Women's Voices Theater Festival

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival ‘Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End’ at...

A Wonderful “Mom-ologue” Many Baby Boomers’ earliest memories were of their stay-at-home mothers laughing at a risque line in an Erma Bombeck column, carefully cutting...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The Dealer of Ballynafeigh’ at The...

When a particular company and a particular playwright hit it off such that they keep knocking it out of the park—as have The Keegan...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Gimme and Band, Gimme a Banana!...

Say the name Carmen Miranda and your mind instantly conjures images of a flashy showgirl, red painted lips, feathers and sequins, and, most of...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Salomé’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company

Turn aside all you think you know about the fabled Salomé and her brief mythic encounter with John the Baptist. Acclaimed Director Yael Farber has boldly and...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The Magic Tree’ at The Keegan...

Four lost young people in a deserted beach house, in Dublin, late at night.  There is a thunderstorm beating down. This is the evocative...

Magic Time!: Blown Away by a Bible Story Midway Through the...

To date I have been to 20 productions and one staged reading that are officially in DC's Women's Voices Theater Festival (11 of which...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Cake Off’ at Signature Theatre

Signature Theatre’s Cake Off, is an appetizingly savory musical petite-four disguised as a mere head-turning sugary iced cutie. It is a whiz-bang production full...

Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The Long Way Around’ at The Highwood...

What happens when you realize that the person everyone thinks you are is not the person you really are, and the cost becomes too...

Playwright Karen Zacarías on ‘Destiny of Desire’ at Arena Stage

There's a lot of laughter coming from the cheering audiences at Destiny of Desire, now playing through October 18th in The Kreeger Theater at Arena...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Hootenanny’ at Guilliotine Theatre

Hootenanny by Monique LaForce is a two-hander with an unsettling story up its sleeve. It’s a story about a man and a woman that...

Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Trish Tinkler Gets Saved’ at Unexpected Stage...

A 40-year-old groupie of the 1980's British rock band Whitesnake, who is severely down on her luck, wants to sleep in a convenience store...

Magic Time! The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: A Report on ‘Lady...

As you take your seat at Scena Theatre’s production of Lady Lay, don’t be surprised to see the spitting image of Bob Dylan in...

‘Dangereuse’ The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘The Guard’ at Ford’s Theatre

Rembrandt once said, “Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and paint the way they want me to paint. Well,...

Magic Time! The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: A Conversation With the...

I’ve made a point to see as many productions in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival as I can. Some have thrilled me; some have...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Animal’ at The Studio Theatre (Review...

When a leading Shakespearean actor changes hats—literally—to play a neurotic housewife whose comic riffs include a paean to a ballpoint pen, that’s news. And it’s...

Magic Time!: The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Animal’ at The Studio...

After I saw an early Women’s Voices Theater Festival production (I’ve been to 16 and counting), a question lingered in my mind: Exactly what...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Can’t Complain’ at Spooky Action Theater

Over the course of the fall of 2015, more than 50 DC area theater companies will participate in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, an...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Bad Dog’ at Olney Theatre Center

Olney Theatre Center celebrates the Women’s Voices Theater Festival with the Rolling World Premiere of Jennifer Hoppe-House’s black comedy, Bad Dog, directed by Jeremy B....

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Maytag Virgin’ at Quotidian Theatre Company

Quotidian Theatre Company kicks off its 2016 season, and its participation in the Washington, DC Women’s Voices Theater Festival, with the beautiful world premiere...

In the Moment: World Premiere Staged Reading of ‘Redder Blood’ at...

Playwright Helen Pafumi and the JCCNV/Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia have partnered to develop a staged reading of the world premiere play Redder Blood. ...