In 1947 when The Winslow Boy first hit Broadway, its author Terence Rattigan was in great favor, churning out hit after hit beginning with 1937’s French Without Tears and continuing well into the 1950s with The Browning Version, Separate Tables, Love in Idleness, Flare Path, O Mistress Mine, The Deep Blue Sea, The Sleeping Prince […]
Archives for November 2013
Kathleen Chalfant gives staged reading of Redgrave’s Shakespeare for My Father
Acclaimed Broadway actress Kathleen Chalfant will perform a staged reading of Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare for My Father Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 pm at Georgetown University.
David Henry Hwang speaks in Reston, Sunday, Nov 10
This Sunday, November 10th, Tony award winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, ) will be speaking to audiences at Reston Community Center’s CenterStage.
a haunting Woman in Black
Theatre is a form of therapy and horror is a form of release – taking us to the outer unexplored edges of our minds. Terror and theatre can unleash internal beasts we’d like to ignore. But ignore them and suffer the consequences.
Operating System at fallFRINGE
Google’s proliferation has made technology feel less like magic and more commonplace, like in 2004 when Gmail launched online storage limits, how much we could “save” of our lives—became obsolete. But Joseph Price’s fantasy became reality and his happiness soared.
Backstage with Anthony Rapp of If/Then
Anthony Rapp is ready. On a recent evening, he was at the National Theatre. Along with the rest of the If/Then company, he was rehearsing that show’s finale. He told me about looking out into the audience, empty of patrons, and imagining the seats filled.
The Immortal Jellyfish
Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? Last winter, when The New York Times Magazine ran a feature under that headline, the idea of a creature that lives on and on with no biological death captured many readers’ imaginations. Turns out it’s real. It’s a hydrozoa called Turritopsis dorhnii, and it routinely reverts from […]
Shrimp & Griots
It’s not a coincidence that so many solo performers touch on isolation in the stories they tell. These are individuals who, more often than not, had the spotlight shined on them in some way before they ever stepped onstage, and often not for the right reasons.
The new musical Crossing opens at Signature Theatre
Signature Theatre has mined something with its world premiere of Crossing that is deep, mysterious, and, just maybe, more precious than gold. Such richness isn’t easily retrieved, but the journey, like the journeys its characters represent, is an invitation “to follow” and well worth the effort.
Giselle
Intricate cut-outs of luscious trees arch over the stage, and a painted drop shows rolling hills through a gap in the woods. Warm golden light beams into the forest glen, and a little cottage leans out onto the stage. As the pliant suitors of our heroine Giselle stride into the frame, our guileless peasant girl […]
Slings and Arrows: 3:02 “Vex Not His Ghost”
“Is work enough, or is there something more?” – Father McTeague
Eric Hissom, back at Folger for Romeo and Juliet
Rebooting a five hundred year old play for a modern audience is hard. Keeping a play fresh when it’s as well-known as Romeo and Juliet might be even harder. And let’s be honest: we’ve probably all seen some bad Romeo and Juliet interpretations. Maybe you saw a version set in samurai-era Japan that turned into […]