If you like your Christmas holiday fare free of treacle then this is the show for you. No annoyingly twee children shouting out carols in bad English accents and no sticky sugar plums to get stuck in the teeth. It’s Scrooge meets his past, present, and future on barstools. The Irish pub becomes purgatory and […]
Archives for December 17, 2018
Review: Oh, God. Ready to throw in the towel, God tries therapy
So is God more like a Jewish mother or an abusive husband? Both comparisons are thrown around like zingers in Mosaic Theater Company’s Oh, God. In Anat Gov’s comedy, God (Mitchell Hébert) isn’t a distant figurehead, though. He’s come down to Earth in order to get a quick-fix psychology session with Ella (Kimberly Schraf), an […]
Review: Miss Saigon. A haunting production at the Kennedy Center
The Vietnam War ended 45 years ago, and Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg’s Miss Saigon debuted almost 30 years ago, but the musical, in a riveting touring production at the Kennedy Center through January 13, feels utterly fresh. All too timely as well, with war and refugee crises making headlines from Myanmar, Syria, Afghanistan, South […]
Review: Driving Miss Daisy at Anacostia Playhouse
I wasn’t planning to catch this – the Morgan Freeman/Jessica Tandy movie was enough, so I passed on all the other enticing offerings. Yes, the play is beautifully written and quaint, and ends with a touching reminder of how interconnected we really are, but the servile implications and gentility of the Old South – well, […]
Raising praise for Markus Williams (1972-2018) from his family and the cast of A Civil War Christmas
“Luminous.” That is the word that five actors from A Civil War Christmas settled on to describe their Music Director Markus Williams, who swept into their lives in early November. Two days into tech rehearsals, Markus complained of a headache, and returned to his home in Silver Spring, Md. He died there of a brain […]