Department of Performing Arts

American Theatre magazine highlights Georgetown University extensively in its February edition, including a profile on Professor Natsu Onoda Power (by Celia Wren), participation in the International Theatre Institute World Congress, and the upcoming summer collaboration on campus with Baghdad University.

 
 
MD Theatre Guide interviews Professor Derek Goldman, Artistic Director of the Davis Performing Arts Center.

Begotten: O'Neill and the Harbor of Masks

Theater review: 'Begotten' a unique look at Eugene O'Neill's life and works - Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
Eugene O’Neill’s dog Blemie gets a monologue at the end of “Begotten: O’Neill and the Harbor of Masks,” a workshop project in Arena Stage’s Kogod Cradle that’s part of the ongoing O’Neill festival. Blemie is offering his last will and testament to console what are sure to be his heartsick owners... (Read more / April 27, 2012)

Begotten: O'Neill and the Harbor of Masks - Rosalind Lacy, DC Theatre Scene
...Begotten: O’Neill and the Harbor of Masks, adapted, written and directed by Georgetown University Theater professor, Derek Goldman, in a collaborative workshop with Arena Stage, is a challenging, slow-paced, experimental piece drawing upon excerpts from several of Eugene O’Neill’s forgotten plays. These rarely-seen gems focus on the themes of injustice and show us O’Neill’s early obsession with reviving Greek theater techniques and making them American. These scenes are enacted as actors shift stage positions, double play roles and serve as members of a chorus as Goldman follows O’Neill’s early life as a playwright and developing artist... (Read more / April 28, 2012)

Macbeth

Photos: Mask & Bauble's Macbeth opens on the Gonda stage tonight - Jackson Perry, Vox Populi (The Georgetown Voice)
The Mask & Bauble Society and the Theatre and Performance Studies program’s joint production of Macbeth opens tonight at 8 p.m. in the Gonda Theatre in the Davis Center. Running from tonight until Sunday this week and Wednesday-Saturday next week, the innovative ensemble show updates the Shakespearian classic with dramatic production values that will keep audiences on their toes... (See photos / April 12, 2012)

Mask & Bauble bewitches the Davis Center with Macbeth - Julia Lloyd-George, The Georgetown Voice
“Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!’” As sinister as this line is, it captures the effectiveness of Mask & Bauble’s production of Macbeth—this fresh version of the play presents no danger of inducing naps. Rather than dryly rehashing the Shakespearean classic of fond high school English memories, the innovative production breathes life into an ageless tale of dark ambition... (Read more / April 12, 2012)

A Shakespearian Success - Victoria Ngare, The Guide (The Hoya)
A collaboration of the Georgetown University theater and performance studies program and Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society, Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" is a dark play that straddles the line between dreams and reality. "Macbeth" is the final installment of "Nature’s Mirror: A Season of Evil and Noble Acts," the theater and performance studies program’s 2011-2012 season in the Davis Performing Arts Center. With this finale, the department has a huge success in a show that’s both deeply disturbing and thought provoking... (Read more / April 18, 2012)

A Child Shall Lead Them:  Making "The Night of the Hunter"

Derek Goldman's new play re-imagines 'Night of the Hunter' - Andrew Lapin, DC Theatre Scene
..."In a certain kind of way, the film is the protagonist of this piece," Goldman said. "The goal, in a way was to both honor and pay homage to this particular artwork, and then to try through it to say, and to explore something about the nature of collaborative obsessive beautiful artistry, even when it fails."... (Read more / November 3, 2011)

Make sure to track down the Hunter - Nico Dodd, The Georgetown Voice
A Child Shall Lead Them: Making The Night of The Hunter is a play that makes you feel like you've just watched a movie... (Read more / November 3, 2011)

World Premiere Play re-images creation of classic film - Carletta Hurt, DC Theatre Examiner
...Goldman says, "I've always admired 'Night of the Hunter' and seen it as ahead of its time... This unique multimedia reimagining of the classic is at once a spine-tingling thriller and a meditation on childhood and parenthood, innocence and evil, what it means to be an artist, legacy, and what we give birth to."... (Read more / October 26, 2011)

On the trail of a 'Hunter' - Nathan Oravec, Gazette.Net
Love it or hate it, dramatist Derek Goldman guarantees no one encountering Charles Laughton's 1955 thriller, "The Night of the Hunter" starring the slack-jawed Robert Mitchum as a murderous preacher on the prowl will ever shake it... (Read more / November 17, 2011)

A camera shall mediate them - Andrew Freedman, Diamondback Online
...Easily the most fascinating aspect of A Child Shall Lead Them is its mix of standard playacting and multimedia aspects... (Read more / November 13, 2011)

A Child Shall Lead Them at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center - Chris Klimek, Washington City Paper
...Playwright and director Derek Goldman has drawn on both Hunter's screenplay and published accounts from its principal creators... (Read more / November 11, 2011)

Visible Impact

Visible Impact's Clashing Communities - Kylé Pienaar, The Georgetown Independent
The Deaf and disabled communities are locked in a war of words. They disagree with each other. They don't identify with each other. They resent the community of hearing and able-bodied people who insist on lumping them together - especially under the label "Disabled." Visible Impact, a recent play at Georgetown, brings all of these communities together... (Read more / November 10, 2011)

Visible Impact at Georgetown University - Elliot Lanes, MD Theatre Guide
...This powerful and heartfelt play, which stars Georgetown U and Gallaudet U. students, takes us on a journey of the disabled and deaf communities. Through almost 25 sketches of autobiographical and personal memoirs, and with a touch of Shakespeare, they illustrate the hardships these two communities continue to face and endure... (Read more / October 21, 2011)

Exploring the Diversity of Ability - Laura Engshuber, The Guide (The Hoya)
Lily Kaiser (COL '12) was used to hiding her cerebral palsy. After all, it only affecter her right hand, so it was easily concealed, even forgotten at times... (Read more / October 20, 2011)

'Art Beat' With Sean Rameswaram, Oct. 20 - Sean Rameswaram, WAMU
Georgetown University presents the DiversABILITY Forum this weekend. Policymakers, educators and artists take part in workshops, discussions and performances related to the future of our disabled communities. The centerpiece is Visible Impact... (Listen / October 20, 2011)

DiversABILITY presents play for deaf, disabled communities - Fatima Taskomur and Patricia Cipollitti, The Georgetown Voice
This Saturday, Georgetown's Department of Performing Arts will put on Visible Impact, a production that seeks to engage with deaf and disabled communities as part of Georgetown's DiversABILITY Forum... (Read more / October 20, 2011)

Heather Raffo Residency

Reading of New Libretto by Heather Raffo Tonight at Georgetown - Charles T. Downey, Washingtonian
New York-based playwright and actress Heather Raffo came to international attention a few years ago with her award-winning one-woman play Nine Parts of Desire. For her latest project, Raffo is writing a libretto for a new opera to be premiered at City Opera Vancouver next year. As part of Raffo's ongoing residency at Georgetown's Department of Performing Arts, a group of Georgetown students, faculty, and guest artists will join Raffo in a public reading of the current form of the new libretto... (Read more / August 29, 2011)