Arena Stage’s ten-production 2016-2017 season will feature theatrical presentations of true events (including a new play by local playwright Jacqueline Lawton), as well as a two-play Lillian Hellman festival, another appearance by Kathleen Turner, and a couple of old favorites, the company announced.
Archives for March 2016
“It Can’t Happen Here” NYC reading featuring…Donald Trump?
In It Can’t Happen Here, one of the candidates for president of the United States declares “the people are sick to death of political chatter…It’s time to ACT” — and promises to “build a wall of steel.”
Nottage’s Sweat among six finalists for $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA Award
Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s meditation on the deteriorating American working class wrapped in a who-done-it, heads up a list of six finalists for the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the American Theatre Critics Association announced this weekend.
Pulitzer winner The Flick at Signature Theatre (review)
Laura C. Harris has now starred in my two favorite Signature Theatre productions. Her star turn in the immersive physical (and criminally underseen) Tender Napalm put her on my fanboy map, and now her performance in Annie Baker’s subtle, lovely Pulitzer Prize winning The Flick puts her in those rare ranks where I’m pretty sure she’d […]
El mundo es un pañuelo / The World is a Handkerchief (review)
What happens when you accept all the different colors in the world as equal and beautiful? You get a rainbow. In this delightful, droll allegory set to music, El Mundo es un pañuelo/The World is a Handkerchief, Chilean playwright Jorge Díaz, shows us the joy of diversity.
Holly Twyford lands iconic role in Ford’s Theatre season lineup
Holly Twyford will reach another milestone in her notable career as a Washington actor when she tackles the role of Martha in Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, as part of Ford Theatre’s 4-production season next year.
The Odyssey: From Vietnam to America at The Kennedy Center (review)
Kennedy Center’s World Stages is what I might call a rolling festival of international works that defy easy categorizing of genres, and no show more so than The Odyssey: from Vietnam to America.
Best friends Hasani Allen and Harrison Smith in Green Day’s rocker American Idiot at Keegan Theatre
If you happen to notice a deeper than normal camaraderie between the characters of Tunny and Johnny in Keegan’s upcoming production of American Idiot, it’s no coincidence. While the characters are best friends in the play, their portrayers – Hasani Allen and Harrison Smith respectively – share the same distinction in real life.
Next season’s theatre calendar at The Kennedy Center
The 2016-2017 Kennedy Center’s theatre season promises to be a farrago of familiar classics, ambitious new works — from Broadway and everywhere else — productions staged by distinguished visiting companies and, of course, Shear Madness: sixteen productions in all.
Next season, Synetic Theater will be speechless
Synetic Theater, Washington’s revolutionary movement-based theater company, has announced a schedule of all-movement shows for 2016/17 in which there will be no dialogue. At all. Ever..
Washington National Opera’s new season
As Washington National Opera heads into its ambitious staging of Richard Wagner’s four opera Ring Cycle, the company, led by Francesca Zambello, announced six major productions for the 2016-2017 season.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company introduces wild slate for 2016-2017
Chaos, confusion, mystery and excitement will reign supreme in the 2016-2017 season which Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced yesterday, including Clare Barron’s controversial Baby Screams Miracle, the American debut of a new play by Chilean master Guillermo Calderon, the gender-mashing Hir, originally scheduled last year at Studio, and a Relentless Award semifinalist, Collective Rage: A […]