“The whole tree was alive with howling cats, and at the very top was enthroned my [a cat], his back arched, playing . . . on a bagpipe, while the other cats, uttering bloodcurdling cries,... Read more
“Translating the poetic image of the fairy tale into the pedestrian language of psychoanalysis, the marriage of “Beauty and the Beast” is the humanization and socialization of the id by the... Read more
“Bobby Gould in Hell” by David Mamet introduced this reviewer to the concept of “Pop-Up Theatre.” It was at the Italian Café Restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia, with excellent Italian cui... Read more
In the Mel Brooks’ film “The Producers” and the Broadway musical which it inspired, Max Bialystock, an erstwhile top Broadway producer, and Leo Bloom, a tax accountant living the kind of li... Read more
The audience on the night of July 9 availed itself of the opportunity to enjoy “An Evening of Brecht,” sponsored by the Goethe Institut and the Arts Club of Washington. In the District’s hi... Read more
“Mary Stuart” – or more properly, “Maria Stuart” – is one of the key works of Friedrich Schiller and the German theatre, and audiences have a rare opportunity to experience this great drama... Read more
The ancient Roman poet Ovid tells the tale of the sculptor Pygmalion who creates his ideal of a woman in the medium of a statue. In George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion” and the Lerner and Loewe... Read more
“Wonderful elixir! Thou art mine! Oh, why cannot I enjoy its effects immediately?” so says the lovesick peasant Nemorino. Yet this elixir of love is hardl... Read more
Rockville Little Theatre is a company with a varied repertoire. Their newest show is author John Bishop’s “The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940,” a production that i... Read more
The tale of Pygmalion, the master sculptor who creates a statue of his idolized woman Galatea and has Venus bring it to life, was told by the Roman poet Ovid in his work the “Metamorphoses.”... Read more
