At one point in "As I Remember It," her stirring, history-rich autobiographical solo show, the great dancer, choreographer and actress Carmen de Lavallade evokes the Biblical creation story.…
Think carefully before festooning your office with idealistic posters. The inspiring decor may come back to haunt you. Such is the experience of Laura, the complacent school guidance counsel…
Brazilian Embassy cultural attache Raphael Tosti de Almeida Vieira has an ace up his sleeve. No, it's not the shorter version of his name " Raphael Tosti " that he uses in Washington busines…
Sometimes, a historical showdown begets memorable theater " think of the political struggles recalled in Shakespeare's history plays, or the courtroom clash that inspired "Inherit the Wind."…
Such a large wardrobe should contain more than a single hat. An audience member might have entertained that thought, briefly, near the beginning of the wry Uruguayan solo show "Gracias por T…
We have seen the Berlin Wall " and it is us. Expect that reflection to whisper at the back of your mind when you visit the "The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall," an e…
A tale some 600 years old will turn another page Oct. 20, when the multimedia concert "The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book" has its D.C. premiere. The production, with an original accor…
After periods of great suffering, "it is in the nature of people to always look ahead and take the direction of progress," maintains Darko Krstic, acting director of the 91-year-old Belgrade…
A military knapsack is a poignant presence in "Three Sistahs," the tuneful show that is back at MetroStage, where it premiered in 2002 and ran again in 2007. The spirited siblings who are th…
Epic narrative. Exquisite music. Spirited humor. And puppets. The performing-art form wayang golek has it all, says Kathy Foley, a scholar and master puppeteer who is deeply versed in this b…
Paradoxically, given that his life revolves around a whizzing ball, this sportsman uses stillness to advantage. As portrayed by actor Jaysen Wright, in 1st Stage's otherwise uneven productio…
As artist Ramzi Ghotbaldin sees it, life is like gardening. "When you plant a plant, you don't know if it will bear fruit," the former Kurdish resistance fighter observed at the recent openi…
Buckle up for a rollercoaster ride with Satan: Taffety Punk Theatre Company has revived "The Devil in His Own Words," the intriguing one-man show that not only evokes Lucifer's storied light…
Without being showy, the transition packs a punch. About halfway through No Rules Theatre Company's absorbing production of August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," a rapt attentiveness descends on …
In the most compelling scene in Caridad Svich's disappointing new play "Spark," a troubled female soldier named Lexie, recently returned home from a combat posting, finds herself speaking to…
Sometimes chocolate speaks of geopolitics. It does just that in Turkish director Derya Durmaz's film "Ziazan," part of the D.C. Shorts Film Festival. In the 15-minute movie " which has scree…
How much mayhem can spill out of a noodle carton? A lot, as Pen-ek Ratanaruang's film "6ixtynin9" tells it. In the black-comic thriller " the celebrated Thai director's 1999 breakout movie …
Movie actors are media darlings. Movie directors get a lot of press. Cinematographers, on the other hand, tend to fly lower on the public radar. But an exhibition at the Mexican Cultural Ins…
Franca Bartholomaei knows about the kinship of irreconcilables. "The terrible and the silly often lie close together," the German artist observes. "If you look long enough at something that …
He hobnobbed with Charlie Chaplin. He was on good terms with Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. His work deeply impressed theatrical visionaries like Vsevolod Meyerhold and Bertolt Brecht.…
Maybe it was pent-up energy following all that rain. Whatever the explanation, dancer Juan Ogalla was a burst of flaunting fierceness at Wolf Trap on Tuesday night, at the end of a watery da…
Advice to the founders of latter-day utopias: Plan carefully when you build your koi pond. In "Pol Pot & Associates, LLP," Kathleen Akerley's interesting, idiosyncratic whodunit-of-ideas…
How stirring are the drumbeats in a KanKouran West African Dance Company classroom? Stirring enough to make a clueless novice forget, briefly, that she has neglected to wear a lapa skirt. I …
The title may translate as "Touch Me Not," but a team of intrepid producers haven't hesitated to tackle "Noli Me Tangere," which has been called the first full-length Filipino opera composed…
Seize the moment. Life is change. Turn, turn, turn. Those are some of the nuggets of wisdom that Mauritanian singer and musician Noura Mint Seymali wants listeners to take away from "Tzenni,…