Tag: In Series
‘Justice and joy’: Shanara Gabrielle on theater with a social conscience
The director of IN Series' 'The Cradle Will Rock' talks about what it takes to make a difference in the world through theater. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
DCTA 2023 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Productions
These professional productions made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
Timothy Nelson on an unlikely mashup: IN Series’ ‘The Promised End’
The artistic director explains how Verdi’s unforgettable 'Requiem' got mixed up with Shakespeare’s masterpiece 'King Lear.'
Quest for freedom resounds in ‘Ordering of Moses’ from IN Series
R. Nathaniel Dett’s 1932 oratorio about the Israelites' liberation from the Egyptians is by turns startling, soul-stirring, and highly satisfying.
DCTA 2022 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Creative Components (Professional)
These designers, directors, and playwrights made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DCTA 2022 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Performances
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DC-area theaters unite to extend COVID vax and mask requirements
Shows go on as Theatre Washington announces continued safety efforts.
DCMTA 2021 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Performances in Professional Theater Productions
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DCMTA 2021 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Design Elements in Professional Theater Productions
These professional design elements made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DCMTA 2021 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Theater Productions
17 productions that wowed us as live theater returned.
DCMTA 2021 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Digital Theater
30 online productions that wowed us and got us through theater shutdown.
IN Series sets season of live theater centering DEI
Marking its 40th year, the innovative company plans new collaborations and world premieres to play a dozen DC and Baltimore venues.
IN Series to build a digital opera house without walls
If the COVID-19 pandemic has a lesson for the arts community, it’s that what’s small can still be mighty. Without a house to fill...
IN Series produces first ever fully digital opera performance season
As performing arts organizations worldwide struggle to schedule live performance seasons in the midst of a global pandemic, DC's IN Series leads the charge...
IN Series’ ‘Dorothy Fields Cabaret’ honors first woman inducted into the...
In my 20s, I lamented that despite being well-schooled in American literature, I’d ended up a failure at knowing much of our nation’s poetry...
IN Series’ ‘L’Enfance du Christ’ follows the Holy Family’s journey as...
Hector Berlioz’s mid-19th-century L’Enfance du Christ is not quite an oratorio in the most familiar sense of that term. Nor is it quite an...
IN Series’ ‘L’enfance du Christ’ offers all-comers respite, transcendence, unity
How history will judge us for this administration’s treatment of Central American migrant children, I often wonder. And yet, our record of abuse against...
Review: ‘Oberon, or The Elf King’s Oath’ at The In Series
“I’m stuck with writer’s block!”
Who among us—be we beginners, practitioners or professionals, list makers, blog posters, PhD thesis or diary writers—has not been visited...
In the Moment: Aaron Copland’s ‘The Tender Land’ by The In...
How fortunate we are to have The In Series. Over the decades it has taken artistic risks for audiences to extend their knowledge and...
‘Fatal Song: The Great Opera Murders’ at The In Series
The In Series continues the launch of the 2014-2015 season with the hilarious Fatal Song: The Great Opera Murders. Kathleen Cahill wrote a comic...