It may be Friday the 13, but who needs horror movies when we’re living this reality, amirite? Anyway. I’m sure by now you’ve heard there is some tacky parade going on downtown but if I were you I’d avoid it. “OMG The Hill is Home, are you anti-Army???” Well, the truth is that when I […]
We’ve made on our hands and knees to something that looks like a weekend– or maybe just the end of our wits? No matter. There are flowers in bloom and few mosquitoes and there is joy and love to be found. A very special shoutout to all the mothers, (s)mother(er)s, mother figures, alma maters, mamacitas, […]
Now, I don’t want to jinx anything but this spring has been really quite springlike. Usually we follow a winte/rain/hot-as-hell trajectory but we have had a good dose of lovely this year and it has been delightful. Now that I have typed that, we should expect monsoons followed by drought— so enjoy it while it […]
The logo for the current productions of Macbeth, now on stage at the Folger Theatre, features several technicolor profiles of an owl as it hovers over a witches’ cauldron. The intersection of supernatural spells and owls –all-seeing, fierce, focused on their prey, and a bit spooky– is a teaser for the mayhem that awaits theatregoers […]
While it has become less and less the case, Washington can be a reserved place where the status quo limits change, and passion and action-oriented enthusiasm gets squashed. There is no such tamping down in the award-winning Bedlam Theatre Company’s production of Saint Joan at the Folger Theatre. Joan and her message are as powerful as a […]