News: CREATIVISTS IN DIALOGUE: A Podcast Embracing the Creative Life is Now Live on Substack
by Elliot Lanes
- Feb 2, 2023
A new local podcast, Creativists in Dialogue: A Podcast Embracing the Creative Life, launches February 1, 2023, at Creativists.substack.com. Supported in part by a fellowship to producer Elizabeth Bruce from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, Creativists in Dialogue features thoughtful, in-depth interviews with people from all walks of life about the role creativity plays in shaping who they are.
BWW Review: con WEST SIDE STORY al Teatro Comunale si conclude la VI edizione di A Summer Musical Festival della BSMT
by Valeria Venturelli
- Jul 22, 2018
Si e conclusa il 17 luglio la VI edizione di A Summer Musical Festival, rassegna estiva della Bernstein School of Musical Theater dedicata interamente al musical. Per sei sere, le ragazze e i ragazzi della BSMT hanno calcato il prestigioso palco del Teatro Comunale di Bologna per portare in scena una pietra miliare del teatro musicale americano: WEST SIDE STORY, con la regia di Gianni Marras e la direzione artistica di Shawna Farrell.
BWW Review: I giovani performer della BSMT volano al Duse con Le streghe di Eastwick
by Valeria Venturelli
- May 7, 2018
È maggio e, come e ormai consueto, la Bernstein School of Musical Theatre ci ricorda che l'estate si sta avvicinando. Al Teatro Duse comincia in grande la VI edizione del Summer Musical Festival, la rassegna estiva di teatro musicale organizzata dalla BSMT, diventata a tutti gli effetti una tradizione e un appuntamento imperdibile nella vita bolognese.
BWW Reviews: Ambassador Theater's RAGE Boils Onstage at Flashpoint
by Elizabeth Bruce
- Oct 30, 2014
At Flashpoint's Mead Theatre Lab in downtown DC, Ambassador Theatre continues its tradition of provocative, daring theatre with its US premiere of Canadian playwright Michele Riml's hard-charging, intensely relevant two-actor script, RAGE.
BWW Reviews: Cirque du Soleil's AMALUNA Dazzles at National Harbor
by Elizabeth Bruce
- Aug 4, 2014
Cirque du Soleil celebrates 30 years of spectacular circus arts this year with the presentation of the first ever majority female performance ensemble. Directed by renowned director, Diane Paulus, AMALUNA features a 70% female company of astonishingly skilled circus artists.
BWW Reviews: We Happy Few's Revival of THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Decries Oppression of Women
by Elizabeth Bruce
- Jul 16, 2014
We Happy Few Productions has once again brought its signature commitment to enlivening classic theatre through bare-bones, ensemble storytelling to this year's Capital Fringe Festival. Happily, they have re-energized a 90-minute version of the Jacobean drama, THE DUCHESS OF MALFI by John Webster, and placed its prescient outrage at the subordination and persecution of women before a 21st century audience still battling this oldest of injustices.
BWW Reviews: Molotov Theatre Group Horrifies with Macabre NORMAL at DCAC
by Elizabeth Bruce
- Mar 10, 2014
For theatregoers leery of cheery froth on stage---perky, feel-good family shows like 'The Lion King' or 'Matilda'---Molotov Theatre Group's production of Anthony Neilson's NORMAL at DC Arts Center, should be just the antidote for such sentimentality. Dark and sinister, Director Jay D. Brock's NORMAL falls perfectly into Molotov's mission to preserve the Grand Guignol French Theatre of Horror (which translates as 'The Theater of the Big Puppet'), which operated in Paris from 1897 until 1962. For those unfamiliar with this particular institution, its bloody, naturalistic lineage draws from Shakespeare's gruesome 'Titus Andronicus' to the shockingly violent 'splatter films' like 'Blood Feast.' With a heydey between the two world wars, the theatre's form specialized in portraying the lumpenproletariat who were deemed unsuitable material for the legitimate stage: prostitutes, criminals, street urchins, and others deep in the margins of Parisian society.
