58 stories by "Charlotte Selton"
St. Cassian High School Chamber Choir were dealt an unlucky hand"they came in second place when they were the only team in competition; they hail from the boring small town of Uranium, Saska…
William Shakespeare's script for "The Tempest" innately contains much magic and music. In Aaron Posner and Teller's (of Penn & Teller fame) production at Round House Theatre, these eleme…
"Do you know what you wish? And are you certain what you wish is what you want?" Classic fairy tales collide in "Into The Woods," where wishes come true, but happily ever after misleads. A r…
In mid-2000s Newark, there were few good options for the young people we today know as "DREAMers." DACA would not begin accepting applications for years, NYC was over a decade out from passi…
When family matriarch Gloria dies, a raucous multi-day wake begins, testing her family's stamina and composure. Depicting the Caribbean tradition called Nine Nights, Natasha Gordon's play "N…
A dark, wonderful, and unusual musical graces Theater J at the Edlavitch DCJCC this month. "Old Stock: A Refugee Love Story" threads the relationship of two refugee Romanian Jews in Canada b…
Alice Walker's pulitzer-prize-winning epistolary novel, The Color Purple, has touched millions since its 1983 publication. Furthered by Steven Spielberg's 1985 film adaptation, which starred…
Ira Aldridge, a Black American-born actor from the 19th century, was the highest paid artist in Russia of his time, knighted in Britain, and received the Pour le Mérite award from the King …
It's time for the annual Memphis Hot Wings Festival, and this year a team of queer Black men""New Wing Order""is going to win it all. But as friends and family reunite to prep hundreds of ch…
Clichés of butterflies or fireworks might be cute, but a kiss that spills golden light out from the heavens, accompanied by the "Hallelujah" chorus is on an entirely different level. Before…
With four centuries passed, it seems likely there will be new versions of "Romeo And Juliet" for at least several centuries more. One example, "Shakespeare in Love," imagines a William Shake…
"Drumfolk" is a triumph, plain and simple. A showcase of dance and history, this production is the first of a multi-year partnership between Step Afrika!, the first professional stepping dan…
Tall branches stretch skyward, a thick twisted trunk sways, and the coiled roots of an old Yew tree come walking"a monster called forth by a 13-year-old boy's inner turmoil. Centering on the…
Even if you are too young or out of the loop to know the name Gloria Estefan, you almost certainly know some of her earworm hits like "Conga" and "1-2-3." The musical depicting her rise to f…
On May 17, 2022, friends and supporters of Signature Theatre gathered at Capital One Hall in Tyson, VA for the 11th Sondheim Award Gala. The evening celebrated Signature's reopening season, …
When Chelsea Marcantel was commissioned by Signature Theatre in February 2020 for a new play, she had no way to know the profound changes and losses soon coming to her industry and world. He…
Move over Arthur Miller, there's a fresh playwright in town with a steaming hot take on "witch hunts." Unlike the witches in Miller's staple of American canon, "The Crucible," the accused in…
In 1993, Octavia E. Butler imagined what awaited 30 years in the future, setting her novel, Parable of the Sower, in 2024. Many of Butler's predictions have proven accurate: fires and drough…
In an uncanny coincidence of timing while the world focuses on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, "We Declare You a Terrorist…" at Round House Theatre takes a somber look back on a violent m…
Poet Alfred Tennyson once wrote "'Tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all." But what if you knew the odds of grief and heartbreak before investing your heart in an…
When a few bars of "Dance at the Gym" from "West Side Story" elicits an impromptu on-beat shout of "Mambo!" from the audience, you know you've got a crowd of serious fans. In keeping with th…
If those walls could talk, Daphne's Dive"a fictional Philadelphia neighborhood bar"would perhaps have more to tell than it ought. …entertaining…A powerful cast… With the Puerto Rican f…
The Cuban Missile Crisis. The Civil Rights Movement. The setting is 1936-1965, America and the afterlife. Characters: Mary, Jack, Cicely, Cord, and Jackie. The program cover: suspicious eyes…
The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC is back to live in-person performance! With ample sequins and a sprinkling of snow, the 80+ singers alongside a dozen dancers and 20+ member youth chor…
A strange loop is a cognitive science term, encapsulating "the idea that your ability to conceive of yourself as an 'I' is kind of an illusion. But the fact that you can recognize the illusi…
