Between DuPont and Logan Circles lies a land fertile with fun and food. This small stretch of city block comprises a full helping of the D.C. good life, attracting everyone from the morning brunch crowd to evening revelers. Courtesy of two performing arts centers, the area stays culturally infused as well with the Jewish focused […]
Fool for Love at Round House
When a door slams in Round House Theatre’s production of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, the slam carries. Noises linger with an eerie resonance giving the impression that the entire play takes place underwater. In fact, with the play’s action confined to a motel room, the characters may as well be locked in an airtight […]
Going to Folger? Try these dining spots
The Folger Theatre on Capitol Hill performs modern reworkings of Shakespeare classics. As the bard’s bastion in D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library is one of the foremost research centers in the world. Folger Theatre has staged over half of the plays in William’s First Folio, earning numerous Helen Hayes Awards and a reputation for fresh interpretation. […]
Molly from Scena Theatre
Love is lonely business in the literary-historical, one-person play Molly by George O’Brien. Molly Allgood grieves over her recently deceased fiancé, the Irish Revival playwright J.M. Synge. As his muse, Molly received some of Synge’s most inspired female rolls, but when faced with his early passing, she must read through the vague stage-directions of their […]
Going to Woolly Mammoth or the Lansburgh? visit these 4 eateries
Penn Quarter is D.C.’s neighborhood for entertainment. From the Verizon Center to the National Portrait Gallery, the fluid parameters of Penn Quarter house a spectrum of art, culture and performance that draws and enthralls D.C.’s crowds of fanny-pack tourists and bespoke lobbyists. Not to mention, a stroll down 7th street will captivate any casual people […]
She Kills Monsters
“D&D is not therapy.” That’s what Tilly, a charismatic tomboy played by Rebecca Hausman, tells her older sister Agnes in the hilarious and fluid Rorschach production of She Kills Monsters. To this sage advice, the comically skeptic Agnes, played by Maggie Erwin, gives a look like “No Shit” as she exchanges sword blade blows with […]
When on H Street, try these 4 eateries
As the centerpiece of H Street NE, Atlas Performing Arts Center has seen the neighborhood transition from blight to bee’s knees in the span of a decade. A movie theater fallen into disrepair, the space was purchased in 2001 by the Atlas Performing Arts Center and repurposed as a multiple venue arts center. Once flicked […]
The Old Man Never Let It Go
Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea could work on stage as a Samuel Beckett play. The old man Santiago, alone in a boat on the open water, reeling in an impossible fish, despairing and reveling in the simple human condition of kill and eat. Good, dark, woe-is-man stuff, right?
The Name Game
I thought I walked into Mary Stone Hanley’s the Name Game late. As I took my seat, I saw already on stage a collection of dancers dressed in full-bodied spandex suits gliding back and forth in abstract, improvised movements. Their flitting gestures and facelessness gave them an uneasy phantom appearance.
Ten Principles )'(
The Man burns in 46 days. Don’t worry that’s not a line from the Nicolas Cage flop Wicker Man, but Capital Fringe’s intentionally funny Ten Principles, a free flowing oral performance based around the infamous desert bacchanalia Burning Man. Through ten stories, actual festival goers, or “burners,” recount their time out on the Playa, living […]
Song of Myself: The WHITMAN Project
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is the first selfie poem. Like the camera phone portraits glutting social media, “Song of Myself” is an unabashed proclamation of identity and celebration of being. But whereas most selfies feature the subject holding a camera up to a mirror to capture their own hot bodz, Whitman holds his poem […]
C-
When am I ever going to use this stuff? said every college student ever. Well, apathetic academics, take note of Eric Jaffe who, in C- , bases an entire 55 minute, one-man show on all the crap he did, or didn’t, learn in the halls of higher learning. Taken from interviews with 65 of Jaffe’s […]