Recommended by Anastasia Wilson, DC actor now based in Atlanta. “And as the pepper gas clears And police and protestors go home Just as the morning dew are tear drops of the night My emotions are always there for you And will never leave you dry.”
Archives for June 2020
Review: Could this be love? Round House Theatre’s Homebound, Part 7, “The Date”
If any of Homebound’s episodes have been pure joy, it is episode 7, “The Date,” written by Dani Stoller, who finally finds Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh) a match in the charming pixie-ish Lynette (Lynette Rathnam, who is delightful). A match that melts his reserved, halting, and oft-nervous demeanor. How can he move to Minneapolis now (assuming Lynette […]
Shattered Space: Between Zoom and film, creating a new theatrical experience
A new company is launching audiences into space with an exciting confluence of new technology and theatre. In Shattered Space by The Scattered Players, audiences take on the role of Star Jockeys aboard a spaceship which travels through a solar system visiting different planets on the verge of a major cataclysmic event. Shattered Space: $15. […]
5 performances to watch this weekend
Twilight: Los Angeles Great Performances, PBS Free Click to view In response to the national crisis in the aftermath of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery (Brunswick, GA), Breonna Taylor (Louisville, KY), and George Floyd (Minneapolis, MN) THIRTEEN’s Great Performances resumes free streaming of Marc Levin’s film adaptation of Anna Deavere Smith’s play Twilight: Los Angeles, originally aired […]
As a result of Gov. Hogan’s directive, Maryland theatres announce cancelled 2020 shows
Bethesda’s Round House Theatre has elected to cancel the 2020 portion of its live theater schedule, the company announced on Tuesday. “Governor Hogan’s Roadmap to Recovery outlines a phased process for reopening Maryland. As Round House falls into the final phase of that plan, it has become increasingly clear that we will be unable to […]
Artist Carlos Walker asks white America “What If?” it were you
The theater is the place where things are shown: that is, it’s a mirror where things that we don’t make overt in daily life are brought out in front of us to see. While we usually talk about the action that takes place on the stage, the primary and maybe most important drama takes place […]
A Movement Unleashed: Black Lives Matter Protest, Photo Essay from DC
We are like clay. Life, a chisel. Every experience we have brings us one step closer to seeing our ultimate form. Every hardship, every heartbreak, every trauma, every laugh forever shaping us into the people we see today. This month in America, the people took back our tools. Forever through with a culture that deemed […]
DC Theatre community gathers for Black Lives Matter vigil, photos and video
70 days. 10 weeks. 2 months. 1,680 hours. 100,800 minutes. 6,048,000 seconds. No. This is not the lyric sheet to some RENT musical remix. This is the amount of time that stood between Theatre as we knew it and one very sweet moment of reuniting on June 8, 2020. On April 1, 2020 at 12:01am, […]
Playwright Michael R. Jackson (A Strange Loop) on self love and self acceptance in these turbulent times
Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in September on its way to Broadway. (It’s been rescheduled in DC for summer, 2021.) Meanwhile, his musical on hold even as it piles up accolades, Jackson is […]
Billie Krishawn hands out help while photographing the Black Lives Movement on the streets of DC.
Billie Krishawn is a DC area actor and photographer whose work will soon appear on our pages. This weekend she is back on the streets, adding to her extensive photo coverage of the Black Lives Matter protests on the streets of Washington, DC. As the protests have grown and shifted, she has expanded her work […]
Music for the movement: Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come
“It’s been a long, long time coming But I know that change is gonna come” – Sam Cooke, 1964 Recommended by Pamela Jafari. “I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. I have a 26 y/o grandson, and 3 y/o great-grandson, who I am always concerned about […]
DC theatres open lobbies as safe spaces for Black Lives Matter protestors
Update: Source and The 9:30 Club become the latest venues to open their doors to protestors. With thousands of people planned to gather in DC this weekend to protest police brutality, a number of theaters have joined the #OpenYourLobby movement and announced that they will open their lobbies and bathrooms to allow protestors to rest […]
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