Tag: Alexander Keen
Review: ‘Master Class’ at MetroStage
Welcome to the rehearsal hall. You are a student at a prestigious school for the performing arts. You have mastered your technique, but you...
In the Moment: The Soundscape of MetroStage’s ‘The Gin Game’ Rocks!
I love being surprised when I go to theater. Recently, I went to a play, MetroStage’s comely The Gin Game, and became totally smitten...
Review: ‘The Gin Game’ at MetroStage
You observe a cozy setting, a two story structure slightly suggestive of institutional. There’s a gliding rocker and curtained windows that filter warm amber...
Review: ‘Fully Committed’ at MetroStage
Tom Story is a knockout in his one-actor, effortlessly frenetic, tour de force performance as 40 different characters who comprise the charming “controlled” frenzy...
‘A Broadway Christmas Carol’ at MetroStage
Probably no other cast in the D.C. metro area works harder for a laugh, or enjoys it more when it comes, than the cast...
‘The Island’ at MetroStage
There are so many way to demand justice. In 1973 South Africans Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona found their voices to take on...
‘Underneath the Lintel’ at MetroStage
I know a lot of librarians who would love Underneath the Lintel (and non-librarians too like those in the audience last night who were having a...
‘Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song’ at MetroStage by Bev Fleisher
The press opening performance of Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song, conceived, directed, and choreographed by Maurice Hines, was a tour de force. I...
‘Ghost-Writer’ at MetroStage by Yvonne French
In 1897, American writer Henry James got writer's cramp and hired Theodora Bosanquet to take dictation on the newly invented typewriter in an arrangement...