Tartuffe at Shakespeare Theatre Company: brilliant and shocking (review) by Jenn Larsen

I don't often think about blasphemy. Neither do most of you, I'd hazard to guess. But if you see the production of Molière's Tartuffe now playing at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, you wil…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01pm on June 11, 2015☆⚑

Grief of a First Lady. World premiere of The Widow Lincoln at Ford's Theatre by Jenn Larsen

From the first moment that Mary Bacon steps onstage, you know this will be a bravura performance. That the stage is the haunted and venerable Ford's Theatre, and that she is playing Mary Tod…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28am on February 2, 2015☆⚑

Jessica Frances Dukes: Bootycandy, The Good Wife and now King Hedley II by Jenn Larsen

When King Hedley II opens at Arena Stage on February 6, it will feature Jessica Frances Dukes in the role of Tonya. It’s a special moment in time for the native Washingtonian: her six-…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25am on January 28, 2015☆⚑

hookups by Jenn Larsen

hookups is about as naked as it can get at Fringe. A quintet of engaging actors make use of an air mattress and the barest essentials to create a series of vignettes covering every imaginabl…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08pm on July 22, 2011☆⚑

A Piece of Pi by Jenn Larsen

There is no pie in A Piece of Pi. I feel it’s necessary to point this out, because after all, there are clowns. So one might expect some pie-throwing with a show title like that. Or so…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 8:08am on July 20, 2011☆⚑

Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical Capital Balloon Ride by Jenn Larsen

True experimental theater breaks down the divide of expectations between performer and audience. Extroverts usually love this. Introverts, not so much. No surprise then that the long-form im…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 2:34pm on July 15, 2011☆⚑

Crave by Jenn Larsen

Every heartbreaker eventually gets their heart broken. Cosmic justice, karma, the wheel of fortune – whatever you call it, the seesaw of relationships will always go from up to down an…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:23pm on July 15, 2011☆⚑

Sanyasi by Jenn Larsen

Can you ever truly detach from the world? From emotions, like heartache, greed, love? From the mundane, the pettiness of every day existence? Is this truly liberation, or is renunciation of …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 1:23pm on July 14, 2011☆⚑

Tactile Dinner Cart by Jenn Larsen

For a crash course on what to expect from Fringe, you can’t do better than banished? productions’ mad avant-garde experience, Tactile Dinner Car. It’s a crazy sociologic…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 4:10pm on July 9, 2011☆⚑

The Malachite Palace by Jenn Larsen

Though there’s definitely an element of raunchy radicalism about Fringe, it’s important to remember that there are performances suitable for all. If you have a small child in you…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 3:50pm on July 9, 2011☆⚑

King Lear by Jenn Larsen

The haunting themes of King Lear touch on nature's cruelty, Fate's arbitrary hand, and man's inevitable decline " and their truth strikes everyone differently depending on where one is in li…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 7:39am on May 13, 2011☆⚑