A talented cast can’t rescue the show’s poor structure.
Members of Congress will convene a hearing at an abandoned warehouse in Southeast D.C. tomorrow, where a local legislator will ask that it be used to create a market and restaurant.
Photo by NCinDC. Many know the beautiful downtown building that use to host the Woodward & Lathrop department store, known as Woodies. The building’s tenants now include Forever 21, Madame Tussauds, and Zara and the fabulous facade has never looked better. Lesser known, but still a wonderful building is Woodward & Lothrop’s warehouse on 1st and M Streets NE. The warehouse, built between 1937 and 1939, was designed by Abbot, Merkt and Company. I…
On Friday, Warehouse will have another “Free-For-All” event where they’ll offer tons and tons of furniture, kitchenware and appliances, storage racks and more, all for free to the first-comers. Doors open at 5 p.m.; get there early and park around back behind the theater on the street, then you can pull around back once you’ve claimed your take. Former DCist Sommer and I tried to hit up this event last time and arrived at 5:30…
A bar patron’s ability to develop a relationship with his bartender will invariably dictate a better imbibing experience, whether it’s at a fancy cocktail place or the local dive bar. That is perhaps what makes the name of the much anticipated new bar from brothers Tom and Derek Brown, The Passenger, particularly apt. Going back to a time when travel wasn’t about being corralled through metal detectors like cattle, The Passenger, which opens tonight at…
Three weeks ago, we met up with Civilian Art Projects’ Jayme McLellan to see their progress as they made the move from their previous space above Apartment Zero in Gallery Place to their new 7th Street location in the old Warehouse Arts Complex. At that time, the road ahead of them seemed long, with the walls still peeling and piles of work ahead of them before their grand opening in the new space tomorrow from…
Chris French as Hedwig. Photo by Will Abner. Many people I know have been urged to see Hedwig and the Angry Inch at one point or another with this endorsement: “You’ll like it, it’s like Rocky Horror!” With all respect to the cult classic, it’s just not a fair comparison. Sure you’ve got the rock opera score, some sexually-explicit lyrics, gender-bending themes and glam costumes. But to label Hedwig a campfest is to sell…
The Art of Change was the sort of anti-ball to all the hoopla at the nearby Washington Convention Center. Trying to gain entry through the barriers, closed roads, volunteers and police was just as convoluted and difficult, but it had little else in common with the other balls. Barack Obama only made appearances in the artwork. Celebrity appearances were nil. And the dress code was the funkier the better… but preferably non-flammable. The Art of…
Yesterday we told you about FLUX, the umbrella group of arts organizations proposing to turn Cook Elementary into a multi-use art space. During our discussion with Warehouse’s Paul Ruppert, we also got some more information about a separate push to convert the unused space underneath Dupont Circle. Ruppert, along with Adam Griffiths from the Washington Project for the Arts, and Julian Hunt, an architect with Hunt Laudi Studio, have formed an “ad hoc committee”…
At the end of the 2007-2008 school year, 21 schools in the DCPS closed for good. During the summer, the city put up a request for proposals for ways to reuse the buildings, and via the Bloomingdale blog, it looks like some of our local arts supporters grabbed on to the opportunity. The newly formed FLUX is a collaboration between the Washington Project for the Arts, Molly and Paul Ruppert of Warehouse, and Artomatic. The…
