Archives for July 24, 2009

Hunter rates it: “The room is pregnant with possibilities” sighs actress Annie Huey, reclining in a chair and gazing out to us. The play she’s adopted to fill the space is A.D., a whirling vision of the early twenty-first century.

David rates it: If you haven’t had the experience of walking from a 21st century DC street into a 1920’s-era California speakeasy and old-time cinema, and somehow I doubt you have, then you owe it to yourself to see

Josh rates it: I find it hard to review modern dance. I appreciate modern dance as a reaction to classical movment concepts. I took a class in college on modern dance. I really do like modern dance. I just have a hard time figuring out what to say about it in a review.

Anna rates it: What do you get when you combine a talented group of actors, hermeneutics, diagrammed sentences, and thought-provoking deconstructionist dialogue? Aside from an entertaining and smart fifty minutes

Hunter rates it: In a small town, everybody knows everybody. But in a dark theatre, who knows anybody at all? Peter Neofotis sets out to bridge this gap through storytelling, fostering intimacy

Tim rates it: Bare Breasted Women Sword Fighting, in which, um, bare-breasted women fight with swords, is actually the final act of a five-act anti-burlesque put together by dog & pony dc. It is an extraordinarily sharp and subtle bit

Tim rates it: There is no better place to see a show about sin than the basement of a church. Evil exists everywhere in the world, but you can’t have sin without religion to point it out.

Tim rates it: It’s Not Easy Being Green is actually a collection of four sharply-drawn short plays and a dance piece by Washington-area artists, all about relationships in an era of ecological consciousness. An understanding that our present environmental challenges