WAM – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In Series Opera and The Washington Ballet Studio Companies have collaborated in a great leap forward to celebrate the genius of Mozart’s playfulness. It’s an evening of over-the-top effervescence — as if a wild, warm wind has come to earth in the Atlas Theatre’s Lang auditorium. Read more

Cosi fan tutte Goes Hollywood

In my review of last season’s Mozart’s Men, a comic opera produced by the In Series, I asked why a rebel within the ranks of women didn’t speak up against Don Giovanni’s serial seductions Read more

From U Street to the Cotton Club

From U Street to the Cotton Club at Source couldn’t be better geographically positioned, just two blocks from the legendary U Street, the Lincoln Theatre, and a number of historical and cultural landmarks of the corridor.  Read more

Berliner Kabarett

Place: Berlin, Germany; a small cabaret theatre.  Time: between the two World Wars.  The democratic Weimar Republic has been established in the wake of Germany’s humiliating defeat.  But the Allies’ punitive reparations have left the economy in shambles, the people depressed, resentful, quick with a bitter quip, in desperate need of escape. Read more

Orpheus in the Underworld

Orpheus in the Underworld
by Jacques Offenbach
English adaptation by Kelley Rourke
Directed by Rick Davis and Joel Lazar
Music Director and Orchestra Conductor Joel Lazar
Produced by The In Series
Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy

How do you escape the cold? Climb Mt. Olympus and let The In Series send you to Hell. Orpheus in the Underworld at The Atlas Performing Arts Center is the best trip you’ll take all winter. Let well-trained, beautiful voices that need no microphones steam up your opera glasses. If this is Hell, you want to go there. Read more

Mozart’s Men

Mozart’s Men

music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from the operas Le Nozze di Figaro/The Marriage of Figaro; Don Giovanni; Cosi fan tutte/Women Are Like That 
book by Charlotte Stoudt; English lyrics for Act II by Nick Olcott and Bari Biern  
directed by Colin Hovde   
music direction by Alice Mikolajewskir
reviewed by Rosalind Lacy 

If you find opera off-putting and elitist, bring on the men for Mozart’s Men.  Some of those aristocrats may be villains but it’s time they had a trial to defend themselves. Read more