Clik here to view.
Jonathan Padget, whose tip located Tricia McCauley, decries systemic failures...
Through her work as an actor, as a yoga instructor, as an urban gardener, and as a nutritionist/herbalist, Tricia McCauley had a large network of colleagues and friends. On the day after Christmas,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In Series delivers infectious Irving Berlin: A Simple Melody (review)
Shakespeare once wrote “if music be the food of love, play on.” Another wordsmith, who doubled as a tunesmith, boiled that sentiment down to the even more succinctly stated “Say it with music.” And did...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Charm cuts to the heart of gender issues at Mosaic Theater (review)
Mosaic Theater Company sharpens its reputation for cutting edge theatre yet again with Charm by Philip Dawkins, now getting national attention and acclaim for spotlighting gender fluidity issues and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hungry, Play One of The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family...
Right now, “the room where it happens” happens to be the Kennedy Center Theater Lab, where Richard Nelson’s achingly prescient and intimate trilogy of plays The Gabriels pays a different sort, but...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Did You Expect?: Play Two of The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of...
It is September 2016 and like many Americans who slogged through an endless, brutal summer of presidential campaigning, the Gabriel family seems frayed around the edges. Uncertainty, unease has started...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Women of a Certain Age, Play Three of The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life...
Here we are again on Election Day 2016, a day many Americans would be loath to relive, except for the obvious. If you are to be born ceaselessly into the past, you couldn’t find better ballast than the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scena’s Someone is Going to Come: smart, compelling theatre (review)
Monday night, Jon Fosse’s play felt like a blast of early Pinter with some hoary frost of Edward Munch thrown in for good measure. You know: a threesome locked for eternity in jealous triangulation,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Copenhagen at Theater J (review)
Tell me if this sounds familiar: Two people locked in a pivotal contest of ideas and ideologies, steeped in international espionage, with the fate of millions hanging in the balance. If you guessed...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Think you know Roe v Wade? What the two stars of Roe at Arena Stage learned...
Although Roe v. Wade is considered one of the Supreme Court’s most landmark cases, and there’s probably been as much written and debated about the case as any other in history, aside from their names,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An actor’s life: Remembering Steve Wilhite
The last of many plays I worked on with Steve Wilhite was Richard II at WSC Avant Bard (then called Washington Shakespeare Company). I played the title role; Steve played Thomas Mowbray, Duke of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bud, Not Buddy, this weekend only at The Kennedy Center (review)
There’s a great jazz band in residence at the Kennedy Center, featuring lively, poppy, soulful original music by Terence Blanchard. It alone is enough to recommend a glance at Bud, Not Buddy, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kirsten Greenidge on adapting the beloved Bud, Not Buddy for the stage
When author Christopher Paul Curtis wrote the children’s book, Bud, Not Buddy, in 1999 it quickly became a darling among book critics and beloved by families everywhere. The cherished book won two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Two trans actors from Mosaic’s Charm tell their Truth
Mosaic Theatre’s current production, Charm by Phillip Dawkins, is inspired by the true story of Chicago trans icon Miss Gloria Allen, who teaches etiquette classes to youth at the Center on Halsted, an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
[gay] Cymbeline from Theatre Prometheus (review)
If you’ve never seen—or even heard of—Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, you’re in good company. One of the Bard’s least-produced works, the synopsis of the play’s plot would take up at least the length of this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Dictator’s Wife at Washington National Opera (review)
Watching an opera take its first life breath is witnessing a high-risk birth. There were some serious devotees on hand at Kennedy Center’s Family Theatre to support Washington National Opera’s fifth...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pinky Swear rocks out Lizzie at Anacostia Playhouse (review)
Imagine a Victorian parlor where music is played and shared very much as it was in a bygone era, with songs and stories ripped from the headlines and whispers of a folk legend. Now, place yourself in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stoppard’s The Hard Problem at Studio Theatre (review)
The opening scene of The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard’s latest play since 2006’s Rock and Roll, reminds you of the opening scene from Stephen Sondheim’s musical Passion. Two half-naked beautiful young...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Mad Men inspired Chris Stezin’s Mack, Beth, debuting at Keegan Theatre
Chris Stezin cut his teeth professionally as an actor doing Shakespeare for about six years all over the country, which instilled in him a deep reverence for the work. “I started performing Shakespeare...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Made in China Review: bawdy, political puppet musical comedy
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is “inspired by true events.” I suspect the true part doesn’t include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toilet and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
At 5:30 tonight, theatres nationally signal committment to inclusion and...
As hundreds of thousands of visitors descend on the Nation’s Capital for the Inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, over 500 theatres here and around the country will participate in...
View Article