“When the least of us are safe and have a space, all of us do.” True change begins when we decide that a shift is necessary. Inciting change is risky, brave, beautiful and most importantly… necessary. During this interview with The SoSu Series Moses Princien (they/them) speaks out about changes that are long overdue. As […]
Archives for September 2020
The Helen Hayes Awards night plus reaction you didn’t see from 4615 Theatre Company
The Helen Hayes Awards were last night, so I slipped into my good tux, straightened my black tie, and took the Metro down to the waterfront. I hoofed it to the Anthem; saw some buddies; shook some hands; slapped some backs. I squeezed up to the crowded bar and ordered a martini; the bartender accidently […]
Opera Review: Miranda: A Steam Punk VR Experience, LUMA’s bold experiment
Steam Punk as a style launches viewers into a futuristic universe while it casts a glance backwards nostalgically to a simpler, more elegant world. Miranda: A Steam Punk VR Experience creates the alternative-futuristic setting through animation and virtual reality technology to deliver a short opera by Kamala Sankaram, and it’s one of the freshest, most […]
Billie Krishawn speaks with actor Erika Rose for The SoSu Series
“I can put all of that energy into speaking up, but first I have to know what I feel. First I have to find a center.” –Erika Rose Every day of our lives we are exchanging energy. Some days we have the capacity to be intentional about the energy we send out. Other days, we […]
Friday night’s 2020 Helen Hayes Awards celebration. Free for all.
Remember going to the theatre in 2019: the greetings and hugs with casual acquaintances in the lobby, the smiling faces of front of house staff checking your tickets, happily taking your seat amidst a crowd of strangers, the occasional cough, probably nothing more than dry throat, you think, the collective gasps, or laughs, sighs or […]
Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg well earned the sobriquet “Notorious.” Everything about her seemed to live in happy contradiction. She followed her mother’s “dueling” advice: always to be a lady and to live a life of independence. She sparred almost daily with her more conservative “constitutionalist” colleague on the Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, yet considered him a […]
DC citizens speak through Arena Stage’s new film The 51st State
Statehood for the District of Columbia has always been a fraught enterprise. It wasn’t until 1961 that Washington residents could vote for President; and before 1973, Congress appointed DC government’s overseers. The District now has its own Mayor and Council, a non-voting representative in Congress and a “Shadow Senator”, and the right to send electors […]
Is there a 2020-2021 theatre season? Comments on what we know so far.
Update: GALA Hispanic Theatre Any planning for live theatre, in this time of pandemic, calls for faith and flexibility. And a search for answers to the unknowable. What will audiences want to see? When can rehearsals start safely? Are we looking at darkened theatres for the next 3 months? or 8 months? If they open, […]
DCTS Performance Guide for the 2020/2021 theatre season
While planning theatre in the time of Covid requires faith and flexibility on everyone’s part, we thought it valuable to show you the shows our companies hope to present. Some are virtual. Some will be in theatres once that becomes possible. This is a listing of performances. Not included are readings, panels and discussions. We’ll keep […]
How Indian Ink connected Tom Stoppard and Joy Zinoman to their lives in Asia
Perhaps a bit long and convoluted – with a plot that switches back and forth between the 1930s and 1980s – Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink collected generally favorable reviews in early stagings in London and San Francisco. Once Joy Zinoman gave the play its East Coast premiere in 2000, it garnered rave reviews, enthusiastic audiences, […]
Review: Stories I May Not Tell from Best Medicine Rep
John Morogiello yearns, lives and breathes theater. Stories I May Not Tell is a sneak peek in the mind of a playwright so stuffed with story ideas that characters and scenes cascade out of him in waves of exuberant expressions. Talking to the audience presentation style, Morogiello provides one of the most effective enactments of […]
Billie Krishawn speaks with artist/activist Temídayo Amay for The SoSu Series
“As you pour into me, a Black Non-Binary Gender Queer person, you pour into yourself.” – Temídayo Amay, talking with Billie Krishawn for The SoSu Series “My non-binary identity is mine and mine alone,” says Temídayo but this gender identity isn’t the only journey that they are claiming. All too often we live an existence […]
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