di·va ( P ) Pronunciation Key (dv) n. pl. di·vas or di·ve (-v) An operatic prima donna. A very successful singer of non operatic music: a jazz diva So that’s the meaning straight from the dictionary but what is the real meaning of ‘diva’? I think Arena may have the answer with their summer delight Three […]
On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning
I was really looking forward to Arena Stage’s production of On the Verge. Who wasn’t? Playwright Eric Overmyer has written for some of network television’s most intelligent television dramas, including St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life in the Streets and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. The immensely gifted Tazewell Thompson – now Artistic Director at […]
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
Whether she’s standing in front of the mic looking glazed and dazed into the audience or retreated and semi-nodding in the nook of the piano, Lynn Sterling embodies the haunted spirit of Billy Holiday.
We Needed The Rain
By: Debbie Minter Jackson The Rainmaker Arena Stage The Rainmaker feels so contemporary; it’s hard to believe it’s been around for fifty years. Packed with themes of love and yearning, laced with messages about self-worth, confidence, and the redemptive power of truth, there’s a reason why it was so successful on Broadway, as a movie–who can […]
Zelda Returns To Arena – Something To Sing About
By: Ronnie Ruff Awake and Sing—Arena Stage It is easy to understand Zelda Fichandler’s love of Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing currently mounted at Arena Stage. Awake and Sing is the story of two generations, one who has accepted the “American Dream” of values and hard work that seems to have failed them and the younger […]
Review: It’s a home run for Arena Stage’s Damn Yankees
It would be easy to say Damn Yankees is a timeless musical — it would be easy to say it is “pulled from the headlines” and lastly it would be easy to call it an old fashioned, feel good, crowd pleaser. To be honest it is all of those things and more. This show reminds […]
Review: Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play at Arena Stage
In the first act of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play, a cycle, now playing at Arena’s Kreeger Theatre, a roguish character offers to show villagers “the scaffolds that bring men up; the machinery that brings men down.” While this merchant may be offering only to demonstrate how his flying contraption hoists a poor fool into the […]