When Rick Foucheux retired from acting, he did so as one of the most popular, award-winning, one might even say beloved performers in town. Many bemoaned the prospect of no more Foucheux on local stages. Well, he’s back; only it’s not as an actor. He’s written a play. It’s a play about…actors. “Yeah, that’s what […]
Archives for October 31, 2018
Review: The Agitators. Friends and fighters, Frederick Douglass and Susan B Anthony
The first time they met in western New York, in the fall of 1849, playwright Mat Smart imagines, Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony would have had a wary interchange. Both are strong willed social activists, but as a friendship develops, Douglass reminds her that, while her life’s devotions are honorable, his view is based […]
Librettist Mark Campbell on Silent Night, the WWI Christmas Eve miracle on the battlefield
Librettist Mark Campbell and I last spoke when he was mentoring young librettists in a “supportive role” for Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative. Now Campbell is front and center for Silent Night, his highly acclaimed opera with Kevin Puts – for which Puts won a 2012 Pulitzer for musical composition – at Washington National Opera. Silent […]