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Barbara Trainin Blank

Growing up in New York City, seeing plays, both musicals and not, were a part of steady family diet. So were opera, ballet, and concerts. 

Trainin Blank has been writing about theater and the performing arts -- either in reviews or previews -- for more decades than she'd care to admit. She is also a practitioners: several of Trainin Blank's short plays have been workshopped or given staged readings; two full-length plays have been produced, and three have been published.

Trainin Blank moved to the DC area in 2013. She's a member of the Playwrights Alliance of Pennsylvania and the Alliance of Jewish Theatre.

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BWW Review: FLOW at Studio Theatre

BWW Review: FLOW at Studio Theatre

May 23, 2021

Flow, which saw its second production, in 2004, at Studio Theatre, is back! Part of Studio Theatre’s first digital season and more specifically featuring a trio of eclectic solo performances, Flow might be called a mixed metaphor.

BWW Review: THE SNOW QUEEN at Imagination Stage

BWW Review: THE SNOW QUEEN at Imagination Stage

December 21, 2020

Like many of the fairy tales by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, his popular novel The Snow Queen has a dark undertone — representing the struggle between good and evil that two friends Gerda and Kai experience.

BWW Review: DON JUAN IN HELL at Washington Stage Guild

BWW Review: DON JUAN IN HELL at Washington Stage Guild

November 26, 2020

Wit, wisdom, and sometimes overpowering verbosity fill George Bernard Shaws’ Don Juan In Hell, the dream sequence contained within the third act of the Irish playwright’s Man and Superman and sometime performed independently.

BWW Review: DEAR MAPEL at Mosaic Theater Company

BWW Review: DEAR MAPEL at Mosaic Theater Company

October 27, 2020

Is it possible to change a relationship retrospectively, especially one that has been intermittent all along and ended with the death of the other person? That is the question posed by Psalmayene 24, who didn't see his father until he was 12 and even then was introduced by the older man as someon

BWW Review: A TRIBUTE TO LEON FLEISHER

BWW Review: A TRIBUTE TO LEON FLEISHER

September 29, 2020

The word legendary can be used loosely, but as Brian Ganz demonstrates in a tribute concert to his long-time teacher and world-famous pianist Leon Fleisher, in this case not only is the description deserving but can be applied in many different spheres.




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