Two giants were in fulsome display at Glimmerglass Festival on Saturday, both alike in dignity: the notorious RBG (Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) and Roman Republic's own Cato th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:57PM[SHARE]With Scalia/Ginsburg, Derrick Wang’s delightful mash of an opera, the composer shamelessly steals from almost every major composer and switches styles with alacrity, even setting some …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AM[SHARE]The highly anticipated first entrance of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to deliver what has become her signature off-the-bench talk, "Law in Opera," begins off-stage left where a slight, frail …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AM[SHARE]Once has been more than once a phenomenon, first as a runaway independent film then as an unlikely Broadway hit winning eight of eleven nominated Tony Awards, including Best Musical. I'll sa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PM[SHARE]It appears that director Carol Spring, Artistic Director Elizabeth Dapo, and the Half Mad Theatre Company have garnered some very positive attention locally, so it beats me why this show lef…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33PM[SHARE]Wanderlust Company serves up Shakespeare with a whole lot of spirit and energy, and so fast and furious the effect is like riding a high-speed roller coaster on acid. Pairing down cast and s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AM[SHARE]"Some birds can't see beyond the tips of their bills!" That line got the audience giggling at three bullying ducklings with attitude " Flap, Waddle and Ducky. It nailed the essence of the ne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21PM[SHARE]–Â Alliance for New-Music Theater was invited to bring Kafka’s Metamorphosis to this year’s Prague Fringe Festival. Susan Galbraith takes us there as a Fringe goer and p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AM[SHARE]Gioachino Rossini's comic opera, La Cenerentola, here titled Cinderella, is full of vibrantly-colored costumes, wild wigs, a thrilling gallop of a score, charming voices, and delightfully ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AM[SHARE]Theatre is constantly reinventing itself. Playwrights and directors are pushing for the "total surround experience" as a refresh of old ideas and to attract new and younger audiences. This w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:51AM[SHARE]When I think of Wagnerian opera I think big " big sets, big ideas, and big voices " but in the production of The Flying Dutchman that just opened at Washington National Opera, only the voice…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AM[SHARE]Walking into the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday morning, I was greeted by the hell-bent-for leather sounds of the famous "Ride of the Valkyries" from Wagner's Ring…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AM[SHARE]A Meditation on Fear and Mass Hysteria How the twist of a current event can bring a work alive. Far from being an opera about how faith put to the ultimate test offers a path to redemption, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AM[SHARE]The best thing about Washington National Opera's world premiere of Penny in the Terrace Theatre is that in a rare "tuning of the spheres" another new opera was commissioned and given a respe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AM[SHARE]Presenting opera for children seems like an idea that's going hotter than hotcakes. Kids and their parents are eating this stuff up. In December the Washington National Opera presented its t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AM[SHARE]Hitching a ride through the galaxy with The Little Prince last week, the audience discovered magical delights in the opera and such truths that grown-ups never are capable of telling, perhap…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AM[SHARE]Â If you are looking for entertaining theatre this holiday and begin to yawn at the thought of enduring one more Christmas Carol, head down to the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) for Mat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:15AM[SHARE]The long-anticipated musical, The Little Dancer, made its official world premiere at the Kennedy Center last week, and its star dazzled the opening night audience whose applause, at several …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AM[SHARE]Two different casts, two different audiences, two different experiences for La bohème What makes an opera sing? There are so many elements that must come together in this art form. Even wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AM[SHARE]We are sitting in the chic white leather Russian Room at The Kennedy Center during a rehearsal break. Director Peter Kazaras has brought his bound score and throughout our conversation pours…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AM[SHARE]If you thought opera was an art form dedicated to the "park and bark" supersized, you would have your assumptions happily blasted away at Opera Lafayette's celebratory dance mash with slithe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:47AM[SHARE]Washington National Opera's new production of Florencia in the Amazon carries us through many auditory and visual delights taking us on a trip up the Amazon with hints of magic as it "bathes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AM[SHARE]Contracts, like agreements, are often broken in opera as well as life, giving grist for good plotlines. And Grand Operas, like our constitution, are rightly to be re-interpreted with an elas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AM[SHARE]It takes a confident and mature company like Glimmerglass to poke fun both at itself and the very form of opera. Ariadne in Naxos was, in many ways, both a celebration and a self-referential…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AM[SHARE]I will wager, folks, that this year's Glimmerglass production is the most dramatically sound, compellingly truthful, and emotionally wrenching Madame Butterfly that you will ever see. For my…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:27PM[SHARE]For a little home-brewed, laid-back conversational, and oh-so compelling storyteller's journey as a street performer, Andrew Potter juggles the art of sharing home movies or what we used to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:57PM[SHARE]There's so much THERE there in Capital Fringe, what's a reviewer to do? And when events move between opera, drama, comedy, dance or amalgams of performance, as Lucretia Borgia does, the task…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:39PM[SHARE]At Fringe, expect the unexpected, and I certainly did not expect a full-blown opera complete with classical Greek heroes and goddesses. A Fire in Water is a work that forges it all together.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:43PM[SHARE]Written collectively by the tight ensemble No. 11 Productions from New York, Coosje combines words, music, an art installation, and projections to tell the story of the romantic relationship…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AM[SHARE]Don Giovanni lives! " unrepentant and unleashed " at Castleton Festival. The Festival has delivered the story of the world's most famous reprobate with a terrific company, whose members pull…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AM[SHARE]Opening the 2014 season, with Lorin Maazel scheduled to conduct, word came down from il Maestro himself that this production of Madama Butterfly was the "real thing." The place was packed an…
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