Monday, 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 03:04PMFriday, April 18, 2014
“You are the antithesis of tango!” my husband told me at breakfast the other day when I mentioned my plan to take a tango lesson at the Embassy of Argentina. I knew what he was trying to…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:34AMThursday, April 17, 2014
If only all wild nights of carousing could end with such a gesture of love. Partway through “Henry IV, Part 1,” the ebbing of revelry at the Boar’s Head Tavern finds Prince Hal — the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:42PMWednesday, April 16, 2014
An old-school fairy godmother might float serenely to a protégée’s rescue, waving a magic wand. Not so for the supernatural fixer of “Cinderella: The Remix,” the clever children’s …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:00PMAn old-school fairy godmother might float serenely to a protégée’s rescue, waving a magic wand. Not so the supernatural fixer of “Cinderella: The Remix,” the clever children’s musi…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:13PMFriday, April 11, 2014
Matthew Amendt has a banged-up finger and other talismans of recent melees. “I took a broadsword to the knuckle the other day,” the actor says with relish, holding up his right hand, wit…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:05PMThursday, April 10, 2014
Move over, Darren Aronofsky: The story of Noah has also inspired “Unanswered Prayers,” the spooky — and timely — photo exhibit on view at the Embassy of Italy through May 22. In Ann…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:24PMMonday, April 7, 2014
Martin McDonagh’s “The Cripple of Inishmaan” is a fry-up of eccentric characters. There’s the chronic busybody Johnnypateenmike, who barters food for gossip. There’s the bizarrely …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:41PMFriday, April 4, 2014
Forget ballgowns and glass footwear: The latest incarnation of Cinderella has dreams of a different order. Rather than coveting Disney-princess attire and an invitation to a royal party, the…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:26AMThursday, April 3, 2014
An artwork’s title can be an affirmation. For BélO, the Haitian singer and guitarist known for his catchy reggae- and world beat-influenced music and for his dedication to social issues, …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:19AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
If you had to be reincarnated as a cardboard box, you’d certainly hope to be one of the boxes that festoon the stage in “The Adventures of Robin Hood” at the Kennedy Center’s Family …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:16PMMonday, March 24, 2014
Some people juggle. Some people do celebrity imitations. Frannie Potts, the kooky heroine of the one-woman play “Loveland,” has her own entertainment specialty. “I do facial gesturing …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:51PMFriday, March 21, 2014
Which is the strangest figure in “Penny Plain,” the profound and haunting black-comic vision coaxed spectacularly into three dimensions by the Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes? Is i…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 08:27PMFrom Arthur Miller's hints of McCarthyism in The Crucible, many writers have drawn resonances from 1692 MassachusettsThe Rev John Hale, looking back ruefully on his involvement in the Salem …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMWednesday, March 19, 2014
For a guy who starts out as a block of wood, Pinocchio certainly gets around. Early in life, this trouble-prone marionette finds himself matching wits with con artists in a lonely forest, es…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:49PMSunday, March 16, 2014
It’s an unsettling moment of intimacy. As a terrified, gagged man sits, tied to a chair, his captor — a fragile-looking, gun-toting brunette — pulls up a seat at his side, so near that…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:43PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
“La Muerte y La Doncella” (“Death and the Maiden”) March 14-16, Family Theater Country: Chile Description: LA MAFIA Teatro produces Chilean American writer Ariel Dorfman’s dra…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:04PM“The Adventures of Robin Hood” March 28-April 6, Family Theater Country: Scotland Description: Having previously appeared at the Kennedy Center with “Jason and the Argonauts,” w…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:04PM“Incendios” March 14-16, Terrace Gallery Country: Mexico Description: Tapioca Inn is producing Lebanese Canadian playwright Wajdi Mouawad’s play (titled “Scorched” in its Engl…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:04PM“Penny Plain” March 20-22, Terrace Theater Country: Canada Description: The Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes stages an apocalyptic thriller-comedy about an elderly woman who wa…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 09:04PMSunday, March 2, 2014
The setting, for the moment, is the deck of a ship, but the turbulence you notice is not the movement of waves: It’s the roiling of feeling — shock, wonder, disquietude, pleasure — as …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:15PMFriday, February 28, 2014
Don’t talk to Septime Webre about the apparent incongruity of ballet-rock music pairings — about the way rock’s populist, let-it-all-hang-out ethos might seem to clash with ballet’s …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:20AMWhat’s the secret to becoming a successful playwright? A chronic case of the artistic fidgets can help — or so you might conclude after speaking with Quiara Alegría Hudes. “I’m a li…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:34AM“Such was the darkness of that day . . . that we walked in the clouds, and could not see our way.” So wrote the Rev. John Hale, looking back ruefully on his involvement in the Salem …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:27AMWednesday, February 26, 2014
If you were looking for a quirky health-care professional, you’d be hard pressed to do better than Nurse Doris. A self-described atheist anarchist Trotskyite, this quip-slinging figure in …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:26AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Tall bales of straw (or so it looks) loom as backdrop to “Rumpelstiltskin,” the artful, stylized fairy tale dramatization now at Imagination Stage. The agrarian image is a good emblem fo…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:02PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
A little bit of theatrical surrealism can go a very long way. That maxim holds true for “The Wedding Dress,” the 1943 play by Brazilian writer Nelson Rodrigues now generating dreamlike a…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:35PMMonday, February 17, 2014
Sensationalism and the avant-garde: A match made in heaven? It was certainly a match made in Brazil in 1943. That year saw the premiere of Nelson Rodrigues’s “The Wedding Dress,” a dra…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:39PMThursday, February 13, 2014
One hates to slight the guy in the rhinestone-trimmed cowboy hat. But Bowen McCauley Dance, the local ballet-influenced contemporary dance company, packed enough bracingly textured work into…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:48PMTo keep from hearing the Sirens — the Greek mythological beings whose songs lured men to their deaths — Odysseus’s mariners famously stopped their ears with wax. Good thing the sailors…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:07PMWednesday, February 12, 2014
Florence Foster Jenkins — the socialite-turned-soprano — has a solemn warm-up routine. Looking religiously intent, she flexes and massages her jaw. She touches her fingers delicately to …
SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:43PM 
