It comes down to trust. A parent sends their theater-loving child to the Highwood Theatre, a Silver Spring, Md.-based youth educational theater company, where he can get performance and technical experience and have fun with his peers. The parents trust the adults running Highwood will teach and nurture these budding actors and technical crew in […]
Archives for October 2019
Review: The Improvised Shakespeare Company. Ridiculous. Silly. Delightful.
Five men, three chairs, and 75 minutes of improv set in the world of the Bard. That’s the simple premise of The Improvised Shakespeare Company. But the payoff is so much more. At the Kennedy Center on Tuesday, the skilled improvisers treated the audience to a laugh-out-loud war farce cooked up on the spot, with […]
Dining review: Grillfish, Dupont Circle’s well-kept secret, perfect for celebrating National Seafood Month
The first thing you see when you walk into this 20 year old restaurant at 1200 New Hampshire Ave NW is the huge mural looming over the bar. The different servers and managers at Grillfish will give you will give you different answers as to what the mural is supposed to represent. Designed by Andrew […]
The Great Society Review: LBJ Back on Broadway
“I feel strongly that I should not permit the Presidency to become involved in the partisan divisions that are developing in this political year. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.” President Lyndon Johnson made this announcement in 1968, and the […]
Review: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show at Imagination Stage
You may not recognize the name Eric Carle, but you’ll probably recognize his distinctive collage art. He hand paints sheet after sheet of tissue paper with bold acrylics. He cuts them in simple shapes and carefully layers them to form, most famously, a Very Hungry Caterpillar on the cover of one of the best-selling children’s […]
Review: George Bernard Shaw’s Candida at Washington Stage Guild
Ruminations about love and passion abound in George Bernard Shaw’s Candida. Written and first performed in a past century (1898), questions of what makes a successful marriage feel right at home today with top notched actors exploring the witty interchanges in the context of Victorian propriety. It’s telling that the title character is one of […]