Some artists you can trust to bring their artistry to new heights, and that no matter what they do, it will be an electrifying and exuberant experience. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is one of those artists. Featured as part The Kennedy Center’s Collaboration with the Hi-ARTS/Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Joseph’s red, black & GREEN: a blues serves up […]
Archives for April 7, 2014
Hal Holbrook, Mark Twain Tonight!
As an unemployed actor six decades ago, Hal Holbrook starting digging through Mark Twain’s written words in order to fashion a staged interview in which the “father of American literature” (as William Faulkner deemed Twain) would come to life. From the interview, the event evolved into Mark Twain Tonight! in which one author’s distinctive humor […]
Win tickets to Washington Ballet’s Peter Pan
We have two pairs of tickets to Washington Ballet’s upcoming production of Peter Pan.
Camp David
Talk about your surreal moments. At the world premiere Thursday night of Lawrence Wright’s Camp David, a dramatization of the 13-day contretemps in 1978 between President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin, you watched Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn sitting in the audience watching younger versions of themselves onstage.
Denzel Washington and company shine in A Raisin in the Sun
When this Lorraine Hansberry drama first appeared on Broadway in 1959 it created a stir, for it was the first play by an African-American woman to be produced on the main stem. Later that season Ms. Hansberry became the youngest American playwright, the fifth woman and the first African-American to win the Drama Critics Circle […]