Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
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The Playwright’s Playground: SOURCE Festival 2014 – Interview with Playwright Marine Gassier on Her Play: ‘The Reluctant Genie of Niamey’
The Playwright’s Playground is a monthly in-depth conversation with a local female playwright in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in...
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Performing at The Howard Theatre on Friday and Saturday – Up Close with Alice Smith
Two or three times a year, Alice Smith seduces D.C. audiences with an intoxicating cacophony of R&B, pop, jazz and blues influences, the tension of an aching, volcanic sound and her soul-revealing,...
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The Playwright’s Playground: SOURCE Festival 2014 – Interview with Playwright Elizabeth Archer on Her Play: ‘Old Gray Devil’
The Playwright’s Playground is a monthly in-depth conversation with a local female playwright in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in...
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The Playwright’s Playground: SOURCE Festival 2014 – Interview with Playwright Susan Goodell on Her Play: ‘After Unlocking the Universe’
Welcome to the conversation and The Playwright’s Playground, an in-depth conversation with female playwrights in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of...
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The Playwright’s Playground: SOURCE Festival 2014 – An Interview With CJ Ehrlich on Her Play ‘Picnic on the Lake’
Welcome to the conversation and The Playwright’s Playground, an in-depth conversation with female playwrights in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of...
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The Playwright’s Playground: SOURCE Festival 2014 – Interview with Playwright A.K. Forbes on Her Play: ‘Collateral Damage and Other Cosmic Consequences’
The Playwright’s Playground is a monthly in-depth conversation with a local female playwright in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in...
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The Playwright’s Playground: Part II: ‘Izumi Ashizawa -The Inspirations and Passions of a Japanese Interdisciplinary Artist’
Welcome back to the conversation and The Playwright’s Playground, an in-depth conversation with female playwrights in the D.C. theatre community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of...
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The Playwright’s Playground: Part I: Izumi Ashizawa & The Art of ‘Kwaidan’
Welcome back to the conversation and The Playwright’s Playground, an in-depth conversation with female playwrights in the DC theater community. Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of...
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‘Kwaidan’ at Spooky Action Theater
The invention and innovativeness of Spooky Action Theater are endless, and for the first time they are using the entire physical space of The Universalist National Memorial Church – where they have...
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‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ at Forum Theatre
Redemption on Trial Celebrating Forum Theatre’s 10th Season, is the Helen Hayes-nominated return production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, directed by John Vreeke.The 2005 play written by Stephen...
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‘Cock’ at The Studio Theatre
Buckle your seat belts. Love is often random, rarely planned, and always unpredictable. When you fall in love rational thinking is no longer common place. We can’t help who we love. But, in a fresh...
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‘The Piano Lesson’ at Olney Theatre Center
The legacy of the past collides into the hopes and dreams of a new beginning. It’s a new day. Marking the first time in 76 years, Olney Theatre (in the intimate Mulitz -Gudelsky Theatre Lab) presents...
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“Failure: A Love Story” at The Hub Theatre
Failure is defined as the state of not functioning and the lack of success. For most “success” stories, failure is a part of the journey. Although unsatisfactory results are tough to accept at the...
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Filmfest DC 2014-A Preview
Filmfest DC 2014 might be the last year for the festival, according to Tony Gittens, Filmfest DC Founder and Festival Director. This year marks 28 years of curated great international films in...
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‘Two Trains Running’ at Round House Theatre
“There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death.” – August Wilson Change is in the air. It’s 1969, a pivotal year of change and a turning point in American history when...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival – The Five Star Weekend Wrap in Review: ‘Fallujah’ and ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival took center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival-‘Les Souffleurs Commandos Poetiques’ at the Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival took the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival ‘Solomon and Marion’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival- The National Theatre of China’s ‘Green Snake’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival: Nalaga’at Theater Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble: ‘Not by Bread Alone’
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival -‘Penny Plain’ at The Kennedy Center
World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival- ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theater Festival ‘Savannah Bay’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival – ‘La Muerte y La Doncella’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival- ‘Harmsaga’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival – ‘Incendios’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival – ‘Rupert’ at The Kennedy Center by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at the Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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World Stages: International Theatre Festival -‘The Suit’ at The Kennedy Center
The World Stages: International Theater Festival takes the center stage at The Kennedy Center, March 10-30, 2014 bringing together some of today’s most exciting theatrical visionaries presenting an...
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Film Review: ‘Gloria’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
What is it about the name ‘Gloria’ that inspires songs and films written about tough minded, independent woman making their own way in an imperfect world? One can’t help but think of Laura Brannigan’s...
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The Playwright’s Playground: Part II: ‘Creative Consciousness: An Interview with – Anu Yadav’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversation, and...
