126 stories by "Rosalind Lacy"
It’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…
The 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…
“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…
“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…
 Teatro 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…
The 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…
The 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 …
Despite 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 per…
The 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…
Have 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? &#…
British 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…
The 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 …
Ricardo 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 La…
Fog 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…
Jesus 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 givi…
It’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 violenc…
Last May, when The 3 Rascals (A3Vidos) performed their rioplatense cafe concert for Teatro de la Luna, the moon was at its brightest in twenty years. Comedian Petru Valenski was an unf…
From a blackout on stage, we hear her voice: “I am the most important person in my boss-lady’s life.” A musical fanfare resounds from overhead. Ta-dah! Lights come up cente…
Five madcap players from Spain fire up wholesome, exciting ‘theatre with a capital T,’ for this weekend’s addition to The Moon’s Embrace, Teatro de la Luna’s ne…
Why do they keep crossing the border? Slide projections of hate-graffiti flash by on a back wall screen: “We Are Against Immigrants,” “Get out, Nicaraguans,” “I…
Nilo Cruz’ exquisite verbal symphony about the transforming power of literature simmers with surprising moment-to-moment vitality, thanks to this new Spanish interpretation of the 2003…
When the lights come up, Death, impersonated by an ominous, stone-faced Matthew Pauli, stands center stage, softly playing a ukulele. Death, who is biding his time, often grinning, even leer…
Think of the present day Arab Spring. In 1868 Spain, public dissent was in the air. The revolutionary fervor, called La Gloriosa (Glorious Revolution) led to the overthrow of Queen Isabella …
"I've been dying for a drink," says Young Woman (Daniela Alvarado). That's scene one's startling first line that unreels Venezuelan playwright Enrique Salas' glib dialogue. When one drink be…
We could all be going through airport security instead of being ushered onto a black box stage where we are about to become part of an art-making process. "Please come in. Leave your belongi…
