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UpClose: Helen Pafumi, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
A reading of Helen Pafumi’s new play Redder Blood will be help Monday, October 19th at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia featuring Ed Christian, Michael Kevin Darnall, Nanna Ingvarsson,...
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The Gin Game Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson put their cards on the...
The two characters in The Gin Game do little more than play card games and, once, (spoiler alert) dance. But they’re portrayed by James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson – with some 130 years of acting...
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UpClose: Amy Bernstein, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
RAW by Amy Bernstein opens October 22, 2015 at Venus Theatre in Laurel, MD. A Baltimore-based playwright, she has participated in Free Fall Baltimore, the Charm City Fringe Festival, Kennedy Center’s...
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The World Goes Round at Creative Cauldron
The sinewy vamp beckons your ears to step inside. What follows is a compact one act revue of infectious melodies, perfectly married to the song lyrics which could be about unbridled joy, a broken...
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Yaël Farber’s Salomé, STC at the Lansburgh Theatre
On October 13th, we were treated to the debut of a bold new work, visually stunning and emotionally powerful. Yaël Farber has conceived, adapted and directed a fitting “crown” to the Women’s Voices in...
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Pointless’s samba spectacular tells the story of Carmen Miranda
Say the name “Carmen Miranda” and immediately images of a crazy lady with a fruit bucket on her head probably pop into your brain. But there was so much more to this iconic star than the fruit. The...
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UpClose: Sandra Kammann, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Sandra Kammann’s new play, Duir-wyyd: The Dreamer’s Doorway, opens October 24, 2015 at the Silver Spring Black Box Theatre. She is a playwright, director, choreographer and cultural anthropologist, a...
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UpClose: Bill Largess as Washington Stage Guild turns 30
Bill Largess is a founding member and Artistic Director at Washington Stage Guild. A graduate of Catholic University, he has been extensively involved as an actor and director in the region for more...
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Poe at Reynolds Tavern (review)
Edgar Allan Poe. A creepy, dark cellar with low ceilings and candlelight. The ghosts of the past haunting a long-dead writer of the past. What’s not to like? Annapolis Shakespeare Company serves up a...
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Nancy Robinette’s actor’s life, from salad days to Broadway plays
Local theatre-goers heading up to New York City and checking out the Tony Award-winning Best Play of 2015 might do a double-take after looking at the program, wondering whether or not they had actually...
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The Long Way Around at Highwood Theatre
Luce and Addie. Addie and Luce. Fierce friends from high school who have traveled somewhat separate, but interweaving, paths to find themselves at a final crossroads in their tiny, small-minded...
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UpClose with the author of God’s Gypsy, opening at GALA tonight
God’s Gypsy, a play about Saint Teresa of Avila, is making a very brief stop at GALA Hispanic Theatre, Monday and Tuesday, Oct 19 and 20. The play is an adaption of the novel, Sister Teresa by Varvara...
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Isango Ensemble performs a fiery South African version of Carmen
There is a Carmen for everyone. This production of Georges Bizet’s opera is from South African townships around Capetown welded by the most spirited Isango Ensemble. They have made the work their own...
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Aaron Copeland’s The Tender Land at In Series (review)
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), Rodeo...
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Terri White says farewell with special Kennedy Center concert (review)
You might not expect a highlight of a cabaret concert to include the singer passing off her mic to the piano player, revealing a row of variously filled Makers Mark bottles, pulling out a pair of...
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The Magic Tree at Keegan Theatre (review)
The Magic Tree sounds like the title of a children’s play, but consider that the first of several times that Irish playwright Ursula Rani Sarma plays with the audience’s expectations. Some of the...
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UpClose: Susan McCully, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Susan McCully’s new play, Kerrmoor, opens October 29th, co-produced by Interrobang Theatre Company and Strand Theatre Company. She is a scholar of feminist theatre and a dramaturg, as well as a...
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Lovecraft: Nightmare Suite from Molotov Theatre Group (review)
The fear of the unknown is the greatest fear that plagues us. This is the conceit of the works of H.P. Lovecraft, and the mission statement of Molotov’s newest work, a staged adaptation of six of...
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Anu Yadav returns to Forum with ‘Capers (review)
In 2001, using a massive federal grant, the City of Washington decided to turn the Arthur Capper/ Carrollsburg Housing Project into a mixed-income community, displacing the 707 families within it. You...
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First Daughter Suite Review: Growing Up in the White House
Amy Carter is 47 years old now, but she is forever 12 in history, and also in First Daughter Suite, Michael John LaChiusa’s fanciful musical at the Public Theater. In the musical, however, unlike in...
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