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Dylan Arredondo (left), Melissa Carter (center), and Jared H. Graham (right). Photo courtesy of Roberta Alves.
Nothing gold can stay. So ends the Frost poem and begins our protagonist’s panicked search for a poet to immortalize the orange blossoms in his gardens. But who will be able to write poetry worthy of the flowers? “The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers” premiered in September 2019 at the 14th Annual Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival in Massachusetts. Now available via Spooky Action Theater to online audiences, this little-known Williams’ one act is assumed to have been written during his time as a student at the University of Missouri. Williams based the play on Arthur Waley’s translation of the 11th century Japanese story, “The Tale of Genji” by Murasaki Shikibu.
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Ford s maintains a Christmas tradition, the Kennedy Center gets digital, and GALA keeps dancing.
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A Christmas Carol: A Radio Play
It wouldn’t be Christmas in Washington without the music-infused adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Yuletide classic that Ford’s Theatre has presented annually for over 30 years. Although a run of live performances of the full stage production isn’t possible in 2020 due to the pandemic, the historic venue has found a way to ensure the hopeful and inspiring tale still gets as wide an airing as possible through a new partnership with WAMU 88.5.