Writers, one could argue, wield the most power out of any of us, since they build and destroy worlds with the flip of a pencil, the turn of a new idea. In Sybil R. Williams’s new play for the In Series, Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral speaks more humbly of her craft. “The people walking on […]

In Series Opera and The Washington Ballet Studio Companies have collaborated in a great leap forward to celebrate the genius of Mozart.

In my review of last season’s Mozart’s Men, a comic opera produced by the In Series, I asked why a rebel within the ranks of women didn’t speak up against Don Giovanni’s serial seductions

From U Street to the Cotton Club at Source couldn’t be better geographically positioned, just two blocks from the legendary U Street, the Lincoln Theatre, and a number of historical and cultural landmarks of the corridor. 

Place: Berlin, Germany; a small cabaret theatre.  Time: between the two World Wars.  The democratic Weimar Republic has been established in the wake of Germany’s humiliating defeat.  But the Allies’ punitive reparations have left the economy in shambles, the people depressed, resentful, quick with a bitter quip, in desperate need of escape.

Orpheus in the Underworld by Jacques Offenbach English adaptation by Kelley Rourke Directed by Rick Davis and Joel Lazar Music Director and Orchestra Conductor Joel Lazar Produced by The In Series Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy How do you escape the cold? Climb Mt. Olympus and let The In Series send you to Hell. Orpheus in […]

Mozart’s Men music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, from the operas Le Nozze di Figaro/The Marriage of Figaro; Don Giovanni; Cosi fan tutte/Women Are Like That  book by Charlotte Stoudt; English lyrics for Act II by Nick Olcott and Bari Biern   directed by Colin Hovde    music direction by Alice Mikolajewskir reviewed by Rosalind Lacy  If […]