“Why on earth would anyone run a marathon?” This was my thought every year as I cheered for neighbors and my gym teacher at the NYC marathon, blocks from my childhood home. The cheering was fun—the running, not so much. Didn’t these people realize they could get to Central Park quicker by subway than by […]
One thing I love about living on the Hill is finding little reminders of the past in the oddest places. For instance, the other day I was walking down Massachusetts Ave NE towards Lincoln Park, and saw in the small triangle formed by the avenue, 9th and A Streets NE a set of iron posts connected […]
Mosaic Theater has given us a few memorable one-person shows and Queens Girl in Africa carries that tradition proudly from beginning to end. Queens Girl is part of the Women’s Voices Festival and will be playing at the Lang Theater at the Atlas Performing Arts Center through February 4. Queens Girl is a one-woman play […]
Sometimes a character is so bad, she’s good. That can certainly be said for Kristine Nielsen, as Aunt Rene, and Elan Zafir, as Reg in The Way of the World, now on stage at the Folger Theatre. While not in lead roles, these two actors own the stage. As a woman of a certain age […]