Wednesday, April 4, 2012
It’s a miracle this play exists. The Oscar-winning 1954 movie On the Waterfront, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, has reached iconic status as a Mob violence fl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMFriday, March 16, 2012
Last May, when The 3 Rascals (A3Vidos) performed their rioplatense cafe concert for Teatro de la Luna, the moon was at its brightest in twenty years. Comedian Petru Valenski was an unforge…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:30PMFriday, March 9, 2012
From a blackout on stage, we hear her voice: “I am the most important person in my boss-lady’s life.” A musical fanfare resounds from overhead. Ta-dah! Lights come up cente…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMFriday, March 2, 2012
Five madcap players from Spain fire up wholesome, exciting ‘theatre with a capital T,’ for this weekend’s addition to The Moon’s Embrace, Teatro de la Luna’s ne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:31AMFriday, February 24, 2012
Why do they keep crossing the border? Slide projections of hate-graffiti flash by on a back wall screen: “We Are Against Immigrants,” “Get out, Nicaraguans,” “I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMTuesday, February 14, 2012
Nilo Cruz’ exquisite verbal symphony about the transforming power of literature simmers with surprising moment-to-moment vitality, thanks to this new Spanish interpretation of the 2003…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AMMonday, February 6, 2012
When the lights come up, Death, impersonated by an ominous, stone-faced Matthew Pauli, stands center stage, softly playing a ukulele. Death, who is biding his time, often grinning, even leer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AMFriday, November 18, 2011
Think of the present day Arab Spring. In 1868 Spain, public dissent was in the air. The revolutionary fervor, called La Gloriosa (Glorious Revolution) led to the overthrow of Queen Isabella …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AMFriday, November 11, 2011
“I’ve been dying for a drink,” says Young Woman (Daniela Alvarado). That’s scene one’s startling first line that unreels Venezuelan playwright Enrique Salas’ glib dialogue. When …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMFriday, November 4, 2011
We could all be going through airport security instead of being ushered onto a black box stage where we are about to become part of an art-making process. “Please come in. Leave your belon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:17AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Ecuadorean Peky Andino sheds new light on the Greek myth of Medea as the child-killing mother who gets away with murder. The playwright/poet, who also directs, changes Medea into a sympathe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AMFriday, October 21, 2011
Denise Duncan, a new voice from Costa Rica, knows the issues of immigration first-hand. Her play, Latinas, premiering in Teatro de la Luna’s International Festival of Hispanic Theater, is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:02PMTuesday, October 18, 2011
If you need relief from the news and the economy, here’s an aspirin on an elegant platter. Staged in the elegant mini-opera house of the GALA Tivoli Theatre, the In Series’ Love Potion #…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:50AMFriday, October 14, 2011
Love! How do you define it? An insane passion kept Lope de Vega (1562-1635) churning out plays, sometimes a play a day. Nothing could stop this 17th century genius, once called “a monster …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:57AMThursday, September 22, 2011
From the get-go, it’s do or die. Mona Martínez, as Carmela, and Diego Mariani, as Paulino, are as skittish as if dancing in front of a firing squad. Thanks to these two breathtaking theat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
The rap on the wrap-up of the 2010/2011 Hispanic Theatre season in Washington D.C. is that as far as audiences are concerned, GALA Hispanic Theatre and Teatro de la Luna must be doing someth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:20AMThursday, July 21, 2011
Andy Warhol played the deadpan fool but was nobody’s fool. The pop artist is still making money after death. One of his self-portraits sold for $38.4 million in a bidding war at an auction…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMFriday, July 15, 2011
The reversal in wording of Taming of the Shrew is not so much for a feminist message as for opening our minds. Get set for a bracing cocktail with a blast of Shakespeare’s bawdy at the Thr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AMTuesday, July 12, 2011
In Gore Vidal’s rarely mounted sci-fi, political satire, well-timed pyrotechnics have to run as smoothly as last week’s shuttle launch, and actors must have rapid-fire, elegant delivery.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:16PMWednesday, June 29, 2011
Roll the clock back to Britain’s glorious Gilded Age of 1908 when Kenneth Grahame dreamed up this rambling adventure for his little son about animals with human traits and the importance o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:23AMTuesday, June 14, 2011
Shake those hips and roll those shoulders loose. Viva Peru! Vicky Leyva, a.k.a. “The Mulatta Flower of Peru,” dances barefoot, sings folklore straight from an impassioned heart and l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AMThursday, May 26, 2011
Playwright Tennessee Williams wrote the truth as he saw it. By having the courage to share his own troubled personal life, he revolutionized American theater.To celebrate the 100th birthday …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMMonday, May 23, 2011
Spanish playwright Gracia Morales transports us into a dream world so magically real, so filled with painful love, you have to remind yourself to breathe. A dressmaker and her daughter alleg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMThursday, May 5, 2011
Do we really need the British monarchy? As if on cue, The Washington Stage Guild’s The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, one of George Bernard Shaw’s most challenging political satir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:02AMThursday, April 21, 2011
The Teatro de Parla Youth Company of Spain delivers a powerful blast from the past. On the backs of black t-shirts worn by three actors, white print spells out: GUERRA (war), ENFERMEDAD (dis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:56PMThursday, April 14, 2011
Venezuelan playwright Gustavo Ott confronts us with close encounters of the domestic-violent kind. Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians (Divorciadas, evangelicas y vegetarianas), an access…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:21AMWednesday, April 6, 2011
After a resounding success in March with WAM2, In Series Artistic Director Carla Hubner takes another daring leap by bringing together the unexpected. Now back on home turf in the more intim…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:30PMTuesday, March 22, 2011
The full moon appeared the biggest and brightest in 20 years last weekend when The 3 Rascals (A3vidos) performed at Teatro de la Luna. The moon in its orbit arriving at its closest point to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:54AMFriday, March 11, 2011
Cabaret artist Graciela Rodriguez from Uruguay has a lot to say about the battle of the sexes. Why do women fall in love with men who are jerks, fools, idiots, and dorks and make them suffer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AMThursday, March 10, 2011
A Ballet and Opera Double-Thrill WAM2! (Wolgang Amadeus Mozart) has found an apt locale for making art; not war. It’s upstairs in the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where downstairs the Int…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:47AMSunday, March 6, 2011
A Bilingual Sci-Fi Latino Noir Performance You don’t have to be a Trekkie to understand the Latino sci-fi part. An adroit performer and lucid writer, Jose Torres-Tama bravely takes us to t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PM 
