Wednesday, October 15, 2014
What if our personal lives were up for discussion between meddling neighbors? What if two opposing facts could be true at the same time? What if "truth" were whatever we wanted it to be, act…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
"This is the end for me," said Gloria (Temple Fortson) recounting her maturing daughter ignoring her after the school play, "Soon I'll be the enemy." Desire Moments is a play about eight fri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
A murder mystery dance show? As the curtain rose, I'd already made one critique: murder mysteries are too detail-oriented to work as dance. (There's a reason why ballet plots are usually bro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:23PM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
Tour de Farce is proof that playwriting is no easy task. Its lack of craft, cohesion, and contrast make it seem like a self indulgent, tedious conversation among close friends who aren't inc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:21AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 13, 2014
Poor Bob. Interactive theatre doesn't bode well for the shy. Improv artists Rodrigo Pool and Carrie Helton Parsons, acting brilliantly as vicious, coked up radio anchors, selected an audienc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37PM[SHARE]Friday, July 11, 2014
My notes from opening night: "Funny lime slicing." "Pretty awkward. Is it supposed to be this way?" "Why do gay men like country music?" "Okay, they are officially screwing with us." Love So…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, June 9, 2014
It's delightful sitting in the audience knowing you're about to write a rave. You relax knowing you have plenty to write. Words will come easily. And in the case of this weekend's UrbanArias…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Unlike most twenty-somethings, I like a side of stellar theatre with my shots. Nameless Theater's production of A'Leighsha C. Butler's play Last Call opened in Adams Morgan last week to a fu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27AM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
tick, tick…BOOM! is a bold choice for an inaugural production, but it says a lot about the kind of theatre company Alexandria, VA-based QuackenSteele Theatre Company aspires to be. tick, t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AM[SHARE]Monday, May 12, 2014
Taffety Punk Theatre Company's "Rulebreaker Rep" " directed with a clear vision by Lise Bruneau " focuses on rebellious and freethinking writers throughout history. It questions the meaning …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
"Change the rules!" the audience of parents and young children shouts. Cinderella proclaims, "I do this in the spirit of woman and girl power." Cinderella: The Remix at Imagination Stage is …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:11PM[SHARE]Friday, February 14, 2014
In the maze of D.C. political and activist organizations, the mission of Young Playwrights' Theater is clear: Teaching students to create art has less to do with art and more to do with maki…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 11, 2014
The DC chapter of the national non-profit Opera on Tap launched last week at the Black Fox Lounge in Dupont Circle. Titled Love is in the Air, Opera on Tap DC's first performance (co-present…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
In times of pain, needless violence, and gunshots, glimpses of circus-like brilliance and pathos carry us to different (and more whimsical) dimensions. Impossible! A Happenstance Circus perf…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2014
Meena's Dream closed two weeks ago at Forum Theatre at Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, but the artistic team and D.C. audiences want the dream to live on. The Meena's Dream t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Mark Vanhoenacker of Slate declared classical music dead last week, but DC divas aren't going down without a fight. The new DC metro chapter of Opera on Tap, a non-profit organization devote…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 21, 2014
La Vie en Rose, a collaboration between the In Series and the Washington Ballet Studio Company, is an intriguing production: ballet dancers interpret famous French songs in subdued black and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AM[SHARE]Monday, January 20, 2014
Daniel Beaty’s original play The Tallest Tree in the Forest at Arena Stage follows controversial performer and activist Paul Robeson, initially renowned for his singing, but later labe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, January 13, 2014
"Your imagination can pierce reality," says Hindu God Lord Krishna to nine-year-old Meena in the world premiere of Meena's Dream at Forum Theatre. I left one-part inspired and one-part devas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AM[SHARE]Monday, December 16, 2013
The Lion, The Unicorn, and Me, a new opera based on Jeanette Winterson's acclaimed children's novel, premiered in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Saturday night. Washington National Op…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:31PM[SHARE]Monday, December 9, 2013
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is the story of unexpected and uncomfortable reactions to love between a black man and a white woman. It brings up the issue of racism from all fronts: the Afric…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, November 25, 2013
Turning a beloved film into a musical isn't easy " certain themes are hard to translate into song, and people notice when lines and entire scenes are cut to make room for these songs. Miracl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Few operas require the soprano to sing in between bites of baked goods. Contemporary opera often goes one of two ways: avant-garde and over our heads, or separate from the grand and often in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 7, 2013
Theatre is a form of therapy and horror is a form of release " taking us to the outer unexplored edges of our minds. Terror and theatre can unleash internal beasts we'd like to ignore. But i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:11AM[SHARE]Monday, October 21, 2013
The thing I hate about cabaret singers is that you can't critique them. Cabaret is communicating your humanity " good cabaret singers make you care about them and disarm critics. They sing/s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:52AM[SHARE]Monday, October 14, 2013
The beginning of Washington National Opera's production of The Force of Destiny is more like an indie movie than a 19th century opera. A seemingly normal family sits at a table in silence " …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AM[SHARE] 
