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Thursday, February 8, 2024

Buñuel in Mexico by Beatrice Loayza

Machismo and melodrama, strange passions and criminal lives—in his adopted home country, the filmmaker was resurrected. Fernando Soler as Quintín Guzmán (far left) in The Daughter of De…

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Thursday, October 5, 2023

Victims of Sin by Beatrice Loayza

For Ninón Sevilla, star of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, dazzling dance moves also laid bare the soul. Ninón Sevilla as Violeta in Victims of Sin. Courtesy Film Forum. Victims of Sin…

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

Scarlet by Beatrice Loayza

Woodcraft, warcraft, witchcraft: Pietro Marcello’s latest film blends realism and fantasy to tell a meandering tale of a father, daughter, and their makeshift family. Juliette Jouan as J…

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Thursday, May 11, 2023

Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt by Beatrice Loayza

A centenary exhibition in Paris honors the French actress who invented the concept of the global star.

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Friday, June 18, 2021

‘Rita Moreno’ Documentary Review: An Icon’s Growing Pains by Beatrice Loayza

This paean to the trailblazing Puerto Rican actress is also a case study in the highs and lows of showbiz for a woman of color.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Despite killer performances, ‘Shipwreck’s’ political message falters by Beatrice Loayza

Shipwreck: A History Play About 2017, the new play by Anne Washburn in its US premiere at Woolly Mammoth Theater Company, summons the dread and dysphoria of primarily white liberals followin…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:09AM
Thursday, October 24, 2019

Shakespeare Theater Company’s ‘Everybody’ flirts with death, but falls short of greatness by Beatrice Loayza

There’s really only one thing that all of us – that everybody – has in common. Death, whether we’re ready or not, will come for us. All our failures and triumphs, our relationships a…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:45AM
Tuesday, October 15, 2019

‘The 39 Steps’ by the St. Mark’s Players is a delightfully crafty, if uneven production by Beatrice Loayza

First things first for those expecting an honest adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 spy thriller of the same name. This latest production by the St. Mark’s Players might benefit from …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:15PM
Sunday, June 2, 2019

Review: ‘Describe the Night’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company by Beatrice Loayza

Like Marcel Proust’s famous “madeleine moment,” Rajiv Joseph’s ambitious new play Describe the Night, in an exciting, Kafkaesque rendering by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, finds ph…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:33PM
Monday, May 20, 2019

Review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ at Silver Spring Stage by Beatrice Loayza

For a play so interested in the parameters of boredom endured by English high society, Silver Spring Stage’s rollicking production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is any…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:57PM
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Review: ‘The White Snake’ by Constellation Theatre Company by Beatrice Loayza

Trained in the mystical arts, two snakes, one white and one green (puppeteered and acted by Eunice Bae and Momo Nakamura, respectively) look longingly down from their mountain top at the hus…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:04PM
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Review: ‘The Master and Margarita’ at Constellation Theatre by Beatrice Loayza

The devil figure masquerading as Woland, the professor of black magic, in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita loathes skeptics, so much so that he travels around the world with the…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:22PM
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Review: ‘The Baltimore Waltz’ at the Keegan Theatre by Beatrice Loayza

Anna always wanted to go to Europe. See the City of Lights. Drink a pint of authentic German beer. Have a rendezvous (or two, or five) with strange men who whisper unintelligible sweet nothi…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:26PM
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Review: ‘Admissions’ at Studio Theatre by Beatrice Loayza

It’s an odd thing, as a Latina here in Washington, D.C., to observe the mental wrestlings of liberal white folks struggling to come to terms with their privilege. How in muted voices they …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AM
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Review: ‘She The People’ at the Second City at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company by Beatrice Loayza

It’s common knowledge that the female cast members of Saturday Night Live like Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones practically run the high-profile comedy sketch show. The myth that women canno…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:07PM
Thursday, October 25, 2018

Review: ‘The Fever’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company by Beatrice Loayza

Audience participation can so often be a painful and unwelcome component of a night at the theater, especially if, like myself, you’re prone to minor panic attacks at the thought of being …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:15PM

Review: ‘Actually’ by Theater J at Arena Stage by Beatrice Loayza

The idea of sexual consent might seem simple: no means stop and yes means carry on. In practice, however, nothing could be further from the truth. The predicaments stemming from this issue t…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:52PM
Monday, October 22, 2018

Review: ‘Figaro in Four Quartets’ by the In Series by Beatrice Loayza

From behind tall blank panels, a cast of characters drawn from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro emerge, dressed in all white period garb, staging vignettes of frustrated and consummated lov…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:53PM
Saturday, October 6, 2018

Review: ‘The Philadelphia Story’ at St. Mark’s Players by Beatrice Loayza

Philadelphia 1939. The Great Depression is nearly over and the United States is on the brink of war. Sent out by a gossip weekly to cover the wedding of socialite Tracy Lord (Lauren Devoll),…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:41PM
Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Review: ‘The Last American Hammer’ by UrbanArias by Beatrice Loayza

Stick a right-wing conspiracy theorist, a curator at a Toby jug museum, and a rookie FBI agent in the same porcelain-filled room in a no-name town in rural Ohio, then make them talk over tea…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:58PM
Monday, September 17, 2018

Review: ‘The Events’ by Theater Alliance at the Anacostia Playhouse by Beatrice Loayza

A wrenching agitation pervades the gray clouded confines of The Events, in which a diverse chorus group is slaughtered by a gunman. Save one person, Claire (Regina Aquino) the church chorus …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PM
Friday, September 14, 2018

Review: ‘Turn Me Loose’ at Arena Stage by Beatrice Loayza

Long before Hannah Gadsby premiered her anti-comedy stand-up special Nanette, in which she lambasts the sexist entertainment industry and forces audiences to reckon with their own complicity…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:46PM
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Review: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Free For All by Beatrice Loayza

Romeo & Juliet’s famous entreaty–“wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast”– is strikingly realized in the latest addition to Shakespeare Theatre Company’s yearly …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:03PM
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Review: ‘Don Cristóbal’ at Pointless Theatre by Beatrice Loayza

Co-directors Rachel Menyuk and Eric Swartz have brought to the DC stage a truly original work with Don Cristóbal, Pointless Theatre’s last show of the 2017-2018 season. At first an obsce…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:19PM
Thursday, July 26, 2018

2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Country Co-ed’ by Beatrice Loayza

If you’re a fan of double entendres and early-2000s raunchy teen movies, then chances are you’ll like The Country Co-ed, a modern re-imagining of William Wycherley’s 17th-century Resto…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:10PM
Sunday, July 22, 2018

2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Blowin’ Off Steam’ by Beatrice Loayza

Written and directed by Chuck DeLong, Blowin’ Off Steam takes you bench-side into the steam room of a men’s fitness club in the suburbs of New York City, where seven painfully straight m…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:31AM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards