Many operas lose their voluptuous richness when they’re flattened into modern translation and costume. Not so with this sumptuous In Series update. Librettist Bari Biern closely knits …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMWhat crosses my mind when I think back over the 2012-2013 Hispanic theatre season? Never lose sight of the impossible dream. Never, under the direst of circumstances, give up. Stay faithful …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05AMThree cheers for an invigorating collaboration. The In Series Opera Company, that constantly reinvents itself, closes its 30th season with an extraordinary Pocket Opera Double Bill: Love and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMOn a dimly lit stage, a sensually twisted, abstract sculpture is anchored to a pedestal and spotlighted in red. From overhead speakers comes a voice: “Can you hear me?” The quest…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:38AMBaseball hero Roberto Clemente was once quoted saying: “If you have the chance to make things better for people coming behind you and you don’t, you are wasting your time on eart…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:29PMWho needs cherry blossoms when you have baritone/tenor José Sacín’s voice in full bloom? Fern-like, tropical trees line the Source Theatre’s audience entrance to invite us into…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:59AM- Luis Caballero arrives, wearing a wool scarf coiled around his neck. The morning, April 3rd, was unseasonably cold. He is wired with energy for our interview in the chilly, white-walled ba…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMThe Broadway musical Man of La Mancha gave us the timeless song about dreaming the impossible dream.Argentine playwright Patricia Suarez’ play for kids, based on the satiric novel by M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07AMThroughout The House of the Spirits/La Casa de los Espiritus, I sat leaning forward, agog in the spell of Caridad Svich’s powerful, multi-layered play, enhanced by inspired acting and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMHeyo! Shiver me timbers. Playwright Zachary Fernebok takes us into his fantasy pirate world inspired by the point-and-click Monkey Island video games and the animated cartoon hero, Guybrush …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMThink treachery, deceit and betrayal, revenge and guilt. Think the politics of the 1960s. Washington Secret Service agents in sleek, black suits and button-down collars. Wolfgang Amadeus M…
SOURCE: feeds.feedblitz.com at 07:31AMFrom her New York City apartment, playwright Caridad Svich graciously agreed to an hour-long phone chat last week, to talk about the GALA’s staging of The House of the Spirits/La casa …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMRosalind Lacy is invited to the White House to report on this event of great significance to Washington area theatres and youth programs. On Monday, November 19, 2012, Paso Nuevo, GALA Hispa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:26PMAs we are ushered into the black box theatre, we hear the gurgling sounds of a baby and a mother cooing. We catch snatches of a playful, original music composition by Juan Vaccaneo. We are a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:58PMThis one-act psychological thriller starts up with a video confession from an on-stage projector. What is chilling is the matter-of-fact way Ramon (Antonio Delli), in a full-faced close-up, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:13AMIt’s a hot-button topic. What are borders anyway? Who draws these boundaries in the sand? Migrant workers crossing over from Mexico to the United States, often family men, continue t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMThe play’s title is allegorical. Emigrants, like the migratory birds, the swallows, move away from their native birthplace but carry within a deep instinctive longing for their homelan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:34PM“My Lord, why have you abandoned me?” cries Jesus, his last words from his heart that rock our souls without deadening our ears. Argentine actor, the gifted Mariano Mazzei as Jes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PM“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way,” wrote Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1956, and has a language building named afte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMTeatro de la Luna launches its Fifteenth International Festival of Hispanic Theater with a wickedly cynical, needling, protest play that is a send-up. Dominican identity is dissected thr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMThe prologue that draws us into the Teatro Lirico of DC’s La Dolorosa (The Woman of Sorrows), a zarzuela by Jose Serrano, is totally mystifying. A dark-haired young woman, hugging a sw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:31PMThe GALA Hispanic Theatre has launched its 37th season with a bracing, not-to-be-missed U.S. premiere of a comic masterpiece by Agustin Moreto, a Spanish Catholic priest and contemporary of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58AMDespite draconian financial cuts in arts funding in 2011, the Hispanic theatres have had the most terrific of all possible seasons ever! Aside from the fact that I am proud of my own perso…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16PMThe piped-in recording of the toe-tapping, banjo strumming, “Down By the Riverside,” with the lyrics “I ain’t gonna study war no more,” captures some of the dow…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:23PMHave you ever walked down a city street with a mass of people and felt utterly alone? You as an individual feel helpless to make contact with any other preoccupied human being rushing by? &#…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:27PMBritish playwright Anthony Shaffer’s ingenious, hairpin-turn stage thriller about a competitive game of one-upmanship, humiliation and revenge, is scored like a tennis game. The incomp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:40AMThe GALA Theatre company has outdone Monte Python with the Washington premiere of this quirky, over-the-top political satire by Carlos Ferrari. This burlesque of the history of European and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:46AMRicardo Talesnik is the Neil Simon of Hispanic Theatre. But look out, Talesnik’s humor can throw you off-guard. A multi-award-winner for Argentine television comedies and for Las Qu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:18AMFog rises and permeates the stage. From the dark, an ensemble of five actors emerge carrying lanterns. An atonal, drifting melody from an on-stage clarinet player, sounds of lapping water an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMJesus Daniel Hernandez’ sensational tenor voice has a clarion purity that could fill a cavernous auditorium and scenic designer Osbel Susman-Pena reinforces that impression by giving…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMIt’s a miracle this play exists. The Oscar-winning 1954 movie On the Waterfront, written by Budd Schulberg and directed by Elia Kazan, has reached iconic status as a Mob violence fl…
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