here.
Brightest Young Things Reviews Landless Mash-Up Festival
Brightest Young Things gave Landless Theatre Company’s 2nd Annual Mash-Up festival an approving review of our original work:
Bizarre, hilarious, weird, slap-dash, relevant, exciting and witty, Landless Theatre Company delivers a 1-2-3-4 punch in their 2012 Mash-Up Festival, featuring four original plays showing at the DCAC now through January 28th. Themed “Freaks and Geeks,” this year’s Festival features two general audience oriented plays for “Geeks” in the 7:30 PM early slot with The Dark Knightmare Before Christmas and Breaking Hunger, and for the “Freaks,” two adult-oriented plays (18+) in the 10:00 PM late slot with Night of the Living Golden Girls and Tarxxxanadu. Vampires, zombies, superheros and villans, confused jungle dwellers, vain porn stars and even famed serial killers make up this festivals’ parade of “freaks and geeks.” –Rachel Eisley
To read the full review, click here.
LTC Artistic Director Recognized by Frederick Post
The hometown newspaper of Landless artistic director Andrew Lloyd Baughman featured Baughman in a series called Slice of Life, a daily look into the people who make up the community of Frederick, Md.
Over the years, Baughman estimates that he has written somewhere between 30 and 40 plays.
“At the core, I’m a musical actor,” Baughman said, “but I like to think I’m a good playwright too.”
Past Landless performances include “Spooky Dog and the Teen-Age Gang Mysteries,” “Psycho Beach Party,” and “Cannibal the Musical.”
“Each play is geared toward a new group we haven’t hit before,” Baughman said.
Landless Theatre Company is as unique as the plays it puts on.
To read the full article, click here.
