Friday, August 14, 2015
A juvenile delinquent wielding a can of spray paint may not be the kind of character most people associate with fairy tales, but Paris-based director Hicham Ayouch says there’s a touch o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:53PMFriday, August 7, 2015
Sometimes a swimming pool is more than a swimming pool. Such is the case in “Diva,” Heiward Mak’s film about the Hong Kong pop-music industry. The 2012 movie repeatedly depicts charact…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:44PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
About half way through the World War II spy musical “code name: CYNTHIA,” a Washington society beauty preps for a heist. Under the eagle eye of an Allied intelligence mastermind, Betty T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:19AMFriday, July 31, 2015
In classical music, there is an exciting symbiosis between the present and the past. That, at least, is the opinion of Austrian flutist Elisabeth Möst, a champion of contemporary music who …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:16PMFriday, July 24, 2015
Joseph Vodlan remembers the moment — about 70 years ago — that he became an artist. He was 5 or so years old, and playing with figurines made from pine bark at his family’s home in Slo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:37AMFriday, July 17, 2015
Colombian-born artist Andrés Hoyos makes no bones about it: His work sends an environmental message. Relying almost exclusively on recycled materials, Hoyos creates pieces that he says are …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:13PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Rebellious characters are flouting the rules at the 2015 Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, W.Va.Now celebrating its 25th season, the prominent annual showcase for rece…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:58PMFriday, July 10, 2015
There is hope in hell — or so it seems, given the upcoming premiere of “Burning Desire to Be Touched,” a performance-art piece by the artistic duo known as Mwangi Hutter. The work is s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMThursday, July 2, 2015
Colombian curator José Roca doesn’t want visitors to bring too cerebral of a mind-set to the exhibition “Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture.�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13PMFriday, June 26, 2015
The silver jaguar carries six amethysts: one in each paw, and on its back and tail. The brooch is remarkable on its own merits, but as part of a new exhibition at the Mexican Cultural Instit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:44PMFriday, June 19, 2015
Scenic designer Paige Hathaway remembers the epiphany that led to the 31 skulls in her attic-style set for “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” at Folger Theatre. She was sitting in r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:05PMLuz San Miguel and Davit Hovhannisyan know about journeys. Born in Madrid and in Yerevan, Armenia, respectively, the two are leading dancers with the Milwaukee Ballet. This summer, they are …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:52PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
In one of the most memorable moments in “Occupied Territories,” a flawed but often arresting new theater piece, suburban America drifts into the Vietnamese jungle. The camouflage-clad bo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:11PMFriday, June 12, 2015
Fran O’Rourke doesn’t see any incompatibility between his day job — as a philosophy professor at University College Dublin — and his sideline as a singer.“Literature, philosophy, m…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:30PMThursday, June 11, 2015
If you must indulge in wishful thinking, you might as well do it on an elaborate scale, as French writer Jean Giraudoux did in his play “The Madwoman of Chaillot.” This piece of philosop…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
What a difference a friend makes. When we first meet Marjorie Taub, the eponymous Manhattanite in “The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife,” she’s despondent. As depicted by Susan Rome in T…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:42PMMonday, June 8, 2015
A satirical fantasia works to earnest ends in “Mary-Kate Olsen is in Love,” now in a Studio 2ndStage production. Mallery Avidon’s 70-minute play paints with some hallucinatory colors, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:03PMFriday, June 5, 2015
An enormous poster of the movie “Casablanca” looms over a desk as film producers Kim Johnson and Jean Michel Gilbert speak, via Skype, from Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. The post…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:02PMWednesday, June 3, 2015
It hardly seems fair. Jeb, Misa and Emilio are dealing with a blizzard that has descended on Minnesota. They also are grappling with the meaning of life and death: They have, after all, met …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:07PMFriday, May 29, 2015
Argentine writer Patricia Suárez-Cohen likes to listen to the Beatles while she’s working. The music doubtless provided welcome jolts of energy when she was writing her first musical, “…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMWednesday, May 27, 2015
It is the rare meditation on race in America that includes a parable about an exploding wading bird. But you get a crane-combustion fable in “The Shipment,” the bracingly provocative and…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:34PMMonday, May 25, 2015
What Ford's Theatre brings to the stage this month in a revival of the Samuel A. Taylor romantic comedy "is going to be a revelation," Paul Tetreault, director of the Ford's Theatre Society,…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMCaution and Mary Zimmerman do not go hand in hand. The acclaimed Chicago-based director and adaptor is known for daring undertakings: dramatizations of epics and mythology; a lyrical, gymnas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PM"Charming Billy," a slender, elegiac play having its world premiere at Round House Theatre Bethesda, muses on faith, hope, love and disappointment, but also sandwiches and tableware.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PM"Leth be normal, okay?" Count on the laughs when the mysterious Limping Man lisps this appeal in the dark comedy "Fuddy Meers." After all, he's hanging out with an amnesiac, a grandmother wh…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMWhat does glass really sound like when it shatters?
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMAdevastating theater fire. A desperate, stranded French ballet troupe. A script that suggests a Stephenie Meyer rewrite of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's " Faust ." There's sensation aplenty i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:58PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Sometimes research into ancient history requires the use of a curling iron.That’s what Katherine Schwab discovered when she turned her attention to the hairstyles of the Caryatids, the six…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:16AMFriday, May 15, 2015
You can say one thing for traveling by mule: Running out of gas is never a problem.In 2014, Spanish photojournalist Janire Nájera retraced the footsteps of trader Antonio Armijo, who had tr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PM“Who do you think polished the silverware for the Last Supper?”Issued in a saucy tone by a wild-eyed woman in black, the question invited — and got — a laugh. But the subtext of the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:42PMFriday, May 8, 2015
“How wide to let things stray — that’s the question in world music,” says composer and oud player Zach Fredman, the founder of the Epichorus, a Judeo Arabic retro-folk ensemble. You …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:16PM 
