If we didn’t have the Holiday Season, Virginia, we’d have nothing but dark days and bad weather right now. Leafless trees. Bitter winds. And shutdowns. We’d have government shutdowns. It would be quiet. So quiet. We don’t like it dark and quiet. So we raise a joyous noise to celebrate and banish all that winter […]
The 22 shows of 2018 which made our ‘favorites’ list
An Opera production WNO’s The Marriage of Figaro with stage direction by Peter Kazaras “The Marriage of Figaro is an easy favorite, but who could have predicted that the luminosity of singing, musicianship displayed in the orchestra, and spot-on casting and acting of the ensemble would shoot off like a display of brightly colored fireworks? […]
Our 24 favorite stage moments of 2018
A Moment Eric Owens in Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlo. It is, to my mind, a most curious opera in search of a lead character, but… “Eric Owens opens Act II alone on stage in a kind of extended soliloquy. And how beautifully the cello part sets up the scene. Owens starts sitting facing three-quarters upstage; […]
Programs created in Tricia McCauley’s honor keep her memory alive
This holiday season is a time of celebration. It celebrates the possibility of hope, it celebrates redemption, it celebrates generosity of spirit, it celebrates the triumph of light over darkness. For many in our area, there is a sadness and a poignancy to the season as well. It was two years ago this Christmas that […]
DC Theatre in 2018.We answer your most burning questions
If you are a theater enthusiast (and we know you are), how busy could you have been in 2018? 464 productions = 38 days, and 16 hours If you watched all 464 shows, back to back, assuming they averaged 2 hours apiece, you would have spent 38 days and 16 hours in front of some stage somewhere. […]