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Sunday, October 9, 2016

Review: ‘A Matter of Perspective’ at Live Garra Theatre by Jacqueline Brown

Is he or is he not guilty? That is the question to be answered in Live Garra Theatre’s production of A Matter of Perspective, by C.G. Gardiner. Eight jurors from diverse backgrounds (f…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:16PM
Saturday, January 16, 2016

Review: ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ at Castaways Repertory Theatre by Jacqueline Brown

Is a man, especially a black man’s ego and position diminished when he, his wife and son, live in cramped quarters with his mother and sister? Castaways Repertory Theatre explores this…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:51AM
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Brave Collective Soul Collective’s 9th Anniversary’s ‘More Plot Twists.’ by Jacqueline Brown

“We are all one. We are of the human race.” I hear and read this statement all the time, especially when we see and hear news reports of people being treated unfairly (discriminated agai…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46PM
Sunday, December 6, 2015

‘A Christmas Carol’ at The Little Theatre of Alexandria by Jacqueline Brown

I don’t think I know one person who doesn’t know A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Last night, I attended The Little Theater of Alexandria’s visually stunning and enter…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26AM
Sunday, November 15, 2015

‘ColorBlind: The Katrina Monologues’ at The Anacostia Playhouse by Jacqueline Brown

September of this year marked the tenth anniversary of the Katrina flooding. ColorBlind: The Katrina Monologues, a superb play written by Tom Flannery, and directed by a great director and a…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:57AM
Saturday, November 14, 2015

‘Bachelorette’ at American University’s College of Arts and Sciences by Jacqueline Brown

Does validation of a woman’s self-worth come with being independent or having a husband? In American University’s exceptional production of Leslye Holland’s Bachelorette,�…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:25AM
Friday, November 13, 2015

Million Man March: Twenty Years Later Justice or Else by Jacqueline Brown

On Saturday, October 10, 2015, thousands gathered at the mall in Washington, DC, for the Million Man March: Justice or Else. Coordinated by the Minister Louis Farrakhan, in lieu of the curre…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:08AM
Friday, October 16, 2015

‘African Americans’ at Howard University by Jacqueline Brown

Are customs and cultures completed eradicated and evaporated when people from other continents, countries and cultures come to this great land we call “America?” I had the distinct pleas…

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:46AM
Saturday, September 19, 2015

‘Forsaken Angels’ at Wolf Pack Theatre Company by Jacqueline Brown

There are between twenty-one to thirty million men, women and children  enslaved today (Allies Against Slavery). There are between one-hundred to three-hundred thousand children at risk to …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:58AM
Saturday, August 29, 2015

‘Chocolate Covered Rocky Horror Show’ at EarlOrrin Productions by Jacqueline Brown

I was a fifteen-year old girl in 1975, when The Rocky Horror Picture Show, came out. I remember me and my friends going to the Friday midnight shows as a teenager. The audience interacted …

SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:26AM

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