“Topdog/Underdog” EXTENDED through June 30, 2024 at Round House Theatre, 4545 East-West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814. For more information and to purchase tickets, go online. Review by Katie Barnetton for MD Theatre Guide “Are you watching closely? Go see ‘Topdog/Underdog’ at Round House Theatre, and you better. From Chekhov’s gun to sleight of hand,...
Alexandria, VA – Playwright Mary Zimmerman is a national treasure. With two productions currently running in DC theaters and last year’s Helen Hayes Award-winning production of The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, her reputation in our area is firmly cemented. I’ll see anything with her name on it. You should too. In Metamorphoses Zimmerman uses...
The Folger’s “Metamorphoses” charts a fantastic voyage through myth and time, and in brilliantly engaging company. By André Hereford for Metro Weekly on May 21, 2024 Life begins with a noise in the dark, a quiet rattle and hum that bursts into a joyful communal dance ended abruptly by violent separation. From this first...
By Hayden Dobb, Pasadena Weekly Staff Writer Apr 4, 2024 A new play is coming to Boston Court this spring. “The Body’s Midnight,” written by playwright Tira Palmquist, is a co-production with IAMA Theatre Company. Directed by Jessica Kubzansky, “The Body’s Midnight” explores the idea of what it means to get lost in America...
But the highlight of the evening was its centerpiece, “Forever” — quite easily the strangest opera I’ve ever seen. Rather than dig into humanity for material, composer Elizabeth Gartman and librettist Melisa Tien dispose of it altogether, opting instead for a world populated by humanistic petrochemicals and tenacious microorganisms. Thus, “Forever” stages a meet-cute...