Our critic weighs in on the retelling of Irish play “The Playboy of the Western World” from Solas Nua and a story of addiction and recovery at Studio Theatre.
Our critics check out a comedic romp at Round House, a one-woman show at Theater J and a play that touches on abortion themes from Solas Nua. See what they recommend.
Solas Nua’s production at Eaton DC’s bar is “a rhyming roast of America.”
Part history tour on acid, part vaudeville, and part test of the audience’s patience, Solas Nua and the Performance Corporation’s much-anticipated Swampoodle comes storming into the Uline Arena, injecting some theater into the arm of a neglected corner of the District.
John Tweel and Madeleine Carr in ‘Improbable Frequency’. Photo by Dan Brick. The Capital Fringe Festival may be a hot, steamy, distant memory, but don’t tell Solas Nua that. To open their sixth season, the theater company has tapped into that festival’s rag-tag, anything-goes spirit with their first musical, Improbable Frequency. The play, written by Arthur Riordan, with music by an Irish group known as Bell Helicopter, actually did start out as a Fringe…
Washington, D.C’s premier (only?) Irish arts organization, Solas Nua, is once again handing out free copies of books by contemporary Irish authors all day today, in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. They say they plan to hand out a total of 10,000 books, totally gratis. Look for them at the following Metro stops: Metro Center, Gallery Place/Chinatown, Dupont Circle, L’Enfant Plaza, Archives/Navy Memorial, Woodley Park/Adams Morgan, Capitol South, Cleveland Park, Foggy Bottom, New York…
Photo courtesy of matthewbradley FILM: Solas Nua’s Irish film series continues with tonight’s screening of The Wind That Shakes the Barley, about two Irish brothers fighting the British in the 1920s. The film screens at 7 p.m. at Flashpoint, 916 G St., NW. Free. MUSIC: The Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage features organist Weston Jennings in a free concert at 6 p.m. LIGHT SHOW: Time is running out to catch ZooLights at the National Zoo….
Rena Cherry Brown, Jennifer Mendenhall, and Nanna Ingvarsson in Solas Nua’s production of Marina Carr’s “Woman and Scarecrow.” “The whole point of living is preparing to die,” says one character at a pivotal moment in Solas Nua’s new production of Woman and Scarecrow. It’s not just the point of life, but the point of the play itself, most of which is spent inside the mind of an unnamed woman as she spends her final…
It’s sometimes poetic. It’s sometimes haunting. It’s consistently, well, long. A hard sell, ’tis, this Portia Coughlin. Marina Carr ‘s allusive, surreal, and ultimately turgid play gets its D.C. premiere in a confused and confusing production by Solas Nua, the great theater company dedicated to works by living Irish dramatists. The show certainly doesn’t lack for ambition, but it’s somehow both overcooked and undernourished, boasting several fine performances but ultimately sunk by a muddled narrative,…
What better time than the day after the State of the Union address to be reminded that exaggeration, obfuscation, and just-plain-making-shit-up can be employed for benign purposes as well as sinister ones? Solas Nua’s Trad is a show that delights in benevolent hyperbole like no other in recent memory, and its pleasures are plentiful indeed. Playwright Mark Doherty’s wry, spry meditation on tradition and familial identity and especially — O! How we we wish…
