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Daniella Ignacio

Washington, D.C., United States

Contributing Editor at American Theatre

Writer and Reviewer at Freelance

she/her | 🇵🇭 | writer | theatre artist | musician | @AmericanTheatre contributing editor | 📝: @washingtonian, @51stnews, @dctheaterarts, @3viewstheater

Articles

  • 5 days ago | dctheaterarts.org | Daniella Ignacio

    The magic of audience participation is that you never quite know what to expect. In an early moment at GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Botiquin de Boleros Columbia Heights (Columbia Heights Bolero Bar), it appears that it’s going just as they’d thought: One audience member takes the mic for an impressive rendition of Daniel Caesar’s “Best Part,” with the band perfectly grooving along.

  • 4 weeks ago | americantheatre.org | Daniella Ignacio

    In a nation where the arts and education are under attack, it’s more than vital ever for young people to have opportunities to explore the arts with organizations that offer after-school learning, especially low-income and diverse populations that may not have the opportunity otherwise.

  • 1 month ago | americantheatre.org | Daniella Ignacio

    The New York Theatre Workshop production of Celine Song’s debut play Endlings closed on March 12, 2020—a casualty of Covid-19 lockdowns. Five years later, Song’s play about three elderly Haenyeos (sea women) is making a comeback with a regional premiere at Philly’s Hedgerow Theatre through June 1, where the production has acquired fresh topicality as well as a new approach to its movement design for a piece that dives deeply into immigration and assimilation.

  • 1 month ago | dctheaterarts.org | Daniella Ignacio

    “To be an artist means never to avert one’s eyes.” — Akira KurosawaIf I were Julia Izumi thinking of a question to ask fellow actors in a meta-theatrical play, I’d want to ask one that’s been on my mind a lot recently: Do you think theater can be transformative? What can it really do when the world is on fire? Subversive art may be a weird way of communicating comfort. Yet it also makes sense to my brain, which likes things to be complicated and analyzable, even when the world could be simple.

  • 1 month ago | americantheatre.org | Daniella Ignacio

    Summer stock—the time-honored tradition of professional theatres that primarily operate from early through late summer, with repertory companies that rehearse and perform simultaneously—is still very much a thing.

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24 Jan 25

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31 Oct 24

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29 Oct 24

wandering out of the office and talking to people for man on the streets has become one of my favorite pastimes. here's today's adventure from the line outside kamala harris' rally: https://t.co/yU5DuRwtQ5