62 stories by "Daniella Ignacio"
As the theater industry recovers from COVID-19 and considers a social justice reckoning, the 2020 presidential election is high stakes, resulting in "Act Out: Vote 2020," an online performan…
On Monday, June 8, Galvanize DC and Actors Arena will host "Making Space To Breathe/Gathering To Grieve" outside Arena Stage at 7 p.m. The artist-driven vigil is being held to create a s…
"O that this too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!" Hamlet cries out in his first soliloquy of the eponymous Shakespeare play. And as Shoshana Tarkow (she/her, r…
It's been about six weeks since I came back home to New Jersey after my college moved to online classes for the rest of the semester, and like many students, it's taken some adjusting. At th…
At Olney Theater Center, although all performances and the National Players tour are canceled, the artistic staff, education staff and the National Players have found a new way to stay engag…
Zoom is currently a common mode of communication for the world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools and colleges use it for online classes; companies are using it for meetings; friends…
Head Over Heels made a splash on Broadway in 2016, notably starring the first transgender actor playing an out nonbinary character in a Broadway musical  " Peppermint as Phythio. Now, …
Olney Theatre Center's production of Miss You Like Hell explores issues of immigration policies, parental abandonment and the power of Latinx women. Lisa Portes makes her Olney Theatre direc…
Professional productions of Fiddler on the Roof traditionally feature the iconic Jerome Robbins choreography from the original production. The 2015 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof wa…
Wild things abound in this production of Washington National Opera's The Magic Flute, currently playing at the Kennedy Center. With Maurice Sendak's artwork at its forefront, the opera's…
If you were given free reign to say whatever you want about anything you want…how far would you go? And if you were the moderator of that kind of environment, at what point would you inter…
In a season with high profile productions of Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway and across the country, the DMV is getting its own taste of the Alan Menken sci-fi musical theatre classic…