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Thursday, July 12, 2018

Review: ‘Berta, Berta’ at the Contemporary American Theater Festival by Andrew Walker White

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” –William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun. Of the many great moments in the late August Wilson’s Twentieth Century cycle, the most po…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:16AM

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Review: ‘The Cake’ at the Contemporary American Theater Festival by Andrew Walker White

The Contemporary American Theatre Festival is off to a rocking start, and with the local premiere of Bekah Brunstetter’s ripped-from-the-Supreme-Court-blotter comedy The Cake, the Festival…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PM

Sunday, May 27, 2018

What To Expect From This Year’s Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF) by Andrew Walker White

Ah, summer – that fabled time of fireflies and lemonade stands, seersucker suits with wilting collars, tubing along a quiet stream, and of course — theatre. Live theatre. The …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:02AM

Monday, October 23, 2017

Review: ‘Electra’ at 4615 Theatre Company by Andrew Walker White

Back in ancient times, tragedy was prized for its cathartic experience; fear, rage, pity, the whole range of human emotions would run through you, and on a grand scale, too, with thousands p…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:03PM

Monday, September 25, 2017

Review: The In Series: Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ at the D.C. Scottish Rite Temple by Andrew Walker White

If you’re a Mozart fan – and if you aren’t, you should be – you probably have your favorite ‘conspiracy theory’ about why the composer met his untimely death at the age of 35. Th…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:51AM

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Opinion: Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare and the Fine Art of Dissent by Andrew Walker White

It’s a classic art-imitating-life-imitating-art situation: to make a production relevant, the director decks out the cast in modern dress to create the illusion that Shakespeare was writin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:16PM

Monday, June 5, 2017

Review: ‘Doubt: A Parable’ at SeeNoSun OnStage by Andrew Walker White

We live in a world where self-righteous anger is the new god. It’s getting to the point where we can barely shift our torches and pitchforks aside long enough to tweet or post on Facebook.…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:51PM

Monday, April 17, 2017

Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at McLean Community Players by Andrew Walker White

Spring has sprung, the dogwoods are in full flower, and there’s a truly delicious cat-fight to be had in McLean—take my word for it. Now that the solemnities of the season have been prop…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22AM

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Review: ‘Three Sisters’ at The Studio Theatre by Andrew Walker White

As improbable as it may sound, the plays of Anton Chekhov are vivid proof that there is such a thing as joyful melancholy. You can commune with his characters’ misfortunes and acknowledge …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:00AM

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Review: ‘Bigoudi’ at Atlas Performing Arts Center by Andrew Walker White

Is it just me or do the French have a way of taking the most mundane, everyday objects and making poetry out of them? Consider the humble plastic hair-curler, those tiny, porous tubes that …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:51PM

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