Tag: Mexico
Review: ‘A Never-Ending Line’ at The Players Theatre
Conceived by Composer and Director Jaime Lozano as a loving tribute to the women in his life and his matriarchal upbringing, A Never-Ending Line,...
Review: ‘Fronteras: A Door in the Desert’ by Almanac Dance Circus...
I held my breath in glorious anticipation at several instances during Almanac Dance Circus Theatre’s captivating show Fronteras: A Door in the Desert. A...
Review: ‘Chronicle of a Death Foretold’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre
On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five thirty in the morning…
So begins one of the most...
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival ‘Destiny of Desire’ at Arena Stage
DC playwright Karen Zacarías' world-premiere musical comedy Destiny of Desire is a delightfully soapy mix of magic realism and situation comedy - so sit back in this...
‘Yerma’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre
New Adaptation Puts a Contemporary Spin on an 80-year-old Classic
Can a septuagenarian and a teenager both enjoy an 80-year-old play?
That’s what we set out...
Hugo Medrano on ‘Yerma’ and GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 2015-2016 Season
GALA Hispanic Theatre's Co-Founder & Producing Artistic Director Hugo Medrano unveils GALA's new 2015-2016 season.
Joel: How long have you been at GALA and how...
‘Latino Music Fever’ at the In Series
The In Series takes on the music of our Southern neighbors in a concert full of classic hits from Mexico and Cuba, many of...
‘Mariela in the Desert’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre
“There’s always something beautiful in the truth, even when it’s ugly.”
After a standing ovation, many of us in the audience at Sunday’s showing of...
A Full Moon for el Festival de Teatro para Niños by...
Season to season, festival to festival, Teatro de la Luna, co-founded by Mario Marcel and Nucky Walder, ping-pongs between the Gunston Arts Center and...
School in Crisis in Michele Riml’s ‘Rage’
In Michele Riml’s Rage, winner of the 2005 Sydney Risk Prize and 2008 winner of the Jessie Richardson Award, an after school counseling session unexpectedly...
Love The Three Stooges? Pay a Visit to ‘The Stoogeum’ in...
The Three Stooges made over 200 appearances in shorts - those knuckle-headed 15-minute misadventures - and full-length feature films with their usual trademark of...
The Playwright’s Playground: SOURCE Festival 2014 – An Interview With CJ...
Welcome to the conversation and The Playwright’s Playground, an in-depth conversation with female playwrights in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up...
‘Sexo, Pudor y Lágrimas’ (Sex, Shame and Tears) at Teatro de...
Although Sexo, Pudor Y Lágrimas (Sex, Shame and Tears) is a charming comedy. I found it a thoughtful meditation on sex and how it has, does...
‘Playwright Kurt Hackbarth, in Mexico, Confronts the Man’ by Pat Davis
Kurt Hackbarth’s new play, El Ostrakon: A Tragedy in Three Acts, which launched Oaxaca’s recent theater festival, examines quotidian forms of oppression: the education system, organized...
‘Amarillo’ at GALA Hispanic Theatre by Don Michael Mendoza
I have never been to the GALA Hispanic Theatre and was excited to see the restored theatre space and watch a show brought to...