IONARTS SOMETHING OTHER THAN ARTS IN WASHINGTON, DC
A friend of mine from high school, Heather Raffo, burst onto the scene a few years ago with a devastating one-woman play called Nine Parts of Desire, which I saw in Manhattan and here in Washington at Arena Stage. In this concert version, The Sounds of Desire, cxcerpts from the show were accompanied by background music and interspersed with more substantial selections of Iraqi music performed by oud, percussion, and singing. more