160 stories by "David Friscic"
In his enigmatic but slight one-man show, entitled The Computer That Loved, written and performed by Erik Mueller (as part of the exciting Fringe Festival) a real-life story is presented in …
Thrilling progressive history and the trajectory of societal forces colliding with basic human rights is delineated through the prism of three couples who are fighting for their dignity as L…
The current production being produced by the theatrically provocative and cutting-edge Rainbow Theatre Project —entitled Get Used To It! A Musical Revue!–may be a bit of a mislea…
In The Kennedy Center's current production of the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots, a cornucopia of vibrant color runs riot through this exuberant and defiant celebration of diversity …
It was an extremely innovative and conceptually brilliant idea to celebrate 35 wonderful years of the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) in a sophisticated, elegant and somewhat serio…
Mother Earth is crying in despair and degradation in Director Francesca Zambella's audaciously brilliant interpretation of the final opera of Wagner's artistically magnificent Ring CycleR…
The epic tale continues as the Washington National Opera's production of Siegfried "The Ring of the Nibelung-Part Two played to a very appreciative audience last night at The Kennedy Center …
Love in all of its many manifestations runs rampant throughout the Washington National Opera's most recent offering in the continuing tale of The Ring Cycle—-namely, The Valkyrie "The …
German composer Richard Wagner's much heralded and talked about (over the past many decades!) Ring Cycle opened at the Kennedy Center Opera House on Saturday evening with the first opera in …
Composer Andrew Lippa's pulsating music shoots like a jolt of adrenaline throughout the super-charged heightened music of the World Premiere Concept Opera I Am Anne Hutchinson/I Am Harvey Mi…
Comedienne extraordinaire Carol Burnett brought her distinctive and legendary persona to the Music Center at Strathmore last night and the audience responded with glee and deserved appreciat…
Johnny Mathis, iconic and legendary vocalist of love songs, jazz, tin pan alley, Brazilian music, holiday music and the Great American Songbook, celebrated his 60th Anniversary in Show Bu…
Mart Crowley's groundbreaking play The Boys in The Band, now being given a superlative production by Dominion Stage at the Gunston Arts Theatre, is perfectly "on-target" as a study of psycho…
Totally "lopping "the "top" off conventional cabaret concert conventions, Broadway star and musical artist Frances Ruffelle presented a radically deconstructed, immersive and jazz-infused…
Having reviewed the outstanding Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) many times in the past, it was a delightful diversion to review an evening of country music escapism entitled Boots,…
As the opening song exclaims, "Gonna Be Another Hot Day"- and like a refreshing breeze, the lilting lyrics and melodious music of the prolific theatre songwriting team of Tom Jones and Harve…
Like the seismic shift in the theatrical terrain that I experienced when I saw the Steppenwolf Theater's production of Lanford Wilson's Balm in Gilead off-Broadway, or the excitement I felt …
One of Tennessee Williams' bleaker, darker plays,– the one-act dramatic cry of despair, Suddenly Last Summer (which was expanded beyond its more compressed scope in the famous Elizabet…
Yesterday, I was privileged to see the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC's extremely intimate, engaging and musically creative concert of songs entitled The Way We Were. This stimulating…
In the scorching, emotional and honest opera of man in search of redemption, the opera–now playing as part of the Washington National Opera series at the Kennedy Center —is a sea…
In the daring new play about Washington politics and the halcyon days of genteel social hostesses, The City of Conversation, (now playing at Arena Stage) the word "conversation " is most dec…
Possibly the most lyrical and sentimentally poignant of all the plays written by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie still holds up as one of Williams' most well-written plays. "delicate…
Like the popular E.L. Doctorow novel, Ragtime, the Keegan Theatre's whimsical and bouncy new production of Steve Martin's play Picasso at the Lapin Agile is an intricate, quasi-historical jo…
The annual Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC  (GMCW) holiday concert entitled ReWrapped was a lively holiday treat that combined cutting-edge musical arrangements with a light, breezy…
The whirlwind of an accomplished entertainer who goes by the name of Billy L'Amour is more than just a drag entertainer but, rather, L'Amour is a powerhouse triple-threat talent who can deli…
