Playwright Tracey Scott Wilson once wanted to be a reporter. “I wanted to be a journalist for a long time, but when I got to college, I realized it was not what I imagined,” she said in an artview interview. “I wanted to inject my opinions in the articles and, worse, I wanted the […]
Archives for February 25, 2006
Two Queens, One Castle
By: Tim Treanor Two Queens, One Castle This is what happened to Jevetta Steele: She fell in love with a man when she was sixteen. True to the tenets of her Pentecostal faith, she married him, and through twelve years of married life he was her one and only. They had two children. . She […]
Review: Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem Cards, Love in the Age of Samurai
“Life is but a dream,” says the samurai Takiguchi (Patrick Bussink) “but in the lotus blossom is the beginning of reality.” He is preparing to cast off his worldly delights and ambitions to live a life of prayer, meditation and self-denial. In so doing, he hopes to in some way make up for the unspeakable, […]
Nevermore – Signature Theatre
By Ronnie Ruff Photos by Carol Pratt Nevermore Director Eric Schaeffer describes his show as a cross between musical theatre and Cirque du Soleil. The show has the feel of such an event, the excitement, the anticipation of what is to come, this is usually the case with a brand new show. But there is […]
Fringe Formula For Success: The Gas Heart and Hamletmachine
Forum Theatre & Dance mounts two plays The Gas Heart by Tristan Tzara and Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller that have a an anti-war message as part of their season titled “The Present Moment”. World Wars I and II are the focus of these one-acts that seek to tie the reactions from those wars to […]
Big Bird Invades Georgetown: Monkeyboy at Charter Theatre
I must tell you at the outset that this play features an enormous Cockatoo. When I say “enormous” I don’t mean big like the bird that Robert Blake, pre-indictment, carried on his shoulder in Berretta. I mean bigger than Totie Fields, bigger than Flipper the Dolphin, bigger than God. Monkeyboy is a meta-bird with a […]
Review: Mark O’Rowe’s Howie the Rookie
Seeing a Solas Nua production is a lot like getting to ride the biggest baddest rollercoaster without having to go to a big, impersonal amusement park. This is theatre that is so up front and personal that you find yourself totally immersed in the characters and their out of control ride through Dublin nightlife. Dan […]
Review: Spoon River Anthology, American Century Theater
A touch of Americana based on the original collection of poems by Edgar Lee Masters, strummed folk guitar and well presented poetic dialog all make for an interesting piece of theatre in Arlington at Gunston II. The American Century Theater identifies rarely produced American plays and produces them for the enjoyment of DC theatre audiences. […]
Experiment with an Air Pump, successful!
In the Joseph Wright painting, “Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump,” a Saint of Knowledge, his face rigid with scientific rapture, displays the results of his experiment. Around him, his apostles, family and friends gaze on in various expressions of certainty and satisfaction. To his left, a middle-aged man smugly explains the results […]
Beautiful Child, Didactic makes a fearless choice
Like The Goat or Who is Sylvia by Edward Albee, Beautiful Child by Nicky Silver is a play that scares critics and audiences alike with hard to handle subject material that evokes our most deeply held feelings of disgust. Didactic Theatre’s mission includes promoting the reality of disparity based on a variety of circumstances. They […]
Review: WIT’s Seasonal Disorder comes with all the trimmings
Seasonal Disorder tickets might just be what Santa should bring to all those “bah humbug” sorts that have forgotten how to laugh. We all have holiday stories tucked away in our cerebral archives that may not seem so funny to us, but in the hands of the creative folks at Washington Improv Theatre they are […]
Venus Theatre portends the future with A Little Rebellion Now
Sometimes a smaller theatre company can mount a production that has so much enthusiasm and heart that one looks past technical issues and the company’s shoestring budget and just says “Who Cares! The show just rocks”. Venus Theatre has mounted A Little Rebellion Now at The Warehouse Theatre and it has that feel of true theatre excitement that is hard […]