Mosaic Theater kicked off its newest season by proving that, just when you think they couldn’t possibly be the most inclusive theater company around, they can always do better. What topped last year’s beautiful, bold The Devil’s Music? A dialogue/tetralogue with Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight, with the live musicians that help tell the story right […]
Karen Ramsey has been a DC area resident off and on since 1994 and is currently a denizen of Trinidad neighborhood. Living in DC means opportunities to explore and experience new or unexpected things. 410[GONE] by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig and directed by Gregory King Strasser at the Rorschach Theatre was an unexpected delight. I attended […]
It’s getting more and more challenging for me to write reviews of plays at Mosaic Theater because all I want to say is, GO SEE IT! GO NOW! It’s no different with Paper Dolls, A Play With Songs, playing through April 29. The play, written by Philip Himberg as a reimagining of Tover Heymann’s documentary Paper […]
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 […]
Guilt is the latest offering from Scena Theatre, now playing through February 4. Guilt, a lurid story of abuse, betrayal and torture told in a bare-bones stage, dominated only by a towering rotating sculpture that looks like a cross between a Rorschach ink blot and an Exquisite Corpse, is a reimagining of the events that transpired […]