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 […]
Archives for February 2, 2011
The Comedy of Errors
Dial the Wayback Machine to the year 2004. The Folger Theatre is mounting Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, directed and re-imagined by veteran DC director Joe Banno. He’s transported it to an Italian neighborhood in New York City loaded with tricksters and Mafiosi, all speaking in dialect. It’s a laff-riot funny, a production for all […]
Monologue Madness slams its way into the DC theatre scene
Some of the mid-Atlantic’s best theatre & film actors battle for over $2,000 in cash & prizes [Editor: We could find no way to improve on this news story sent in by producer Edward Daniels and so present it in its entirety.] In March of 2011, while sports fans from across the country focus their […]