The Hub Theatre, which has been performing for the previous ten seasons in Fairfax VA’s New School on Silver King Court, is leaving that venue immediately and will be performing their 11th season out-of-house, the company announced today. Hub will perform its next show, The Burn, in Herndon, VA’s NextStop Theatre. The Burn is scheduled […]
Archives for January 15, 2019
Is a black actor capable of playing Hamlet? That was a raging question in DC in 1951.
[Editor’s note] In 2018, when Royal Shakespeare Theatre’s Hamlet, set in West Africa and directed by Simon Godwin, arrived at the Kennedy Center, Paapa Essiedu played the title role to unanimous praise. According to Lee Seymour of Forbes, it was the first time the RSC had cast a black actor in the role, considered one of […]
Washington National Opera looks to the future with 3 short operas in development
Snow could not deter the faithful from The John F. Kennedy Center last weekend where we saw an extraordinary commitment of artists and audience members gather as part of this year’s American Opera Initiative from Washington National Opera. Many came bringing skills and focus to give respectful consideration to four pairs of composers-and-librettists and their […]