Magic Time! ‘Cabaret’ at Signature Theatre
By the end of Act One, I was stunned and shaken. By the end of Act Two, I was speechless, not wanting to move....
Free Play Reading Today at 2 PM of LOVE GODFREY/LOVE GEORGE,...
LOVE GODFREY/LOVE GEORGE, by John Stoltenberg has a FREE staged reading TODAY, Sunday, May 3, 2015, at 2:00 pm at the MLK Library
John: Readers...
Magic Time! ‘Closet Land’ at Factory 449 by John Stoltenberg
When we are ushered into the tiny dimly lit theater, constructed as a claustrophobic black box with only two rows of chairs on all...
Magic Time! ‘Murder Ballad’ at The Studio Theatre by John Stoltenberg
The fourth-floor black box at Studio Theatre has housed some extraordinary original storytelling. Recent productions of Terminus and Moth leap to mind. The space,...
Post-Play Palaver: Robert Michael Oliver and John Stoltenberg Look at ‘Light...
Robert Michael Oliver and John Stoltenberg saw and wrote about the same opening night performance of Lights Rise on Grace at Woolly Mammoth Theatre...
Magic Time! ‘Lights Rise on Grace’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company...
Now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a depiction of eroticism so intimate and artful that it left me woozy with awe and...
Magic Time! ‘The Norwegians’ (‘Da Norvegians’) at Scena Theatre by a...
So dere’s dis play goin’ on in town called Da Norvegians, and it’s set in Minneapolis and it’s got Norvegian characters in it, so...
Post-Play Palaver: A Passionate Response to Forum Theatre’s ‘Passion Play’ by...
After Michael Poandl and John Stoltenberg, both DCMTA writers, saw a recent performance of Passion Play at Forum Theatre, they found themselves chattering back...
Magic Time!: ‘A Fan Chat with Jane Lynch’ Who is Birchmere-Bound...
Jane Lynch is an award-winning actor on stage, in movies, and on TV. She plays Sue Sylvester on Glee. She has a star on...
Magic Time! Passion for a Play: A Q&A With Michael Dove,...
Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play is an epic three-part play set in three eras—Queen Elizabeth's England, Adolf Hitler's Germany, and Ronald Reagan's America. It’s a fancifully...
Magic Time! ‘Back to Methuselah’ at Washington Stage Guild (Article)
People rarely go to the theater anymore to know what a playwright thinks. We go to be entertained, we go to be moved, we...
Magic Time! A Hard Look at the Theme of Pornography...
I knew I would be bummed if I missed the Round House Theatre production of Gina Gionfriddo’s Rapture, Blister, Burn. Everything I read told...
Magic Time! A Look at ‘Cherokee’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company...
The connectivity crew at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company creates some of the most imaginative audience-engagement gimmicks in town. Typically tied to, and expressive of,...
‘Fires in the Mirror’ at Howard University
Anna Deavere Smith’s classic Fires in the Mirror is getting a fascinating production this weekend by a very talented ensemble of student actors at...
How the Writer of ‘Life Sucks’ Reimagined the Women of ‘Uncle...
John Stoltenberg: It’s great that Molly Smith, artistic director of Arena Stage, and Eric Schaeffer, artistic director of Signature Theater, have initiated what will become...
Magic Time! Look Who ♥s ‘The Vagina Monologues’
Each year at Valentine’s Day time, thousands of college and community groups around the world present staged readings and productions of The Vagina Monologues,...
‘Out of Silence: Abortion Stories from the 1 in 3 Campaign’
No girl grows up dreaming of terminating a pregnancy. There are plenty of aspirational fantasies out there—some good for her, some not—but to be...
Magic Time! ‘Choirboy’ at The Studio Theatre
There comes a scene in Choir Boy at The Studio Theatre when five young black men stand naked in dimly lit separate shower stalls...
Magic Time!: ‘The T Party’ at Forum Theatre
Natsu Onoda Power’s delightfully devised theater piece The T Party could not have a more perfect home than Michael Dove’s quintessentially inclusive Forum Theatre....
‘The Imperative to Reconcile’: A Conversation with Ari Roth by John...
In the week following Ari Roth’s firing as Artistic Director of Theater J, I talked with him about his vision of theater. It was...