The same playwright who gave us The Father with a demented Frank Langella and The Mother with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins? Or maybe just one of them is dead? Or maybe neither? “You think people are dead, but it’s not always the case,” Andre (Pryce) says […]
Archives for September 27, 2019
Review: Funnyman Mike Birbiglia tells it like it is in The New One at National Theatre
Comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia has a rare sleepwalking disorder – one that almost killed him. As he tells it, one night—in the throes of a particularly vivid, bad-guy-chase-sequence dream—a sleepwalking Birbiglia launched himself through the double-paned, second-story window of a La Quinta hotel room. He awoke to find himself openly bleeding amidst a scattering […]
Robert Hooks and the pioneering DC Black Repertory Company
— This season, audiences have the chance to see plays about the African-American experience, written both by a new generation of writers and distinguished playwrights from the 20th century, on numerous stages. Invariably, the audiences are often predominantly white. One man had a grander vision, and for a time here in Washington, DC that vision […]
Review: The Bodyguard at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. Toby’s top talent and Whitney Houston’s songs aren’t enough
The legacy and superstardom of Whitney Houston endures, judging from the bobbing heads and impromptu singalongs at Toby’s Dinner Theatre’s production of The Bodyguard. Based on the 1992 film starring Houston and Kevin Costner and a perennial guilty pleasure of many a romance movie buff, The Bodyguard has been made into a rather plodding jukebox […]
Review: The Finger. U.S. debut of Kosovo play at Venus Theatre
How do we navigate our private and shared griefs? How do we buoy others up as we cope, and how do we drag them down? These are central questions in Kosovar playwright Doruntina Basha’s play The Finger, produced in English for the first time by Venus Theatre in the playwright’s self-translation. We bear witness to […]
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