126 stories by "Rosalind Lacy"
Ecuadorean Peky Andino sheds new light on the Greek myth of Medea as the child-killing mother who gets away with murder. The playwright/poet, who also directs, changes Medea into a sympat…
Denise Duncan, a new voice from Costa Rica, knows the issues of immigration first-hand. Her play, Latinas, premiering in Teatro de la Luna's International Festival of Hispanic Theater, is…
If you need relief from the news and the economy, here's an aspirin on an elegant platter. Staged in the elegant mini-opera house of the GALA Tivoli Theatre, the In Series' Love Potion #1 is…
Love! How do you define it? An insane passion kept Lope de Vega (1562-1635) churning out plays, sometimes a play a day. Nothing could stop this 17th century genius, once called "a monster of…
From the get-go, it's do or die. Mona MartÃnez, as Carmela, and Diego Mariani, as Paulino, are as skittish as if dancing in front of a firing squad. Thanks to these two breathtaking theat…
The rap on the wrap-up of the 2010/2011 Hispanic Theatre season in Washington D.C. is that as far as audiences are concerned, GALA Hispanic Theatre and Teatro de la Luna must be doing someth…
Andy Warhol played the deadpan fool but was nobody's fool. The pop artist is still making money after death. One of his self-portraits sold for $38.4 million in a bidding war at an auction i…
The reversal in wording of Taming of the Shrew is not so much for a feminist message as for opening our minds. Get set for a bracing cocktail with a blast of Shakespeare's bawdy at the Thrus…
In Gore Vidal's rarely mounted sci-fi, political satire, well-timed pyrotechnics have to run as smoothly as last week's shuttle launch, and actors must have rapid-fire, elegant delivery. The…
Roll the clock back to Britain's glorious Gilded Age of 1908 when Kenneth Grahame dreamed up this rambling adventure for his little son about animals with human traits and the importance of …
Shake those hips and roll those shoulders loose. Viva Peru! Vicky Leyva, a.k.a. "The Mulatta Flower of Peru,” dances barefoot, sings folklore straight from an impassioned heart and lig…
Playwright Tennessee Williams wrote the truth as he saw it. By having the courage to share his own troubled personal life, he revolutionized American theater.To celebrate the 100th birthday …
Spanish playwright Gracia Morales transports us into a dream world so magically real, so filled with painful love, you have to remind yourself to breathe. A dressmaker and her daughter alleg…
Do we really need the British monarchy? As if on cue, The Washington Stage Guild's The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza, one of George Bernard Shaw's most challenging political satires, …
The Teatro de Parla Youth Company of Spain delivers a powerful blast from the past. On the backs of black t-shirts worn by three actors, white print spells out: GUERRA (war), ENFERMEDAD (dis…
Venezuelan playwright Gustavo Ott confronts us with close encounters of the domestic-violent kind. Divorcees, Evangelists and Vegetarians (Divorciadas, evangelicas y vegetarianas), an access…
After a resounding success in March with WAM2, In Series Artistic Director Carla Hubner takes another daring leap by bringing together the unexpected. Now back on home turf in the more intim…
The full moon appeared the biggest and brightest in 20 years last weekend when The 3 Rascals (A3vidos) performed at Teatro de la Luna. The moon in its orbit arriving at its closest point to …
Cabaret artist Graciela Rodriguez from Uruguay has a lot to say about the battle of the sexes. Why do women fall in love with men who are jerks, fools, idiots, and dorks and make them suffer…
A Ballet and Opera Double-Thrill WAM2! (Wolgang Amadeus Mozart) has found an apt locale for making art; not war. It's upstairs in the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where downstairs the Inter…
A Bilingual Sci-Fi Latino Noir Performance You don't have to be a Trekkie to understand the Latino sci-fi part. An adroit performer and lucid writer, Jose Torres-Tama bravely takes us to the…
When a six-year-old in the lobby says, "This is going to be awesome," I ask why. "I know the story." Several other youngsters look up. They know it too. No, not from Disney World's Magic Kin…
The Innocent Eréndira and her Heartless Grandmother (La Cándida Eréndira) Abandon all moral judgment and logic to enjoy this erotic fairy tale. A grandmother sells her young granddau…
Even the genius Eugene O'Neill, the only American playwright to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, had a learning curve. And Director Kathleen Akerley, who has the courage to think o…
Paul Morella brings A Christmas Carol up front and personal in an inspired, deeply-felt, moving one-man marathon monologue. On opening night, this consummate actor brought a full-house audie…
