On Valentine’s Day this year, Arena Stage will open The Heiress, adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square by playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz. While the play may seem at first glance to be your typical romance, director Seema Sueko feels the story is very apropos for the Feast of St. Valentine. “It’s not your […]
Archives for February 7, 2019
No space for their new company? How Prologue Theatre solved it and debuted Grand Concourse
The DC Area’s artistic community has seen the rise and fall of many theatre companies. As the cost of space rentals in DC increase, we see fewer and fewer performing spaces for theatres within the city limits. However, in Northern Virginia, more and more small theatre companies are cropping up. Our community has a lot to […]
Review: Alvin Ailey Dance Theater at The Kennedy Center
A lone figure stood in the spotlight at the start of what I’ve come to think of as Washington’s most sparkling gala event. In the Opera House space which could have easily swallowed her up and with rustling of bejeweled gowns as latecomers hastily made their way to their seats, Nyla Pettis stood tall, looking […]
Next Stop: North Korea. John Feffer’s next solo show brings us in-country insights into that shuttered country
With a second summit between the leaders of the U.S. and North Korea, Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, scheduled for the end of this month in Vietnam, the timing for John Feffer’s latest show couldn’t be better. An acknowledged expert on North Korea, Feffer returns to his gifts as solo storyteller to bring us […]