Tag: Avant Bard
‘Billy and George’ goes inside a bedroom with Washington and his...
Avant Bard's world premiere captures how two people in a staggeringly brutal institution can dwell in very different worlds even while close together.
Review: ‘A Misanthrope’ at WSC Avant Bard
The audience didn’t stop laughing all night. Between Matt Minnicino’s rhyming couplet- filled, witty, knowing, sometimes bawdy adaptation (or, as he would have it,...
Review: ‘Topdog/Underdog’ by Avant Bard
“Watch me close, watch me now!” As I watched Avant Bard’s production of Topdog/Underdog, I knew that it is a production for the ages.
Under...
Review: ‘A Two Woman Hamlet’ by Avant Bard
In the dead of winter, what a joy it is to be able to recapture the midsummer madness that rules this town during the...
“I Never Expected to See a Shakespearean Lover Like Me”: An...
By Ezra Tozian
Editor’s note: In Avant Bard’s production of Illyria, or What You Will—freely adapted from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night by Jonelle Walker and Mitchell...
Review: ‘Illyria, or What You Will’ by Avant Bard
Illyria is fabulous, darlings. The clothes are to die for. The décor is out of its 1980s mind. The music is as eclectic as...
Review: ‘The Tempest’ by Avant Bard
How does a nimble theater company retool an often produced Shakespeare classic such as The Tempest? Well, Avant Bard found a way under Tom...
Review: ‘The Gospel at Colonus’ by Avant Bard
The Gospel at Colonus, Avant Bard’s production of the gospel-infused Oedipus story, opened on February 27 with a sweet, bright salvo of a song. Members...
Dangereuse: ‘King Lear’ at WSC Avant Bard
King Lear has sometimes been called the Everest of classical acting. Every great Shakespearean actor must sooner or later face the physically and emotionally...
Review: ‘King Lear’ at Avant Bard
The tempest in my mind / Doth from my senses take all feeling else. King Lear, Act 3, scenes 4–5.
Avant Bard’s King Lear is...
In the Moment: Q&A with Minister Becky May Jenkins, Leader of...
An ensemble is very key to the success of a theatrical production. Whenever I go to a theater performance, I make sure to take...
In the Moment: Q&A With Bob Telson, Composer of ‘The Gospel...
Avant Bard’s The Gospel of Colonus is a gorgeous, rapturous musical. Taking a phrase from the Bible, specifically Psalm 100, I found The Gospel...
Review: ‘The Gospel at Colonus’ at Avant Bard
In 1983, experimental theatre director Lee Breuer wrote and directed a musical that became a worldwide sensation. Blending Black church gospel music and Motown...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #12: Best Direction of Plays in Professional...
Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Direction of Plays in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees!
THE BEST DIRECTION OF...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘TAME.’ Part 5: Karen Lange
In part five of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of TAME., meet Karen Lange.
Joel: Where have local audiences...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘TAME.’ Part 4: Madeline Burrows
In Part 4 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of TAME., meet Madeline Burrows.
Joel: Where have local audiences...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘TAME.’ Part 3: Jill Tighe
In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of TAME., meet Jill Tighe.
Joel: Where have local audiences...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘TAME.’ Part 2: Brendan Edward...
In Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of TAME., meet Brendan Edward Kennedy.
Joel: Where have local...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘TAME.’ Part 1: John Stange
In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of TAME., meet John Stange.
Joel: Where have local audiences...
Magic Time! ‘In the Cage, She Has a Fighting Chance’: A...
This seems to be the season in DC Metro Theater for pugilistic women. Women who box claimed the stage in Jen Silverman’s Collective Rage...