Tag: Michael C. Stepowany
Review: ‘The Night Alive’ at Scena Theatre
Irish playwright Conor McPherson’s The Night Alive is a story of lost souls seeking redemption, of searching for a light in the darkness. Presented...
Magic Time! ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ at Scena Theatre
Someone Is Going to Come is a comedy of menace with a roiling undercurrent of sexual tension. It evokes ominous noirish goings-on in a...
Review: ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ at Scena Theatre
Scena Theatre’s Someone Is Going to Come is a tightly wound riddle about danger; the lightly concealed danger lurking in a couple’s push-pull of...
Review #2: ‘Sarafina!’ at Howard University
“Freedom is coming tomorrow!” exclaims the students of Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts in Sarafina! a musical written by Mbongeni Ngema and directed by...
Review: ‘Sarafina!’ at Howard University
Even if you already know how inspiring and moving this show is, from seeing the film or the musical on stage, you are in...
‘African Americans’ at Howard University
Are customs and cultures completed eradicated and evaporated when people from other continents, countries and cultures come to this great land we call “America?”...
‘Anything Goes’ at Howard University
Howard University's Department of Theatre Arts' Anything Goes, currently on the boards at the Ira Aldridge Theater, is a show to which everyone should go see....
‘The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin’ at Howard University...
The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin, Howard University Department of Theatre Arts’ current musical production, is a champagne toast to keeping it...
Why Tonight You Must See the Final Performance of Scena Theatre’s...
From Fassbinder to Scena Theatre: ‘The Marriage of Maria Braun
Survival, security, and success - What would you do to fulfill your life’s ambition? For...
‘The Marriage of Maria Braun’ at SCENA Theatre by Emily Cao
“My time is just beginning.”
Truer words have never been spoken by any character. Maria Braun’s straightforward declaration is the essence of Robert McNamara’s The...
Magic Time: Oscar Wilde’s Salomé at Scena Theatre by John Stoltenberg
There’s some wondrous strange stuff in the Bible, but for out and out bizarro it’s hard to top the tale of the king Herod’s...
Oscar Wilde’s Salomé at SCENA Theatre at Atlas Performing Arts Center...
Oscar Wilde's Salomé, directed by Robert McNamara, rounds out SCENA Theatre's 25th anniversary season with its second production of this controversial, yet classic, biblical...
‘Venus’ at Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts by Veronique MacRae
Howard University's Department of Theatre Arts continues its 2012-2013 season 'Reclaiming the Black Body, Identity, Discourse, and Politics' with the powerful story of Saartje...
‘A Clockwork Orange’ at Scena Theatre by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Good.
Is being good truly good if it is not by choice?
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
Evil.
Which...
‘Mein Kampf’ at Scena Theatre by Grace Kim
Having had a long tough week, a play billed as a dark comedy sounded like just the thing to end my Friday night with....
‘The Seafarer’ at Scena Theatre by Kevin O’Connell
In Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, Richard Harkin says of his brother, Sharky, “It’s a well-known fact in this whole area that my brother has...