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Long Day’s Journey into Night at Everyman Theatre (review)
In 1919, Eugene O’Neill wrote a play called Exorcism. It is about shame. It is set in 1912, and in it the protagonist confesses to his boozy friend that he committed adultery with a prostitute because...
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Aaron Sorkin’s The Farnsworth Invention (review)
The Farnsworth Invention, showbiz writer Aaron Sorkin’s misfired attempt to retrofit a screenplay about the patent battle over television transmission into a stage drama was a dud when it opened in...
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What Naomi Jacobson is uncovering in her first solo show, Becoming Dr. Ruth
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a beloved ’80s icon. The tiny, yet big-opinioned sex therapist was a fixture on late night talk shows and the radio throughout the decade, and even fronted several of her own...
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The Veils from Nu Sass (review)
In The Veils by Hope Villanueva, Melody, a female Marine translator in Afghanistan, has completed her tour of duty and returned stateside trying desperate to pick up the pieces of her life. That...
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Hobson’s Choice at Quotidian Theatre (review)
It may seem an odd choice at first for Quotidian to revive a century-old comedy of manners in an era of #metoo. Happily, though he’s no George Bernard Shaw (that’s OK, I’m no Ben Brantley), Harold...
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Cliff Williams: Why theatres need to hire intimacy choreographers.
The theatre can be a messy place, and often this is most evident in the rehearsal process. Violence and intimacy scenes stand as two of the more interesting challenges. How do we display violence on...
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Violence versus pacifism . Brown versus Douglass. The Raid at Theater...
“Everyone in this play is dead,” Harriet Tubman (Tiffany Byrd) announces minutes into the first act. Frederick Douglass (Marquis D. Gibson), John Brown (Nicklas Aliff), Henry Kagi (Josh Adams), Emperor...
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Jerry Springer the Opera Review
Jerry Springer the Opera is profane, vulgar, obvious, offensive and irresistibly entertaining – at least in the first act, when it offers a high art version of the TV talk show that has aimed low since...
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Review: Some Old Black Man starring Wendell Pierce
Are you ready to be old? By that I mean are you ready to sell your home, where you’ve lived for fifty years and raised your family, and go…elsewhere? To lay aside your lifetime friends, and the...
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Ryun Yu on Hold These Truths at Arena Stage. A 1940’s Japanese American’s...
Although Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi might not be a name people recognize, many know his story and the historic Supreme Court case which bears his name— Hirabayashi v. United States. The son of Japanese...
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Teen drama, Count Down, Strand’s entry in Women’s Voices Theater Festival...
Count Down, one of many extraordinary plays included in this year’s Women’s Voices Theater Festival, is an emotional drama about teenage girls living in a group home in Chester, New Jersey. Playwright...
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Review: Relevance by JC Lee. Feminism loses in this generational battle
It might sound unenlightened to call Relevance a catfight between two feminists. Jayne Houdyshell and Pascale Armand, after all, are portraying characters explicitly identified as “public...
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Rep Stage among the first companies to announce their season 2018/2019
Callie Kimball is an actor and playwright who graced DC stages for several years before moving to New York City. Rep Stage will be producing the world premiere of her new play, Things that are Round,...
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Shakespeare Theatre Company announces Michael Kahn’s final season (2018/2019)
What becomes a legend most? For the Shakespeare Theatre Company, celebrating the final year of its artistic director since 1986, Michael Kahn, it will be this: two Shakespeare plays, a new adaptation...
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Arena Stage announces its next season, starting with Broadway hopeful Dave
A fantasy about a high school teacher who becomes a Presidential double and then the de facto President when the real President suffers from a scandalous illness will open a season for Arena Stage...
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Becoming Dr. Ruth at Theater J (review)
Dr. Ruth. Nearly everybody knows her iconic look, sound and effervescent spirit. Little did we know, however, about the marriages that didn’t work, early professional hardships, experience working in a...
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Ford’s Theatre’s 2018-2019 season is full of hope and magic
For 2018-2019, Ford’s Theatre has opted for a season of magic and optimism in which the corrupt are smited, the stingy are enlightened, wrongs are righted and children are delighted. The season begins...
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Theatrical Season 2018/2019 for the Washington DC area
See why area theatre companies are making the Washington DC and Baltimore areas the busiest theatre hubs in the country. We’ll refresh this list as new season announcements are announced. The post...
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Review: Hold These Truths, a bright spirit from a dark era in American history
“’Deru kugi wa utareru.’ Dad first said it to me. ‘The nail that sticks out is the one that gets hit.’ It’s an old Japanese proverb. To stay out of danger or harm’s way, one must conform. One must...
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No slips in Slapstick Jukebox from Happenstance Theater. A big hit!
You have just three more days to see those fabulous folks of Happenstance Theater in their latest show- and kids, what a show it is! Slapstick Jukebox is a compilation of Happenstance Theater’s...
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