Rare is the show that would be better if it were significantly longer. At a mere thirty-ish minutes, Nameless Theater’s Honey comes out to nearly a dollar a minute for the ticket price. And while those thirty minutes take place in a unique location – the show is performed entirely within one of the rooms […]
Archives for April 2018
Before they reach The Wall. Experience the desert crossing in convincing virtual reality. Carne y Arena (review)
If you’re looking for the cutting edge of DC theater, look for the groups who are interrogating the boundaries of what it means to even be a theater. From Forum’s actor-less The State to TBD’s immersive wonderlands to The Tarot Reading’s ‘theater without lies’* to the variety of groups making plays in bars, houses, hotel rooms, […]
Nameless gets intimate, producing its latest play in a DC motel room. We talk with Honey’s writer and director
Site-specific shows are not new to DC theatre. We’ve had plays performed in a swimming pool, in bars, in vacant spaces and in a residential home. Nameless Theater is taking it further, producing their latest play, Honey, which is set in a motel room, in a small bedroom of the Ivy City Hotel in northeast […]
Review: Cabaret Noir by Happenstance
Take a tip from me. If your jones for hard-nosed detectives, shady nighttime dealings on foggy piers, dive bars serving bathtub gin, torch songs, sassy dames and the like can’t be satiated by WAMU’s The Big Broadcast, head on over to Joe’s Movement Emporium, they got ‘em by the truckload. Tell ‘em Johnny sent you […]
Review: Paper Dolls from Mosaic Theater
“My drag isn’t a costume I use to hide in,” famed performance artists and playwright Taylor Mac says, “it’s exposing what I look like on the inside.” And the same could be said for the five characters from the Philippines who are the focus of Philip Himberg’s Paper Dolls, which is getting its US premiere […]
theatreWashington announces date for Helen Hayes Awards and exciting new venue
Attendees of this year’s Helen Hayes Awards on May 14, 2018 will be heading to a new part of DC for DC theatre’s biggest night. theatreWashington has announced that this 34th year of the awards will be held at The Anthem at DC’s new District Wharf.
Iron Crow moves last 2 shows of the season to summer; plans community forum in May
As reported here last week, the Baltimore company Iron Crow Theatre is dealing with a sexual harassment allegation, which forced cancellation of the opening of Terrence McNally’s Corpus Christi, originally scheduled for this month. In its place, the cast will do a public reading of the play April 6 to benefit The Trevor Project.
Review: Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
If this was the concert version, what on earth will they add to a fully-staged version? Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert was the latest in the string of musicals being broadcast live on television with starry casts. But the “concert” we saw on NBC last night had about as many sets, costumes, effects, actors, […]
Nora Achrati an inspired choice as Narrator in The Pavilion at Hub Theatre (review)
Craig Wright’s The Pavilion is a modern classic because it wades through a starlit sentimentality on its way to a clear-eyed lesson. As a tale about a man trying to reunite with his lost love at a 20-year high school reunion, staged simply with just three actors and a wooden railing, you’ll expect a soppy […]
Mosaic Theater Company announces its next 8 play season
Mosaic Theater Company’s fourth season will bring iconic figures from our past — Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Donny Hathaway, the great R&B and Gospel singer Rosetta Tharpe and her protégé Marie Knight, as well as two actors from the world premiere of The Return (and their army of detractors, as harvested from Facebook and […]
DCTS’ best fake news: Trump buys naming rights to Kennedy Center and other heart-stopping stories
MEMO TO SELF DATE: March 31, 2018 RE: DCTS April Fools Story All right, dammit, think! It’s two hours from April Fools, and you haven’t thought up an April Fools prank for tomorrow’s DCTS. OK, how about this: “Porn Star sues President of the United States, Seeks to Void No-Tell Agreement.” Oh, wait…. OK, how […]