Friday, 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 10:27AMFriday, November 7, 2014
Twitter. Facebook. E-mail blasts. Such phenomena may be a boon to Information Age theaters seeking publicity. But will cyber-marketing ever attain the level of high art, as a much older mark…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:13AMThursday, November 6, 2014
Can we write our own fate? David Marshall Grant ponders that question on a couple of levels in his surprising dark-comic drama “Pen,” currently on view in an entertaining Washington Stag…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:44PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
A would-be rapper stranded in 1980s Midwestern suburbs, 15-year-old Hank loses his first battle-of-the-rhymes. The onlookers who give the kid a thumbs-down during the match — mounted in a …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:02PMFriday, October 31, 2014
Soprano Pretty Yende sometimes hankers after the climate of her native land. “The sun! I miss the sun!” the South African singer exclaimed when asked for what home comforts she felt nost…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:11PMThursday, October 30, 2014
At one point in “As I Remember It,” her stirring, history-rich autobiographical solo show, the great dancer, choreographer and actress Carmen de Lavallade evokes the Biblical creation st…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:13PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Think carefully before festooning your office with idealistic posters. The inspiring decor may come back to haunt you. Such is the experience of Laura, the complacent school guidance counsel…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:05PMFriday, October 24, 2014
Brazilian Embassy cultural attache Raphael Tosti de Almeida Vieira has an ace up his sleeve. No, it’s not the shorter version of his name — Raphael Tosti — that he uses in Washington b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:29PMThursday, October 23, 2014
Sometimes, a historical showdown begets memorable theater — think of the political struggles recalled in Shakespeare’s history plays, or the courtroom clash that inspired “Inherit the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:32PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Such a large wardrobe should contain more than a single hat. An audience member might have entertained that thought, briefly, near the beginning of the wry Uruguayan solo show “Gracias por…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:29AMFriday, October 17, 2014
We have seen the Berlin Wall — and it is us. Expect that reflection to whisper at the back of your mind when you visit the “The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall,�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMFriday, October 10, 2014
A tale some 600 years old will turn another page Oct. 20, when the multimedia concert “The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book” has its D.C. premiere. The production, with an original a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:17PMFriday, October 3, 2014
After periods of great suffering, “it is in the nature of people to always look ahead and take the direction of progress,” maintains Darko Krstic, acting director of the 91-year-old Belg…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:34PMSunday, September 28, 2014
A military knapsack is a poignant presence in “Three Sistahs,” the tuneful show that is back at MetroStage, where it premiered in 2002 and ran again in 2007. The spirited siblings who ar…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:40PMFriday, September 26, 2014
Epic narrative. Exquisite music. Spirited humor. And puppets. The performing-art form wayang golek has it all, says Kathy Foley, a scholar and master puppeteer who is deeply versed in this b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PMThursday, September 25, 2014
Paradoxically, given that his life revolves around a whizzing ball, this sportsman uses stillness to advantage. As portrayed by actor Jaysen Wright, in 1st Stage’s otherwise uneven product…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:01PMFriday, September 19, 2014
As artist Ramzi Ghotbaldin sees it, life is like gardening. “When you plant a plant, you don’t know if it will bear fruit,” the former Kurdish resistance fighter observed at the recent…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:34AMThursday, September 18, 2014
Buckle up for a rollercoaster ride with Satan: Taffety Punk Theatre Company has revived “The Devil in His Own Words,” the intriguing one-man show that not only evokes Lucifer’s storied…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:07PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Without being showy, the transition packs a punch. About halfway through No Rules Theatre Company’s absorbing production of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars,” a rapt attentiveness desc…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:39PMFriday, September 12, 2014
In the most compelling scene in Caridad Svich’s disappointing new play “Spark,” a troubled female soldier named Lexie, recently returned home from a combat posting, finds herself speak…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:51AMSometimes chocolate speaks of geopolitics. It does just that in Turkish director Derya Durmaz’s film “Ziazan,” part of the D.C. Shorts Film Festival. In the 15-minute movie — which h…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:31AMFriday, September 5, 2014
How much mayhem can spill out of a noodle carton? A lot, as Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s film “6ixtynin9” tells it. In the black-comic thriller — the celebrated Thai director’s 1999 break…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:25PMFriday, August 29, 2014
Movie actors are media darlings. Movie directors get a lot of press. Cinematographers, on the other hand, tend to fly lower on the public radar. But an exhibition at the Mexican Cultural Ins…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMThursday, August 21, 2014
Franca Bartholomaei knows about the kinship of irreconcilables. “The terrible and the silly often lie close together,” the German artist observes. “If you look long enough at something…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:32PMFriday, August 15, 2014
He hobnobbed with Charlie Chaplin. He was on good terms with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. His work deeply impressed theatrical visionaries like Vsevolod Meyerhold and Bertolt Brecht.…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:08AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Maybe it was pent-up energy following all that rain. Whatever the explanation, dancer Juan Ogalla was a burst of flaunting fierceness at Wolf Trap on Tuesday night, at the end of a watery da…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:18PMMonday, August 11, 2014
Advice to the founders of latter-day utopias: Plan carefully when you build your koi pond. In “Pol Pot & Associates, LLP,” Kathleen Akerley’s interesting, idiosyncratic whodunit-of…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:19PMFriday, August 8, 2014
How stirring are the drumbeats in a KanKouran West African Dance Company classroom? Stirring enough to make a clueless novice forget, briefly, that she has neglected to wear a lapa skirt. I …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:07AMFriday, August 1, 2014
The title may translate as “Touch Me Not,” but a team of intrepid producers haven’t hesitated to tackle “Noli Me Tangere,” which has been called the first full-length Filipino oper…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:52AMThursday, July 24, 2014
Seize the moment. Life is change. Turn, turn, turn. Those are some of the nuggets of wisdom that Mauritanian singer and musician Noura Mint Seymali wants listeners to take away from “Tzenn…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:23PMFriday, July 18, 2014
Natalia Arias does not set out to disturb people. Her photographs may “look kind of aggressive — I’ve been told that they look like that. But as an artist, I don’t see that,” she s…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:13PM 
