Tag: Tazewell Thompson
Review: ‘Jubilee’ at Arena Stage
In 1871, Fisk University - an all-Black institution of higher learning in Nashville, Tennessee - was in dire financial straits. To raise money for...
Interview: Jade Wheeler and Bueka Uwemedimo from Everyman Theatre’s production of...
Intimate Apparel is the story of a woman named Esther. In 1905, Esther is a 35-year-old woman who lives in a rooming house with...
Review: ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ at Arena Stage at the...
“I am a giant surrounded by ants!” exclaimed Walter Lee Younger in a scene from A Raisin in the Sun. Walter is the embodiment...
Review: ‘Great Expectations’ at Everyman Theatre
Everyman Theatre (“Everyman”) continues its 2016/2017 season with an ambitious production: Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. A work of literature epic in scope and scale,...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #10: Best Direction in Musicals in Professional...
Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Direction of Musicals in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees:
David James for A Christmas...
Review: ‘Lost in the Stars’ at Washington National Opera #2
One of the most powerful musical dramas of the 20th century has just opened at The Kennedy Center, home of the Washington National Opera, for...
Review: ‘Lost in the Stars’ at Washington National Opera
In the scorching, emotional and honest opera of man in search of redemption, the opera--Lost in the Stars, now playing as part of the Washington...
‘Catone in Utica’ by Opera Lafayette at The Kennedy Center
In Opera Lafayette's Catone in Utica, which opened last night at The Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, the greats have come out to sing.
And Antonin Vivaldi's...
Spine: ‘Appomattox’ Cracks the Color Line at The Kennedy Center
Appomattox, the world premiere opera now playing at The Kennedy Center Opera House in a new production by the Washington National Opera, tackles that...
‘Dangereuse’: ‘Appomattox’ at The Kennedy Center by Sophia Howes (Review #2)
In the wake of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, it is the perfect time for an opera which tells the truth about...
‘Appomattox’ at Washington National Opera by David Friscic (Review #1)
Oh, the tears, trauma and travail of the issues brought to the fore in the revised World Premiere of the opera Appomattox at the...
UrbanAria’s ‘Blue Viola’ at Artisphere
Feelin' Blue?
Are you a violist who's feeling unwanted and underappreciated?
Then run down to UrbanArias' entertaining and high-strung English sung short opera Blue Viola, and you'll...
‘Ruined’ at Everyman Theatre
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer-winning drama Ruined made its Baltimore premiere at Everyman Theatre officially opening last night, offering a powerfully poignant portrait of barbarically ravaged women...
‘Carmen’ at Virginia Opera at George Mason University’s Center for the...
Things were very fiery this past Friday night at the GMU Center for the Arts as the Virginia Opera brings a new and exciting...
Arena Stage Announces its 2014-2015 Season
ARENA STAGE AT THE MEAD CENTER FOR AMERICAN THEATER
ANNOUNCES ITS 65TH SEASON FEATURING
FIVE WORLD PREMIERES, TWO MUSICALS, THREE COMEDIES AND
A 25-WRITER...
‘Mary T. & Lizzy K.’ Extended Through May 5, 2013...
MARY T. & LIZZY K. EXTENDS THROUGH MAY 5 AT ARENA STAGE
WITH SIX ADDED PERFORMANCES
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that due...
‘Mary T. & Lizzy K.’ at Arena Stage at the Mead...
Arena Stage Explores the Lincoln White House
Tazewell Thompson’s new play Mary T. & Lizzy K., now playing at Arena Stage, is based on the...
