The staging of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Fences at Ford’s Theatre seemed made-to-order for a grand slam home run. The memorable backyard drama of father and son and husband and wife is probably the most accessible and popular of Wilson’s magnificent Century Cycle. And the casting of local big-leaguer Craig Wallace in […]
Archives for October 7, 2019
Review: The Winter’s Tale. The Wheel Theatre Company fittingly exits the scene with this play about new beginnings
With the holiday season quickly approaching, so do the stresses that accompany the tricky social etiquette around visiting and hosting loved ones. You might do your best planning and preparation – altering seating arrangements to keep divergent personalities away from each other, creating three different menus to appease everyone’s dietary preferences, diffusing every conversational time […]
Review: The Royale . Olney Theatre’s boxing drama wins in a knock out
If baseball represents the joy of sport — its season concluding with popped champagne corks and ticker tape parades for the winners and the promise of next year for the losers — then boxing represents its tragedy, the loser lying broken and bleeding on the canvas, the winner often in not much better shape, and […]
Review: Escaped Alone, Caryl Churchill jarringly dark, dystopic visions
For those unfamiliar with the work of British playwright Caryl Churchill, Signature Theatre’s production of Escaped Alone (2016) may come as a bit of a shock. Skillfully directed by well-loved local actress Holly Twyford, Escaped Alone opens on a picturesque, yet unfussy, backyard garden. Three gracefully aging English women (Catherine Flye, Helen Hedman and Brigid […]
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