Friday, 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 06:13PMThursday, July 17, 2014
“Lights!” the imprisoned Duchess cries. When servants comply, the enhanced brightness in the jail reveals — Well, for those unfamiliar with John Webster’s 1614 revenge tragedy “The…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:06PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Don’t worry, Euripides. Sure, you come in for some gleeful skewering in “Medea’s Got Some Issues,” the witty solo show that No Rules Theatre Company and SPAIN arts & culture have…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:59PMTuesday, July 15, 2014
Topicality and personality are dancing some pleasing duets at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, the annual cavalcade of new and newish plays in Shepherdstown, W.Va. The five dramas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:16PMFriday, July 11, 2014
You might expect tumult from a show that recalls a deadly urban riot. But on opening night, a fierce hush suffused “Rodney King,” the striking, idiosyncratic solo work created by the act…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:39PMSpanish playwright Emilio Williams enjoys a good meta-theatrical challenge. He has written a short play in which Goneril, King Lear’s villainous daughter, defends her conduct. He has penne…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:53AMThursday, July 3, 2014
When you talk about art, sometimes you have to talk about sea turtle nesting habits. That was a lesson you might have drawn from a conversation with a group of Kenyan artists, organizers and…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:12PMFriday, June 27, 2014
The scarlet nail polish glistens, sultry and glamorous. And then, it globs, which is less attractive, but perhaps more meaningful. That’s a summary of “The Better to Caress You With (Par…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:16PMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Poor old Ophelia had too little opportunity to lean in. Confined by old-line social codes, constantly lectured and harangued by men, she could only exercise her inventiveness and gumption (�…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:25PMMonday, June 23, 2014
At one point in the solo play “Buyer & Cellar,” the endearing protagonist, a cash-strapped actor named Alex More, is tasked with serving up frozen yoghurt. The stuff he’s dispensin…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:06PMFriday, June 20, 2014
What does a red Cy Twombly scribble have in common with a rough-hewn image of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman — or with a thicket of hooks affixed to a wooden board? All three artworks illumi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:43AMFriday, June 13, 2014
Bandoneon player Nario Recoba could practically anchor a show by himself. In GALA Hispanic Theatre’s current offering, “Puro Tango 2,” the Uruguayan native sits onstage, near his two b…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:08PMThursday, June 12, 2014
The eye in the sky. This image, once warbled about in the chorus of an ’80s pop hit, gains a terrible new meaning for the protagonist of “Grounded,” George Brant’s solo play. Now on …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:38PMWednesday, June 11, 2014
These individuals are so outlandish, they make the Mad Hatter look like Miss Manners and the March Hare look like an Easter bunny. There’s the watch-repair specialist who drinks urine; the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:32PMFor many of us, New Year’s has receded into hazy memories of emptied champagne bottles and long-lapsed resolutions. But for performer and Maori culture expert Ataahua Papa, the holiday loo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:46PMSaturday, June 7, 2014
An old man’s head scrolls eerily down the length of his torso, apparently disconnected from his neck. A masked woman stalks down a staircase with a mirror in her hands. Candles line the fl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:05PMFriday, June 6, 2014
It’s as British as cricket, the BBC and sticky toffee pudding. It’s music hall: the variety-act entertainment that was hugely popular in the sceptered isle in the late 19th and early 20t…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:29PMFriday, May 30, 2014
When he’s chatting about music, Yemenite Israeli vocalist and composer Ravid Kahalani isn’t a big user of understatement. “For me, [music] is stronger than the biggest army in the worl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:44PMFriday, May 23, 2014
“It’s like seeing Paul McCartney perform rock-and-roll!” That’s the simile that the University of Maryland’s Sebastian Wang comes up with to convey the experience of seeing South K…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:34AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
If you dream of being a golf pro, it may not be a good idea to use your prized 9-iron as a weapon in a Belfast street riot. But just try telling that to Ross, the ebulliently wisecracking yo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:06PMFriday, May 16, 2014
The year 2014 reported for duty with a knapsack full of significant anniversaries. The 450th birthday of Shakespeare. The centennial of the outbreak of World War I. The 50-year mark since th…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:07PMWednesday, May 14, 2014
It’s a welcome-to-the-machine moment. Mild-mannered writer Ferdinand Vaněk is visiting the home of his smug, materialistic friends Vera and Michael, who have been lecturing him about the …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:32PMTuesday, May 13, 2014
It is all too true. Someone has committed the egregious sin of forgetting the can opener. That realization prompts a diverting ballet of frustration in “Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:50PMFriday, May 9, 2014
Operetta can save the world. Okay, Austrian tenor Michael Heim doesn’t assert this proposition in so many words — but he comes close. “With operetta, you can open hearts, and then you …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:30AMMonday, May 5, 2014
If gifts were always so aptly selected, holidays would be happier times. In the funny and touching play “Elling”— now on view in a mostly rewarding Washington Stage Guild production �…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:03PMFriday, May 2, 2014
One minute you’re a theatergoer, the next, you’re an avatar in a cyber-thriller. Such is the transformation one apparently undergoes at “15’000 Gray,” an interactive production…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:51PMMonday, April 28, 2014
How many globetrotting romances are as painful as Amelia and Rodolfo’s? After an unfortunate incident in their native Argentina, the two lovers flee first to Europe, then to the Middle Eas…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:10PMSunday, April 27, 2014
It does seem inevitable when the rich young man named Mortimer Mortimer asks the monk parakeet to dance. Nattily attired in a check suit and bow tie — and politely overlooking the fact tha…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:07PMFriday, April 25, 2014
The bridging of borders. The bridging of dance styles. The bridging of gaps between ideas. All three of those feats will coincide when France’s Compagnie Chriki’Z presents the hip-…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:27AMMonday, April 21, 2014
Sad certainties of life: Flowers wither, summer eventually spirals into fall and winter, and Hotspur — the impetuous rebel whose rash outbursts make up some of the most diverting moments i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:08PMSad certainties of life: Flowers wither, summer eventually spirals into fall and winter, and Hotspur — the impetuous rebel whose rash outbursts make up some of the most diverting moments i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:04PM 
