Caroline Bock
10 posts
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Women wow in all-female production of ‘A Doll House’ at the University of Maryland
Director Kathryn Chase Bryer’s bold staging of A Doll House—beginning with the alternative translation of the traditional title of this classic by Henrik Ibsen—transforms a 19th-century firebrand of a...
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Audience-pleasing revival of ‘Guys and Dolls’ by Kensington Arts Theatre
You promise me this. You promise me that. You promise me anything under the sun… belts out a swell Elizabeth Hester as Miss Adelaide, the cherry on top of a high-energy revival of Frank Loesser’s...
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Haunting world premiere by Ally Theatre Company of ‘Dhana and the Rosebuds’
The email popped into my box from my editor. To paraphrase: “Is it too far for you to go cover Ally Theatre’s new theatre piece in Mt. Rainer about Syrian refugees?” The irony was not lost on me: Too...
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Crashing the Party: Pink Martini Celebrates 25 Years With a Kennedy Center Blowout
If the invitation would have been to see the genre-bending Portland-based cabaret-style self-described ‘little orchestra,’ Pink Martini, featuring China Forbes with special guest star Meow Meow, that...
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Review: A Simmering Production of ‘The Gulf’ at Peter’s Alley
Silences speak loudly in the first Maryland production of The Gulf by Audrey Cefaly at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda. This professional production by Peter’s Alley Theatre group, features two...
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2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘SPEAK*Girls Presents’
The true critic of this year’s second annual SPEAK*Girls Presents is a thirteen-year-old young woman, who shared at the rousing end of this year’s production, “I’m hard to impress, and I loved it.”...
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2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘All for the Union’
15 actors. 20 scenes. The Civil War. A lot is at stake in All for the Union, written by the prize-winning playwright, librettist, and historian Meredith Bean McMath and directed by Jenna Powell, and...
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2019 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Passing’
Passover, the holiday that marks the Exodus, that signals to Jews and the world that this night is different from all others because we are not slaves, but free, is the moving backdrop to John...
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2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Coronado’
What’s worse than murder? What would God say? All the characters are “peddled out,” i.e. in dead-end jobs, down-on-their-luck, or near that, drinking Buds and doing shots at the bar, pulling guns at...
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2018 Capital Fringe Festival Review: Lesbians and the Men Who Love Them
For one brief minute at the opening of Lesbians and the Men Who Love Them, written by M. Cristina García and directed by Mediombo Singo Fofano at the Christ United Methodist Church, one could believe...
