This week, an international theater collaboration is in residence at the Uline (3rd & M, NE) paying tribute to a small corner of our city with their eponymous show Swampoodle. For even some long-time neighborhood residents, the mention of those two places – the building and the (former) neighborhood – conjure no recognition whatsoever, which […]
During Monday evening’s Helen Hayes Awards, Folger Theater took home three awards recognizing its 2009-2010 season. Founded in 1983, the awards recognize excellence in theater throughout the Washington, DC region. Hamlet garnered awards both for Outstanding Resident Play and Graham Hamilton, in the title role, was recognized as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Resident Play. […]
One month ago I was on a warm, sunny, Caribbean beach. My primary wardrobe consisted of a variety of swimsuits, I completely eschewed shoes in favor of walking barefoot on the powdery sand and ate food so fresh it was literally picked or caught within sight of where I ate it. Soaking it all in, […]
Some of us love the theater. It’s more than just dialogue on paper: it’s an exhilarating feeling of imagining situations coming to life and of how to deliver them in a most powerful way. It’s the way the words convey so much more; the clever asides; the soliloquies exposing real motives, and the monologues conveying […]
One of the things we take for granted on the Hill is the vast intellectual treasures and historic marvels at our disposal. A visit to The Folger Library’s Elizabethan Theatre for a performance of Shakespeare’s tragic and power-saturated Henry VIII reminded me of both Saturday night. The run of this production of Henry VIII has […]