In his Director’s Notes, Paata Tsikurishvili quotes a line from Hamlet: “Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.” In its latest show, The Three Musketeers, written by brot…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:11AMThere are many factors that have affected where I have chosen to go to school and why. One major consideration of Johnny and me is monetary. Our various degrees (an MFA and BFA for him, a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AM“I’m not dead yet,” is an oft-quoted line from the 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The musical, Monty Python’s Spamalot, has a whole number based on this line and, likewi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:02AMIt was a fantastic weekend in the life of this couple, “Married to the Stage.” I was able to visit my husband for the first time in three weeks, received a huge, adorable teddy bear for …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:55AMA squall. A gale. A storm. A tempest. Synetic Theater’s production of The Tempest, the latest installment of their Silent Shakespeare Series, can be described using all of the above words.…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:14PMWith soldiers still encountering difficult conditions, to say the least, in Afghanistan and more veterans attempting to reconcile acts committed in the intensity of war with the decorum expe…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:50AMTake key events of the past century. Add some music by a Russian composer. Throw in television, radio, and video game transmissions and broadcasts. Frame it with Marc Chagall’s paintings,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:07AMWell, the wait is over. Or perhaps this is only the beginning. I received my first acceptance into a PhD program last week. Here is the story: I was rushing into a meeting for the show I am …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AM“Winter is coming.” Or, well, it is already here. As I type this, my cell phone keeps vibrating with DC text alerts warning of a “winter storm,” anticipating 2 to …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMSometimes, being married to the stage takes you to strange places and leaves you with more than just enhanced party skills. Johnny, for example, has always wanted to learn woodworking, creat…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:45AMNot long ago, my aunt observed me knitting away and asked where I had learned the skill. “Well, when you work in other centuries, you just pick things up,” I replied. She laughed, but it…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMBeing “married to the stage” is one thing when one partner is the actor and the other the bookish dramaturg, as is the case with Johnny and myself. It is quite another when both partners…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM“Married to the Stage” can be stressful. Contrary to popular opinion, when both partners try to weave their careers around the trials and travesties that occur onstage, having a succ…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:15AMAt the start of Shakespeare’s Globe’s production of Hamlet, the entire cast gathers onstage, with the lights up, playing instruments and singing a variation of “Little Beggar Man.” L…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:58AMMy husband may live in an imaginary village, but we both belong to the category of ‘imaginary friends.’ Recently, I sat down to chat with a kindergartner and his almost-three-yea…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMMy husband lives in an imaginary village. A shire, to be exact. He works in another century, too, and has for the past three years. Currently, he is living in the year 1590 in the 35-acre Sh…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:00AMMy husband moves better in high heels than I do. I came to this realization about a year before we were married, during our studies in the School of Theatre at Penn State University. My h…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AM“Honey, I don’t think I can go to the next level. I just don’t see myself going higher here.” “It’s okay, my love. I support you.” This was a conversation I had several weeks a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:00AM“Often times, I’ve observed that organizations feel forced to prioritize art, audience, and artist. O Starsf the three, the artists are, more often than not, left to their own devices,…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:48PMBrian Feldman’s one-man “show” BFF takes its single audience member on a two-hour journey- literally- to becoming Feldman’s, well, “BFF.” Feldman’s “friend-building excursion…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:52AMEnglish-language opera, Greek tragedy, Mozart, tragedy, comic moments, and ballet: The In Series at the Atlas Performing Arts Center has it all in Charlotte Stoudt’s translation and adapta…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 12:17PMSomething may be rotten in the state of Denmark, but energy is high and comedy very much alive in Faction of Fools’ current production, Hamlecchino, which takes Shakespeare’s Hamlet a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:08PMQuotidian Theatre Company’s Mission Statement reads, in part, “By providing realistic situations and dialogue, we want to give the audience the impression that they are witnessing events…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:30AMThere is a fine, fine line between loving and loathing, in the “interplay of joy and darkness,” as Director Paata Tsikurishvili, and Founding Artistic Director, and CEO of Synetic Theate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:15AMPlaywright Will Eno has been described by The New York Times as “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation” and it is no surprise. Eno’s play, The Flu Season, produced by Nomadic…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:19PM“You are who you can prove you are. You are what people think. And that’s the easiest thing in the world to change.” Or is it? In Theater Alliance’s DC-area premiere of the i…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 08:57AM“I’m not dead yet!” is whispered, shouted, and sung throughout Phoenix Entertainment’s very much alive and engaging touring production of the Tony Award-winning 2005 Best Musica…
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