Tag: Robert McNamara
Scena Theatre finds the absurd wonder in Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Godot’
A show about waiting with nothing particularly happening can be fascinating with the right casting, and this production has it all. By DEBBIE MINTER JACKSON
In ‘The Last Drop’ at Scena, castaways from a catastrophe have...
For the survivors in this Beckettian dystopia imagined by Australian playwright John Shand, drinking water is scarce and so is civility. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Nobel winner Jon Fosse’s ‘Strong Wind’ is a kick at Scena...
The absorbing prose-poem drama plays in one’s mind like a linguistic trickster. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Scena Theatre to present U.S. premiere of Jon Fosse’s ‘Strong Wind’
The haunting and surreal drama is a new work by Europe's most-performed living playwright.
Scena Theatre’s ‘Three by Yeats’ reclaims Irish national mythology
A stylized staging of poetic playlets written by William Butler Yeats as Ireland fought for independence.
Gabriele Jakobi, Scena’s renowned director, died January 2 at age 69
The native of Germany is survived by her husband, Robert McNamara, founder and artistic director of Scena Theatre.
A first-rate adaptation of ‘The Time Machine’ at Scena Theatre
Ron Litman is superb as the Professor who travels far into the future of the human race.
Scena Theatre opens transfixing and exhilarating ‘Beckett Shorts’
The anthology of four dark comedies is an overview of the renowned playwright’s themes and techniques.
Scena Theatre to present four black comedies by Samuel Beckett
With 'Beckett Shorts,' the company returns to its modernist roots of staging great works by the masters of literature and theater.
A critic at play
During the past seven-odd years that I've contributed to DC Theater Arts, I've written about upwards of 600 shows—sometimes as the designated reviewer (when...
Review: ‘Beckett Trio, Part 2’ by Scena Theatre
Ready for your Samuel Beckett fix? A fix for the lesser-known, very short-form works by the winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature?...
Review: ‘The Beckett Trio’ at Scena Theatre
Nanna Ingvarsson is so phenomenal in these three harrowing short plays by Samuel Beckett that one can easily imagine the Nobel Prize-winning minimalist—notoriously persnickety...
Magic Time!: ‘Guilt’ at Scena Theatre
Sex and guilt were linked in superstition before institutional Christianity came on the scene, but thanks to the medieval Catholic Church they got hooked...
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: ‘Fear Eats the Soul’ at Scena Theatre
As part of its 30th anniversary season, Scena Theatre has offered a stage adaptation of late German film auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1974 film...
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: ‘Report to an Academy’ at Scena Theatre
Scena Theatre opens the company’s 30th Anniversary Season with Report to an Academy, an emotionally powerful drama. Report to an Academy is based on the 1917 classic...
Review: ‘War of the Worlds’ at Scena Theatre
Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds is infamous for having incited a mini UFO panic due to its vivid and realistic...