Tag: Danielle A. Drakes
A powerhouse production of August Wilson’s ‘Piano Lesson’ plays at 1st...
Tightly and powerfully directed and acted, this masterful American play packs an emotional and intellectual punch. By CAROLINE BOCK
In Mosaic Theater’s ‘cullud wattah,’ a moving chronicle of a city...
The play by Erika Dickerson-Despenza is one of the most urgent and satisfying pieces of theater now on DC stages. By GREGORY FORD
Hope and courage in ‘Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains’...
The utmost talented actress Deidre Staples was phenomenal. By CONSTANCE BEULAH
Taffety Punk’s rousing ‘La Salpêtrière’ hears women’s roar
Playwright Kelsey Mesa shrewdly makes hysteria the centerpiece of her satiric dark comedy, and the show's originality and substance make it a must-see. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
‘It’s obscene but true’: Kelsey Mesa on her terrifying new play,...
The Taffety Punk production portrays women, diagnosed as ‘hysterics,’ who were confined to a prison-like hospital in Paris in the 19th century. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN
‘The Wilting Point’ at Keegan Theatre bursts with urgency of climate...
This first play in Graziella Jackson's ecological tetralogy has a pressing message.
‘Ghost/Writer’ at Rep Stage digs into racial and personal reckoning
Dane Figueroa Edidi's new play fearlessly explores the roles that justice, love, and joy play in a society where past ghosts continue to haunt us.
Rep Stage radio play ‘Ghost/Writer’ is some mind-blowing writing
Playwright Dane Figueroa Edidi mixes romance and vengeance and packs volumes of truth into stunning poetic dialog.