The classical style of Moliere met the rambunctious and energetic expression of Commedia dell’ Arte in an explosion of theatrical creativity at Yorktown High School this weekend in their production of The Imaginary Invalid.
The stage sparkles with colored lights, jewel-toned tutus, a sprinkling of rhinestones. The spectacle is as gaudy as a festival — and yet there’s something sinister, something eerie, lurking just below the surface. It is in this atmosphere that the musical Pippin, presented at Robert E. Lee High School, comes to life.
Thunder echoes across the stage. Light shines on the faces of distraught women, losing husbands and sons in a bloody war. Woman cry out in agony as their city is defeated at the hands of Greek soldiers. All the men are dead. All that is left are women and the late king’s grandson. This is […]
Dancing may be against the law in the small town of Bomont, but at W.T. Woodson High School it seems like just the thing to do on a Saturday night! Footloose, is being performed by the students of Woodson on November 7, 8, 14 and 15, as they hope to share this upbeat, youthful music […]
Everyone has days when they feel uninteresting, but most don’t have the chance to do anything about it. In Oakton High School’s enjoyable production of The Foreigner, the protagonist Charlie Baker gets to do just that.
“Hate is not a Laramie value”, but it was. In Laramie, Wyoming during October of 1998, a 21 year old man named Matthew Shepard was senselessly beaten to death because of his sexual orientation. Two young Laramie men were charged with his death. After his death, playwright Moisés Kaufman and a team from Tectonic Theater […]
Romeo and Juliet Bishop Ireton High School Alexandria, VA Through November 15th Rehearsal is about to begin, and the cast is scattered throughout the auditorium. Some are huddled together in the aisles, quickly running through their lines and laughing about their day. Some are pushing their way through the stage doors, Starbucks in hand. A […]
The sun rises on Maycomb, Alabama, in 1935. The children are playing outside, the matrons are tending their flowers — and a lone voice, trapped behind a window screen, mourns the bloodshed and hate that so many in Maycomb are unwilling to see. So begins To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s tale of racial injustice […]
Two old women lead you into a cozy Brooklyn apartment and hand you a glass of their homemade elderberry wine. Do you take it? In Wakefield School’s performance of Arsenic and Old Lace, this question was answered. Arsenic and Old Lace was written by American Joseph Kesselring in 1939, and the successful show completed 1,444 […]
Here’s to drag queens, AIDS, and the taboo. Here’s to emotion, devotion, and to causing a commotion. Here’s to la vie boheme! This last weekend, Winston Churchill certainly did cause a commotion with their rendition of RENT: School Edition, that sparkled with its bohemian energy.