Friday, 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 12:16PMFriday, May 1, 2015
Action movies are a dime a dozen, but there can’t be too many like “Man on High Heels,” a moody, poignant and violent cop-and-gangsters flick by South Korean director Jang Jin. The 201…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:03AMThursday, April 30, 2015
The solution to climate change: more plays?In real life, probably not. But a fictional theater troupe helps humanity address a devastating drought in “The Fire and the Rain,” a marvelous…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:54PMTuesday, April 28, 2015
A puppet fire. Mirror-generated hordes. A tent that seems to be made of molten gold. These are some of the niftier effects in “Alchemia,” the striking, if gimmicky and sometimes over-sol…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:56PMTo watch Factory 449’s “Closet Land” is to undergo an unpleasant ordeal: This fact reflects credit on the artists who have mounted Radha Bharadwaj’s excruciatingly grim play about wi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:44PMFriday, April 24, 2015
On April 28, Mary-Louise Parker and Bruce Willis will host the nomination announcement for the 2015 Tony Awards. If the past is any guide, the live webcast of the event will trigger a five-w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:03PMThe performing arts have not yet finished with Mark Rothko.In recent years, Arena Stage and other theaters across the country have staged productions of “Red,” John Logan’s popular pla…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:39AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Disembodied hands — or so they seem — reach up from the floor. Sheets draped over rows of seating transform into a turbulent sea. An enigmatic pink-robed figure reinforces the brooding a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:22PMMonday, April 20, 2015
The woman’s fiercely moving hands should, by rights, be at an easel. Instead, they’re peeling and slicing a root vegetable in a bowl on her lap. As the middle-aged woman, Mariela, sits s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:10PMThe woman’s fiercely moving hands should be, by rights, at an easel. Instead, they’re peeling and slicing a root vegetable in a bowl on her lap. As the middle-aged woman, Mariela, sits u…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:15PMFriday, April 17, 2015
California’s water woes have been in the news. But with its concert at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on April 26, the Nile Project aims to direct your thoughts toward H2O in ano…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:33AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Few of us are passionate about the look of the cedilla, that squiggle beneath consonants in certain foreign words (e.g., garçon in French). But Margaret, the title character in Adam Bock’…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:44AMFriday, April 10, 2015
“For me, music is the first language of the Lord,” says Malian singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara.“You can use melody to talk about very difficult things, and it can be the only way t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:44AMThursday, April 9, 2015
Some days, it is hard enough to draft a thank you note or make salad dressing from scratch. How hard would it be to generate a more rarified entity — a ghost? That’s a question that intr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:58PMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Murder. Adultery. Real-estate shenanigans. The escapades of two floundering hit men. The unknown Elizabethan playwright — or team of playwrights — responsible for “Arden of Faversham�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AMFriday, April 3, 2015
Consider the Nationals Park appearance a warm-up for the art songs.An appointment to sing the national anthem April 4 before an exhibition game between the Washington Nationals and the New Y…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:46PMFriday, March 27, 2015
A wealth of meaning can accrue in 20 minutes: Just consider the seven-dancer image that begins and ends “Picasso Dances,” a new work by choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess that had its p…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:11PMBrazilian-born singer and cellist Dom La Nena doesn’t second-guess inspiration. “I believe in the spontaneity of the moment, of the feeling, otherwise the song loses all the freshness,�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:07PMThursday, March 26, 2015
At one point in “G-d’s Honest Truth” at Theater J, a portly man in a suit but no tie delivers a sermon about Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac. The man is Dov, an American rabbi, and…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:50PMMonday, March 23, 2015
Footnotes are not usually this much fun. At the end of “Somewhere in Quixote,” the clever and jaunty “Don Quixote” adaptation by Spain’s Ron Lalá Theater Company, the five-actor c…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:48PMSunday, March 22, 2015
On the set of the Portuguese production “Ode Marítima (Maritime Ode),” ropes and bollards evoke ships moored to a wharf. But there’s nothing fettered about the lyricism in this stage …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:33PMFriday, March 20, 2015
Piano virtuoso Jan Lisiecki is about to leave his teen years behind. And although the Polish Canadian musician may not know what gifts he’ll be getting for his 20th birthday on March 23, h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PMFor a moment, the stage was a study in movement and stasis. Two dancers in orange tops and spotted leggings had locked shoulders, as if wrestling in a standing position. From the angle of th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:33PMThursday, March 19, 2015
The characters in the wistful Brazilian play “O Jardim (The Garden)” occasionally refer to plants that have grown in the eponymous patch of greenery — a mango tree, a cherry tree that …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:05PMWednesday, March 18, 2015
To conceal misbehavior, try dressing up as a devil. That’s the solution adopted by two would-be philanderers in Teatro de La Abadía’s ebullient “Entremeses.” The Madrid company has …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:38PMMonday, March 16, 2015
“Every time I take a sip of this, a polar bear comes back to life!” writer/performer Chris Thorpe says brightly as he prepares to swig from a glass of salt water in the quirky, conversat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:14AMFriday, March 13, 2015
“Why the dickens did we not think of this earlier?”In 2011, that thought crossed the mind of Zakir Hussain, the renowned tabla performer and world-music icon. He and several other virtuo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:31PMThursday, March 12, 2015
Pointless Theatre’s “Doctor Caligari” bristles with eerie images, but one of the most resonant ones involves a police station. We’re in a German town whose black-and-white, skewed-an…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:30PMSunday, March 8, 2015
The Portuguese company Mundo Perfeito assumes theatergoers are educated types. Making a U.S. debut at the Kennedy Center, as part of the Iberian Suite: Global Arts Remix festival, the troupe…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:45PMFriday, March 6, 2015
Pastamaking. Franz Kafka’s “The Trial.” Yes, there is a common denominator. Both have inspired the highly regarded Italian photographer Francesco Nonino, whose work is being showcased …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:23PMThursday, March 5, 2015
“Bless this show! Bless this show!”The performer in the red skirt and top called out those heartfelt words — actually, the Cape Verdean equivalents — in the opening moments of “Con…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:38PM 
