“I am Nijinsky!” The actor Primoz Bezjak repeatedly declares, one moment bathing in glory as the acclaimed god of dance, and the next wailing in pain as that integration of self crumbl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:27AMTurns out, Monday night, the Big Theatres and the Little Theatres of Washington were lying down together after all – despite rumors to the contrary. Let’s just say a lot got bared at Sig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PMA season programmed under an umbrella theme can feel a strain, but Artistic and General Director Francesca Zambello has pulled off a clean sweep of wins at Glimmerglass Festival this year, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:59AMIf Wagner’s creation of the Dutchman signifies a true Romantic anti-hero then in this season’s musical we are asked to consider Arthur in Camelot to be a twentieth-century counterpart. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMElegance, idealism, imagination, suffering. These are the words I take away from Glimmerglass Festival 2013. It would be wrong of me not to mention one last show, which for me may have stood…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08AMMy introduction to this year’s Glimmerglass Festival featured a moving kaleidoscope of “pop” bubbles projected on the theatre’s curtain. The cheerful light show accompanied the overt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AMSaturday evening was all Halloween and hardware at Landless Theatre Company’s prog-metal production of Frankenstein. In this, the company’s most ambitious show to date, the cast was ably…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:39AMWashington National Opera has given us a “champ” of a new music-theatre work that is as approachable and inspiring as the great American Muhammed Ali himself. Its creators have bypassed …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:50PMTom Morris is best known for being the director of War Horse, a show that stampeded its way to critical and popular glory on Broadway. He has just returned to this side of the Atlantic with …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMThis was my third time to the city, my second to Spoleto USA. This year, the trees of Charleston were what first grabbed my attention. These great ancient creatures with their long snake-lik…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMMirenka Cechová returns to Washington for three performances only at the Atlas Performing Arts Center with her critically-acclaimed Tantehorse: physical mime theatre. This ensemble is known…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMWhat did you do Mother’s Day? Just think, you could’ve seen popping, locking, breaking and tutting by some of the area’s best dancers in the first regional production of the hot B…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PM“Can you dance? Can you sing? Well, whad’ya got?” In Keegan Theatre’s version, it’s the short balding guy who shows the folk at the audition, upstage, mind you, what God has given …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMOpera Lafayette bounded onto the stage at the Terrace Theatre this week offering a “post-modern” baroque opera that was both elegant and fresh. Artistic Director Ryan Brown teamed up w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMIf relationships can be traced in the landscape of two joined bodies, then the two plays in Pas De Deux explore those landscapes with an honesty that is both mesmerizing and, at times, distu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMI come away from this taut opera with powerful images indelibly planted in my brain. I can’t shake the mysterious, disturbing, and yet powerful atmosphere that has been created in Paul’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:38PMWhen in The Lady Becomes Him, the caption board goes on strike (it’s “union!”), the actors must resort to using English, Italian, and American Sign Language to wage war for love, and t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMWallenstein’s director Michael Kahn, poet laureate Robert Pinsky who adapted the original work by Schiller, and lead actor Steve Pickering, all share with the central figure of Wallenstein…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:03AMFrancesca Zambello, the newly appointed Artistic Director of the Washington National Opera, sits in an emerald raw silk jacket, checking on emails. She is surrounded but yet oblivious to t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:53AMPeople in the opera world travel miles to hear a voice like Angela Meade’s. Many made such a pilgrimage Saturday night. In the soprano’s debut in the fully-staged production of Norma a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMDirector Stefan Larsson and this astonishing ensemble from Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre, visiting briefly as part of the Nordic Cool Festival, have created a moveable feast. Fann…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:28PMIn the second act, a massive column opens like a giant jewelry box to reveal the quintessential material girl in a glittering gown, worldly as Jessica Chastain on the Oscar runway. Behind …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMThey call the festival Nordic Cool, but someone must have planted a stick of dynamite at the Kennedy Center. Hedda Gabler at times is so “hot” that it blasts away at any conception th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:13PMSynetic Theatre has delivered a blockbuster with its almost cinematic rendition of The Tempest. Think Lord of the Rings mixed with scenes from James Cameron’s Titanic. Shakespeare’s mast…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PMExperiencing Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill is like taking a remarkable journey across time and space, encountering some of the great literary giants of the 20th century and colliding wi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMSome actors push their virtuosic energy boldly across the proverbial footlights, as if demanding audience members to listen, all but grabbing them by the throats. Then there are others who h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMTuesday, temperatures in Washington rose unseasonably high, and that night The Keegan Theatre fairly sizzled with one of the hottest interpretations – and darkest — of the musical …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMIf you haven’t heard that Washington has become a great music-theatre center, you haven’t been paying attention. Offerings across the spectrum of styles keep on increasing in breadth and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:35PMThere’s an early moment in Million Dollar Quartet when Jerry Lee Lewis is pumping his downstage leg which seems attached to a perpetual spring while he paws the piano – more like a b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PM‘Tis the season when many daddies and mommies want to spoil their little girls, by taking them to that special performance, filling their eyes and ears with enough magical sparkle to f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:01AMHurricane Sandy caused a rare 2 day shutdown for Broadway theatres starting Monday, Oct 29. Despite a massive blackout, and the closure of mass transit and tunnels, actors, stagehands and …
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