Here There Are Blueberries, playing at The Shakespeare Theatre after its world premiere at San Diego’s La Jolla Playhouse, is compelling, thought-provoking, and tightly written.
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Borum’s book illustrates how comedy can change minds by breaking down barriers between people. When it includes more perspectives, comedy elevates marginalized voices and brings social issues to life.
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Just in time for baseball season, Sandra Marchetti has published her second full-length poetry collection, Aisle 228, about the 2016 Chicago Cubs, going to ball games with her father, and listening to baseball on the radio.
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Gregory Luce reviews three poetry collections by D.C. area writers: Let’s Call It Paradise by Mike Maggio, Ordinary Time by Sarah deCorla-Souza, and Having a Baby to Save a Marriage by CL Bledsoe.
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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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The House of Sweden, aka the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., promised their event celebrating Sweden’s 2023 EU Presidency would be a “magical evening.” It most definitely was.
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Born and raised in the Linthicum neighborhood, just north of the home of the storied Baltimore Cardinals, Rafael Alvarez has spent most of his life living and working in the heart of Charm City (Alvarez calls it Crabtown USA).
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For our second annual holiday book recommendation list, we reached out to key players in the D.C.-area literary community. We wanted to find out which books, written by local authors, they loved reading in 2022, and add those to our own favorites to create this list.
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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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The work to better Latinx representation in literature is ongoing, and Afro-Latinx voices in poetry are being heard thanks to publications like Diaspora Cafe: D.C., a new anthology of poetry on the Afro-Latinx experience published by DC-based Day Eight.
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In her 40s Nella, the protagonist of Joyce Kornblatt’s remarkably subtle novel Mother Tongue, discovers that her entire life is a lie. Her mother is not her mother, so much as a woman who kidnapped her, as a newborn, from a Pittsburgh hospital nursery.
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