Magic Time! ‘Terminus’ at The Studio Theatre
Graphic language can slam us and disturb us in a way that is unique to live theater. Visceral and muscular diction in performance can...
The Remarkable Backstory of WSC Avant Bard’s ‘A Klingon Christmas Carol’...
WSC Avant Bard will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a one-night-only staged concert reading of A Klingon Christmas Carol—Charles Dickens’s classic tale of ghosts...
Magic Time! Heard About the Rainbow Theatre Project? A Q&A With...
The Rainbow Theatre Project, Metro DC’s very own LGBTQ theatre company, has just begun its second season. If that sounds intriguing but you’ve never...
Magic Time!: ‘Someone Is Going to Come’ (a workshop production) at...
This is what Jon Fosse’s words sound like. When he writes it sounds like this. His characters talk in short statements. They talk and...
Magic Time: ‘Toast’ at dog & ponydc
I last partook of this tasty audience-integration treat from dog&pony dc last December when I saw Toast as a workshop production in the Kogod...
Magic Time! A Conversation With ‘Yentl’ Playwright Leah Napolin
Leah Napolin’s Yentl would have to be on any short list of best plays about religion and gender—and the production now at Theater J...
Magic Time! ‘Metamorphosis’ at Alliance for New Music-Theatre
As a short story by Franz Kafka awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, it found itself onstage transformed into a live action graphic novel.
Wait,...
Magic Time: ‘Belleville’ at The Studio Theatre
I’ve been crazy about Amy Herzog’s writing since I saw 4000 Miles last year at Studio Theatre. When I saw After the Revolution at...
‘Yentl’ at Theater J
In Theater J’s beautiful, eloquent, and thrilling new production of Yentl, such profound new life has been breathed into Isaac Bashevis Singer’s beloved novella that at...
A Report From Page-to-Stage: ‘Hand Jobs’
The distinctive work of playwright Alan Sharpe returned to the Page-to-Stage Festival Saturday night with a reading of six short plays collectively titled Hand Jobs, presented...
A Report From Page-to-Stage: ‘Carved in Stone’
After the entertaining staged reading at last year’s Page-to-Stage Festival of Mario Baldessari’s comedy The Good Devil, In Spite of Himself (coauthored with Tyler...
Magic Time! Free for All at Shakespeare Theatre Company: ‘The Winter’s...
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is a play I’d never seen or read or even known a thing about. So the experience of discovering...
Is ‘The Laramie Project’ a Convenient Untruth?
A new book about the Matthew Shepard murder challenges the theater community to reevaluate a cherished play. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Magic Time! ‘Rodney King’ at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
If ever there was an Inadvertent American Hero, it’s Rodney King, the black construction worker whose brutal beating in 1991 by white cops in...
Magic Time! DC Black Theatre Festival: ‘The Laundry Room’
The DC Black Theatre Festival this year offered some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a...
Magic Time! DC Black Theatre Festival: ‘7 Layers Captive’
The DC Black Theatre Festival this year offered some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a...
DC Black Theatre Festival: ‘Somethin’ Like Eatonville’
The DC Black Theatre Festival, which runs through June 26, this year offers some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by...
Magic Time! The DC Black Theatre Festival: ‘Confessions of a Homo...
The DC Black Theatre Festival, which runs through June 26, this year offers some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by...
Magic Time! ‘Grounded’ at The Studio Theatre
Sometimes an extraordinary piece of theater plays like a synecdoche on steroids. It serves as a small part that represents a vast whole with...
‘Magic Time!’ ‘Judgment at Nuremberg’ at The American Century Theater
A resounding round of applause is owed The American Century Theater (TACT), whose sharp, smart production of Judgment at Nuremberg brings this towering play...