Tag: David Muse
At home with sex offenders in brilliant and disturbing ‘Downstate’ at...
The play is as itchy and edgy as it is achingly humane. By AMY KOTKIN
What’s not to ‘Love, Love, Love’ at Studio?
The production expertly meets the psychological and social insight of Mike Bartlett’s decades-spanning play. By JARED STRANGE.
A rousing coming-of-age musical is right on time in ‘Fun Home’...
The superb acting will resonate with LGBTQ and straight audiences alike.
You could get hooked on Kristen Bush in ‘People, Places &...
Playing an addicted actress, she gives a performance you will be intoxicated by.
Studio Theatre’s raw, audacious ‘Cock’ is one big deal
Set me free why don't cha babe
Get out my life why don't cha babe
'Cause you don't really love me
You just keep me hangin' on
These...
Review: ‘Richard the Third’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Did ever a villain so enjoy his murderously evil ways as Shakespeare’s Richard III? In the Shakespeare Theatre’s production, Matthew Rauch’s Richard teaches a...
Studio Theatre To Close Its Acting Conservatory
Raise your hand if you studied at Studio Theatre’s Acting Conservatory?
For the 10,000 plus performers whose careers started at Studio’s 43-year-old conservatory, the news...
Review: ‘The Remains’ at Studio Theatre
They have such a tasteful, immaculate, picture-perfect kitchen, how could their marriage be such a sorry mess? That's a crass way to ask the...
Magic Time!: Katie Kleiger on Bonding and Being a Warrior in...
The reason I asked to interview Katie Kleiger is that after I saw her in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves at Studio Theatre, I realized I...
Magic Time!: ‘A Short Series of Disagreements Presented Here in Chronological...
He might have had an interesting idea for a solo show. He hadn't written it yet. but he told Studio Theatre, which had booked...
Spine: Love in the Time of Big Pharma, ‘The Effect’ at...
Big Pharma is not only big, it’s growing bigger by the panic attack, by the back spasm, by the botched terrorist attack.
We want that...
Review: ‘The Effect’ at Studio Theatre
When two lovers in life or on stage display an intense interaction of attraction, they are said to have "chemistry." That elusive feeling may...
Spine: What’s Left of America’s Makers, ‘Skeleton Crew’ at Studio Theatre
Lord, in a bourgeois town
It's a bourgeois town
I got the bourgeois blues
Gonna spread the news all around
Any Washington theatregoer who craves a working class...
Review: ‘Skeleton Crew’ at Studio Theatre
Even before the houselights go dim, sparks fly. That vision — of fire blazing from a riveter’s gun in a factory in Detroit —...
Magic Time!: ‘The Father’ at The Studio Theatre
There are reasons aplenty not to miss The Father now playing at The Studio Theatre, and Ted van Griethuysen's performance in the title role...
Review #2: ‘The Father’ at The Studio Theatre
It’s taken five years for The Father—the highly-acclaimed drama by Florian Zeller that shook Paris in 2012—to arrive in the Washington area.
But now that...
Review: ‘The Father’ at The Studio Theatre
Some plays are more difficult to watch than others; some plays activate your imagination and pull you into their stories whole-body: those plays pull...
In the Moment: ‘King Charles III’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
Shakespeare Theatre Company's (STC) production of Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III is a stunner. It is a clever look into a usually unseen political...
Spine: ‘King Charles III’ at The Shakespeare Theatre Company
They sure don't make kings like they used to. And maybe that's a good thing.
Mike Bartlett's historical fantasy, King Charles III, based loosely (very loosely)...
Review: ‘King Charles III’ at Shakespeare Theatre Company
The Ghost in the Machine
Mike Bartlett’s King Charles III premiered in 2014, at London’s Almeida Theatre. Both the original production and the Broadway production...