The lives of the Pettway women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama are stitched indelibly into the quilts they made. And as the presence of those quilts grew in the American consciousness — evolving from simple domestic wares into powerful social artifacts and, eventually, into American treasures — an unseen perspective on segregation and the Civil Rights […]
Archives for October 2, 2013
Heads of State: actors Kurt Rhoads and Scott Parkinson discuss Measure For Measure
A shutdown of the federal government only comes along every so often, but crises of leadership are nothing new. Since this week is shaping up to be a good one for some reflection on this point, let’s turn our attention to one of Shakespeare’s shrewder studies of civic disruption, Measure For Measure, and the modernized […]
Red Speedo
To see Lucas Hnath’s new play Red Speedo, you climb stairs from the second-floor gallery at Studio Theater, pass through a door into backspace, climb more stairs, pass through a door into the playing space, climb more stairs, and cross a catwalk to an usher, who will point to a seat in one of four […]
Ford’s Theatre shuttered by shutdown; future of The Laramie Project is uncertain
As late as Tuesday morning, October 1st, the staff of Ford’s Theatre was confident that their production of The Laramie Project would proceed during any shutdown of the federal government. After all, the Fords Theatre Society is privately funded and previous announced shutdowns allowed the theatre to remain open. By 4pm on Tuesday, the company […]