A red wash covers the floor and walls of the set of Blood at the Root, Georgetown University’s Black Theatre Ensemble (BTE) spring show. The hue, imbued by both painted sets and artful lighting, creates the tone for the uproar of change, the intricacies of relationships, the demands of the present, and the impressions of…
The accomplished 23-year-old EDM and pop artist Chelsea Cutler will be bringing her bouncy, alternative sound to The Fillmore Silver Spring on March 5. Released in January of this year, Cutler’s debut album, How To Be Human, was long awaited by fans and in turn widely well received. Calling it “her own self-help book,” How…
Just like its censored title, Father of All… (as opposed to Father of All Motherfuckers), Green Day’s new album feels oddly restrained and polished for punk rock. The band’s 13th studio album is their shortest yet, offering a sweet taste of rebellion condensed into 10 energetic songs. Father of All Motherfuckers (2020) feels transitional in…
Stretching backstage and out of sight, the road—Mother Road—appears to last forever. It is the context for every event to unfold for the next two and a half hours, and it is immediately striking upon entry to the Fichandler Stage. The play’s program lists the setting as “on the Mother Road between Arvin, California and…
Each year, the Georgetown Improv Association (GIA) hosts Improvfest, a showcase of sorts that brings collegiate improv teams from all around the DMV and country to Bulldog Alley. The event is a two-night engagement, with different improv groups staging their own 20-minute sets before a closing performance from GIA at the end of each night….
Hedda Gabler, presented by the Mask and Bauble Dramatic Society and directed by Margaret Gleason (COL ’22), is an uncompromising work of art. As the lights cast a dim sunlight upon an empty stage, the imagined fire crackles in the corner, and as the actors hang their coats and nibble on snacks from the piano,…
In a new, innovative take on what constitutes an art exhibit, the Sackler Gallery of Asian Art presents: Age Old Cities: A Virtual Journey from Palmyra to Mosul. Unlike any other exhibit I’ve ever attended, this show consists of completely virtual art elements. Ranging from digital reconstructions to projected photographs of ancient, historical sites, the…
From the beginning of Chris Distefano’s show, he seemed to immediately click with the audience. Between his impressions of millennial culture and the ease with which he talked about his private life, it was clear there was a certain “inside joke” quality to the way he presented his humor, making me feel like I was…
The minute that members of Georgetown University Dance Company (GUDC) take their places for rehearsal; they are no longer students. An intense focus grips their gaze as they immediately command the energy and focus of the entire room. Whether two or 20 dancers share the floor, no space seems too large nor any movement too…
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) needs a fresh start. When we are reintroduced to the Suicide Squad antiheroine, she has just been dumped by her “puddin,” the Joker. Cocktail-drunk and heartbroken, she hijacks a truck and drives it straight into the industrial plant where, in a vat of unnamed chemicals, ‘Harley Quinn’—not Dr. Harleen Quinzel, Ph.D.,…