Posts Tagged ‘theater’
Why I Love DC: Joanna Castle Miller
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courtesy of ekelly80
I moved to DC (okay, NoVa to be exact) from New York via my hometown of Memphis, and love the fact that here I can get moonshine and fried pickles but still have winter sports and a subway system.
I love that DC is misunderstood and can play the victim. The city as [...]
Best Of: Theater 2011
2011 07 16 – 6398 – Washington DC – Redrum at Fort Fringe
courtesy of thisisbossi
We Love DC authors Don, Patrick, Rachel and I may have different backgrounds in criticism and performance, and varying preferences for theatrical style, but we share a goal – to bring you our thoughtful, honest opinions on the passionate, challenging [...]
We Fight We Die: How The Disenfranchised #Occupy
Jeff Kirkman III, Alexander Burton, Michael Rodriguez and Stanley Andrew Jackson III; Junesong Arts’ We Fight We Die. Photo by C. Stanley Photography.
Self-defined as representing the masses, it’s no surprise that a majority of Americans approve of the now-global “Occupy” movement—they understand it as the manifestation of desperation, a fight where compromise failed. Feeling powerless [...]
Best Of: Theater 2010
‘theatre’
courtesy of ‘volcanojw’
2010 was a stellar year for theater in DC.
When I think back on favorite reviews this year, it’s the challenges that resonate strongest. As a former actor who’s “jumped the stalls” to become a critic, it can sometimes be difficult, knowing how hard it is to bleed your heart out on stage only [...]
West End Movie Theater Is Back
‘Day 238: E Street Cinemas’
courtesy of ‘InspirationDC’
I absolutely love going to see movies. The more the merrier is my opinion when it comes to movie theater real estate, especially if the theater is quaint and has some personality.
According to The Georgetown Voice and the West End Flyer, the Inner Circle triplex will reopen the West [...]
We Love Arts: Fringe picking 101
‘Noir City’
courtesy of ‘LaTur’
I know some of our readers are regular and devoted Fringe-goers (as well as some performers). Those of you who are have no doubt already dug through the marginally painful Fringe Festival online database of shows, read every description, plotted out what you want to see and when you can see it, [...]
Studio Theater makes it official
‘The Studio Theatre’
courtesy of ‘NCinDC’
Studio’s been a little tease since they first announced their upcoming season, which contained an item listed as “an unnamed Neal LaBute play.” Today they officially announced which play that is: Reasons to Be Pretty, which is currently running on Broadway. Studio shills it like this:
This play concludes LaBute’s trilogy exploring [...]
A brief Ford’s closure
‘Police Cruiser – Old Style Ford’
courtesy of ‘JLK1979′
What, what? No no, wrong Ford!
‘Rehearsal, Ford’s Theatre’
courtesy of ‘Jenn Larsen’
Okay, there we go! The National Park Service is going to do a little maintenance on Ford’s Theater at the end of next month and will close to the public between June 22 and 26th, as well as [...]
We Love Arts: Ion
courtesy of shakespearetheatreco
Yes, there are puppets. More on that later.
I chose the above picture out of STC’s flickr stream to give you some idea about some of the unusual choices that director Ethan McSweeny takes in adapting this Euripides play. The caption for the above photo is Patricia Santomasso in rehearsal for the Shakespeare Theatre [...]
We Love Arts: Hell Meets Henry Halfway
Gabriel Quinn Bauriedel & Sarah Sanford in Hell Meets Henry Halfway
Courtesy of the Pig Iron Theatre Company
If we want to compare theatre to the movies, Hell Meets Henry Halfway is more David Lynch/Being John Malkovich than it is Rob Reiner/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The playwright in this case set out to write [...]
We Love Arts: How Theater Failed America
“You should not have come.”
That’s how Mike Daisey opens his monologue at Woolly Mammoth, acknowledging that this is going to be a different kind of show. He’s very wrong, mind you: this show has a self-selecting audience that is sure to be glad they came. The show’s title assures that. Anyone who reads “How Theater [...]
We Love Arts: Twelfth Night
Images courtesy of the Shakespeare Theater Company
The biggest complaint I have with STC’s production of Twelfth Night has nothing to do with the actual production they put on, so I’m going to just get it out of the way here and move on to praising them. Why in the name of all that’s holy wasn’t [...]
We Love Theatre: Second Line at the Atlas
My Lovely Wife and I went to see Second Line, by Seret Scott, at the Atlas Performing Arts Center last week. What a great show. From the show’s website:
Spanning a 20-year period of tumultuous social change, Seret Scott’s Second Line is the story of two black college students whose lives are shaped by the stormy [...]
We Love Arts: Romeo & Juliet
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s “Romeo & Juliet” is a perfectly acceptable production, with the usual beautiful sets and exquisite costumes one expects from them. But it’s a workhorse production, with nothing new to say or add to the performance history. That in itself isn’t really a problem – traditional mountings of plays allow one to reconnect [...]
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