Jonelle Walker — DC Theater Arts Archive

Inbal Pinto Speaks on Shimon Peres and her ‘Wallflower’

Jonelle Walker 2016-09-30

The eyes of the world have turned to Israel this week following the death of Shimon Peres. Twice the prime minister of Israel and a member of the Israeli parliament for more than thirty years, Peres...

Manifesting Premieres Works by Mauceri, Graf, and Reid at NextNOW Festival at The Clarice

Jonelle Walker 2016-09-15

On Saturday, September 9, 2016, at the University of Maryland’s NextNow Festival, three playwrights premiered first drafts of new commissioned works. The plays were commissioned by the University of...

NextNOW is the Final Arts Festival of the Summer at The Clarice September 9-10

Jonelle Walker 2016-09-07

For many of us, summer means hot evenings out attending arts festivals. Music fans travel hundreds, even thousands, of miles to attend big music festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo. And locally, the...

2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘, she took me back so tenderly’

Jonelle Walker 2016-07-21

It’s not often that you attend a funeral for someone you never knew. Yet, for some patrons, that will be their experience of , she took me back so tenderly, from banished? productions. Billed as a...

Capital Fringe Review: ‘Fat Kids are Harder to Kidnap’

Jonelle Walker 2016-07-16

If you’ve seen Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind—the innovative devised theater work by Chicago-based company Neo-Futurists—then in a significant way you have already seen Fat Kids are Harder to...

2016 Capital Fringe ‘Elephant in the Room’

Jonelle Walker 2016-07-14

There is an ancient Indian story that tells the tale of blind men unknowingly encountering an elephant. Based on which part of the elephant they touch, each man proposes that the animal is something...

2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Concrete Devotion’

Jonelle Walker 2016-07-10

Fringe performances tend to fall into one of the following categories: shows that make you cringe, shows that make you feel, or shows that make you think. Concrete Devotion, from well-established...

2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Hunt’

Jonelle Walker 2016-07-08

Jean P. Bordewich’s political drama Hunt turns back the clock to a divisive time in American politics – the early 1950s of Joseph McCarthy – but the characters and issues resonate in today’s political...

Review: Musicians of National Orchestral Institute Perform Two Dances and a Titan

Jonelle Walker 2016-06-23

The lobby is packed. The line for ticket pick-up is a few dozen deep. The lobby is filled with plush lounge furniture and lit with low-hanging, contemporary chandeliers. While this could be a scene...