When we first met, David S. Kessler was a small mammal biologist at the National Zoo by day, avid theatre goer by night. He retired, but Kessler isn’t the type to rest for long. He received our 2015 Audience Award, quickly moved on to writing and performing plays in Capital Fringe. With his newest play, […]
Archives for May 30, 2019
Spoleto Festival USA 2019: Path of Miracles by The Westminster Choir
There are rare but important artistic experiences that serve as spiritual pilgrimages. This year, in a kind of riches of Grace, we have shared in two at Spoleto Festival. Compagnie Hervé Koubi crafted a work that used in part the language of street dance to carry us on a journey of healing. Joe Miller and […]
Spoleto Festival 2019: Globe Theatre’s Comedy of Errors and Pericles
While Spoleto Festival is perhaps best known for its cutting-edge premieres of opera, dance, and theater, it grants special dispensation periodically to productions by English language’s favorite bard, William Shakespeare. In 2013, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, produced by Bristol Old Vic with South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, became a festival hit and remains indelibly etched […]
Spoleto Festival 2019: Chamber Music and Compagnie Hervé Koubi, dance
How often we, in our silos, get stuck in our own work and schedules. Even more, artists miss opportunities to be fed and inspired by the interplay of other arts forms. If released, dancers see dance, musicians attend concerts, painters prowl galleries, and theater-makers (if they clamber out of their mole-holes of rehearsal halls) scurry […]
Spoleto Festival 2019: Inspiring opening ceremony followed by a shocking Salomé
A sun-drenched morning greeted townsfolk and cultural tourists alike for the 43rd no-weather-spoiler day at this year’s Spoleto Festival Opening. People gathered in the street outside City Hall. Many of the wise women of this fair city sported wide-brimmed hats and beat fans against the heat; seersucker suits and straw hats remained the dress code […]