Brave Spirits’ two-year repertory of Shakespeare’s history cycle continues with an impressively lively production of one of the Bard’s more challenging plays, Henry the Fourth, Part 2. After Part 1 fell a bit short on delivering the expected thrills and energy from a superior script, Part 2 reassures me that matters are well in hand. […]
Archives for February 19, 2020
Gun & Powder. Taking back the house. Flo, Sissy, the sisters Clarke and me.
Waiting for Gun & Powder to begin, I was surrounded. To my left, a middle-aged couple, both white, very quiet. To my right, a younger couple, both male. Behind me, three African American friends, two male and one female. I release my breath a little. At least We are here. Scattered scantily around Signature Theatre’s […]
Arena Stage announces its history-focused 2020-2021 season
American History — some real, some imagined — will mark Arena’s ten-production 2020-2021 season. The inaugural show at the Mead Center for American Theater will be a world-premiere musical about one of the nation’s seminal historic figures, Frederick Douglass. Marcus Hummon’s American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in his Own Words, directed and co-written by Charles Randolph-Wright, […]
Review: Thumbelina at Imagination Stage. Puppetry and design bring the tiny story to life
To children, the world is often a large and overbearing place. Think of how difficult it would be if each chair you sat in was three feet tall, the table even higher, and the doorknob impossibly out of reach. Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story of Thumbelina is not just a fairy tale, but a treatise […]
