394 stories by "Susan Galbraith"
"I am Nijinsky!"Â The actor Primoz Bezjak repeatedly declares, one moment bathing in glory as the acclaimed god of dance, and the next wailing in pain as that integration of self crumbles…
Turns out, Monday night, the Big Theatres and the Little Theatres of Washington were lying down together after all " despite rumors to the contrary. Let's just say a lot got bared at Signatu…
A season programmed under an umbrella theme can feel a strain, but Artistic and General Director Francesca Zambello has pulled off a clean sweep of wins at Glimmerglass Festival this year, a…
If Wagner's creation of the Dutchman signifies a true Romantic anti-hero then in this season's musical we are asked to consider Arthur in Camelot to be a twentieth-century counterpart. Thoug…
Elegance, idealism, imagination, suffering. These are the words I take away from Glimmerglass Festival 2013. It would be wrong of me not to mention one last show, which for me may have stood…
My introduction to this year's Glimmerglass Festival featured a moving kaleidoscope of "pop" bubbles projected on the theatre's curtain. The cheerful light show accompanied the overture, whi…
Saturday evening was all Halloween and hardware at Landless Theatre Company's prog-metal production of Frankenstein. In this, the company's most ambitious show to date, the cast was ably sup…
Washington National Opera has given us a "champ" of a new music-theatre work that is as approachable and inspiring as the great American Muhammed Ali himself. Its creators have bypassed taki…
Tom Morris is best known for being the director of War Horse, a show that stampeded its way to critical and popular glory on Broadway. He has just returned to this side of the Atlantic with …
This was my third time to the city, my second to Spoleto USA. This year, the trees of Charleston were what first grabbed my attention. These great ancient creatures with their long snake-lik…
Mirenka Cechová returns to Washington for three performances only at the Atlas Performing Arts Center with her critically-acclaimed Tantehorse: physical mime theatre. This ensemble is kno…
What did you do Mother's Day? Just think, you could’ve seen popping, locking, breaking and tutting by some of the area's best dancers in the first regional production of the hot Bro…
"Can you dance? Can you sing? Well, whad'ya got?" In Keegan Theatre's version, it's the short balding guy who shows the folk at the audition, upstage, mind you, what God has given him. At wh…
Opera Lafayette bounded onto the stage at the Terrace Theatre this week offering a "post-modern" baroque opera that was both elegant and fresh. Artistic Director Ryan Brown teamed up wit…
If relationships can be traced in the landscape of two joined bodies, then the two plays in Pas De Deux explore those landscapes with an honesty that is both mesmerizing and, at times, distu…
I come away from this taut opera with powerful images indelibly planted in my brain. I can't shake the mysterious, disturbing, and yet powerful atmosphere that has been created in Paul's Cas…
When in The Lady Becomes Him, the caption board goes on strike (it's "union!"), the actors must resort to using English, Italian, and American Sign Language to wage war for love, and their m…
Wallenstein's director Michael Kahn, poet laureate Robert Pinsky who adapted the original work by Schiller, and lead actor Steve Pickering, all share with the central figure of Wallenstein a…
Francesca Zambello, the newly appointed Artistic Director of the Washington National Opera, sits in an emerald raw silk jacket, checking on emails. She is surrounded but yet oblivious to…
People in the opera world travel miles to hear a voice like Angela Meade's. Many made such a pilgrimage Saturday night. In the soprano's debut in the fully-staged production of Norma at …
Director Stefan Larsson and this astonishing ensemble from Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre, visiting briefly as part of the Nordic Cool Festival, have created a moveable feast. Fann…
In the second act, a massive column opens like a giant jewelry box to reveal the quintessential material girl in a glittering gown, worldly as Jessica Chastain on the Oscar runway. Behin…
They call the festival Nordic Cool, but someone must have planted a stick of dynamite at the Kennedy Center.  Hedda Gabler at times is so "hot" that it blasts away at any conception th…
Synetic Theatre has delivered a blockbuster with its almost cinematic rendition of The Tempest. Think Lord of the Rings mixed with scenes from James Cameron's Titanic. Shakespeare's masterpi…
Experiencing Berlin to Broadway with Kurt Weill is like taking a remarkable journey across time and space, encountering some of the great literary giants of the 20th century and colliding wi…
