https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/12/14/dcta-2023-staff-favorites-outstanding-professional-productions/ Washington, DC's most comprehensive source of performing arts coverage. Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:36:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/12/14/dcta-2023-staff-favorites-outstanding-professional-productions/#comment-776 Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:36:02 +0000 https://dctheaterarts.org/?p=347762#comment-776 Couldn’t agree more with colleagues at DCTA on the following kudos:
Janos Staz’ production of Angels in America grew with every viewing and makes me feel again that it takes a visionary outsider to show us Americans who we really are
Great ensemble production in Signature’s Ragtime
and terrific focused re-imagined production of Fun Home at Studio
(Note Bobby Smith anchored both these lat two productions brilliantly!)
In opera, Blue was a landmark work by WNO of one of America’s most troubling re-occurring tragedies in the deaths of our young black men by the police…
and Grounded, a collaboration featuring the same brilliant composer Jeannine Tesori, who also composed Fun Home!,) was even more brilliant and prescient as a work revealing our troubled times. This one slaps us in the face about our new world of drone warfare and its consequences.
I shout it’s Tesori’s year!

]]> https://dctheaterarts.org/2023/12/14/dcta-2023-staff-favorites-outstanding-professional-productions/#comment-775 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:23:10 +0000 https://dctheaterarts.org/?p=347762#comment-775 I guess it wasn’t Keegan Theatre’s year.

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