Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Spooky Action’s production of The Man Who is a remarkable theatricalization of reality as experienced by patients with brain damage. The play was inspired by neurologist Oliver Sacks’ bo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
It was as if an electric current connected the cabaret performers who call themselves Diana V. Sáez & Friends. Staged on a platform surrounded by round cafe tables, draped with red tabl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
In The Heights in Spanish is a show to shout about. The Broadway smash by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes, that swept New York’s 2008 theatre awards, including the coveted Ton…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Gaetano Donizetti miraculously wrote seventy-five operas during his brief lifetime. But what makes Don Pasquale stand out as one of the funniest comic operas (opera buffa) ever written is th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMMonday, March 20, 2017
Actor Adrián Iglesias, who plays Séneca, the mouse who has lived in a library for the past ten years, ambles on stage, carrying a wicker basket, filled with large books and eating utensils…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
The set places us in a blighted area outside Mexico City in the 1960s. A cyclorama displays a skyline of city buildings. Railroad tracks emerge from upstage center. Dingy walls splotched wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMMonday, December 26, 2016
The following plays are my favorite selections best Hispanic productions of 2016, all seen at GALA Hispanic Theatre, and dominated by GALA productions themselves. GALA Hispanic Theatre …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Goyescas is a term used to represent the revival and preservation of Spanish nationalism in music, a movement popular in the early 1900’s and the title of the opera now being staged by In…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMTuesday, December 13, 2016
Hats in the air and “Olé!” for the In Series team that has delivered an inspired staging of an extremely challenging one-act opera, Goyescas. Written in 1915 by Enrique Granado…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMTuesday, October 11, 2016
A trio of howling Cadejos, mythical doglike beings played by actors wearing jingling ankle and wrist bells, romp around GALA’s stage as lively piped-in Salvadoran music comes from ov…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:30PMTuesday, September 13, 2016
Nothing but the bare essentials for this multi-leveled, rich play, as staged by José Luis Arellano Garcia from Madrid, Spain. It’s his signature style, that won recognition with a 2016 He…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
In spite of severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings, heat advisories to stay inside, and Metro track delays, we met at the front door of the GALA Hispanic Tivoli Theatre. Stage director…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:13AMMonday, June 20, 2016
The In Series takes Beethoven’s only opera, the rarely performed Fidelio, and transforms it into a symbol of freedom, a magnificently moving, awe-inspiring vision of hope and redemption t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
El Paso Blue by Hispanic playwright Octavio Solís, now making its East Coast debut at the GALA Hispanic Theatre, is a bilingual tribute to Spanglish, (with no surtitles), to the painful…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
How can an opera’s venue and staging make so much difference? It just does in this spiced up, expansive and zany remount of In Series’ Cosi Fan Tutte Goes Hollywood at the Atla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:15PMTuesday, April 12, 2016
In this mesmerizing, dreamlike, must-see GALA adaptation by Jorge Alí Triana of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’ masterpiece novella, Chronicle of a Death Foretold/Crónica de una muerte anun…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:44AMMonday, March 14, 2016
What happens when you accept all the different colors in the world as equal and beautiful? You get a rainbow. In this delightful, droll allegory set to music, El Mundo es un pañuelo/The W…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMTuesday, February 23, 2016
Welcome to the celebration of immigrants who have enriched America. The posters hanging on an upstage backdrop at Source are photos of famous composers who lived in Germany and Austria dur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:52PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Venezuelan playwright Gustavo Ott thrusts us into a 1960’s press conference. Two iconic feminists, obsessed with eternal youth, anti-ageing makeover creams and Marketing, with a capi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMTuesday, January 5, 2016
On Sunday, January 3rd, this was where it was at– with the young people, inside the Tivoli Theatre, kids and their parents wearing crowns of shiny red, green and silver, and packed the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:13PMSunday, December 27, 2015
Hispanic theatre bonds me to my family heritage. I was born in Los Angeles, California, with Latino roots that date back to Spain through the American southwest. I grew up in a decade on the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:49PMTuesday, November 17, 2015
Guys And Dolls is playing at Olney Theatre Center! Directing his first show at this venerable venue, the well-known Jerry Whiddon is raising the roof with a brilliant cast that radiates en…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:55PMTuesday, November 3, 2015
A must-see, wacky send-up, Smartphones, is a fast-paced one-act about the fear of life without a mobile phone. Written in English by Spanish playwright Emilio Williams, award-winning direct…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PMFriday, October 30, 2015
“Is that the real Don Quixote?” whispers one awe-struck, five-year-old boy sitting near me in the GALA Hispanic Theatre, as helmeted actor Roberto Colmenares, gallantly flaunting…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
In 1954, The Tender Land at the New York City Opera was a box office flop. American composer Aaron Copland, already famous for his folkloric, cutting-edge ballet scores, Billy the Kid (1938)…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMMonday, October 12, 2015
In his first entrance as Moniquito, the foolish courtier, ,Alex Alburqueque slid on his knees in an exaggerated send-up of romantic wooing, Latino-style. From that moment on, Alburqueque, wi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:46PMWednesday, October 7, 2015
Christine Evans’ Can’t Complain is an exquisitely beautiful play that cuts to the bone. Luciana Stecconi brilliant set plunges us into an in-between world of gradations of gray a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMMonday, October 5, 2015
Rembrandt’s “Self-Portrait,” (dated 1659), wearing a coat with upturned collar and crowned with a beret, looms out like an old friend on the Ford Theatre’s proscenium…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMMonday, September 21, 2015
When my husband, Donald MacLennan, a brilliant physicist whom I adored, passed away in 2014, I decided to renew his subscription to Physics Today. I felt his presence guiding my hand as I …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:09AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
Terrifying, intoxicating, brutally straight-forward and shocking, stripped to its gut-wrenching core, Federico García Lorca’s Yerma, modernized as never seen before, opens the GALA Hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMWednesday, September 9, 2015
On Labor Day weekend, Kennedy Center plaza level entry was pandemonium, noisy with skate boarders, who zigzagged and snaked in and out of a recessed pit and across a cordoned-off area. The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AM 
