Review: Right to Be Forgotten debuts at Arena Stage by Hannah Berk

What takes precedent: individual privacy, or public information? Right to Be Forgotten, making its world premiere at Arena Stage, is remarkably nuanced in its exploration of the big debates …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33pm on October 29, 2019☆⚑

Review: The Finger. U.S. debut of Kosovo play at Venus Theatre by Hannah Berk

How do we navigate our private and shared griefs? How do we buoy others up as we cope, and how do we drag them down? These are central questions in Kosovar playwright Doruntina Basha's play …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 9:12am on September 27, 2019☆⚑

Review: Or, from Theatre Prometheus by Hannah Berk

The title, Or, with its provocative comma, suggests the production's playful attitude toward binaries"in gender, sexuality, and morality. Brought to Capitol Hill Arts Workshop by Theatre Pro…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 9:54pm on August 11, 2019☆⚑

Review: American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables by Hannah Berk

American Spies and Other Homegrown Fables emanates an understated sensory clash before any actor sets foot on stage. The play's world is a simple 1940s living room and bedroom, decked out in…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 1:03pm on July 19, 2019☆⚑

Fringe review: An Eye for an Eye by Hannah Berk

There's nothing like a Greek tragedy to go from zero to 100 in just over an hour. In this case, we go from the broodings of a slighted god to a mother wielding her own son's head on a pike. …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54pm on July 10, 2019☆⚑

Review: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Brecht's warning warning about fascism at Scena Theatre by Hannah Berk

Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (trans. George Tabori) presents us with a familiar story: a churlish Chicago mobster slashes and wheedles his way to the top. This time, it'…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 6:42am on June 24, 2019☆⚑

Review: Antigonick and The Fragments of Sappho from Taffety Punk by Hannah Berk

"how to translate [Antigone]?", Anne Carson self-reflexes in her translator's note to the Sophokles classic. "I take inspiration from John Cage who, when asked / how he composed 4'33", answe…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 8:36am on May 28, 2019☆⚑

Review: The Dupont Under(world). The passages between life and death await you. by Hannah Berk

Tradition Be Damned (TBD) Immersive, DC's first large-scale immersive theater company, isn't interested in designing shows for audiences to watch. They want to create worlds for participants…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 2:33pm on May 1, 2019☆⚑

Review: Siwayul (Heart of a Womxn), an act of reclamation for indigenous trans people by Hannah Berk

"Our work is ceremony, because, to us, art is ceremony," writes Alexa Elizabeth Rodriguez in her Director's Note. This is the experience of Siwayul (Heart of a Womxn): the audience is witnes…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:02am on April 9, 2019☆⚑

Review: Silent, spectacular performance from Dublin's Fishamble by Hannah Berk

It's a rare gift for a play to present a despairing character with both lightness and the sincerity he deserves. Silent and its subject, Tino, are by turns funny, bleak, and feverish, but al…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58am on March 11, 2019☆⚑

Review: Next Stop: North Korea. John Feffer's latest looks inside the world's most secretive society by Hannah Berk

Few foreign lands loom larger in the American imagination than North Korea, despite and because the average outsider knows almost nothing about the country. We're in the dark by design: the …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50am on March 4, 2019☆⚑