Tag: Ivania Stack
Review: ‘An Octoroon’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Welcome to playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ world. You’re just living in it.
Or, is it, welcome to 19th Century playwright Dion Boucicault’s world and Branden Jacobs-...
Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ at Round House Theatre
Southern jazz fills the theatre as the warm lights come up on a bedroom. A mix of yellow and pink shines through the windows...
Review: ‘Road Show’ at Signature Theatre
First things first. One should not miss a chance to discover, or for some re-discover, a rarely produced Stephen Sondheim work. This is especially true for...
Review: ‘OLIVÉRio: A Brazilian Twist’ at The Kennedy Center’s Theater for...
The Kennedy Center has produced yet another world premiere production for this season’s Theater for Young Audiences. This time, they have taken Charles Dickens’...
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Women Laughing Alone With Salad’ at...
Women Laughing Alone With Salad is a completely mesmerizing, multi-media show. Like a gourmet salad bar, this one has all the good stuff, plus a...
‘The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key...
This is a big play,” the playwright Tony Kushner has said without understatement, and without an argument from anyone. It’s sprawling and sweeping and...
Magic Time: ‘Toast’ at dog & ponydc
I last partook of this tasty audience-integration treat from dog&pony dc last December when I saw Toast as a workshop production in the Kogod...
‘Toast’ at dog & pony dc
After a two-year incubation period, local company dog & pony dc brings their new devised theater piece Toast to the stage. It is billed...
‘Colossal’ at Olney Theatre Center
In his curtain speech prior to the opening night performance of Andrew Hinderaker’s Colossal at Olney Theatre Center, Artistic Director Jason Loewith mentioned 'past,...
‘Freud’s Last Session’ at Theater J
If conversation were kindling, this two-hander would combust. If argumentation were edible, this debate would be delectable. If a supersmart script played by two...
‘Three Men in a Boat (To say nothing of the dog)’...
Cultish musical enthusiasts have The Rocky Horror Show, movie-goers have Night of the Living Dead, 60's rockers had The Grateful Dead, and literary enthusiasts have Three Men in...
‘Living Out’ (‘Cama Afuera’) at GALA Hispanic Theatre
On a superficial level, the two women at the heart of Lisa Loomer’s elegantly crafted Living Out couldn’t be more different. Ana (Belén Oyola-Rebaza) is an...
Marcus Kyd on Performing ‘The Thousandth Night’ at MetroStage
In her review of The Thousandth Night at MetroStage, reviewer Yvonne French described Marcus Kyd's performance as:
... poignant, moving, courageous, and appropriately desperate...Marcus Kyd’s tour...
‘The Thousandth Night’ at MetroStage
MetroStage’s The Thousandth Night is a Five Star Perfect Night at the Theater
How do you define the perfect night at the theater? Does it make you...
‘La Señorita de Tacna (The Young Lady From Tacna)’ at GALA...
Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2010, always wanted to be a playwright. La Señorita de Tacna,...
‘A Little Night Music’ at Damascus Theatre Company by Amanda Gunther
A weekend in the country is exactly what you’re in for if you head up to the Damascus Theatre Company’s production of A Little...
‘Seminar’ at Round House Theatre by David Friscic
Floating windows at the top of the stage! That Is not, necessarily, the first thing you marvel at in the Round House Theatre’s current...
dog & pony dc’s ‘Toast’ (a Workshop Production) by John Stoltenberg
“Audience integration” is a buzzword that has been flying around awhile but only recently landed in my brain. In live theater, it means going...
‘This’ at Round House Theatre Bethesda by David Friscic
This is hardly an all-encompassing title to accurately convey the many, myriad machinations at work in Melissa Jane Gibson's thought-provoking and complex play-now an outstanding and stimulating production...
‘A Killing Game’ at dog & pony dc by Ramona Harper
Can life be sunshine, lollipops, rainbows and everything that’s wonderful when a deadly plague begins killing the citizenry and they start dropping like flies?...