Reviews by Debbie Minter Jackson

Debbie Minter Jackson DCTS Reviewer Debbie Minter Jackson is a writer and performer in musical theater for 30+ years. Originally from Chicago, she has performed throughout the Washington, D.C. area including the Kennedy Center in productions with the legendary Mike Malone. Her scripts have been commissioned and produced by Source Theater, throughout Washington, D.C. and New York, and she is a member of Footlights and the Black Women Playwrights’ Group which is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year. By day she happily works in a federal public health agency as a Senior Program Analyst.

The Year of Magical Thinking

June 27, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking is a reflective look at the most difficult time in her life. As a world-class writer, Didion resorts to her craft to help clarify her own thoughts

Looped

June 9, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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Fans of Rhoda Morgenstern look out, because Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead is not your mama’s Rhoda.  Harper achieves the affect and mannerisms of the husky-voiced contrary star past her prime and gives life a big kick in the pants.

A Sleeping Country

June 5, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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Unlike garden variety sleeplessness, the sinister version of insomnia featured in A Sleeping Country is so devastating to the brain and well being, that it has a name, is genetically transferred through generations, and carries a death sentence.

Crazyface

May 28, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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This greatly anticipated season finale shows why Constellation Theatre received the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for “Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company.”  Crazyface features all the company’s trademarks

Tartuffe

May 27, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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To experience a fresh, modern translation of this 400+ year old Molière play, performed by a youthful, invigorating company, under nearly athletic direction by Karl Kippola is a treat, and would be as sumptuous as the exquisite costumes by Heather Lockard were it not

The Pavilion

May 21, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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The characters in Craig Wright’s Pavilion reflect the country’s current state of malaise where optimism collides with regret and heartbreak producing flashes of hope and resilience.  

Arcadia

May 13, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is a moveable feast for the eyes, ears, heart and mind.  The time period shifts between 1809 and modern day, characters express their philosophical meanderings at the slightest provocation,

Homokay’s Medea

May 12, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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Who knew that the tragic series of unfortunate events that overtake Euripides’ Medea could be spun around and flipped topsy turvy, undergo a cuisinart Hollywood treatment, and come out a funny, zany comedy

From U Street to the Cotton Club

April 24, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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From U Street to the Cotton Club at Source couldn’t be better geographically positioned, just two blocks from the legendary U Street, the Lincoln Theatre, and a number of historical and cultural landmarks of the corridor. 

Native Son

April 23, 2009 by Debbie Jackson  
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It’s a sad commentary that some of the same basic societal ills depicted in this 1941 stage adaptation of Richard Wright’s “Native  Son” are as relevant today as they were then, which makes this eagerly awaited production more important than ever. 

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