The 2019-2020 season will be a busy one at Olney Theatre Center with 16 plays, concerts, and presentations as part of the company’s 82nd season. Musicals will frame the opening of the season and of the new year, with Cabaret kicking off the season, and Miss You Like Hell, a new musical from Erin McKeown […]
Archives for March 5, 2019
Review: Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau at Theater Alliance
At the top of Dominique Morisseau’s Blood at the Root, teens burst onto the stage in a blast of energy and music, reciting lines filled with wild rhythms and formations coming every which way, bodies in a cacophony of movement, stopping in a freeze to elucidate salient points about their lives. They are exuberant teens, […]
Review: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Rodney King witnessed
How can one play make you low in spirit but high on life? In less than two hours, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 takes you on a whip-smart ride between sadness that race and class issues remain unchanged since the 1992 Rodney King verdict and uprising—and in some ways are actually worse—and exhilaration at witnessing fine […]