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Las Quiero a las Dos (I Want Them Both)

May 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Ricardo Talesnik is the Neil Simon of Hispanic Theatre.  But look out, Talesnik’s humor can throw you off-guard. [Read more...]

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Oxygen

May 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Russian playwright Ivan Vyrypaev, whose play Oxygen is being produced by Taffety Punk, is a proponent of the experimental school of New Drama where plot and character are no longer the basis of drama. New Drama playwrights often interview subjects and use their words verbatim as dialogue, attempting to knit a semblance of character from the words with the action happening not on stage, but in recollection. [Read more...]

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Punk Rock Mom

May 10, 2012 By Leave a Comment

What do you do when the black eyeliner fades, the safety pins tarnish, and everyone—not just Johnny Rotten—is pretty vacant? [Read more...]

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The Taming of the Shrew

May 8, 2012 By 1 Comment

Who says you can’t make The Shrew work? I did.  And I’ll eat my hat. The last time I had seen a truly stunning production of The Taming of the Shrew was in New York’s Central Park, a Joe Papp production, with Meryl Streep and Raul Julia in the leads. Theirs was a true match. And now we have Cody Nickell and Kate Eastwood Norris who, as husband and wife in real life, have given us Petruchio and Kate, who, fight as they may, recognize something fascinating and deeply stirring in the other.  [Read more...]

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Metamorphoses

May 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Everybody in the pool! It’s a pool party of a sublimely archetypal sort in Constellation Theatre’s entrancing staging of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, directed with flair and a fanciful air by Allison Arkell Stockman. [Read more...]

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Five Little Monkeys

May 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Helen Hayes nominee Valerie Leonard has likely not had to jump and pounce and cajole and herd a troupe of monkeys for a role before, but as Mama, she ratchets up the loving energy and keeps up with all five in this lively and adorable production. [Read more...]

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The Big Meal

May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

The Big Meal is the big deal: the moments in life that really matter – birth, love, and death – chopped up into digestible bits and soaked in a vinegar-ish marinade for eighty minutes or so. It is also the big feel, in that its only subject is what we feel in our hearts as we go through these things, and the big for real, in that it is about characters who are relentlessly ordinary, and have no special tools or challenges, except the ones most of us have. [Read more...]

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Wives & Wits

May 1, 2012 By 1 Comment

Two one acts by Shaw at Washington Stage Guild open with the master playwright’s own words, not about romantic coquetry or love and devotion, but  about sex.  What he’s talking about is upfront and out there, it’s scandalous sex, which he explores to the max in the first adorable of two one acts presented.  [Read more...]

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Nabucco

May 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Verdi’s first major operatic hit, Nabucco, opened this weekend at the Kennedy Center in a sumptuous new Washington National Opera production by American director and designer Thaddeus Strassberger. The visual spectacle of the first two acts carried both story and directorial concept, evoking Biblical spectacles painted on great canvases, in static yet strikingly heroic composition. [Read more...]

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The 39 Steps

April 30, 2012 By 1 Comment

I am going to give you a summary of this astounding tour de farce, now playing at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab of the Olney Center for the Arts, and then recommend that you forget it immediately. [Read more...]

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