78 stories by "Yvonne French"
The Little Theatre of Alexandria has a smash it on its hands with The Monty Python’s Spamalot. The opening night audience bellowed and clapped and roared at the puns and gave a standin…
In his play Interrogation, John Feffer, a foreign policy analyst who writes widely on privacy issues, pokes gentle fun at U.S. intelligence agencies as if to say, "I love my country but I fe…
This contemporary ballet with the string quartet performing onstage fuses sound and movement in four contemporary dances featuring two world premieres, including the tango-inspired "Sur" by …
If you like great acting and want to know what it must be like to be mentally ill and to suffer from Dissociative Identity Disorder, go see The Wonderful World of Dissocia, directed…
The McLean High Choral Society is putting on a magical performance of The Secret Garden even as it weathers budget cuts that did away with a formal class for a 50-year-old Renaissance-style …
I know a lot of librarians who would love Underneath the Lintel (and non-librarians too like those in the audience last night who were having a great time). First, it includes varie…
A group of smart, funny and nice-seeming comedians from the famous Second City improv group of Chicago entertained about 600 appreciative people at the Barns at Wolf Trap last night. Since i…
The delicious aroma of bread fills the Terrace Theater at The Kennedy Center World Stage Festival as a talented ensemble of deaf-blind actors from Israel bakes bread and dishes up ten short …
Opera lovers who are blind or have low vision and want to get materials to complement live radio broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera can do so with the National Library Service for the Bl…
"The rest is silence" are Hamlet's last words before he dies, but you won’t hear them in this production because the whole play is conveyed in movement. Not a word is spoken. Synetic T…
A pair of quintessential absurdist plays–The Bald Soprano and The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco–will lift you from the humdrum and deposit you in a place where language takes on a ref…
Synesthesia: Audio-Described Performances in February 2014 ______ Tuesday, February 4, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 15, at 2 p.m. Audio Describer: Richard Collins; Program Notes: Sylvi…
I knew this was going to be a good performance when I saw the on the Web that it was choreographed by Hélène Blackburn and Pierre Lecours, "with the invaluable collaboration of dancers." B…
Ever wonder what goes on–not behind the scenes–but beneath the surface of the performing arts? Such as what might have led to a Bolshoi Ballet star dancer's conviction for throwi…
The Angelica Film Center & Cafe at the Mosaic in Virginia's mod new Merrifield development has audio captioning devices that fit into the drink holders. 2911 District Ave @ Lee Hwy &#…
Tribes features a deaf protagonist, Billy, whose hearing family forces him to read lips. Billy has been deaf since birth. His sister, brother and parents are smart, cultured and love to argu…
The Christian Life Center was filled with The Christmas Spirit as a group of actors from all walks of life performed A Christmas Carol to benefit homeless shelters in Prince George's County.…
In anticipation that A Commedia Christmas Carol is here to stay, I am giving it the most Washington of all things: an acronym (ACCC). ACCC is based on the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas C…
NOVEMBER 2013 ASL Interpreted: Friday, November 29, 2013 at 8:00 pm; Saturday December 7 at 8:00 pm; Sunday December 8 at 2:00 pm; and Saturday December 21 at 2:00 pm Open Captioning availab…
Is it possible to engage in S&M and appear heartwarming at the same time? The answer is ‘yes’ if you are in the cast of Bondage by Pinky Swear Productions. What an excelle…
"The Graduate was published 50 years ago and it's still shockingly relevant today,"Â said actor Darren Richardson. "People graduate from college and they're lucky to get a job at Starbuck…
DC is now considered the second biggest theater town in the United States, after New York. It also has one of the biggest deaf communities, which means there is a lot of culture: deaf cultur…
Broken Spokes is a complex production with excellent acting that packs an emotional wallop while lending insights about Deaf culture. Says Writer-Director Willy Conley, "My intention was to …
Dani Stoller and Lou Steele should go down in the regional theater history as "Stoller and Steele" for Marry Me a Little. It is one of the top shows I have seen in 25 years. Brilliantly dire…
The main character of Synetic Theater’s new adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray, based on Oscar Wilde's only novel, is a handsome young man who sits for a portrait by a painter…
