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Review: Fringe favorite Brian Feldman’s #txtshow (on the internet)
“If the performance sucks, it is 100% your fault, divided by the number of people here.” So the audience was informed toward the end of #txtshow (on the internet), which I experienced last night via...
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Recommended shows to catch this weekend
May 22, 2020 Arena Stage Free View below or view later Arena Stage adds filmmaker to its accomplishments with May 22, 2020, a filmed docudrama, directed by Arena Stage Artistic Director Molly Smith,...
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Review: The illusions we build for ourselves. Round House Theatre’s...
Homebound’s episode nine, “Refuge” begins with poetry. And dance—the hazy figure of a woman in her living room moving to the sound of her own voice as the camera cuts to Maboud pulling an old poem,...
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Review: And So We Come Forth. Richard Nelson’s Apple family, still in...
The Apple family is back again, on another Zoom call. After the triumphant return in April of writer and director Richard Nelson’s Apple Family series with What Do We Need To Talk About, which seemed...
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Stories that reveal who we are. Digital theatre to watch this week
Not all the fireworks are in the air. These theatrical works blaze as brightly and linger longer. Hamilton Disney+ $6.99 for one month subscription Click to subscribe The original Broadway cast, filmed...
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Hamilton, one of the most dazzling leaps from stage to screen ever
Health experts say to avoid crowds and large gatherings this holiday weekend and during the current COVID-19 surge. As if you needed another reason to stay inside and celebrate the red, white and blue...
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Review: Les Blancs (The Whites), National Theatre stream of Lorraine...
Lorraine Hansberry’s third and final Broadway play, which is being presented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National Theatre, is set...
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Baltimore Center Stage’s season starts Jan 2021 with new plays and remodeled...
Will the disruptions we are experiencing in this annus horribilis catapult us into a new world next year? If so, Baltimore Center Stage will be ready for it, with three world premieres and a new take...
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Review: Round House Theatre’s Homebound ends with “Reopening”
At first glance, the title of Homebound’s final episode, “Reopening,” seems misleading. As we all know, America’s state by state reopenings have been a set of fits and starts leading to re-closings in...
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First Equity-approved shows open this summer in the Berkshires. Any hope for...
Actors Equity has greenlighted two live productions in the Berkshires this summer. While there have been some non-Equity performances around the country, this is the first approved by the union of...
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Review: Synetic’s artists interpret three stories from 14th century plague...
When society seems bound together in a single shared experience, that is often the time when a work of art resurfaces, offering itself up as metaphor and speaking directly to the times. During the last...
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Review: Synetic Theater’s The Decameron, Day Two
In Ronald Harwood’s 20th-century play about the theater, The Dresser, the title character says of his friend who was in crisis due to depression, “What saved him was an offer of work.” Isn’t that the...
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Tune in and listen up. This week’s list of recommended shows and podcasts
Ride Share by Reginald Edmund Produced by Black Lives Black Words International Project July 9 – 12 $16.96 Click for tickets Ride Share follows an young African American Uber Driver as a series of...
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The Deep Blue Sea Review: Helen McCrory’s stunning performance of a woman...
On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory’s performance makes it a prism — multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant – in the National Theatre’s 2016 production of...
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Review: Synetic Theater’s The Decameron, Day Three. From somber to sexy
”And how shall we entertain ourselves?” the characters in Boccaccio’s 14th century story collection, The Decameron, keep asking, and each in turn tells a tale. In Day 3 of Synetic Theater’s streamed...
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Review: The Few. Samuel D. Hunter’s entertaining play about loneliness
Watching Gideon Glick’s expressive face in The Few– elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned — is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Play-PerView’s no-frills...
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Review: Synetic Theater’s The Decameron, Day 4.
Day 4 of Synetic Theater’s series of short pieces devised by members of the company’s roster of artists shows much of the same agility and demonstrable translation into forms of physical theater from a...
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From a Senegal beach, Dancing at Dusk to Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
A near-weekly ritual has embedded itself in the news cycle since the beginning of social distancing measures. Following each weekend, photos of beachgoers crowded together on the shore will plaster CNN...
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Review: Synetic Theater’s The Decameron, Day 5, a silent trio of humor and noir
Day 5 brings us three new short works by Synetic Theater members as studies on life in the time of Covid. Screen capture of Kat Cárdenas-Cruz, Synetic Theater’s The Decameron, Day 5. Kat Cárdenas-Cruz...
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Mosaic cancels Fall season; Ari Roth takes a sabbatical
DC’s Mosaic Theater Company will not produce its Fall schedule of plays, Board Chair Bill Tompkins announced in a press release which DC Theatre Scene received today. “Conditions remain too uncertain...
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