Reviews by Rosalind Lacy

Rosalind Lacy MacLennan, who hails from Los Angeles, enjoys writing on-staff with DCTheatreScene since 2006. A 20-year journalism veteran, with newspapers such as the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, the Butler Eagle in Pennsylvania, the Suburban Newspapers of Northern New Jersey, Rosalind won a MD-DC press award for the Montgomery Journal in 1999. Since Rosalind’s heady days training and performing professionally in summer stock out of New York City, Rosalind has taught drama in high school, directed and acted in community theaters, and is the proud mother of three young adults. Still an avid theater nut, Rosalind is a former board member of www.Footlightsdc.org, and an aficianada of Spanish theater history.

Chumbale (Every Love Bird Needs a Nest)

March 3, 2010 by Rosalind Lacy  
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Teatro de la Luna gives the 1971 Argentinian comedy Chumbale by Mario Marcel it Washington area premiere.

The Great One-Man Commedia Epic

February 27, 2010 by Rosalind Lacy  
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Matthew R. Wilson’s Great One-Man Commedia Epic is much more than a slap-stick, pratfall comedy, although it is all of that. He is an hilarious Harlequin of many faces.

Beauty of the Father

February 9, 2010 by Rosalind Lacy  
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Nilo Cruz writes with soul-searing beauty and director Abel Lopez draws together a perfect storm of a cast in GALA’s Beauty of the Father.

WAM – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

January 26, 2010 by Rosalind Lacy  
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In Series Opera and The Washington Ballet Studio Companies have collaborated in a great leap forward to celebrate the genius of Mozart.

Los Gavilanes (The Sparrow Hawks)

December 13, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy  
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Since its origins in 17th century Spain, the zarzuela has morphed into a unique form of modern musical theater, with more twists and turns than Stephen Sondheim ever could dream up. 

The Eggshell (La Cascara del Huevo)

November 23, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy  
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The Eggshell (La Cascara del Huevo), is a comic-satire conceived by the wonderfully inventive Killbob Theater Company from Cordoba, Argentina.

Our Lady of the Clouds

November 9, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy  
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Aristides Vargas, who was born in Argentina but lives in Ecuador, takes us on a jaunty, if not disjointed journey that evokes that hollow, pit-in-the-stomach feeling that comes from arriving in strange, unfamiliar places.

The Cat and the Seagull

November 9, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy  
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Every storyteller knows that a good fable has a moral. The Cat and the Seagull has a beautiful one, loaded with enough imaginative power to spellbind adults as well as pre-schoolers for 50 magical minutes.

Fan of a Single Woman (Abanico de Soltera)

October 25, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy  
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Whether Andrea Julia is fluttering a fan, talking to a doll, or writhing in agony with a wire sculpture, this chameleon-like, Argentine actress embodies Federico Garcia Lorca,

The American Insomnia (El Insomnio Americano)

October 19, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy  
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Before a packed house at the Gunston Arts Center, Saulo Garcia, a one-man miracle takes us on a jittery joy-ride representing a cast of thousands— the immigrants who trade in their Latino identities for the American Dream.

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