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Monday, September 4, 2023

Nilo Cruz on love, compassion, and ‘Bathing in Moonlight,’ at GALA by Deryl Davis

In a pointed and personal Q&A, the Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright shares why he wrote about a priest's lapse from celibacy. By DERYL DAVIS

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 03:14PM

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Flying V nurtures development of Tess Rowan’s ‘Static: Noise of a New Musical’ by Deryl Davis

A man walks into a bar. Let’s call him Navi, and let’s say he’s the research and development director of a small Silver Spring–based theater company — we’ll call it Flying V — …

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 08:48PM

Friday, July 14, 2023

‘Spiritus/Virgil’s Dance’ in rep at Contemporary American Theater Festival by Deryl Davis

A character named Virgil relates their awakening to the preciousness of life.

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 09:30AM

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

‘Huge themes are the proper domain of theater’: a Q&A with José Rivera by Deryl Davis

The award-winning playwright and screenwriter on why he writes about life, death, and the soul.

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 12:25PM

Lyrical mini epiphanies in ‘Sonnets for an Old Century’ at Spooky Action Theater by Deryl Davis

A ritualistic tour of the afterlife through the cavernous spaces and dark corridors of a church.

SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 07:32AM

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Glam rocks’ last stand this weekend. Nero/Pseudo closes at Fort Fringe by Deryl Davis

Consider this: If the Emperor Nero really did fiddle while Rome burned, he might have been playing one of his own compositions (albeit in a distinctly minor key). That’s a supposition one …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:02PM

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Forgiveness and Forum’s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Deryl Davis

- These interviews were conducted before the attack on cast member Frank Britton on Monday night - Jesus, Judas Iscariot and Mother Teresa walk into a bar . . . Actually, a courtroom, in P…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:00PM

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Freud’s Last Session by Deryl Davis

We’re suckers for a good match up: Frazier versus Ali, Lincoln versus Douglas, Celtics versus Lakers . . . C. S. Lewis versus Sigmund Freud? The latter would surprise many of us, who would…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:40PM

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

The Vaclav Havel Project: Vanek Unleashed and Unveiling by Deryl Davis

Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s spirited, quirky The Vaclav Havel Project offers delightful commentary on the perennial question of the artist’s role in society. When that artist is for…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:28PM

Friday, May 2, 2014

Tom Story on directing Moth by Deryl Davis

Veteran D.C. actor Tom Story describes Moth, a tale of high school bullying and its violent repercussions closing this weekend at Studio Theatre’s 2ndStage, as the kind of play he would ha…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22AM

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Cinderella: The Remix – busting the fairy tale at Imagination Stage by Deryl Davis

Hip-hop has gotten a bad rap, according to Psalmayene 24 (Psalm), the writer and director behind Cinderella: The Remix, the final installment of a three-part Hip-Hop Children’s Trilogy run…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50AM

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Once on This Island by Deryl Davis

Once on this Island, the diverting Caribbean-themed musical running at Olney Theatre Center through May 4, is more than just a pastel-colored stroll through island culture to a calypso beat.…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:00PM

Friday, April 11, 2014

Arguendo – Elevator Repair Service putting on the Supremes by Deryl Davis

Twelve Angry Men it is not. In that serious courtroom drama from the 1950s, twelve – yes, angry – sequestered jurors debate in real time the guilt or innocence of a man suspected of homo…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AM

Monday, March 17, 2014

La Muerte y La Doncella – Death and the Maiden – at World Stages by Deryl Davis

Is justice contextual? Does it mean one thing for a nation recovering from decades of brutalizing dictatorship and another for the individual who suffered that brutalization? And how does th…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AM

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