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REVIEW: Melodramatic Susannah (Wolf Trap Opera)

by Basil Considine on August 13, 2022August 13, 2022

Susannah Polk (downstage, center; Ann Toomey) is shunned by her Tennessean small town community in Wolf Trap Opera’s production of Susannah, which opened last night at Wolf Trap Opera in Vienna, VA. Photo by Scott…

REVIEW: Camp Times in Hercules vs. Vampires (Nashville Opera)

by Basil Considine on January 29, 2018February 6, 2018

Hercules vs. Vampires is not your typical opera. It’s not your typical vampire flick, either. It belongs firmly in that particular category of “something different” – and, going by the amount of laughter at Saturday’s…

REVIEW: Aladdin on Broadway

by Arthur Freeman on January 14, 2018January 29, 2018

The Broadway cast of Aladdin. Photo by Deen Van Meer. Trading on childhood movie nostalgia is dangerous business in the theatre. Make too many changes and you hear “You ruined my childhood!” Make too few…

REVIEW: Cheeky Lysistrata Jones (Red Branch Theatre Company)

by Arts National on August 10, 2017September 3, 2017

Pictured: Diego Esmolo, Andrew Overton, Patrick Campbell, Conner Gilbert, Jason Quackenbush and Elad Ness in Red Branch Theatre Company’s Lysistrata Jones. If you like your Greek theatre topical, up-to-date and bawdy – and sung – Red Branch…

REVIEW: An Octoroon (Woolly Mammoth Theatre)

by Arts National on July 26, 2017September 3, 2017

Pictured: James Konicek, Kathryn Tkel and Jon Hudson Odom in Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s production of An Octoroon. Photo by Scott Suchman. Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s remount of An Octaroon is just as bewildering as before. This play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins…

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