It’s not often that a night at the theater leaves you feeling like “you’ve been to church!” This raucous bio-musical now playing at Ford’s Theatre follows the pioneering life of Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973).
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Blue is a coming-of-age tragedy that’s as much about forgiveness, identity, and the false hopes and expectations of Black men, as it is about police brutality.
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Round House Theatre’s version of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest is an outlandish, illusory, wonderful spectacle, with stage magic performed so seamlessly it appears to be real.
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To meet Gene Bruskin is to meet a titan of the labor movement. Talking with him opens up a world that most history books barely broach. A tall, burly man with a booming voice, wispy gray hair and a constant cough that interrupts just about every other sentence, Bruskin is the embodiment of what it means to be a grassroots labor organizer.
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Shipwreck, which starts out as a conventional drama about a group of old friends gathering together for a weekend, meanders its way from the mundane to the surreal. It wanders deliberately and just as deliberately leaves the viewer with more questions than answers.
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Arena Stage’s production of August Wilson’s Jitney, newly extended through October 27, 2019, is a tour de force. It’s moving.
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