Tag: Jim Crow
Review: ‘After Birth of a Nation’ at City Theater Company
Today’s audiences need farce. Wild men chasing beautiful women through many doors, visual running gags, women dressed as men, and vice versa, all enhanced...
Review: ‘Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years’ at...
Sadie and Bessie Delany were one of a kind. Well, two of a kind. When we meet these two sisters, it’s 1993; Sadie is...
In the Moment: Scenic Designer Tony Cisek on his Scenic Design...
Over the past nearly two decades, I have always anticipated what multi-Helen Hayes Award Scenic Designer Tony Cisek will bring forth on the Folger Theatre’s...
Dangereuse: Reconstructing Shylock: ‘District Merchants’ at the Folger Theatre
Freud said, “When a delusion cannot be dissipated by the facts of reality, it probably does not spring from reality.” This is the essence of...
‘Finian’s Rainbow’ at Catholic University by Jessica Vaughan
Catholic University's Benjamin T. Rome School of Music mounts a fabulous production of Finian’s Rainbow for its fall musical, with additional actors from Howard...