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1 month ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Rebecca Ritzel |Mary Manning |Will Lennon |Brandon Wetherbee |Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! DMV choreographers are always moving. Blame the transient nature of D.C.’s job market, which too often pulls artists in and out with their spouses, or area universities that draw MFA students who depart when they graduate. Nejla Yatkin may have moved to Chicago more than a decade ago, but whenever she brings a project back to Dance Place in Brookland, this formerly local dance icon deserves a homecoming party.
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2 months ago | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Serena Zets |Stephanie Rudig |Allison R. Shely |Steve Kiviat
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Comedian Abby Govindan has been on a sharp, and funny, ascent for the past seven years. If you don’t recognize her name, you’d probably recognize some of her many viral tweets.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! With an opening number that promises “Comedy Tonight,” so begins A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Stephen Sondheim’s swords-and-sandals, play-within-a-play musical farce.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Filing into the auditorium for the opening night of Theater J’s Prayer for the French Republic, this reviewer, who is married to a Jew, thought that perhaps this three-hour Jewish family saga about exile and persecution was not the most soothing choice for the night before the 2024 election.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Steve Kiviat |Stephanie Rudig |Louis Jacobson |Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! South Bronx-raised pianist Eddie Palmieri established his musical reputation decades ago by innovatively combining the Afro Caribbean dance music he heard growing up in the 1950s with African American jazz. Now 87, Palmieri continues to love performing live where he often enthusiastically shakes his head and smiles while energetically pounding his fingers and sometimes his forearms and elbows on the keys.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! “Welcome, friend: You’re right on time.”This is the motto of Cranberry, a small town in upstate New York, 40 miles from Rochester and worlds away from the bright lights of Manhattan. It’s a motto that seems to mock shy, single Kenneth (Julius Thomas III), who spends his evenings exclusively at Wally’s, a tiki bar, where he exclusively drinks mai tais, exclusively in the company of his one friend, Bert (Frank Britton).
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! In a world chock-full of expanded cinematic universes, reboots (gritty or otherwise), and spin-offs, an original premise is hard to find. Soft Power is nothing if not original—but it is also so much more. With Tony-winning team of David Henry Hwang (Yellow Face, M.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Allison R. Shely
In the fall of 1981, something miraculous happened in the sleepy village life of Kibeho in the south of Rwanda. Alphonsine Mumureke, a young woman attending the local Catholic boarding school, heard a voice call out “my daughter.” The voice belonged to a woman, whose skin was neither black nor white, “of incomparable beauty,” as Alphonsine recalled, wearing a seamless white dress and a white veil, hands clasped in prayer. “Who are you?” Alphonsine said.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Will Lennon |Brandon Wetherbee |Allison R. Shely |Louis Jacobson
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! D.C.-based label For the Love of Records is putting on a show to celebrate the release of their new compilation album. Entitled Yesterday & Today: DC Does Dischord, the LP is a tribute to the area’s hardcore punk heritage by some of the DMV’s most exciting artists. In case you’re new in town: Part of the reason D.C. occupies such a prominent place in punk history is Dischord Records.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
washingtoncitypaper.com | Allison R. Shely
Thanks for being a member of City Paper! Where the Mountain Meets the Sea is in many respects the opposite of Signature Theatre’s other ongoing show, Hair. Hair is maximalist in costuming, number of cast members, set design, and in the number and volume of songs. Where the Mountain Meets the Sea, described in the program asa “play with music” rather than a musical, has two named characters, two supporting musicians, five songs, and almost no set or props.