BWW Reviews: Forum Theatre's PLUTO Delves into the Surreal
by Elizabeth Bruce
- Feb 28, 2014
PLUTO, the new play by Steve Yockey now playing at Forum Theatre as part of the National New Play Network's Rolling World Premier, is laden with mythological symbols scattered about a most ordinary looking kitchen inhabited by a seemingly normal mom and her 20ish-year-old son. There is the three-headed dog, Cerebus, named for the mythological creature that guarded the underworld. There is Death, who, grim-reaper like, rumbles behind the door of the ordinary looking refrigerator, seeking access to the latest of the newly dead. And then, there is the macabre backstory of the young man's father who died laughing hysterically in his sleep, clad in the new green pajamas sold to him by Death as a salesman at the local mall.
BWW Reviews: GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS Soars at National Theatre
by Elizabeth Bruce
- Dec 27, 2013
The most recent version of the famous and often controversial opera, PORGY AND BESS by George Gershwin, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin, re-titled as THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS, is now playing at DC's National Theatre through Dec. 29, 2013. The opera, which has garnered scores of awards since its first performance in 1935, has been re-mounted by the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge with a creative team including Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, who adapted the book, and Dierdre L. Murray, who adapted the musical score. THE GERSHWINS' PORGY AND BESS opened on Broadway in 2011.
BWW Reviews: Constellation's 36 VIEWS Shimmers with Artistic Beauty
by Elizabeth Bruce
- Nov 1, 2013
Constellation Theatre has mounted a breathtakingly beautiful production of Naomi Iizuka's labyrinthine play, 36 VIEWS. The play draws inspiration from legendary Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's renowned series of woodblock prints, "36 Views of Mt. Fuji," created between 1826 and 1833. The narrative, like the 36 views, revolves around ever-shifting points of focus, leading the audience on a dizzying journey across centuries of Japanese history, art and culture. Simple this production is not, but oh what spectacular views along the way.
BWW Reviews: Folger Theatre's ROMEO AND JULIET Rivets with Modern Relevance
by Elizabeth Bruce
- Oct 24, 2013
Woe unto the society that undervalues its teenage girls. From the Pakistani Malala Yousafzai's of today to the Joan of Arcs, Ruby Bridges, and Anne Franks of history, young womanhood's quest for self-determination challenges our social mores as few other phenomena do. In Folger Theatre's ROMEO AND JULIET, passionately directed by Aaron Posner, Juliet too is such a heroine, and this tragic tale of young love lost becomes a much deeper story of human rights denied.
BWW Reviews: LEGAL TENDER Surprises and Satisfies at Capital Fringe Festival
by Nisha Tracy
- Jul 15, 2013
Nine stories in 60 minutes? Is is possible that someone could really feel satisfied by such short pieces? As it turns out, they can.
LEGAL TENDER goes through a series of scenes, all beginning with the phrase, “One dollar”. This common thread creates a straightforward connection, but also highlights the very different ways people value one hundred cents.
BWW Reviews: Studio's THE REAL THING Spins Stoppard in the Round
by Elizabeth Bruce
- May 30, 2013
Crisp and witty, with an impeccable cast and sleek production values, Tom Stoppard's THE REAL THING at Studio Theatre will delight theatregoers who have long wished Stoppard would stop all his intellectual and political mind-bending and get down to the personal business of love once and for all.
BWW Reviews: Washington Stage Guild Produces Final T.S. Eliot Play: THE ELDER STATESMAN
by Elizabeth Bruce
- May 1, 2013
In producing T.S. Eliot's THE ELDER STATESMAN-plus with their spring 2013 reading of Eliot's THE ROCK--Washington Stage Guild becomes the only theatre company in the world (as far as they can determine) to have produced all seven of Eliot's plays. And as Artistic Director Bill Largess jokingly remarked opening night, Washington Stage Guild is probably the only theatre that would produce all of T.S. Eliot's dramatic works.
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