A doleful ballad fittingly eases you into Quotidian Theatre Company’s (QTC’s) lovingly rendered production of Conor McPherson’s Port Authority. Three generations of Irishmen then introduce themselves in turn, each starting into an accounting which define them as men. It’s not evident why these three avatars, unaware of one another and from an unknown place are […]
Archives for October 2019
Review: Theory at Mosaic Theater, freedom of speech on a college campus rings true
If you were given free rein to say whatever you want about anything you want…how far would you go? And if you were the moderator of that kind of environment, at what point would you interfere? That’s what Norman Yeung explores in Theory, making its American debut at Mosaic Theater Company. The play was originally […]
Freestyle Love Supreme Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s improv rappers on Broadway
Freestyle Love Supreme is not so much Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway follow-up to Hamilton as it is a subsidiary of Lin-Manuel Inc. The hip-hop improv group that Miranda co-founded 16 years ago with fellow Wesleyan University alumni would certainly not be performing its spontaneous raps on Broadway at up to $199 a ticket were it not […]
In eight months, Emily Tyra went from fighting brain cancer to dancing Denis Jones’ brand new choreography for A Chorus Line
It was March in Los Angeles when actress and dancer Emily Tyra was out jogging and she was unnerved by a feeling she had never felt before. She immediately went home and told her husband, and minutes later, suffered a seizure and lost consciousness. “The next thing I remember is waking up in the ER […]
Review: Right to Be Forgotten debuts at Arena Stage
What takes precedent: individual privacy, or public information? Right to Be Forgotten, making its world premiere at Arena Stage, is remarkably nuanced in its exploration of the big debates in Internet privacy law. The titular principle has been adopted in the European Union to allow individuals to petition search engines to de-list links to pages […]
Review: Otello from Washington National Opera
Washington National Opera opened its 2019-20 season at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night with a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello signaling that the company, under the leadership of Artistic Director Francesca Zambello and General Director Timothy O’Leary, goes from strength to strength as it embarks upon its 64th season. Verdi esteemed no writer more […]
Brian Feldman wants you to know the MLB rules for tonight’s World Series game at Nationals Park so he’s reading them to you
There are plenty of shows performing tonight in DC, and most patrons will undoubtedly be on their phones during intermission (PLEASE wait till then!) to check on one history-making event. That is, of course, the 2019 World Series in which the Washington Nationals lead the Houston Astros 2 – 0 in the best of 7 […]
Review: She Kills Monsters, Rorschach’s revival of its 2014 hit show
When you leave this world, what are you going to leave behind for your loved ones? Memories? An inheritance? How about an entire fantasy world in which a version of you lives on and offers insight into the person you used to be? That last one is the set up for Qui Nguyen’s She Kills […]
The Washington Ballet’s NEXTsteps: breathtaking, athletic, beguiling
Honest artistry is flourishing at the Washington Ballet these days and it was on delightful display Thursday night when the company opened NEXTsteps, a program of three world premieres that runs through Sunday at the Harman Center for the Arts. Of the three works, Reverence, choreographed by Jessica Lang, a former member of Twyla Tharp’s […]
Václav Havel tribute celebrating The Velvet Revolution gets ready to open at Dupont Underground. Up close with The Havel Project
Václav Havel was a renowned politician who went from political prisoner to serving as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the country’s dissolution three years later, who then became the first president of the Czech Republic, serving from 1993 to 2003. But in addition to making history as a pioneer in government, Havel […]
Review: At Constellation, a Little Shop that’s big fun.
There’s a pall of delicious irony lingering over Constellation’s Little Shop of Horrors, the now-classic musical tale of a weirdo named Seymour from Skid Row who finds an extra-terrestrial plant that brings him (and the flower shop where he works) fame but must be fed in blood, now playing at Source on 14th Street NW. […]
Review: Everybody, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ sunny, stunning journey from Life to Death
Everybody is a wonder. Brilliant visuals, arresting acting, ingenious direction by Will Davis, a searching script by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and an overall generosity of spirit that imbues the show with the feeling that if the journey toward death is this lively and loving, there is nothing to fear. But we do fear death, dying […]
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