Joy Zinoman’s Studio Acting Conservatory, which must vacate Studio Theatre this summer, will be safe to continue on, Zinoman announced on Kojo Nnamdi’s show today. The City of Washington has helped locate temporary space for her program at the Garnet-Patterson Middle School, which was also the 3 year nesting ground for Duke Ellington School of […]
Archives for March 4, 2019
Review: Oil, a sprawling and ambitious drama, makes its American debut at Olney
British playwright Ella Hickson gets an American premiere of her sprawlingly ambitious and provocative play at Olney Theatre Center. Oil is a play written up as a “nexus of oil, economics, and power.” But if oil is the premise for this for the play, it serves less as a central character and more a backdrop, […]
Review: Next Stop: North Korea. John Feffer’s latest looks inside the world’s most secretive society
Few foreign lands loom larger in the American imagination than North Korea, despite and because the average outsider knows almost nothing about the country. We’re in the dark by design: the U.S. restricts and currently bans tourist travel, the North Korean Central News Agency emits pure propaganda every day, and our countries’ diplomatic communications are […]
Quotidian announces 2 plays for 2019.
For its 2019 season, Quotidian will offer audiences the opportunity to see two plays which they may have missed during their runs earlier in the area. The season will open with Michael Hollinger’s Ghost-Writer. The novelist Franklin Woolsey is accomplished, successful and, unfortunately, dead. His secretary, however, continues to take dictation. The work is beautiful, […]