GALA Hispanic Theatre The Young Lady From Tacna
By Joe Adcock • Feb 11th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCLa señorita de Tacna is about a playwright struggling to write a play. Neither the play nor the playwright is notably successful.
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Vienna Theatre Company This
By Joe Adcock • Jan 26th, 2014 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaClearly This does not have anything like universal appeal. But it can give a certain generational cohort the encouraging feeling that their preoccupations matter.
Arena Stage Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life
By Joe Adcock • Nov 22nd, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCNot only is Maurice Hines tappin’ thru life at the Arena Stage. He’s also talkin’ and singin’.
Signature Theatre Pride in the Falls of Autrey Mill
By Joe Adcock • Oct 30th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, Virginia“You are only as sick as your secrets” — or so the saying goes. Applying that bit of ancient wisdom to the farce/drama now premiering at Signature Theatre, I would say that playwright Paul Downs Colaizzo’s characters are sick, sick, sick.
Teatro de la Luna 16th International Festival of Hispanic Theater
By Joe Adcock • Oct 25th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaThough your immediate plans may not include a visit to Latin America, here’s a timely thought: you can get a right-here-and-now glimpse of our neighbors to the south by visiting the Teatro de la Luna’s annual Hispanic Theater Festival.
American Century Theater Biography
By Joe Adcock • Jun 11th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaYou’ve got embezzlement, bribery, intimidation by threat of lawsuit, sexual hypocrisy, political chicanery and mental maladies ranging from narcissism and anal obsession to infatuation addiction and paranoid schizophrenia.
American Century Theater Voodoo Macbeth
By Joe Adcock • Mar 26th, 2013 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaIt is the pervasive sense of irrational frenzy that is the most impressive element of this Macbeth.
Les Miserables at The National Theatre
By Joe Adcock • Dec 16th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCOne attraction of the stage musical Les Misérables is that it is so remote … and so immediate.
Arena Stage Pullman Porter Blues
By Joe Adcock • Dec 2nd, 2012 • Category: Reviews, Washington DCFirst of all, there are some truly sensational performances on display here. Second of all, the play itself is a mishmash, a conglomeration of organs in search of an organism.
Little Theatre of Alexandria Cantorial
By Joe Adcock • Nov 6th, 2012 • Category: Reviews, VirginiaThe current LTA production of Cantorial is efficient as storytelling and poignant when Levin’s story morphs into a spiritual fable.