Thursday, 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 01:38PMFriday, February 27, 2015
“Bolivia is a very unique place — in America, and on Earth,” says Piotr Nawrot, a Polish-born musicologist and Catholic priest. Nawrot has helped draw attention to thousands of pages o…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:59AMFriday, February 20, 2015
Estonian indie rockers Ewert Sundja and Erki Pärnoja remember when getting a gig in Latvia, Estonia’s next-door neighbor, was a huge deal. It was early 2010, and their band, Ewert and the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:58AMTuesday, February 17, 2015
This high-spirited dance is part prank, part street fight. The woman in the flared party dress and the guy in motorcycle-gang attire are twisting and bopping to 1950s rock, but a pugnacious …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:50PMFriday, February 13, 2015
Take great care when filming a story that touches on politics — a principle Israeli director Eran Riklis was ever mindful of while crafting “Dancing Arabs.”“The days of political, is…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:14PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
“Life is motion. Forward motion.” That philosophy, expressed by an adventurous character named Ada Ann, becomes a leitmotif in “Last of the Whyos,” a play receiving a world premiere …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:39PM“Life is motion. Forward motion.” That philosophy, expressed by an adventurous character named Ada Ann, becomes a leitmotif in “Last of the Whyos,” a play receiving a world premiere …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMTuesday, February 10, 2015
If Shakespeare’s Prospero and Othello ever found time to hang out, they surely would commiserate about the fickleness of fortune. After all, Prospero ruled as Duke of Milan before his brot…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:19PMFriday, February 6, 2015
No one expects musicians to replace the United Nations any time soon. Still, musical visionary Naoyuki Miura has geopolitical hopes for a round of concerts featuring three traditional instru…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:32PMThursday, February 5, 2015
‘Keep breathing, everybody!” director Timothy Douglas says affably as an actor puts down a prop machete in a rehearsal room at Arena Stage. It’s the lead-up to Arena’s production of …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:19AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Don’t judge a book by its cover. Follow the Golden Rule. These tried-and-true maxims implicitly echo through “Half Life (a zombie loveletter for no one),” a rough-hewn theatrical parab…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:19PMFriday, January 30, 2015
The southern belle in the white ruffled gown is reliving better days. In particular, she is recalling a carriage ride with her husband, who at the time seemed unwontedly cheerful, she recall…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:12PMLike a lover yearning for her beloved, the human soul longs to unite with the divine. That idea comes into play in “Song of the Jasmine,” the bharatanatyam dance work scheduled to visit …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:49AMFriday, January 23, 2015
Cross-dressing. Romantic intrigue. An elopement with violent consequences. There’s no lack of sensational material in “Los empeños de una casa,” a comedy from the Spanish Golden Age b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:29PMWednesday, January 21, 2015
This squalid apartment is confined and cluttered, with papers and other possessions piled on the floor and even the stove. Sweat stains darken the back of the sofa, where Charlie, the apartm…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:01PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1902 novella “The Hound of the Baskervilles” is known for its twisty plot involving Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson. The tale also is known for it…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:41AMIf you want to understand the music of the Austrian contemporary-folk duo Ramsch & Rosen, start by contemplating that alliterative moniker. In German, “Ramsch & Rosen” means “j…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:30AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Theater is a confident art form in the hands of dramatist Madhuri Shekar. Her comedy “In Love and Warcraft” pokes fun at the video game industry, chronicling the travails of a college st…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:44PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
You might not expect a haircut to carry such an emotional charge. It’s late at night in a dorm room at Charles R. Drew Prep, an all-male, historically African American boarding school, and…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:36PMFriday, January 9, 2015
At a computer in Bamako, Mali, Manny Ansar couldn’t help smiling. A reporter had asked by e-mail whether Ansar — the co-founder and director of Mali’s Festival in the Desert — had se…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:07PMMonday, January 5, 2015
Sebastian Cruttwell is a cantankerous intellectual snob with serious domestic failings and a case of chronic egotism. He does, on the other hand, have a way with a quip. Neurotically attenti…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:54PMFriday, January 2, 2015
What’s the connection between slasher flicks and the art of M.C. Escher? Both inspired Iranian writer-director Shahram Mokri’s “Fish & Cat,” winner of a special award for innovat…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:06AMFriday, December 26, 2014
Greenery can be a spiritual pick-me-up in the days of bleak midwinter. So it’s worth knowing that, through Jan. 30, the Embassy of Argentina is hosting “Interpretation of Trees,” an ex…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:03PMFriday, December 19, 2014
Checking out Facebook just makes you feel lonely. The Twitterverse is devouring vast swaths of your time. You have grown so used to navigating via smartphone that you have forgotten how to r…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:17PMTuesday, December 16, 2014
The three actors barely move on the bleak, litter-strewn stage. Still, a bracing sense of velocity seizes you as the Studio 2ndStage production of “Terminus” barrels toward its idiosyncr…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:14PMFriday, December 12, 2014
Iva Radivojevic has come up with a way to explain her globe-hopping background. When she was younger, it sometimes gave her pause. “It was difficult to place yourself — to construct an i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:35AMFriday, December 5, 2014
The idea of water haunts the exhibition gallery at the Embassy of Australia. It ebbs and flows around Judy Watson’s installation “dead littoral,” made up of cast-bronze versions of obj…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:14AMFriday, November 28, 2014
The new composition “Romanzas de Riohacha” is not the kind of piece a musician can just toss off. “You have to get in there and pull it out of your soul,” guitarist Ricardo Cobo says…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:59AMTuesday, November 25, 2014
The skiffle band steals the show at the 1st Stage production of “One Man, Two Guvnors.” Positioned to one side of the stage, the four musicians crank out their music with rough-hewn ener…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:10PMFriday, November 21, 2014
Expect a different sound when Susana Baca sings at the Howard Theatre on Tuesday. “I won’t be performing with the usual band of Peruvian musicians,” so the repertoire “is going to ha…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:32AMFriday, November 14, 2014
Bullet holes pockmark a building facade in 1974 Cyprus. Young Palestinian refugees smile and laugh in Gaza in 1979. A Mozambican refugee covers her face during Sunday mass in Tanzania in 196…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:27AM 
