Women's Voices Theater Festival

In the world of #MeToo and the #TimesUp movement, how important is the playwright of color’s voice to theater and entertainment world? The Women’s...

For regular theater-goers, we have seen that projection design is not a fad or an eye-popping, one-time visual effect. Projection design has become an...

Two powerful, verbally skilled women come together weekly for tea and talk for over a decade. They are locked in a power struggle about...

As part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, to highlight the diversity and depth of new plays being written by women, Baltimore Center Stage...

Brave Spirits Theatre adds its distinctive style to the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival with The Trojan Women Project. It is a singular event. The Trojan...

Have you ever met someone who left you feeling as though there is nothing you can’t do? I got that feeling each time I...

This is the second part of a two-part series of interviews with Women’s Voices Theatre Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same...

Kyla Garcia is starring as Sarah Ridge Polson in Sovereignty at Arena Stage. Sovereignty, by Mary Kathryn Nagle, tells two stories. One is of...

Have you ever met someone who left you feeling as though there is nothing you can’t do? I got that feeling each time I...

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” So said F. Scott Fitzgerald, at the end of The...

There’s lots to like about Theresa Rebeck’s The Way of the World just as my DC Theater Arts colleague Sophia Howes points out in...

This is the first part of a multi-part series of interviews with Women’s Voices Theater Festival playwrights. In this series, I asked the same...

It was a festive, most satisfying evening of high-end arts entertainment and education. And it was totally free. What was it? It was a...

Back in December 2014 I had a conversation with the Director Kevin Finkelstein that has stayed with me. I had just seen his staging...

Three women, bound by blood and tradition. One community in dire straits. And a centuries old rite that can mend all ills. Kerrmoor, written...

It is intriguing to see a work in progress that has real merit. Sandra Kamman's Duir-wyyd: The Dreamer’s Doorway, a play with music, straddles time...

The New Millennium Howard Players' mission is to present "Compelling, cathartic theater from the African American cultural perspective that will touch spirits, challenge thought,...

Revolution is in the air. As Arab Spring lies bloodied beneath military dictatorships in Egypt and religious extremists in Libya and the same ol' same...

Among other notable experiences I’ve had during the Women’s Voices Theatre Festival, I can now say I’ve been admonished by a cow. Please don’t...

I have now seen 26 entries in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, and six have shot to the top of my list in terms...