El Paso Blue by Hispanic playwright Octavio Solís, now making its East Coast debut at the GALA Hispanic Theatre, is a bilingual tribute to Spanglish, (with no surtitles), to the painful journey of cultural assimilation. It is wonderfully ironic that it’s written and performed mostly in English.
Archives for June 7, 2016
DCTS free ticket giveaway: District Merchants at Folger Theatre. Closes Friday morning
Update: We have our winners. Next week we’re doing our popular Goldstar giveaway. For this week’s giveaway, we have two pair of tickets to Aaron Posner’s District Merchants at Folger Theatre.
Hamilton sparks Tony question: are sung-through musicals just concerts with benefits?
New York Times drama critic Charles Isherwood inadvertently sparked a controversy when, in a discussion of the 2016 Tony Awards, he commented about Hamilton: “I do find it slightly puzzling that it was nominated in the book of a musical category, since the show is almost sung-through, but it’s the kind of juggernaut we haven’t […]