Tuesday, November 12, 2019
“True if interesting” is Louise Nevelson’s byword in Occupant, Edward Albee’s witty and wise bioplay about the famous sculptor. She was quite the character. For Nevelson, in the hagi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:58PMSunday, November 10, 2019
Following on Factory 449’s electrifying production two years ago of Lela & Co.—which earned Helen Hayes Awards for both its director (Rick Hammerly) and star (Felicia Curry)—the co…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10AMSaturday, November 9, 2019
“It feels unknown. This is nowhere somehow,” says a character in this intriguingly cryptic poetic play by the acclaimed Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse. Indeed, where are we? And what is…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:21PMFriday, November 8, 2019
Four African American women address the audience as if speaking to a department store clerk. Each is shopping for a dress—a dress, they stress, that must be “special.” As they turn to …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:59PMThursday, November 7, 2019
In honor of the Czech dissident, political prisoner, and playwright Václav Havel, Alliance for New Music-Theatre has served up a two-course theatrical repast in DC’s most outré new arts …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:08AMMonday, November 4, 2019
This world premiere comic drama about gays in the military takes us back to July and August of 1964 when LBJ was ordering American ground troops into Vietnam in response to the Gulf of Tonki…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:33AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
Academia has inspired several thematically penetrating plays featuring female protagonists—the two teachers falsely accused of being lesbian lovers, for instance, in Lillian Hellman’s 19…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:03PMMonday, October 28, 2019
On the day after opening night of Everybody, the first show in Simon Godwin’s much heralded first season as artistic director of Shakespeare Theatre Company, I visited him in his office to…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:00PMTiramisù—the caffeinated confection from Italy—translates as “pick me up” or “cheer me up,” which makes it the perfect name for the hilarious new solo show Michael Burgo brought…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:35PMSunday, October 27, 2019
Right to Be Forgotten is a play written from the outside in. By that I mean, its intention is to illustrate a legal issue: the tension in U.S. law between privacy and freedom of speech, a te…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:04PMThursday, October 17, 2019
To realize how much white America loved minstrelsy is a reckoning painful or shameful, depending on one’s ancestry. Minstrel shows were never meant for people of African descent to see; th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:51AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Editor’s note: Woolly Mammoth Theatre, in conjunction with its staging of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview, has brought to DC a show produced by the Harlem-based Movement Theatre Company…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:24PMSunday, October 13, 2019
How does that new GalaPro app work? How well does it work? And what’s it like to watch a show with it? This inquiring theatergoer wanted to know. Many Deaf and hard of hearing people are a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:12AMMonday, October 7, 2019
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Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:41PMSaturday, October 5, 2019
Midway through this taut, fraught drama about sexual trauma, a woman named Ana, a wife and young mother, is suddenly triggered. We are not told exactly why. It might be the Kavanaugh hearing…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:09PMMonday, September 30, 2019
Can one laugh heartily at a satirical comedy—be thoroughly engaged by the entertaining characters, story, and performances—and then after it’s over mourn what it was about? That was …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:21PMTuesday, September 24, 2019
Sitting in the front row in a child-size chair, I watched a puppet show based improbably on a play by Tennessee Williams. The occasion was a preview at Spooky Action Theater of a never-befor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PMSunday, September 22, 2019
Whether you’re an avid reader or a theater buff or both, there’s a supersmart, superfunny show up in Silver Spring that should be on your short list. Marking its 52nd anniversary (!), co…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:50PMThursday, September 19, 2019
I saw Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview opening night at Woolly, and I cannot stop thinking about its originality—not only in form but in intent. I’m not writing about the production—…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:52AMMonday, September 16, 2019
When Heidi Shreck steps out onto the Eisenhower stage and has what seems an informal, ad-libbed, introductory chat with us, the first thing you notice is her joy. She seems genuinely happy t…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:35AMSunday, September 15, 2019
It isn’t every day you see a play that merges Becket and Martha Graham. That’s my takeaway from watching the hybrid form of Surfacing play out at the Atlas: Three actors are strictly cir…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:03AMThursday, September 12, 2019
“How does a black boy become an American?” asks spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph. “How does he learn his role to play?” For Joseph the question is personal and visceral. In The…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:29AMWednesday, September 11, 2019
The bar is open and there’s 100-proof theater on tap. It’s a stirring play about an Irish immigrant bartender, and it’s shaking up a classy new cocktail bar where only 30 patrons at a …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:53PMTuesday, August 27, 2019
It takes a certain talent to turn topics that are no laughing matter into laugh-out-loud comedy that doesn’t condescend, doesn’t ridicule, and yet imbues life with meaning as only art ca…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PMTuesday, August 13, 2019
Back in 1998, the official Enron vision and values statement had a line in it that said: “Ruthlessness, callousness, and arrogance don’t belong here.” Two years later, as the company…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:47PMMonday, August 12, 2019
The animus being whipped up against “invaders” at our southern border lends Naomi Wallace’s 1993 The War Boys an unsettling resonance. Written when she was but 26, the play is about th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:23AMFriday, August 9, 2019
“There are holes in the script!” would be the deathblow for any more conventional work of theater, but in Nassim Solimanpour’s Blank, the gaps are where the action’s at. As with Soli…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:44AMSunday, August 4, 2019
Liz Duffy Adams’s play Or,—which premiered in 2009 at the Women’s Project in New York—is a deliciously literate feminist farce. A radical mashup of dichotomies (among them straight a…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:09PMFriday, August 2, 2019
When Dear Evan Hansen debuted at Arena Stage four years ago, I was so moved by the show I wrote it a love letter, republished below. Now a Broadway hit, it returns to DC for a run at Kennedy…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:36PMSaturday, July 27, 2019
It always sparks joy when Cirque du Soleil comes to town, and its latest Big Top production, Volta, is a crazy-wondrous delight. The show is inspired by amateur street sports, and its theme …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:36PMTuesday, July 23, 2019
Over a period of 16 days in Washington, DC, in July 2019, Mike Daisey gave 18 different performances, each about an hour and 45 minutes long, of his epic look at America’s past, present, a…
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