To mark and honor the thirtieth anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, the Alliance for New Music-Theatre is presenting two one-act plays to honor the revolution’s leader, the dissident playwright/author, political prisoner and eventual president Václav Havel; one he wrote, the other he inspired. No venue in DC could be more appropriate for these plays than […]
Archives for November 8, 2019
Review: Signature’s A Chorus Line, with new choreography, still dazzles
A Chorus Line is known as one of the most pared-down, starkly intimate “song-and-dance shows” in the Broadway canon. On a barren stage—devoid of any scenery or set but for a wall of floor to ceiling mirrors to evoke a dance studio—a nervous gaggle of young dancers lines up, shoulder to shoulder (here, along a […]
Review: Veils. A moving, inspired look at women from the civil rights era that deserves your attendance
Imagine that you are a child and you are exploring your grandmother’s closets. Or you’re an adult whose grandmother has died and it’s your responsibility to go to their home and sort through her possessions, decide what you want to keep and get rid of the rest. Imagine you find a scrapbook – a dreambook […]
Review: Sea from Scena Theatre
Jon Fosse’s Sea is a tricky play to connect with. Its inhabitants seem at times to be on a boat (“I am the Shipmaster!” one insists, over and over), but it’s clear early on that the setting’s a bit more existential than that. The play’s notes describe the journey as a “modern-day Hades” but purgatory […]
How 1970’s culture clashes played out on two Washington DC stages
By 1970, Washington, DC had long been a major college town; home to tens of thousands of young people who were trying to define their generation in opposition to the dominant values of their parents. Eventually known as “Boomers,” this postwar generation struggled to delimit what it meant to be part of the dominant culture—and […]
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