Susan Galbraith

‘…(Iphigenia)’ opera at Kennedy Center pushes musical boundaries

The creators have thrown away the rulebook. It’s not jazz exactly and certainly not classical contemporary.

Welcome to the sound and sheer energy of ‘Rent’ at Signature Theatre

In these still difficult times, ‘Rent’ is a much-needed tonic for the soul.

GALA’s flamenco festival wraps with cathartic ‘De paso’

Sara Pérez and company stripped GALA’s theater back to bare walls and floor, to give us the authentic experience of pure flamenco.

At Kennedy Center, the WNO has fun being back home

In a concert called ‘Come Home: A Celebration of Return,’ the variety of styles and greatest hits was almost too much for the ear and heart to bear.

Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘The Amen Corner’ returns in glory

The acclaimed production of James Baldwin’s classic is back for two weeks only.

Lorca’s ‘Doña Rosita the Spinster’ is pure pleasure at GALA

Spanish actress Mabel Del Pozo brilliantly creates a portrait of a woman who struggles with but finally eludes how society would fix her.

Dispatch from Glimmerglass on the Grass: ‘Songbird’ and ‘Il Trovatore’

The famous opera festival in Cooperstown, New York, now in its 46th year, has been reimagined as a whole new adventure.

‘Blindness’ in darkness at Shakespeare is a brilliant beacon of theater

On this Kentucky Derby weekend, wondering what theatrical “horse” will nose ahead and augur well for a new world of theater when we can emerge from the pandemic, I’m placing my bet on Blindness at...

I took Natsu Onoda Power’s ‘Okinawa Field Trip’ and came back with questions

In a world where our lives are bounded by pandemic restrictions, performance and travel alike have been reduced mostly to private viewings and stay-cations. The situation has spawned experiments to...

Live at last at GALA, a boldly comic ‘Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter’

Trudging up the two flights from the rainy street-level pavement to GALA Hispanic Theatre’s auditorium entrance felt like a pilgrimage. (Yes, I could have taken the elevator, but who would have wanted...

A powerful theater of witness marks Emancipation Day in ‘Here I Am’

Many of us have been asking, “What will our theaters look like when our community returns to a post-pandemic ‘normal’?” Mélisande Short-Colomb and her collaborators—professionals and students or...

A tribute to Lorraine Treanor, Washington theater’s booster-in-chief

In June 2005 Lorraine Treanor, a relatively new theater-maker transplant from Chicago, who had followed her husband’s work to settle in the Greater Washington area, joined with Walter “Ronnie” Ruff to...