38 stories by "Beatrice Loayza"
It's an odd thing, as a Latina here in Washington, D.C., to observe the mental wrestlings of liberal white folks struggling to come to terms with their privilege. How in muted voices they ma…
It's common knowledge that the female cast members of Saturday Night Live like Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones practically run the high-profile comedy sketch show. The myth that women cannot …
Audience participation can so often be a painful and unwelcome component of a night at the theater, especially if, like myself, you're prone to minor panic attacks at the thought of being ra…
The idea of sexual consent might seem simple: no means stop and yes means carry on. In practice, however, nothing could be further from the truth. The predicaments stemming from this issue t…
From behind tall blank panels, a cast of characters drawn from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro emerge, dressed in all white period garb, staging vignettes of frustrated and consummated love …
Philadelphia 1939. The Great Depression is nearly over and the United States is on the brink of war. Sent out by a gossip weekly to cover the wedding of socialite Tracy Lord (Lauren Devoll),…
Stick a right-wing conspiracy theorist, a curator at a Toby jug museum, and a rookie FBI agent in the same porcelain-filled room in a no-name town in rural Ohio, then make them talk over tea…
A wrenching agitation pervades the gray clouded confines of The Events, in which a diverse chorus group is slaughtered by a gunman. Save one person, Claire (Regina Aquino) the church chorus …
Long before Hannah Gadsby premiered her anti-comedy stand-up special Nanette, in which she lambasts the sexist entertainment industry and forces audiences to reckon with their own complicity…
Romeo & Juliet's famous entreaty–"wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast"– is strikingly realized in the latest addition to Shakespeare Theatre Company's yearly Free For…
Co-directors Rachel Menyuk and Eric Swartz have brought to the DC stage a truly original work with Don Cristóbal, Pointless Theatre's last show of the 2017-2018 season. At first an obs…
If you're a fan of double entendres and early-2000s raunchy teen movies, then chances are you'll like The Country Co-ed, a modern re-imagining of William Wycherley's 17th-century Restoration…
Written and directed by Chuck DeLong, Blowin' Off Steam takes you bench-side into the steam room of a men's fitness club in the suburbs of New York City, where seven painfully straight men s…
