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Twelfth Night ~ Shakespeare Theatre Company At Sidney Harman Hall

Jordan Wright November 22, 2017

Antoinette Robinson as Viola – Photo credit Scott Suchman

The last words you’d expect to hear while settling into your seat for Twelfth Night, are an airline boarding announcement. “Thank you for choosing Shakespeare,” the disembodied voice offers up to the audience. But this is the unorthodox journey […]

Nina Simone: Four Women ~ Arena Stage

Jordan Wright November 18, 2017 Special to The Alexandria Times

Harriett D. Foy (Nina Simone) in Nina Simone: Four Women, Photo by C. Stanley Photography.

There’s no getting around one of the darkest moments in American history, when four African-American girls were murdered by white supremacists in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing […]

RIP David Cassidy November 21, 2017 ~ An Interview with David Cassidy

Jordan Wright September 25, 2012 Special to The Alexandria Times

David Cassidy, pictured in 2009, rocketed to stardom as Keith Partridge on the ABC series ‘The Partridge Family’. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

In the six decades David Cassidy has been in the limelight, he has worked in television, theater and live concerts as […]

Crazy for You ~ Signature Theatre

Jordan Wright November 17, 2017 Special to The Alexandria Times

Is there such a thing as a ‘tapa-palooza’? If no one’s yet invented this neologism, I offer it up as a descriptor for Signature’s shiny, splashy production of Ken Ludwig and Mike Ockrent’s musical comedy, Crazy for You. It’s the only way to explain the […]

The Pajama Game ~ Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

Jordan Wright November 16, 2017 Special to The Alexandria Times

(L-R) Tim Rogan (Sid Sorokin) and Britney Coleman (Babe Williams) in The Pajama Game. Photo by Margot Schulman.

A freshly minted production of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross’s musical, The Pajama Game, now on the Fichandler Stage, lightens the country’s mood considerably. This […]

Nibbles and Sips Around Town ~ November 2017

Jordan Wright November 2017 Photos by Jordan Wright

Wines of Lugana ~ Fiola Mare on Georgetown Waterfront ~ Sunday in Saigon – Upscale Vietnamese in Alexandria ~ Honeygrow Provides Healthy Choices in Pentagon City ~ Pokéworks at The Block in Annandale ~ Duck Donuts Comes to Northern Virginia ~ Red’s Table Wine […]