Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Millennial Notes Qui Nguyen’s “Vietgone 2” Highlights Vietnamese Immigrant Experience by Jeanette Quick I wanted to love “Poor Yella Rednecks: Vietgone 2,” the second part of Qui N…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:53AMWednesday, April 5, 2023
Millennial Notes Manuel Puig’s Gender-Bending Political Love Story Still Shines by Jeanette Quick “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” now playing at A Noise Within in Pasadena, is a complex an…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 10:13PMWednesday, March 29, 2023
Millennial Notes Mona Pirnot Brilliantly Multiplies the Meanings of Privacy by Jeanette Quick “Why does it matter if people hear our business?” “Private” by Mona Pirnot at SFBATCO is…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:35PMTuesday, February 14, 2023
Millennial Notes Michael Socrates Moran Invokes Song & Story in Mythic Spectacle by Jeanette Quick “Exodus to Eden,” Michael Socrates Moran’s ambitious new play, breaks new ground …
SOURCE: Theatrius at 07:39PMTuesday, December 6, 2022
David Strathairn Vividly Embodies Polish Hero & His Warning by Jeanette Quick In a brilliant one man show, David Strathairn dramatizes the story of Jan Karski, a young Polish Catholic di…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:30PMTuesday, September 20, 2022
Aaron Sorkin Adapts Harper Lee’s Racial Thriller for Our Time by Jeanette Quick “Before you judge someone, crawl around in their skin,” says Atticus Finch to his children in Aaron Sork…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 03:24AMSaturday, February 5, 2022
Jeanette Quick is an author of fiction, poetry, theater reviews, and thoughts on loose scraps of paper near her desk, and is working on her first novel. Her work has been published in many…
SOURCE: Theatrius at 12:32PMSaturday, July 9, 2016
The Good Death explores the tension between a brother and sister who must come to grips with their past and make hard decisions about their future. The play takes place entirely on the sto…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:09PMFriday, July 8, 2016
The short but powerful Different, Damaged, Damned explores the relationship and resentments between a father Ralph (Jeremy Keith Hunter) and his high-school age son Chamuel (Austin Farrow). …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:59AMThursday, July 7, 2016
The Real World: Kabul is a comedy based on real events of three American writers who traveled to Afghanistan in 2009 to write, of all things, a soap opera for the Muslim world’s “…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00PMWednesday, July 6, 2016
Bob Dylan and the balmy air of the Mid-Atlantic summer: the folksy voice of an era and the backwoods feel of Wolf Trap seem like they were meant to go together. However, for those fans hopin…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:48PMThursday, June 9, 2016
District Merchants, in its world premiere at Folger Theatre, is a tour de force that explores the complexity of race and identity in Reconstruction-era America. As part of Folger Theatre’s…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:04PMThursday, June 2, 2016
The East Coast concert premiere of The Hunger begins with a harsh, discordant note, immediately conveying that this will be a performance about pain. The short opera, from modern Irish comp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:59PMTuesday, December 15, 2015
An Irish Carol is an Irish twist on the holiday classic A Christmas Carol, written by one of Keegan’s own company members, Irish-born Matthew Keenan, and directed by Mark Rhea. The play pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:36PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
Scena Theatre’s comedy through the lens of small-town folk in a small Aran Islands community named Inishmaan, off the coast of Ireland. The year is 1934, and we catch a glimpse of a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:44PMThursday, October 1, 2015
Only through art do we become immortal. The Guard, commissioned by Ford’s Theatre for the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, is an original work by playwright Jessica Dickey. Jessica D…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:19PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Get ready for a performance unlike any other you’ve seen – this variety show features an award-winning troupe of professional performers focused on the weird, the quirky, and the downrig…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:34AMFriday, July 10, 2015
Exile, home, memories – these fundamentals are dreamily explored in an inventive interpretation of Argentinian playwright Aristides Vargas’ play, Our Lady of the Clouds, or Nuestra Senor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:20AMThe Last Burlesque is a fun, sexy romp with much to delight – from spirited performances, creative dance numbers, eye-catching costumes, to (of course!) good old-fashioned titillating burl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07AMSunday, June 21, 2015
Fools, staged by Parlor Room Theater at Callan Theatre, is an entertaining romp through love and ignorance in a small Ukrainian village in the late 1800s. Though the play, written by Neil Si…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:59PMFriday, May 8, 2015
The Washington Ballet‘s performance of ALICE (in wonderland) is delightful for someone like me who is not a connosseur of ballet. Here, sets and costumes change frequently, the perfor…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:56PMSaturday, April 18, 2015
Check your pre-conceived notions of a theater experience at the sidewalk at this week’s innovative Tyger at Mead Theatre Lab by banished? Productions. The interactive experience begins be…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PM 
