Thursday, November 21, 2024
The party’s over: glitter, tinsel, and sparkling silver spell out contemporary doom in six new works at MoMA PS1.
Jasmine Gregory: Who Wants to Die for Glamour, installation view. Courtes…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, April 18, 2024
Edgelord provocations and shockingly average nakedness,
brought to you by Joanna Arnow.
Joanna Arnow as Ann and Scott Cohen as Allen in The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Pa…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, February 8, 2024
Machismo and melodrama, strange passions and criminal lives—in his adopted home country, the filmmaker was resurrected.
Fernando Soler as Quintín Guzmán (far left) in The Daughter of De…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMThursday, October 5, 2023
For Ninón Sevilla, star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, dazzling dance moves also laid bare the soul.
Ninón Sevilla as Violeta in Victims of Sin. Courtesy Film Forum.
Victims of Sin…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, June 8, 2023
Woodcraft, warcraft, witchcraft: Pietro Marcello’s latest film blends realism and fantasy to tell a meandering tale of a father, daughter,
and their makeshift family.
Juliette Jouan as J…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThursday, May 11, 2023
Friday, June 18, 2021
This paean to the trailblazing Puerto Rican actress is also a case study in the highs and lows of showbiz for a woman of color.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:53AMTuesday, February 18, 2020
Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017, the new play by Anne Washburn in its US premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, summons the dread and dysphoria of primarily white liberals followin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09AMThursday, October 24, 2019
There’s really only one thing that all of us – that everybody – has in common. Death, whether we’re ready or not, will come for us. All our failures and triumphs, our relationships a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AMTuesday, October 15, 2019
First things first for those expecting an honest adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 spy thriller of the same name. This latest production by the St. Mark’s Players might benefit from …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15PMSunday, June 2, 2019
Like Marcel Proust’s famous “madeleine moment,” Rajiv Joseph’s ambitious new play Describe the Night, in an exciting, Kafkaesque rendering by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, finds ph…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PMMonday, May 20, 2019
For a play so interested in the parameters of boredom endured by English high society, Silver Spring Stage’s rollicking production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is any…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Trained in the mystical arts, two snakes, one white and one green (puppeteered and acted by Eunice Bae and Momo Nakamura, respectively) look longingly down from their mountain top at the hus…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
The devil figure masquerading as Woland, the professor of black magic, in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita loathes skeptics, so much so that he travels around the world with the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Anna always wanted to go to Europe. See the City of Lights. Drink a pint of authentic German beer. Have a rendezvous (or two, or five) with strange men who whisper unintelligible sweet nothi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
It’s an odd thing, as a Latina here in Washington, D.C., to observe the mental wrestlings of liberal white folks struggling to come to terms with their privilege. How in muted voices they …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AMSaturday, December 8, 2018
It’s common knowledge that the female cast members of Saturday Night Live like Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones practically run the high-profile comedy sketch show. The myth that women canno…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Audience participation can so often be a painful and unwelcome component of a night at the theater, especially if, like myself, you’re prone to minor panic attacks at the thought of being …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15PMThe idea of sexual consent might seem simple: no means stop and yes means carry on. In practice, however, nothing could be further from the truth. The predicaments stemming from this issue t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PMMonday, October 22, 2018
From behind tall blank panels, a cast of characters drawn from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro emerge, dressed in all white period garb, staging vignettes of frustrated and consummated lov…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PMSaturday, October 6, 2018
Philadelphia 1939. The Great Depression is nearly over and the United States is on the brink of war. Sent out by a gossip weekly to cover the wedding of socialite Tracy Lord (Lauren Devoll),…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:41PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Stick a right-wing conspiracy theorist, a curator at a Toby jug museum, and a rookie FBI agent in the same porcelain-filled room in a no-name town in rural Ohio, then make them talk over tea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PMMonday, September 17, 2018
A wrenching agitation pervades the gray clouded confines of The Events, in which a diverse chorus group is slaughtered by a gunman. Save one person, Claire (Regina Aquino) the church chorus …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PMFriday, September 14, 2018
Long before Hannah Gadsby premiered her anti-comedy stand-up special Nanette, in which she lambasts the sexist entertainment industry and forces audiences to reckon with their own complicity…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PMThursday, August 23, 2018
Romeo & Juliet’s famous entreaty–“wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast”– is strikingly realized in the latest addition to Shakespeare Theatre Company’s yearly …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PMSaturday, August 18, 2018
Co-directors Rachel Menyuk and Eric Swartz have brought to the DC stage a truly original work with Don Cristóbal, Pointless Theatre’s last show of the 2017-2018 season. At first an obsce…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19PMThursday, July 26, 2018
If you’re a fan of double entendres and early-2000s raunchy teen movies, then chances are you’ll like The Country Co-ed, a modern re-imagining of William Wycherley’s 17th-century Resto…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10PMSunday, July 22, 2018
Written and directed by Chuck DeLong, Blowin’ Off Steam takes you bench-side into the steam room of a men’s fitness club in the suburbs of New York City, where seven painfully straight m…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AM 
