Tuesday, February 23, 2021
“For never was there a tale of more woe, than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” Who doesn’t know the tragic ending of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet? Yet we continue to be besotted …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:53AMWednesday, January 13, 2021
Hot tea is the recommended beverage for viewing Chicago-based playwright Rohnia Malik’s Unveiled, available online through January 2021 from Baltimore Theatre Project. The one-woman show i…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:50AMTuesday, October 27, 2020
Urgent times call for urgent theater. And urgent theater has been Mosaic Theater Company’s calling card since its founding — rather unexpectedly — five years ago, by artistic director/…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:22AMSaturday, March 7, 2020
On the eve of the day we learned that we still can’t elect a woman as qualified as Elizabeth Warren president, the Martha Graham Dance Company returned to the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:52AMThursday, January 30, 2020
With her green roots and sneakers that spout “fuck you,” Billie Eilish, who swept Sunday night’s pop Grammys, sings a new song for a new generation. Her 2020 teen angst recalls hardcor…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:54AMSaturday, November 16, 2019
Mark Morris dances are emphatically watchable, easily digestible, eccentric, and smartly witty. He so proficiently pairs music and dance, costume and set – with a cadre of collaborators …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10AMSaturday, October 5, 2019
What a pleasure to celebrate the centenary of modern dance master Merce Cunningham with a pair of works that demonstrates his formidable vision for dance, imbued with clarity of form and gen…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25AMThursday, July 11, 2019
Gerry is mad. Furious even. And who can blame him? He’s all set for the wedding of the … well … summer. He’s driven out the I10 from Los Angeles to Palm Springs and the expensively t…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:30PMFriday, April 5, 2019
It’s been a challenging few years for New York City Ballet, the nation’s preeminent ballet company. What with the misconduct and resignation of its ballet master in chief, subsequent mis…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:32PMWednesday, April 3, 2019
It’s too simplistic to call Bill T. Jones a choreographer, although that’s been his stock and trade for more than 40 years. This past week his Analogy unfolded as a trilogy, over three n…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:11PMSunday, February 17, 2019
Don’t think you’re going to sit back and observe if you show up at Urban Bush Women’s latest, Hair & Other Stories, which made its Washington, DC premiere this past weekend at Danc…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:42PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
A cough, a gasp, the sound of a heartbeat. A sudden flash in the darkness. These sounds and images begin “Lazarus,” the brand-new work from hip hop master Rennie Harris, which opened a g…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:45PMThursday, January 17, 2019
Don’t walk into the Kennedy Center Opera House expecting a Disney-esque, happily-ever-after retelling of the evergreen fairytale Cinderella. British director/choreographer Matthew Bourne h…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:15PMWednesday, July 25, 2018
District-based solo performer Holly Bass creates in so many media and art forms I can’t keep up with her—and I’ve been covering her for nearly a decade. Her latest devised work, a danc…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:57AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Comedy. It isn’t always pretty. And sometimes it isn’t even funny. In the case of Elan Zafir’s biographical one-man show The Unaccompanied Minor, although it’s billed as a comedy, it…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:52PMFriday, July 13, 2018
Church basements have a long and surprisingly illustrious history in the evolution of modern dance, particularly in the mid-20th-century when they were creative strongholds for iconoclastic …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:49AMFriday, June 29, 2018
Ain’t too many surprises in Ain’t Too Proud, the new jukebox musical about the supergroup The Temptations and their rise to meteoric heights. Their music defined a generation and gave vo…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:42PMMonday, June 25, 2018
“No diving. No running. Absolutely no cannonballs,” the pre-show announcement at Joe’s Movement Emporium orders. But get ready to dive deep for the world premiere of #poolparty as it u…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:26AMSaturday, June 16, 2018
The portraits hang solemnly, unmoving at the Smithsonian’s Portrait Gallery. Choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess breathes life and movement into these two-dimensional works of art with a t…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:02PMSaturday, April 28, 2018
Making the extraordinary ordinary appears to be a notion we can’t shake. If it isn’t dumbing down, it’s taking down, mashing up or just plain copying. Thursday, April 26 at the Kennedy…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:48PMWednesday, March 28, 2018
In this era of #MeToo, a review of the New York City Ballet can’t begin without noting the allegations of abuse against now-retired Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins. Late last year, th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:02PMFriday, March 23, 2018
A tapestry of poetry, chant, music, and dance drawn from a swath of the ancient Silk Road has provided vivid inspiration for influential choreographer Mark Morris. His re-envisioning of Layl…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:01PMSunday, March 18, 2018
Growing old isn’t for sissies. In South-African-born, British playwright Ronald Harwood’s smart 1999 comedy Quartet, he gently wrestles with the indignities of aging in a British senior-…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:03AMWednesday, January 31, 2018
As parts of the nation settled in to hear 45 read the script of the State of the Union address, and other parts assiduously ignored the same, balletomanes and ballet goers in the Washington …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:47PMMonday, December 4, 2017
In ink, choreographer/dancer Camille A. Brown’s final installment in her trilogy examining African-American identity, an entire history of a people is written indelibly on the bodies of h…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AMFriday, October 13, 2017
Generations of budding ballerinas have lusted after the shiny crimson satin pointe shoes in the classic 1948 film The Red Shoes. Who can resist those shoes, they make the wearer dance, and d…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:38PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Tap dancers are family. As family they gather together, catch up, trade stories, reminisce, honor their forbears and simply, yet profoundly, enjoy each others’ company. Saturday evening’…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:30PMSunday, September 10, 2017
In a week that began with the repeal of DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals – what better way to end it than with a musical about dreamers. For those children – many now …
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:40PMFriday, July 21, 2017
There’s virtually nothing a drag queen won’t say, or do, in public or private, say the Kinsey Sicks. The San Francisco-based beauty shop quartet that puts the show into show business, th…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:16PMSaturday, June 24, 2017
Baseball players take the winter off. Football players do the same in the summer. Ballet dancers are of a different breed. When their companies go on hiatus, typically in early June, they fi…
Linked From DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:20PMSunday, April 23, 2017
What does 21st-century ballet look like? For The Kennedy Center’s Ballet Across America program, principle dancer and celeb ballerina Misty Copeland, 34, and 29-year-old New York City Ball…
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