Washingon, D.C. — The world premiere of Happily Ever After, a thought-provoking play by Spanish playwright Cristina Colmena, opens Thursday at the Ambassador Theater’s Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G Street NW.Happily Ever After grapples with relationships of couples – love, marriage and the battle of the sexes — and how they struggle and stagnate over time despite the best of intentions. But are all relationships doomed?

The play chronicles the relationships of three male-female couples of different ages. The audience observes the couples through relationship periods where the characters want to be happy but they do not know how. The audience finds young lovers bound by a powerful attraction yet destined to part; cynical middle-aged one-night standers failing to act on a promising encounter; and an older, deeply unhappy couple keeping up appearances after 30 years of marriage…TO READ MORE

MARCH 30, 2012 BY LORRAINE TREANOR LEAVE A COMMENT

The slump is over for DC area theatregoeers. After more than a week without any openings, audiences have five new openings to consider this weekend, SWAN day on Saturday,and, on Sunday, a most unusual performance by Bulgarian performers, produced by the Ambassador Theater.

Described as “a whirling masquerade of puppetry, folk objects, song, dance, and food to bring out the fun loving fool in all of us!” Hopa Tropa: Kukerica! will be given two performances at the George Washington Masonic Memorial Theatre in Alexandria, VA, starting at 11:30am.

“The theatre is beautiful, and the view from the Masonic grounds is breathtaking,” Hanna Bondarewska told us, as she described Ambassador’s largest production, by far, to date. More than 50 artists will perform under Lilia Slavova’s original improvisational concept, featuring Bulgarian ensembles Orfeia, Svitanya, and Zharava, music by Petko Kolev, choreography by Ivan Dimitrov, set design by Antonio Petrov and puppets by master puppeteer Julia Tasheva. Tickets, ranging from $10 to $25 can be purchased on line at the Box Office, or day of performance, at the theatre.