Source: Mash-ups Group E

Is there a word in the English language that better holds the promise of joy than mash? Is there anything which better suggests ingredients marinating in a dish, creating by their integration with each other something fresh and savory

Source: Project 24/7

Project 24/7 is to the Source  Festival 2009 as Iron Chef is to cooking. In Iron Chef, culinary masters are assigned an ingredient (squid!) at random and told to construct an entire meal (Squid Salad! Lemon Drop Squid Soup! Roast Squid with Béarnaise Sauce!

King Lear

What penalty does an artist pay for telling the truth? I am not speaking about the penalties paid by ordinary people like you and me (or at least me). We see those prices paid constantly, in Kosovo and Chile,

The Millionairess

All right, so what did the first Act of George Bernard Shaw’s The Millionairess, now playing at Olney Theatre Center, remind you of? You know the one I mean, where the haughty, father-drunk, self-obsessed millionairess

Shakespeare’s R & J

Consider four young men - let’s call them Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio and Tybalt, but really, they could be anyone - on the very cusp of their adolescence.  Chemicals course through their bloodstreams, calling their brains to love and violence.

1001

Why do we tell stories? Scheherazade (played by Yasmin Tuazon in Jason Grote’s exquisitely reimagined, recontextualized retelling of the story of 1001 Nights)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

I do not generally favor wordless Shakespeare productions, for the same reason that I would not enjoy a reading of Wagner. However, among all the great Shakespeare plays the fluid, theatrical Midsummer Night’s Dream is probably

Design for Living

This fierce, mysterious Noël Coward play - the beneficiary of a stunning, fearsomely good production at  Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Lansburgh Theatre - is, shall we say, a gay deceiver.

Area theatres give recession the brushoff

Next Season - plan for big times ahead.
Washington area theaters have apparently resolved to present a full slate of  shows in 2009/2010, notwithstanding serious and worldwide economic difficulties

Fat Gay Jew

Stand aside, and let a fat straight Gentile review Fat Gay Jew, the amiable, intermittently funny Mario Baldessari comedy about gays, Jews, and fat guys.

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