DC is just the city for a company like Ambassador Theater. Home to a constant tide of diplomats, businessmen, and wandering tourists, this town must re-translate every day to keep the population flowing. Ambassador knows its audience is up for some cross-cultural fun and games, and they’re clearly excited about this new project: the US premiere of two one-act crime dramas from Egyptian playwright Alfred Farag, translated by Dina Amin. [Read more...]

You know things are going to be a little weird when you enter a theater and receive—in lieu of a program—a confidential psychiatric patient file clipped into an official-looking manila folder.  Things got even stranger on opening night when cast members, wandering about outside the stage area, encouraged audience members to sample some of the asylum’s “drugs” (it’s actually wine.) [Read more...]

With Under the Shadow of Wings, Ambassador Theater has staged a double bill of dramatic visions so vivid and absorbing they feel almost like lucid dreams. Springing from the minds of two Nobel Laureates, Karna and Kunti and Death of Tintagiles whisk the audience to a moonlit Indian plain and a cursed European village, respectively, where characters struggle for self determination and survival on the hazy edges of reality. [Read more...]

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”  These words, penned (in French) during the Second World War by writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, will immediately ring a bell with children of all ages and nationalities. [Read more...]

The Baroness Aurore Dudevant, better known as the French novelist and patron of the arts George Sand, is at her country home, Nohant, with her family and one of  her most famous lovers,  the Polish composer Fryderyk Chopin. [Read more...]