When he was first asked to take on the role of the unscrupulous title character in Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe, in the SeeNoSun production at DCAC, Sun King Davis was both intrigued and excited. After all, it’s not every day you get to play a police office who moonlights as a contract killer in a […]
Archives for June 12, 2014
A Bid to Save the World at Source Festival
“Some men seek immortality through their work,” Woody Allen once explained. “Some men seek immortality through their posterity. I seek immortality through…not dying.” I feel ya, Wood-man. And so, apparently, does Erin Bregman, whose A Bid to Save the World – a confused mish-mash, with music – imagines a universe in which death is a […]
Facebook in Memoriam at Source Festival
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter what sort of memorial he wanted. “I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this,” he said, putting his hand on his desk, “and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives Building….I […]
DC and 30 cities honor Shange’s For Colored Girls with public readings on June 16th
“All voices raised on the same day around the world in praise of one of this country’s most important plays,” organizer Erich McMillan-McCall Founder/CEO of Project1VOICE told us on a phone call, “that’s our vision.” That vision will become a reality on Monday, June 16 when DC-based African Continuum Theatre Company joins an international group […]
Expect epic expressions at Theater J next season
Six plays offering life-changing journeys intertwining the political, the personal, the poignant and the provocative will comprise Theater J’s upcoming 2014-15 season of Epic Expressions. The ambitious line-up of socially relevant drama and cultural celebration will tackle feminist aspirations within a traditional religious community, interracial adoption and the ethics of assisted suicide in the face […]
Forum stays in Silver Spring as new management takes over the downtown performance space
The theatre venue in downtown Silver Spring now known as Round House Silver Spring will have a change of name and management beginning July 1, 2014. It will become the Silver Spring Black Box Theater, managed by Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring, comprised of the four arts organizations primarily using the popular venue located next […]