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Jordan Wright December 6, 2019
Ken Ludwig, the prolific Olivier Award-winning and Tony Award-winning playwright, gifts us with an exquisite pentimento-inspired play drawing on his parents’ long-distance romance during the height of World War II. This charming, world premiere two-hander is constructed in such a way that the actors act out their correspondence. It’s […]
Jordan Wright May 21, 2019
Jubilee harkens back to the American Reconstruction era when White audiences were beginning to listen to Negro spirituals in concert settings. Songs sung on plantations, in Black churches and on chain gangs – spiritual songs, work songs, songs of the underground railroad and traditional folk tunes – became more […]
Jordan Wright April 13, 2015 Special to DC Metro Theater Arts
Edward Gero as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in The Originalist. Photo by C. Stanley Photography.
The controversial Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, comes to life in the hilariously acerbic The Originalist at Arena Stage. The much-acclaimed world premiere has just […]
Jordan Wright September 21, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times
(L to R) Jane Houdyshell as Alma and Delaney Williams as Otto -Photo by Teresa Wood.
Alma is a career shoplifter. In the stock room of a supermarket Dom, an overly zealous security guard trainee, is attempting to interview the crafty old […]
Jordan Wright February 11, 2014 Special to The Alexandria Times
Kathleen Turner as Mother Courage in Mother Courage and Her Children – Photo by Teresa Wood
I had a terrible sense of dread about Arena Stage’s production of Mother Courage and Her Children… and in Act One it was coming […]
Jordan Wright August 16, 2012 Special to www.dcmetrotheaterarts.com, www.broadwaystars.com, and www.localkicks.com
Occidental Grill and Seafood Executive Chef Rodney Scruggs. Photo by Jordan Wright.
The Occidental, Forever Young
In the shadow of the White House a special watering hole welcomes celebrities, power brokers and out-of-towners in equal measure. The […]
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