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Archives for June 2017
Perfect timing for return of Perfect Arrangement at Source (review)
In its tenth anniversary, CulturalDC’s Source Festival has chosen to revisit one of its previous hits to celebrate, and has made the prime choice of Perfect Arrangement for this honor. It’s a for-sure laugh-riot, this 1950’s-set sitcom for the stage, and it has the cleverest of premises: Two gay men and two lesbian women hiding […]
Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown World (review)
Genius. Fearless. Absolutely fun. Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown World is a pop culture junkie’s wet dream. And, given the violence, skin, and sexual innuendos, there’s no better way to describe it.
Infinity brings back Patsy with A Closer Walk with Patsy Cline (review)
Patsy Cline is easily the queen mother of country music—her importance to the genre on par with the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Loretta Lynn. She was a pioneer, paving the way for country to go mainstream with her pop crossover hits and showing that women could hold their own in a tough, […]
What they cut from tonight’s Tony Awards
Two of the most important awards of the evening received short shrift on the broadcast. The great Broadway actor James Earl Jones received the Lifetime Achievement in Theatre Award at the Tony Awards tonight. Only a short clip of his speech was broadcast. Here it is in its entirety. Kevin Moriarty, the artistic director of […]
DC Theatre Scene and DC Metro Theater Arts to share Fringe coverage
We are very pleased to share this announcement with you. Washington, DC, June 9, 2017—The editors and publishers of DC’s two major theater websites—DC Theatre Scene and DC Metro Theater Arts—today announced plans to join forces to cover this year’s Capital Fringe Festival, which kicks off July 6, 2017, with 70 openings in six days.
DCTS Guide to Capital Fringe 2017. Extensions just announced
July 6 – 30, 2017 More details The best and the weirdest pubs on H Street WAIT! It’s Not Over FRINGE-AWARDED EXTENSIONS, July 27 – 30 5 Epiphanies “It’s What We Do”: A Play about the Occupation Abortion Road Trip Blue Over You Clara Bow: Becoming ‘It’ Exit, Pursued by a Bear Help […]
New chamber opera Independence Eve from UrbanArias (review)
UrbanArias pulls off a seemingly impossible task with Independence Eve by Sidney Marquez Boquiren and Daniel Neer, a chamber opera of three scenes with two singers, which deals with race relations in the US from the recent past to the near future all within 70 minutes.
The 2017 Tony Awards – here’s who SHOULD win and who DID win
Here are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2017 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I’ve been maintaining for a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We’ll learn the choices of the Tony voters soon enough.
New York City Ballet: Balanchine, Peck & Ratmansky (review)
In a formidable and diverse program Tuesday night, the New York City Ballet juxtaposed affable athleticism with social and romantic tensions. The former was represented by two Balanchine classics, Square Dance and Tarantella, and Aaron Copland’s Rodeo, reimagined by choreographer Justin Peck. The latter infused Alexei Ratmansky’s disquieting Odessa in its Washington premiere.
David Ives’s The School for Lies (review)
Playwright David Ives’s mastery of rhymed verse builds on Molière’s 17th-century comedy of manners. Together, they will leave your sides aching.
Broadway newcomers from the Theatre World Awards sum up the season (video)
Current and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a single word.
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