Tag: Jonathan Dahm Robertson
Review: ‘All The Things You Are: Jerome Kern’ at The In...
As the Great American Songbook continues to recede from its long-held prominence, productions such as the In Series All the Things You Are: Jerome...
Review: ‘An Operetta Holiday’ at The In Series
The In Series’ An Operetta Holiday, written and directed by Nick Olcott, is a charming aural journey through the era between opera and musicals....
Review: ‘The Love of the Nightingale’ at The Catholic University of...
A play from the 1980s about revenge for a rape, based on an ancient story from Greek mythology, comes alive in a student production...
Review: ‘Jacques Brel: Songs From His World’ at Source Theatre
Time has not dimmed the impact or abundant love for the musical works of Jacques Brel; even now, nearly 40 years since his untimely...
Review: ‘Julius Caesar’ at Scena Theatre at the Atlas Performing Arts...
Diamond Julesy Gets It
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has recently become a cause célèbre. When Caesar was portrayed in a Public Theater production with a...
Review: ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill’ at Anacostia Playhouse
“These are my friends,” Billie Holiday (Anya Nebel) tells her accompanist (LeVar Betts), gesturing at the audience. It is March of 1959, and Holiday...
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...
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: ‘Passion & Struggle’ at The In Series
Poetry can be the seed of music, and music the seed of love. Music may even be used as a form of protest---and ultimately...
Review: ‘Donizetti’s Don Pasquale’ at The In Series: Opera & More
Happiness is a theatrical adaptation that successfully reinvents the original. The In Series' production of Gabriel Donizetti's 1843 comic opera Don Pasquale, now playing...
Review: ‘Coolatully’ at Solas Nua
In the fictional village of Coolatully, a quartet of characters grapple with the effects of Ireland’s newest mass emigration. The brief and heady era...
Review: ‘The Magi’ at The Hub Theatre
“A simple tale of love and hope,” is the way local playwright Helen Murray Pafumi describes her new work, The Magi. That is an understatement.
In...
Review: ‘Broadway Bound’ at 1st Stage
As self-conscious plays go, Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound is both a self-fulfilling prophesy and a cross-examination of the creative process.
The play, which was nominated for a...
Review: The Romantics III: ‘Schumann & Heine’ at The In series...
Close your eyes for just a moment. Imagine that you are comfortably seated in an elegant, yet commodious room, filled with people who have...
Review: ‘Bloody Poetry’ at The Catholic University of America
So far as I can tell, The Catholic University of America’s Drama Department turns out a lot of local talent. I keep seeing mentions...
Review: ‘The Body of an American’ at Theater J
A true story that begins with the desecration of a dead body becomes, before our eyes and hearts, a living and breathing buddy story....
Review: ‘Cosi Fan Tutte Goes Hollywood’ at The In Series
The confusion all begins with the title.
Cosi Fan Tutte -- It is of course the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart comic opera, or "opera buff," that is today considered part of the gold standard of the...