Welcome to the celebration of immigrants who have enriched America. The posters hanging on an upstage backdrop at Source are photos of famous composers who lived in Germany and Austria during the Weimar Republic: Franz Waxman, Kurt Weill, Frederick Hollander, Erich Korngold, and Hanns Eisler. A picture of Arnold Schoenberg, the godfather of modern classical music, known […]
Source Festival play among six Steinberg Award finalists
For the second year in a row, a play which debuted at DC’s Source Festival is in line for a playwriting award. Last year, Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement received the American Theatre Critics Association’s $1,000 M. Elizabeth Osborne Award for top play by an emerging writer.
We Forget, We Never Forget at Source Festival
We generally do not grade art on the curve, but if anyone ever deserved it, the two artists who staged this artistic blind date do. Nineteen hours before We Forget, We Never Forget was about to launch, Layne Garrett and Rick Westerkamp learned that the third member of their trio, Jessica Solomon, was pulling out […]
The Thrush and the Woodpecker at Source Festival
Before we begin, let’s establish a few things. First, you and I are very dignified people. We are teachers or physicians or actors or homemakers or practitioners of some other honorable profession (or we aspire to be one), and we enjoy going to theater. Plus, playwright Steve Yockey is a dignified person. His work is […]
Countdown at Source Festival
By the window, Swedian Lie folds paper cranes. Facing him, Raymond Wellacher shuffles a deck of cards. There are three chalk outlines on the floor and Meredith Bove is walking them, slowly, deliberately. It looks like she is having difficulty maintaining her balance but don’t let her fool you: she is a dancer and a […]
A Bid to Save the World at Source Festival
“Some men seek immortality through their work,” Woody Allen once explained. “Some men seek immortality through their posterity. I seek immortality through…not dying.” I feel ya, Wood-man. And so, apparently, does Erin Bregman, whose A Bid to Save the World – a confused mish-mash, with music – imagines a universe in which death is a […]
Facebook in Memoriam at Source Festival
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter what sort of memorial he wanted. “I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this,” he said, putting his hand on his desk, “and placed in the center of that green plot in front of the Archives Building….I […]
Mortality: 10 minute plays at Source Festival
When folks learn that I have attended all three ten-minute collections, the inevitable question is “Which should I attend?” or “Which is the best?” The answer to the first question is easy—all of them! The quality of all three evenings is high. Further, your own interests and theatrical preference can easily dictate a choice of […]
Revenge: 10 minutes plays at Source Festival
While revenge can be a dish best served cold, other than Erik Gernand’s sensitive What Remains of Youth, it is a dish best served as humor at the Source Theatre Festival. If you enjoy comedy, the three works that follow intermission may be your best choice for entertainment among the short play collections. – Steven […]
Quests: 10 Minute Plays at Source Festival
If you are seeking an interesting evening of theatre, the Quests series of 10-minute plays is a fine selection. Of the three collections of short plays, it features the most diversity in theatrical genres and styles. There’s not a weak piece in the collection. – Steven McKnight LOCAL PILGRIMAGE By Philip Kaplan Directed by […]
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