Review: DISTILLATION at Solas Nua
by Roger Catlin - April 17, 2024
You meet in the hotel lobby and go up the elevator in two groups of 10 to the fourth floor. Once assembled there, you’re led to a community room where you take your seat around a table covered in clumps of black earth that we’ll soon come to learn is peat. Irish peat, from the bogs. Three hundred po...
Review: UNKNOWN SOLDIER at Arena Stage
by Rachael F. Goldberg - April 15, 2024
'Unknown Soldier' is a beautifully performed show with a fascinating exploration of memory, love, and loss, but its main flaw is that it is a show seeking out answers to a mystery it not only fails to resolve, but further convolutes at every turn. While there’s truth in that, it’s also a little diss...
Review: MACBETH at Shakespeare Theatre Company
by Dara Homer - April 15, 2024
STC’s Macbeth highlights brutal pairs: war and domestic life, grief and humor, brief words and permanent consequences. While the setting could feel unassuming—indeed, audiences must make their way through the parking lot of a Home Depot when arriving via metro—it also shows how extravagant it is to ...
Review: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE at Kennedy Center Opera House
by Emily Berger - April 13, 2024
Message in a Bottle, a narrative dance work set to music by Sting, with choreography by Kate Prince ranging from hip hop to break dancing to contemporary, is sometimes maddening but often exhilarating....