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The Playwright’s Playground: Part 1: ‘Meena’s Dream – Process and Performance: An Interview with Anu Yadav’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversation, and...
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‘Tribes’ at The Studio Theatre by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Every word we speak – whether verbally or by signing – can be a brick to build or a bulldozer to destroy. You don’t have to have the ability to hear . . . to want to be heard. How do you live out...
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Bettye LaVette in Concert at The Howard Theatre by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
If nothing else, Bettye LaVette is a survivor. She is a survivor, and a living testament of what God-given talent, determination, and a strong will of staying true to oneself can be in the harsh,...
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The Playwright’s Playground: Part 2 – ‘Process, Autobiography, and Responsibility: An Interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winner, Suzan-Lori Parks’ By Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversation, and...
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‘The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess’ at National Theatre by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
There are many ways of presenting blackness on stage and defining blackness, and the theater remains a venue in which to challenge, question, and probe. Yet, before The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess made...
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The Playwright’s Playground: Part I: ‘Adapting Porgy and Bess: An Interview with Pulitzer Prize-Winner Suzan-Lori Parks’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Female theatre artists make up more than 50 percent of those involved in the theatre, yet the number of female playwrights being produced is dramatically lower. Welcome back to the conversation, and...
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Alice Smith in Concert at The Howard Theatre by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Lovely & Amazing SHE. She is Alice Smith. She is also the title of Alice Smith’s sophomore, March 2013 CD release. This was a project that Smith initiated through crowd funding (and financed half of...
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‘The Apple Family Plays: That Hopey Changey Thing’ at The Studio Theatre by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Heartily consumed, easily digested and readily recommended, The Apple Family Plays at Studio Theatre present an engrossing slice of family life populated by challenging, complex, ordinary people full...
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‘Mies Julie’ at The Shakespeare Theater Company by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Flames blaze in the name of truth, liberty, and land! Where there is repentance, there is hope. Without it, there is only despair. The renowned Miss Julie (Fröken Julie) by August Strindberg has...
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‘The Iceman Cometh’ at Quotidian Theatre Company by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Everything will be better tomorrow. It isn’t often that man attains the true goal of their heart’s desire. What lies do you tell yourself to make it through a day? There...
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Why Tonight You Must See the Final Performance of Scena Theatre’s ‘The Marriage of Maria Braun’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
From Fassbinder to Scena Theatre: ‘The Marriage of Maria Braun Survival, security, and success – What would you do to fulfill your life’s ambition? For Maria Braun, the heroine of The Marriage of...
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‘The Two-Character Play’ at Spooky Action Theater by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Who doesn’t love a play about the theater? A play-within-a-play, a set-within-a-set, and the juxtaposition of identity and personality between two characters are the primary set up for Tennessee...
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Film Review: ‘Herb & Dorothy 50X50’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
LIFE AS ART Millions of art-lovers worldwide were moved by the award-winning film, Herb & Dorothy (2008), the fascinating documentary on art collecting and the personal lives of Herbert and Dorothy...
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Hall and Oates at Warner Theatre by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
A few years ago I saw Hall & Oates at Warner Theatre and while the details of that evening have faded, the emotion and fond memories of the night have not. Full of energy, great sound, and the...
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Final Weekend for 2013 DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenplay Competition by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
The art of short films and screening short cinema has been perfected by the DC Shorts Film Festival and Festival Founder and Director Jon Gann. For the past ten years hundreds of filmmakers and...
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‘A Young Lady of Property’ at Rep Stage by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
In Rep Stage’s first show of its 21st season, the setting is Late Spring, 1925. The journey to a small, nondescript Texas town unexpectedly seduces audiences with the compelling people of Harrison,...
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Film Review: ‘The Hunt’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
If you are only familiar with Mads Mikkelsen’s character work as the titled lead in the television series Hannibal, then you’ve only seen a microcosm of his range and talent. Mads possess a natural...
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ARTISTIC SPOTLIGHT: An Interview with the Founder and Producing Director of the CATF by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
ARTISTIC SPOTLIGHT: Ed Herendeen “New plays are the future,” says Ed Herendeen, the Producing Director of the Contemporary American Theater Festival (CATF), located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia....
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Capital Fringe Review: ‘Patterns: A Number & Symbols Show’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
Magic opens our eyes to wonder, fantasy, and possibilities . . . and then reveals the truth. Without introduction or fanfare, a solo performer strolls onto the Main Stage of Goethe Institut. In a...
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Capital Fringe Review: ‘Married Sex’ by Sydney-Chanele Dawkins
The combination of sharing one’s vulnerability into insightful personal storytelling is not only an art. It’s a gift. Married Sex is an engaging one-woman show based on a true tale, written and...
