“You have never experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.” — Chancellor Gorkon, from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country production draft, dated 12/28/90 At first glance, it’s a relatively throwaway and rather humorous line from a Star Trek movie. Upon second glance, some saw it as a challenge. With a […]
Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of the centuries old tales The One Thousand and One Nights is a surprisingly funny — at times farcical — look at the importance of storytelling and the power of words. An enthusiastic cast performed the stories-within-a-story on Arena Stage’s in-the-round Fichandler Theatre.
Anna Deveare Smith is one of those theatrical powerhouses whose presence can singularly command an audience. It’s a rare and gifted performer who can headline a one-person show, and Smith is one of the few who’s utterly riveting again and again. Having tackled race and violence in Twilight: Los Angeles and Fires in the […]
Yee-haaaw! Set in the early 20th Century, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! is back in all of its classic honor. Directed by Molly Smith, it is being shown at the Arena Stage in DC. It first debuted on Broadway in the midst of World War II. Oklahoma territory is on the brink of statehood, and the people in […]
If you are a fan of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 or Rifftrax, you could not afford to miss the live riffing of a crappy film at the Lisner Auditorium last night as the cast of Cinematic Titanic bring the A-Riffing Game on with the 1968’s War of the Insects.
If you ever traveled to I-95 North across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge from Virginia in the last few days, you would have noticed the big yellow and blue Grand Chapiteau near the Plateau at National Harbor. The dynamic circus troupe, Cirque Du Soleil, has come back to the DC Metro Area to bring their 25th […]
Nearly forty years ago on the Great White Way, America was introduced to the beloved musical, Fiddler on the Roof, at the Imperial Theatre. Fiddler tells the story of a milkman who is used to the old traditions while the village of Anatevka turns upside down. With Zero Mostel at the helm on September 22, 1964; […]
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