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“When you lose your parents, you lose your past. When you lose your child, you lose your future.” Such is the devastating truth piercing the lives of the three lost souls in Alan Lucien Øyen and Andrew Wale’s Bird in Magic Rain with Tears by winter guests theatre company, which received its US premiere at [...]
In Theatre J’s production of David Mamet’s blistering play, Race, the known and the unknown ricochet around the stage faster than a speeding arbitrage. The firm of attorneys Jack Lawson (who is white) and Henry Brown (who is black) has just been approached by a prospective client, the wealthy, white Charles Strickland (played by Leo Erickson), [...]
Memory as presence. Narrative as place. Pain as protagonist. In Gala Theatre’s visually chimerac production of the play based on Isabelle Allende’s La Casa de los Espiritus/The House of the Spirits, we enter the consciousness of memory. Grey images flicker across seven translucent screens. A staircase beckons. A mantelpiece awaits. A garden with pink flowers [...]
More than fifty years after Joseph Shabalala—then a young farm boy turned factory worker–founded Ladysmith Black Mambazo, this renowned South African a cappella ensemble continues to transport audiences worldwide with its signature brand of soft, sung eloquence. A blend of two South African musical forms, isicathamiya and its precursor mbube, with Christian gospel music, Ladysmith Black Mambazo’s music [...]
On a staged draped in ornate frames, lone objects fill empty spaces, still lifes of what’s to come—here a peacock feather adorns a lady’s hat, there a kettle catches the light, here a majestic Victrola awaits, there a china teapot rests atop a satin cloth. In Tryst, by Britain’s Karoline Leach, the steady hand of Washington [...]
