22 stories by "Jeanette Quick"
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 Nguyen's tr…
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 and intr…
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 a wonde…
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 in bot…
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…
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 Sorkin's a…
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 …
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 s…
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). …
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 “…
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…
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 2…
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 co…
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 prem…
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 …
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 Dic…
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 downright s…
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 Senora de…
The 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 burles…
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…
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 perf…
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…