Temperatures dropped sharply inside the Kennedy Center last night; they rose again exponentially. There were other, sometime violent, meteorological disturbances. In short, in the space of 80 minutes, the multi-media NeoArtic asks us to journey with the work in a disturbing yet also strangely beautiful and elegiac investigation into what science writer Elisabeth Kolbert has termed […]
Archives for February 14, 2019
Review: Cyrano de Bergerac. A knockabout clown in love with a tiny dancer
Confession time: When I fell in love with theatre, I really fell for Cyrano, Roxanne, Christian and their heady love triangle. And the swashbuckling. And the language. Edmond Rostand’s heroic and poetic swordsman with the prominent nose practically leapt off the page for me and my imagination as a high school student. My heart skipped […]
Review: Huckleberry Finn’s Big River at Adventure Theatre MTC
Adventure Theatre MTC in Glen Echo Park has put runaways Huck and Jim back on a raft down the mighty Missisippi in a revamped version of the musical Big River, itself based on Mark Twain’s tale. This time, Huckleberry Finn’s Big River is for today’s young audiences. Huckleberry Finn is one of the most challenged […]