Learning about performance companies leaping into bold adventures and rediscovering the impulse of sharing their art in new creative ways has never been more welcome. Opera Lafayette, a company known primarily for its performances of lost operatic masterworks staged in period costumes with accurately reconstructed choreography, has busted out of its well-accoutered walls and heads […]
Lynn Nottage writes for an audience of one while waiting for Broadway stages to open
Lynn Nottage, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat), returns to Theatre for One, the company which gave new meaning to “intimate theatre” with its one actor/one audience member live performances started a decade ago. Theatre for One’s series Here We Are , presents eight live mini-works for free, including Nottage’s What Are The Things […]
Raised-consciousness. Theatres are working on it. Audiences can too, Theater J says with its course
Many view the Coronavirus pandemic as The Great Pause, where we hunker down and muddle through, hoping we return to normalcy some time in the near future with at least some of our marbles intact. Theater J, on the other hand, views Corona Time as space; space to think, reflect, challenge ourselves and grow. Rather […]
Billie Krishawn talks with Black non-binary artist Tyasia “Ty” Velines for The SoSu Series
Blooming. Truth. Passion. Power. The art being created by BIPOC artists and non-binary artists embody these words. The SoSu Series focuses light on these artists in the moments of the Black Lives Movement and the movement for racial equity we’re seeing here in DC Theatre. “Our stories deserve to be heard and listened to…and taken […]
Joy Zinoman, ever the innovator, takes acting to a higher level via Zoom curriculum
When Studio Theatre’s acting conservatory parted ways with its’ eponymous Studio Theatre more than a year ago, the split was “existential,” according to conservatory Co-Director Joy Zinoman. Zinoman, who founded both the conservatory in the mid-1970’s, and the theatre several years later in 1978, served as the theatre’s Artistic Director for more than 30 years […]
Fact: BIPOC Women* and Non-Binary artists are underrepresented on our stages. Billie Krishawn starts The SoSu Series with the numbers.
“Every audience deserves to sit in the theatre and see their community reflected back to them.” The SoSu trailer revealed some reasons why that isn’t the case today. Billie Krishawn starts her new interview project, The SoSu Series, with a look at the facts. As a Black Woman, it is easy for me to […]
Music for the Movement: Why Othello cast sings “Glory” at American Shakespeare Center
Before the opening and at the end of intermission of every performance at American Shakespeare Center, actors turn musicians to serenade the audience. Usually a rousing, fun time, at the start of Othello, the mood shifts when Brandon Carter and Topher Embrey step forward to lead the ensemble in “Glory” by John Legend and Common. […]
Theatre artists cross the line to end the silence and speak out for The SoSu Series
“I froze, not knowing what to do, instantly realizing … that he had all the power to hire me, and if I said no, I risked having any kind of role at one of the largest theatres in the country. And maybe farther than that; how could he damage my reputation?” – Confession Statement* On […]
Black Art in a Time of Uprising. The responsibilities of Black theater artists
The ongoing state executions of Black people, exemplified most recently and brazenly by the public lynching of George Floyd (with no repercussions to date for those perpetrating the brutality) has been the catalyst for diverse actions seeking change. Some actions seek to create an atmosphere in which such events would not be considered normal, acceptable […]
DC horror stage producer turns to Edgar Allan Poe radio dramas, “visual landscapes for your ears”
DC fans of theatrical horror, the often grisly Grand Guignol-style, will remember Molotov Theatre Group and its co-founder, actor/director Alex Zavistovich, who got them hooked. Molotov’s 2014 production of Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe by Eric Coble proved to be its most successful. While producing Molotov stage plays in DC, Zavistovich was also one of […]
Dane Figueroa Edidi co-produces new plays, Black Trans Women at the Center, with Long Wharf Theatre
On Wednesday, August 5th at 8pm, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, will livestream “Black Trans Women at the Center: An Evening of Short Plays”. The three new works will be: Sunshine by New Haven native Douglas Lyons, Things Unknown by Dezi Bing, and You Will Nevaaa by CeCe Suazo. The night is co-produced by none […]
ASC performs Othello during the pandemic: A terrified critic and ASC performers weigh in
Into the valley of death rode the six hundred…no, no, no, that’s not it at all. I’m looking for a poem to help me decide what to do – poetry is the oldest form of literature, after all, predating written language – but all I’m getting is stuff extolling stupid courage. Pro-stupid writing is easy […]
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