“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...
Psalmayene 24 directs an all-Black cast in a revival of Mary Zimmerman’s acclaimed “Metamorphoses” at Folger Theatre. Review by Rhoda Feng for the Washington Post May 14, 2024 at 6:14 p.m. EDT Any stage adapter of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” is faced with a quandary: What particular kinds of metamorphoses should be emphasized? The transformations become...
Article by Lily Janiak May 9, 2024 for the SF Chronicle Crack open “The Glass Menagerie,” and you might find a dreamscape inside. At San Francisco Playhouse, Tennessee Williams’ 1944 masterpiece is like a series of nested worlds with the tops broken off. A cramped, bare-bones apartment rises like a tiny island center stage....