“…It may strike you more like a high mass to low instincts … the characters are all id; desperately (and fueled by cocaine and bathtub gin) hoping to express their secret selves, and so realize their secret desires.”
Archives for October 6, 2017
The Washington Ballet’s Russian Masters review
America may be in a new cold war with Putin, but the Washington Ballet this week takes Russia into a white-hot embrace.
Langston Hughes, Joseph McCarthy hearings. Why Are You Now … is a timely play
Langston Hughes was a noted poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry. It’s no wonder that the literary giant got a “shout out” in Rent’s “La Vie Boheme” along with other historic notables.
WAPAVA’s Richard Bauer Award honors Rick Foucheux and Amber Paige McGinnis
On Tuesday, Oct. 10, the DC theater community is invited to the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive’s (WAPAVA) Richard Bauer Award celebration at the Woolly Mammoth Theater, in an evening that includes dinner, entertainment, the awards presentations to Rick Foucheux and Amber McGinnis and an auction.