Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Whaddya know, my site is already green, so I’m good on that front. No pinching your computer screen.
Tonight we’re having dinner out then seeing An Ideal Husband, which is somewhat appropriate for St. Patrick’s Day, as Oscar Wilde was born and raised in Ireland. This production by Fountainhead Theatre runs through Saturday at Theatre on the Run, in Shirlington. Potomac Stages loves it, but the Post calls the production “stilted.” We’ll see. (By the way, an excellent movie adaptation of An Ideal Husband was released a few years ago, starring Jeremy Northam, Cate Blanchett, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, and Minnie Driver.)
I got the theater tickets at Ticketplace, an excellent source for half-price admission to selected arts events. Tickets for some shows, like this one, are available online the day of the show, but yesterday I thought, hey, I have some time to kill, so I visited their new location on 7th Street, near the Archives Metro station. Their booth used to be in the Old Post Office Pavilion. Anyway, the people who work at Ticketplace are so friendly (as I’ve said in these pages before), and it’s always a pleasure to drop by.
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I loved that movie too, with its emphasis on the comedy aspects of the scripts rather than the melodrama.
No one else seemed to like it.