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UpClose: Audrey Cefaly, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Audrey Cefaly has written and is directing her new play Maytag Virgin, which opens at Quotidian Theatre Company on October 2, 2015. She is published in Best American Short Plays (Fin and Euba). Her...
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Kate Eastwood Norris, appearing in Animal at Studio Theatre
“I still can’t wear shoes,” Kate Eastwood Norris said to me as she indicated her flip-flops during our elevator trip up to one of the higher floors at Studio Theatre, where she is rehearsing Animal....
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UpClose: Leslie Kobylinski, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
First Draft will be conducting four readings of Leslie Kobylinski’s new play, Stolen Beauty, beginning at the Arts Club on October 6, 2015. She is the Artistic Director for First Draft, a non-profit...
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Mary Hall Surface on the theatrical world of baby plays
Imagine creating theatre for an audience that has never seen a play before; that responds freely and fully to the unfolding story, sounds, and images; that hops, spins, and jumps on stage when invited...
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Stage Briefs: Awards to GALA and Julie Taymor, costume sales, and Cultural DC...
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from GALA, Shakespeare Theatre, Washington National Opera, Center Stage, and Cultural DC. Congratulations to GALA, recipient of the 50/50...
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Spring Awakening Review: signing and singing, celebrating sexuality
The Deaf West production of Spring Awakening at the Brooks Atkinson tangibly enhances an acclaimed musical about rebellious and repressed adolescents. By cleverly pairing deaf actors who are signing...
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UpClose: Julia Starr, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Julia Starr’s new play, The Long Way Around, debuts October 9, 2015 at the Highwood Theatre. She is a rising senior at Stanford University. Her full-length play Crazy Runs in the Family received its...
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Princess Margaret at Thelma Theatre (review)
Princess Margaret, by Patricia Connelly, is an emotionally charged journey into the life of a poor young girl in the late 1960s. Eleven-year-old Margaret (Allison Frisch) is caught stealing milk from a...
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The Point at Arcturus Theater Company (review)
Nancy Reagan famously referred to her husband’s lengthy bout with Alzheimer’s disease at “the long goodbye” – a prolonged and painful process of shedding the various levels of one’s memories, one’s...
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Phoebe in Winter at Single Carrot (review)
Power. Chaos. Family Loss. Race. War. Colonialism. Gender. These are themes playwright Jen Silverman has packed into her dense and powerful work, Phoebe in Winter. There is something both muscular and...
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Pride and Prejudice at Center Stage (review)
With a silken flow and a keen eye for the realities of 18th century women, Center Stage’s production of Pride and Prejudice is froth with substance. Jane Austen fans may demurely balk at the liberties...
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At Folger, texts&beheadings/ElizabethR (review)
texts&beheadings/ElizabethR, created and directed by Karin Coonrod, draws on the letters, prayers, and speeches of the queen who reigned in Shakespeare’s time. A fitting choice for the Folger...
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Daddy Long Legs review at the Davenport Theatre
In a program note for Daddy Long Legs, director John Caird wonders why the 1912 novel on which the musical is based isn’t considered a great American classic. I wonder the opposite – why its...
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2015 MacArthur “genius grants” include four theatre artists
The MacArthur Foundation announced its twenty four 2015 MacArthur Fellows, commonly called “genius grants,” and among them are playwright/performer Lin-Manuel Miranda, set designer Mimi Lien,...
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Monique LaForce, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Monique LaForce’s new play Hootenanny opens October 2, 2015 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work includes Kenneth, What Is the Frequency? (co-author with Ian Allen), The Blizzard Comes...
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UpClose: Allison and Margaret Engel, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End, the new play from Allison and Margaret Engel, opens October 9, 2015 at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater. Allison Engel (playwright) has been a reporter...
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From creation of transgender opera, As One, to UrbanArias’ quick embrace
“This project has changed me completely,” Laura Kaminsky told me, “as an artist and as a composer. It’s been an amazing experience so far. For months, I was taking Hannah’s spirit everywhere with me....
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Destiny of Desire by Karen Zacarias at Arena Stage (review)
We are in full swing of the Women’s Voices in Theatre Festival with some mighty impressive entries having led out of the gate. We have Artistic Director Molly Smith in great part to thank for...
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Newly expanded Columbia Festival of the Arts has plenty for theatre lovers
For 29 years, the Columbia Festival of the Arts has brought together dance, music and theater a couple of weekends each summer, hoping to bring attention to the Maryland city and its growing arts...
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Playwright takes the spotlight in No Spring Chicken at NextStop (review)
“Forty is old to have a baby.” Those words rang in the ears and down to the depths of Ginna Hoben’s soul as a skinny, way too young nurse pronounced her sentence over the actress desperately trying to...
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