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Friday, February 21, 2020

Review: The Amen Corner at Shakespeare Theatre by Jennifer Barger

You may feel like you’ve landed in a retro church service for the first 15 minutes of the sparkling new production of The Amen Corner from Shakespeare Theatre Company, what with the “pra…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:02PM
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Review: Folger Theatre takes leave of Capital Hill with an hilarious sendup of the 70s, Merry Wives of Windsor by Jennifer Barger

“The plot is certainly thin,” said one grouchy-looking woman as she left Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s new staging of the Bard’s Merry Wives of Windsor. But the friend she was talking…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PM
Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Review: Dear Jack, Dear Louise at Arena Stage by Jennifer Barger

When Army Captain Jack Ludwig (Jake Epstein) first speaks his full name early on in playwright Ken Ludwig’s new dramedy Dear Jack, Dear Louise, audiences probably realize that this World W…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AM
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Review: Stormy Weather. IN Series reimagines Tempest by way of Billie Holiday by Jennifer Barger

She devils. Film-noir temptresses. Crazy women in attics à la “Jane Eyre.” In art of all sorts, women who speak up, sashay to a different drummer or who just challenge male authority of…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PM