The dysfunctional sex lives of six urban dwellers living in Mexico City in the 90’s makes great fodder for comedy in Sexo, Pudor y Làgrimas, the newest production from Teatro de la Luna.
Archives for February 2013
Little Red Riding Hood and the 3 Little Pigs
You could tell that an old tale was getting fresh new treatment from the first hip-hopping beat to when a cool dude wolf bops along dropping the scoop from His perspective for a change. And is it an eye opener. The original flava-fresh script by Christopher Piper offers delightful new twists about what really might […]
Latest extensions – Ladies Swing at MetroStage and Henry V “most stirring Shakespeare history play in a decade”at Folger
Audiences have more time to catch performances of two hit shows which clicked with critics and audiences alike.
Intersections – Atlas’ cultural crossroads – gets ready to open this weekend
More than 800 established and emerging DC artists, offering the best of the area’s music, dance, theater and spoken word, will converge at the Atlas Theatre over the next three weekends as part of the fourth annual Intersections Festival.
Puppet Stand-Up this Saturday – look who’s pulling the strings
Puppet Stand-Up, coming to the Warehouse for 2 shows this Saturday, promises to run the gamut from serious to silly by presenting puppets in stand up routines by “the best puppet comics working today.” Some, perhaps all, of the 18 puppeteers may surprise you: there’s Christopher Henley and Kathleen Akerley, usually found in more serious endeavors […]
Round House brings a season of powerful women to the stage in 2013-14
Round House’s 2013-2014 Season – it’s first under new Artistic Director Ryan Rilette – will feature five stories about powerful women in crisis, along with one of the great classics of the modern stage.
Smash 2:3 The Dramaturg
In which the series returns to some of its better instincts, while continuing to indulge it’s bad ones. After a decent premiere and a shaky follow-up, Smash returns to some of its Season 1 strengths here in week 3.
The Convert
With The Convert, Danai Gurira proves that, in this shorter-is-sweeter era, three act plays can draw a packed house. Set in the 1890’s in what was then known as Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, Gurira’s characters each grapple, in achingly believable ways, with the effects of white British colonial rule and the enforcement of Christian dogma.
Fiddler on the Roof
A sprightly new production of the classic Broadway musical Fiddler On The Roof is now on tap at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia. While lacking the expanse of a Broadway stage, Toby’s Fiddler makes up for it with a richness in characterization and a tight sense of family that can often get lost in a larger production. […]
Finally – plays about government workers
If you’ve ever wondered why DC playwrights aren’t writing about the largest population group in DC – government workers – well, Mary Resing and the staff at Active Cultures wondered right along with you, and ended up with an hour long festival of ultra short plays.
Butterfly
Butterfly is a story about the prophet Todd (Michael Mack), son of the prophet Jules (Ken Jackson), on the last day of his life.
Great Moments in the Theatre
The sweep of Benedict Nightingale’s “Great Moments in Theatre” covers not decades or centuries, but millennia. As if his pen were a time machine, he takes the reader back as far as ancient Greece’s Dionysus Festival of 458 BC to imagine what it was like to witness the performance of Aeschylus’ Oresteia. Then he tackles […]