Five Flights
June 18, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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In Adam Bock’s Five Flights, dad so loved his dead wife, he built a huge, human-sized aviary as a Taj Mahal for her soul. Now, recently deceased, dad has left his heirs its crumbling structure.
Fever/Dream
June 12, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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Playwright Sheila Callaghan gives us an hilarious play that pops the American corporate blimp. In director Howard Shalwitz and this superlative Woolly Mammoth production,
Mummy in the Closet: The Return of Eva Peron
June 9, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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In this impressive GALA-commissioned musical, composer Mariano Vales saturates us with ardent Argentinian soul music which transitions from tango, to salsa and waltz in perfect synchronization
Rosa de dos Aromas (Two-Scented Rose)
May 26, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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Two young women sit, waiting, on a bench outside a prison. They make friendly small talk until both discover they love the same man, Marco Antonio Lazur. All at once, they’re enemies.
Legacy of Light
May 19, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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Legacy of Light is an intellectual joyride from start to finish that confronts a universal question: How do women balance a passionate yearning for science with maternal instinct?
FarFar Oasis
April 20, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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FarFar Oasis is more a series of far-out nightclub acts than a play. But the mimetic artistry of Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, the creative team behind Happenstance Theater, make it worth the trek to Mecca. Jaster, the master of poetic gestures, is a jester who can take us anywhere.
The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico
April 6, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico is a spoof of a spoof - an edgy satire of two starry-eyed directors who set out to film a satire about Coca-Cola, the Holy Grail of American exports, and document the impact on Mexican culture of the world’s top selling, non-alcoholic soft drink.
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Stoop Stories
March 25, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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Dael Orlandersmith’s Stoop Stories are a series of monologues that become hypnotic poetry about people she’s watched in New York who pursue the American Dream. Because they are outsiders, losers and dopers, the unseen ones, they sit on their front porch steps to talk, to drink and dream. They never go anywhere, but they travel [...]
Elizabeth Rex
March 23, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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Elizabeth Rex is a whimsical post-show talkback between the legendary Elizabeth I of England, William Shakespeare and his troupe of actors in a royal barn. It’s a play within a play and Keegan Theatre has achieved an amazingly lively staging for its regional premiere in Washington D.C.
Krapp’s Last Tape
February 24, 2009 by Rosalind Lacy
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An old man with a corona of gray hair, (Brian Hemmingsen) sits like a sphinx, staring straight out in silence, palms face down on a beat-up desk. Let that image of Krapp nest in your mind. Rest assured, we’re in Beckett’s theatre-of-the-absurd, where every word is cherished, like a profound poem.
As Krapp stirs to life, [...]





