Harold Pinter’s rarely performed one-act play is classic Pinter: conflicted characters using dagger-sharp wit and caustic irony to compensate for deep-seated, unspoken doubts and fears. [Read more...]
Cosi fan tutte Goes Hollywood
September 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
In my review of last season’s Mozart’s Men, a comic opera produced by the In Series, I asked why a rebel within the ranks of women didn’t speak up against Don Giovanni’s serial seductions [Read more...]
Is Life Worth Living? and Dames at Sea
September 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The tiny Mint Theatre, on the 3rd floor of an office building on West 43rd Street, has done it again. Under the secure and firm hand of Jonathan Bank, it once again satisfies its mandate of bringing back to life buried treasures from the past, [Read more...]
Playwright/Performer Charles Busch
September 12, 2009 By 1 Comment
I’ve been a fan of Charles Busch since I first read his hysterical Vampire Lesbians of Sodom many, many, many vampires ago. [Read more...]
LOWT organizes Washington’s first Theatre Week
September 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The League of Washington Theaters, a nonprofit association of DC-based theatres, will hold its first annual Theatre Week Promotion from September 12th to 20th, according to a League press release. The Theatre Week Promotion will mark the beginning of the 2009-2010 theatre season [Read more...]
700 Sundays
September 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Watching Billy Crystal perform 700 Sundays at the National Theatre is almost enough to make you quit telling stories of family and growing up. Crystal’s stories are so memorable, heartwarming, and funny that anyone else’s stories pale by comparison. [Read more...]
The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later gets worldwide simulcast
September 10, 2009 By 1 Comment
Laramie Project Returns with Free Reading of New Epilogue by Arena Stage at Lincoln Theatre on October 12th
An epilogue to the Tectonic Theatre Project’s The Laramie Project will be unveiled on October 12th with simultaneous live readings in over 100 cities worldwide, including Washington, D.C., accompanied by virtual telecasts with Tectonic artistic director Moisés Kaufman. [Read more...]
Why’d Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe?
September 9, 2009 By 2 Comments
Why’d Ya Make Me Wear This, Joe? is a strange title for a quirky piece that tries a little too hard to be quirkier than it is. What do I mean by quirky? The premise is straightforward enough [Read more...]
Eclipsed
September 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Another day comes, and the war drags on. Insects buzz. Trees sway. Distant rifle shots patter through the heat waves. Inside the compound, sunshine strikes corrugated metal walls, slicked with iridescent chemicals and punched through with bullet holes. [Read more...]
Zero Hour
September 8, 2009 By 2 Comments
A solo show is a difficult thing to pull off. It is a monumental task for one person to keep an audience engaged for a whole show, and the line between wonderful and dreadful is razor thin. [Read more...]
