It’s official. The snow is here, and by tonight (Friday) will be of blizzard proportions. How can we be so sure? The Kennedy Center, along with every other venue in town, has canceled shows for Friday and Saturday. And Metro is shutting down tonight, and doesn’t plan to be up and running til Monday morning.
Archives for January 22, 2016
Our Mother’s Brief Affair review: Linda Lavin in Richard Greenberg’s tale of adultery, memory, and the Rosenbergs
Our Mother’s Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother’s deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end, two hours later, playwright Richard Greenberg has sprung several surprises. The biggest surprise is how much the play feels like a first draft for a better play…or notes for several other plays.
UpClose with Ed Dixon, Georgie: a rose and its thorns
“If you didn’t witness it in person, it’s difficult to grasp what it really was. That’s something I’m trying to wrestle with in this piece.” I was speaking to Ed Dixon, who wrote and is performing Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose at Signature Theatre through February 7th. He was describing that elusive element called […]