39 stories by "Barbara MacKay"
Lucky Plush Productions is a dance/theater company currently performing at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater. But this is no conventional company. Compared to dance troupes, they are at t…
Actor, director, and administrator Vivienne Benesch has many credits to her name. She is the Producing Artistic Director of the Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. F…
If you are not from the great sub-continent of India or do not have any Indian friends, you might be forgiven for not knowing that there is a healthy culture of Indian classical dance in the…
JaBen Early is a Washingtonian through and through. His father worked at the Smithsonian, and his mother was a teacher in DC. He went to Morehouse College and Sarah Lawrence University, and …
Don't be put off by the deliberately opaque, long title of the current world premiere at Studio Theatre's experimental space. P.Y.G. or The Mis-Edumacation of Dorian Belle is a very slick, i…
There is a mystery at the heart of Ghost-Writer, currently being presented by the Quotidian Theatre Company at The Writer's Center in Bethesda. Not that Michael Hollinger's drama is a lighth…
The In Series at GALA Theatre has succeeded in brilliantly breathing life into a treasured zarzuela " a blend of song and dance " which was written in 1894 and originally titled La Verbena d…
The musical Hands on a Hardbody opens at the Keegan Theatre on March 9. Based on a contest held in small-town Texas in 1995, Hands on a Hardbody chronicles a group of people participating in…
"I ran out of good books to read," was how Bowie cryptically explained his acting debut in an interview following a rehearsal of "The Elephant Man."