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Jordan Wright April 13, 2018
In an edge-of-your-seat extravaganza that excels in spine-tingling, jaw-dropping acrobatics, Cirque du Soleil brings Luzia to Tysons Corner. It’s not just my opinion, but comments from attendees who say they thought it was the best Cirque show they had ever seen. Credit their policy for listening to audience feedback […]
Jordan Wright April 12, 2018
We are waiting. For an answer. Three and a half hours including two intermissions later with a slowly dwindling audience after the first two acts. Ah well, it is a weekday night. And though given the title of the play we have a fairly good guess John will be […]
Jordan Wright for the Alexandria Times April 9, 2018
Photo credit: by Jackson Landers and Brian Wimer
Last Sunday at the Beatley Library in Alexandria the Board of the Alexandria Film Festival invited filmmaker Jackson Landers to appear at a screening of his powerful new documentary Charlottesville: Our Streets.
Jackson Landers […]
Jordan Wright April 6, 2018
Victor Vazquez and Kaitlin McIntyre have assembled a cast so perfect that the actors wear their roles like a second skin. Spend two hours in Memphis Lee’s diner with Wolf, a hustler and numbers runner (Reginald André Jackson); Risa, an emotionally bereft waitress (Nicole Lewis); Holloway, a philosophical realist […]
Jordan Wright April 4, 2018
Are you ready to plunge headlong down a rabbit hole with a cross-cultural mash-up led by five Filipino “lady boys” aka drag queens called the Paper Dolls? No, it’s not part of the far-out Fringe Festival, but it is edgy, hilarious, mind-bending and heartwarming. It’s a caution and a […]
Jordan Wright March 29, 2018
If you blinked you missed it. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights blew into the Kennedy Center for a few days and just as quickly fled. Shades of things to come as the arrival this June of his blockbuster musical Hamilton hits a feverish pitch. This was just the teaser.
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