– Award winning DC playwright Karen Zacarias received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (The Sins of Sor Juana). Her works have been produced at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, The Goodman Theater, The Denver Center, Alliance Theater, Round House Theater, Imagination Stage, Berkshire Theater Festival, South Coast Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, The Arden, Cleveland […]
Archives for April 19, 2012
Our first night at the Howard to see Henson Alternative: Stuffed and Unstrung
The newly renovated Howard Theater is now a sparkling gem, brimming with excitement and glamour on an otherwise drab still-undergoing-rehab corner north of the Howard U. Metro stop. Judging from the size of the crowd that showed up for the Henson Alternative adult puppet show, the place will be the next “Have you been there, […]
force/collision to stage fluid new work in Washington Navy Yard
On April 26-29, beginning at 7pm during sunset, 30 artists from many disciplines – dance, movement based theatre, live music – will come together in a portion of Washington Navy Yard to perform The Nautical Yards, the story of two lovers separated by war, using elements from references to water mythology and nautical tales and DC […]
Crown of Shadows: the wake of odysseus
Life’s not easy if you’re young prince Telemachus. You miss the dad you barely remember, people think you are too young to take over for a king and demigod like Odysseus, your mother Penelope is being forced to marry one of the many suitors she’s been sleeping around with, and you’re not sure if your […]