Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Some believe that if we keep people who have died in our thoughts and words then they are not really dead. Well, if so, then last night lights were blazing and the world was happily peopled …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 05:48PMMonday, June 19, 2017
The Kennedy Center was alive with The Sound of Music on Friday night. Almost every seat was taken in the vast Opera House auditorium for the opening night of the latest Broadway-style tourin…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMWednesday, June 7, 2017
DCTS writer Susan Galbraith returns to the Prague Fringe festival with Protest by Vaclav Havel, produced by her company Alliance for New Music-Theatre. —————&…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMMonday, May 8, 2017
In most productions, Madame Butterfly is unabashedly atmospheric in its romanticism. “Orientalism” carries us back to composer Giacomo Puccini’s time when the West imagined a fancif…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
It’s in the air – an urgency to use theatre to get people into the conversation about what many see as our national crisis: the Trump presidency. Now Forum Theatre gets into the act pres…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Starting with Kendra Rai’s gorgeously hued Indian-spice costumes, conjuring tamarind, cinnamon and saffron, Imagination Stage’s production of The Jungle Book brings to life the rich imag…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMMonday, April 10, 2017
Mosaic Theater Company is only in its second year of producing but, planting itself firmly on Washington’s H Street corridor in northeast Washington, the team of Ari Roth and Serge Seiden …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMMonday, April 3, 2017
UrbanArias has gone wild! The company that pushes boundaries, reconceiving opera that is short, smart and fast, has given us an opera about a chimpanzee. Luckily, the chimpanzee, which we le…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 05:48PMFriday, March 31, 2017
Minimal. Stripped-bare. Essential. Pure. Questioning. Uncomfortable. Profound. Spiritual. This is what you must expect when you experience a production by Peter Brook, one of the world’s g…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:12PMThursday, March 23, 2017
Mozart would have been grinning at this youthful production of his tried-and-true opera that reached out to a new younger and diverse audience Friday night, March 17th. Washington National O…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMMonday, March 20, 2017
Seeing something unlike anything you’ve seen before can be curious, mystifying, and even jarring. That was my experience this weekend with Venus Theatre’s presentation of what was, …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMFriday, March 17, 2017
Ford’s has given us a magnificent and deeply moving musical about where we’ve come from, featuring, as its main character, America. The superbly attuned ensemble announces with full emot…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMTuesday, March 7, 2017
Hard-hitting, issue-packed, relevant plays are all the rage right now, but if you are weary of such emotional drain, and would just like some old-fashioned fun, look no further than Olney’…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:06AMMonday, March 6, 2017
The air was electric at Kennedy Center Saturday night with the promise of a great fight mounted as opera on stage, and I had what amounted to ringside seats. Champion clearly had some heav…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:03PMMonday, February 27, 2017
The opera Dead Man Walking is a journey of harrowing truth and compelling beauty. If, as Sister Helen Prejean says, “ Grace is waking up to the gospel of encounter,” then Director France…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMMonday, February 13, 2017
I am being given an intimate look inside the rehearsal rooms of Washington National Opera’s Dead Man Walking under the direction of WNO’s Artistic Director Francesca Zambello. This repor…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMThursday, February 9, 2017
A rare inside look at the making of an opera. Washington National Opera’s Artistic Director Francesca Zambello invited Susan Galbraith to sit in on rehearsals of Dead Man Walking. T…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMWednesday, February 8, 2017
Big News at the Kennedy Center. Alvin Ailey’s American Dance Theater rocked the place last night.. And no one rushed to exit the Opera House auditorium (as they often do at the KC) until …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMTuesday, February 7, 2017
To the degree that a creative artist can draw you into his world and make you follow him regardless, to merge with his very humanity, that is the measure of his worth. By this measurement, R…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMThursday, February 2, 2017
Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky has created a dance-theatre piece that is part ballet, modern, and Russian folk dance with plenty of comical pantomime to share the much-beloved folktale of hi…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMThursday, January 26, 2017
As I walked up the steps into Kennedy Center’s Opera House for the season’s opening of American Ballet Theatre’s Swan Lake, my heart was fluttering as if for a first love. As indeed it…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Washington National Opera announced its programming for the 2017/2018 season on Monday, almost three months earlier than usual. The upcoming season is all part of Kennedy Center’s continue…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMMonday, January 16, 2017
Watching an opera take its first life breath is witnessing a high-risk birth. There were some serious devotees on hand at Kennedy Center’s Family Theatre to support Washington National Ope…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:04PMWednesday, January 11, 2017
Monday night, Jon Fosse’s play felt like a blast of early Pinter with some hoary frost of Edward Munch thrown in for good measure. You know: a threesome locked for eternity in jealous t…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMMonday, September 26, 2016
As the dimming lights turned the deep red walls of the Kennedy Center Opera House into darkness, the spiky celestial chandeliers seemed to glow with unusual brilliance, welcoming us i…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMThursday, September 8, 2016
It takes a lot of balls but maybe not much brain to call a musical “Urinetown,” and the joke is made several times in the show just what a terrible name it is. But that’s the point.…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMWednesday, September 7, 2016
Twenty-five years ago at the small Eureka Theatre in downtown San Francisco, Tony Kushner pushed forth the first iteration of a play that would become what many feel is not only a great Amer…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 04:39PMFriday, August 19, 2016
For the past 25 years, Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) has memorably gifted our community by remounting one of its recent favorite productions in free performances. These used to be per…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PM– Notes from the talk delivered by Susan Galbraith at The Smithsonian on August 16th – On a good day in the Greater Washington area there are more than 15 opera companies of vari…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
In 1692, Tituba and a gaggle of Puritan girls frolicked by night in the woods outside Salem and allegedly conjured up the devil, an event that embroiled the witnesses and a whole township in…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:28AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
Is it true, as Stephen Sondheim insists, that mostly audience expectations dictate whether a work is to be experienced as an opera or a musical? When pushed, however, he is equally adama…
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