394 stories by "Susan Galbraith"
Some actors push their virtuosic energy boldly across the proverbial footlights, as if demanding audience members to listen, all but grabbing them by the throats. Then there are others who h…
Tuesday, temperatures in Washington rose unseasonably high, and that night The Keegan Theatre fairly sizzled with one of the hottest interpretations " and darkest — of the musical …
If you haven't heard that Washington has become a great music-theatre center, you haven't been paying attention. Offerings across the spectrum of styles keep on increasing in breadth and dep…
There's an early moment in Million Dollar Quartet when Jerry Lee Lewis is pumping his downstage leg which seems attached to a perpetual spring while he paws the piano – more like a bea…
‘Tis the season when many daddies and mommies want to spoil their little girls, by taking them to that special performance, filling their eyes and ears with enough magical sparkle to f…
Hurricane Sandy caused a rare 2 day shutdown for Broadway theatres starting Monday, Oct 29. Despite a massive blackout, and the closure of mass transit and tunnels, actors, stagehands an…
Sometimes a play leaves you with so sweet an ache it lingers for days " so searing is the truth and beauty of it. Such is Tom Murphy's Famine as I experienced it on opening night. Mind you, …
A Whistle in the Dark by Tom Murphy, bears all the marks of a work of that club, dubbed "angry young men," who penned gritty, primal works that rocked audiences and revolutionized British th…
The only thing more prevalent than the full-bodied beer in Druid‘s marvelous play at the Kennedy Center is the feel of the lonely wind coming off Galway Bay and pushing at the backs of…
Mirenka Cechová, one of the leading proponents of physical theatre in the world, hails from the Czech Republic. Last year, Washington audiences were privileged to see her work when sh…
If you are asking, starry droogs, "What's it going to be then, eh?"Â and you're up for viddying malchickies tolchoking others in the guluva, the odd in-out-in-out, you know, a malenky bit…
Sometimes a theatrical experience can be a stumbling in the dark, searching for a light, rolling on a night's restless sea, grabbing onto inchoate mumblings to become moored. Such is the wor…
If there is an unequivocal argument for continuing to produce big classical opera as part of Washington National Opera's mission, then this production of Don Giovanni makes the case. Â Wei…
If you want to hear one great operatic voice make your soul vibrate, go hear Sondra Radvanovsky in Anna Bolena. Washington National Opera opened its season Saturday night giving Washingt…
It is open season on political candidates, and Urban Arias may have just bought the license to shoot them all. Their latest opera, Photo-Op, makes good on the company's promise to sing tough…
To see and hear Kathleen Turner channel the words and wit of Molly Ivins is to be reminded that theatre can be like church. You need to go to get nudged into living more truthfully and stay …
Cirque du Soleil has done it again with its particular brand of entertainment magic. Conceived in 2010, TOTEM has kept the company's commitment to delivering a "no animals circus" by hav…
- Susan Galbraith reports on the 25th anniversary year of the prestigious Glimmerglass Festival summer opera festival in Cooperstown, New York. - Click images for more reviews from Glimmergl…
- Susan Galbraith reports on the four productions of Glimmerglass Festival, in Cooperstown, NY, now celebrating its 25th anniversary season. -Lost in the Stars, directed by the very talented…
The prestigious Glimmerglass Festival leads off its 2012 season with an original and stunning production of Aida, without one elephant sighted except for a giant be-twigged mother-and-baby t…
“I want to hit the audience with the power of tap dance, to elevate this form and take the audience to a whole other level. And I work on everything as if it's a Broadway opening. &…
Carmen, the second opera of Castleton Festival's 2012 season, aired after Friday’s storm left performers, staff, and crew with a cancelled scheduled opening and, for many, 72 hours …
Now in its fourth season, Castleton has blossomed into an artistically first rate festival and conservatory program that stands proudly beside stalwart organizations like Glimmerglass, Tangl…
Until now, from my limited vantage, I would have charged that stagehands make up a group distinguished primarily by their prodigious consumption of doughnuts and coffee and their nocturnal h…
First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb has sailed into the Kennedy Center like a great queen of Tall Ships into a deep water port. The show is elegant and quietly stunning in it…
