If We Are Women currently at the former Living Stage space is an overly wordy story of three generations of women spending a leisurely day at a Connecticut beach house — we suffer through moaning, groaning and discussions of who had the more primitive method of dealing with menstruation. Jess (Lynn Steinmetz) is mourning her just passed […]
Archives for February 25, 2006
Review: Kingdom from African Continuum Theatre
Kingdom, currently mounted at the Atlas Center For The Arts, is without doubt the most interesting production I have seen this year. Now keep in mind I did not say the best but it is close and it is fantastic. Take a large cup of Richard III, throw in some BBQ chicken and red Kool-Aid, add […]
High level theatre – Low Level Panic from Open Circle Theatre
Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre, currently mounted at The Playbill Cafe by Open Circle Theatre, seeks to examine the rolls sex, pornography and personal identity play in women’s lives. Three young women (Jo, Mary and Celia) share not only a home, but also a bathroom, where they express their feelings about their lives, loves, […]
Much Ado At The Folger, 2006
Nick Hutchison of Folger Shakespeare Library got it right. “[There is] a misconception that Beatrice and Benedick… meet wittily, argue wittily, fall in love wittily, and married wittily at the end. Such parity is not what Shakespeare presents on the stage.” In Folger’s presentation of Much Ado About Nothing, it is Hutchison’s respect for Benedick […]
Review: Hapgood, a game of Spy vs Spy
As Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart Again fades into the background, WSC’s newest production, Hapgood, opens in the men’s changing rooms of a public swimming pool where a complex trade of top secret information is taking place. Briefcases slide under this door then that door so many times it takes quantum physics to explain […]
Streetcar Named Desire at Keegan Theatre
James Lee Burke wrote: “New Orleans isn’t a city. It’s a Petrarchan sonnet. There’s no other place on the planet like it. I think it was sawed loose from South America and blown by trade winds across the Caribbean until it affixed itself to the southern rim of the United States. Every antithetical element in […]
Dan Brick stars as MisterMan at DCAC
MisterMan is forty five minutes of Dan Brick and that alone is enough reason for anyone to see this one man show at DC Arts Center. Mr. Brick is able to take command of an audience with great skill. His has an ability to bring a smile to your face while knowing full well that […]