Saturday, November 6, 2021
Choreographer/dancer Edwin Aparicio mines his own childhood memories of war and migration.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:00PMSunday, October 10, 2021
At Shakespeare Theatre, this one-man play about a hero who bore witness to the Holocaust packs a wallop.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:57PMFriday, September 17, 2021
The acclaimed production of James Baldwin's classic is back for two weeks only.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:28PMSunday, September 12, 2021
Spanish actress Mabel Del Pozo brilliantly creates a portrait of a woman who struggles with but finally eludes how society would fix her.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:02PMWednesday, August 11, 2021
The famous opera festival in Cooperstown, New York, now in its 46th year, has been reimagined as a whole new adventure.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:43PMMonday, May 3, 2021
On this Kentucky Derby weekend, wondering what theatrical “horse” will nose ahead and augur well for a new world of theater when we can emerge from the pandemic, I’m placing my bet on …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:54PMTuesday, April 27, 2021
In a world where our lives are bounded by pandemic restrictions, performance and travel alike have been reduced mostly to private viewings and stay-cations. The situation has spawned experim…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:50PMMonday, April 26, 2021
Trudging up the two flights from the rainy street-level pavement to GALA Hispanic Theatre’s auditorium entrance felt like a pilgrimage. (Yes, I could have taken the elevator, but who would…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AMFriday, November 13, 2020
February 8, 2020 I sat in GALA’s historic entertainment “palace” to review Nilo Cruz’ Exquisita Agonia. It was the last time (pre-Covid) I enjoyed live theater. Nine months later, Ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMFriday, November 6, 2020
Election night 2020 IN Series opened a cantata-as-opera based on the Senate Judiciary hearings of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. It was bold enough that Artistic Director Timothy Nelson …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMMonday, October 19, 2020
I click on the link and settle in for the new show, Joy!, delivered into my living room by Synetic Theater. A special surprise “Joy” box at my side ready to be opened. Check. Glass of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMSaturday, September 26, 2020
Steam Punk as a style launches viewers into a futuristic universe while it casts a glance backwards nostalgically to a simpler, more elegant world. Miranda: A Steam Punk VR Experience create…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMMonday, September 21, 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg well earned the sobriquet “Notorious.” Everything about her seemed to live in happy contradiction. She followed her mother’s “dueling” advice: always to be a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06PMFriday, September 11, 2020
Learning about performance companies leaping into bold adventures and rediscovering the impulse of sharing their art in new creative ways has never been more welcome. Opera Lafayette, a comp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMonday, July 20, 2020
We have come to the end of Synetic Theater’s series of short videos based on Giovanni’s classic “in-the-time-of-the-plague” entertainments. Like one of those imported Masterpiece The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PMSaturday, July 18, 2020
Boccaccio’s world of The Decameron continues as cyber-theater for two more rounds of short videos by Synetic Theater’s company members and close associates. Imbedded in the program is o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMFriday, July 17, 2020
In trying to capture the times of our modern plague, the sum of the Synetic artists who have made these short performance works have shown us life as it has been reduced: clowns in cramped s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24PMTuesday, July 14, 2020
Day 5 brings us three new short works by Synetic Theater members as studies on life in the time of Covid. Kat Cárdenas-Cruz put a smile on my face with her short piece, “An Artist Struggl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMSunday, July 12, 2020
”And how shall we entertain ourselves?” the characters in Boccaccio’s 14th century story collection, The Decameron, keep asking, and each in turn tells a tale. In Day 3 of Synetic Thea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AMFriday, July 10, 2020
In Ronald Harwood’s 20th-century play about the theater, The Dresser, the title character says of his friend who was in crisis due to depression, “What saved him was an offer of work.”…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMWednesday, July 8, 2020
When society seems bound together in a single shared experience, that is often the time when a work of art resurfaces, offering itself up as metaphor and speaking directly to the times. Duri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:54PMFriday, May 15, 2020
On May 13th, Opera America launched its first annual conference online, marking the organization’s Fiftieth Anniversary. Over 1200 people had signed in when I checked the count of attendee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMMonday, May 4, 2020
Strange times have given us just that: time. Specifically, all of us have time inside to experience performances on our home screens. Individual artists and companies are scrambling to mater…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMTuesday, March 3, 2020
This first weekend in March brings together works from some extraordinary women working in exciting new directions today in the realm of ‘opera and beyond.’ In Series hosts a Women Com…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:03PMIt was inevitable. Don Giovanni would have to face the match of his life against the #MeToo movement. The problem is this production, not two years after the resplendent WNO production direc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMMonday, March 2, 2020
Opening night came on a Sunday afternoon for Samson and Delilah by Camille Saint-Saëns. It’s an opera not seen in Washington for ages, and, headlined by the ravishing J’Nai Bridges, the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMFriday, February 28, 2020
Opera Lafayette has taken on a prodigiously ambitious task in tackling the “reawakening” of Ludwig van Beethoven’s single operatic masterpiece (Fidelio) by giving us the composer’s e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMFriday, February 14, 2020
I mostly love the works brought to DC by The Kennedy Center’s World Stages. I love the sub-genre of one-person shows. I also take a serious interest and have been involved in working with …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:42PMMonday, February 10, 2020
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Nilo Cruz has come to Washington’s GALA Hispanic Theatre to direct his most recent play, and has unleashed from his prodigiously creative mind something l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMFriday, February 7, 2020
A stranger comes to town. He changes things up. He sheds a light on deep darkness. There are things the people don’t want to see but can’t look away. There is something of the shaman a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMMonday, January 27, 2020
Carey Perloff’s opening scene of the staged adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s shattering novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, moves with breathtaking beauty. Two women in one direction and a m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03PM 
