Molly Brown, a socialite, social activist and survivor of the Titanic disaster in real life — turned into a Tony-winning Tammy Grimes on stage and Debbie Reynolds at her pluckiest on screen — has been meticulously transformed once again, into…Elizabeth Warren. That’s clear from the very first scene of this new Off-Broadway version of The […]
Archives for February 28, 2020
Shakespeare Theatre mock trial gives a speedy – and witty – hearing to The Trial of Peter Pan
Peter Pan, having swept the Darling children up into the sky with fairy dust, brought them to Neverland, a venue full of pirates and mermaids. There, along with the lost boys, they did battle with the worst of them. The children returned that very night with memories of fantastic adventures and resolved to live lives […]
Opera review: Beethovan’s Leonore from Opera Lafayette
Opera Lafayette has taken on a prodigiously ambitious task in tackling the “reawakening” of Ludwig van Beethoven’s single operatic masterpiece (Fidelio) by giving us the composer’s earlier and little-known work Leonore (1805) as a modern premiere. Everything about it pointed to a singularly important Washington event at Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, and serious opera lovers […]
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