Haunting, beautiful, and ablaze with human dignity, Healing Wars is a meditation on the meanings and implications of war. Washington’s own director/choreographer Liz Lerman has turned to seven score and ten years ago, when our country was in the grip of a war that threatened to tear us all apart. (Some say we are still […]
Archives for June 13, 2014
Early Tracy Letts play Killer Joe is chilling
The family members of Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe are just like the Westons of August: Osage County would be if the Westons weren’t so sweet and cuddly and loving. Chris (Matthew Marcus) owes $6,000 to some local thugs, and his life will be forfeit if he doesn’t come up with the cash. His idea is […]
First look at Nancy Robinette in Happy Days
From Scena Theater comes this video preview of the highly anticipated performance by one of Washington’s favorite actors Nancy Robinette in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days. Commenting on her performance is director Robert McNamara. Details and tickets to Happy Days
James Franco and Chris O’Dowd are outstanding in Of Mice and Men
I find it remarkable that a “well made play” which originally opened on Broadway in 1938 for a moderately successful run of 207 performances should have such an impact on an audience today, more that 75 years later. John Steinbeck wrote the play, based on his novel of the period; that first production was directed […]