Tag: Jenny Donovan
Magic Time!: ‘The Frederick Douglass Project’ by Solas Nua
In a tent pitched on a pier overlooking the Anacostia River, there is a powerfully important work of theater being performed. The work is...
Review: ‘The Frederick Douglass Project’ by Solas Nua
Imagine yourself sitting on a creaky ship as a passenger en route to the Emerald Isle of Ireland. Frederick Douglass, the great abolitionist, is...
Review: ‘Coolatully’ at Solas Nua
In the fictional village of Coolatully, a quartet of characters grapple with the effects of Ireland’s newest mass emigration. The brief and heady era...
Review: ‘It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play’ at Washington...
It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play Shares Timeless Message
Adapted by playwright Joe Landry, Washington Stage Guild’s It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play...
Review: ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ at Compass Rose Theater
Compass Rose Theater’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank, directed by Steve Tobin, is a powerful piece of theater, recounting one of the...
2015 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Straight Faced Lies’
As is implied by the title of Mark Jason Williams' bleak comedy Straight Faced Lies, the members of the oppressively dysfunctional Ryan family aren't very good at this whole...
‘Blue Straggler’ at Source Festival
The Source Festival is a showcase of new works; not world premieres but workshops of 3 full-length works in progress (the 12 ten-minute plays...
‘Doubt’ at 1st Stage
No doubt you’ll recall Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Viola Davis, and Amy Adams in the Hollywood 2008 adaptation of John Patrick Shanley’s Doubt,...
‘Lobster Alice’ at Flying V
Oh Frabjous Day!! I must say, the toves were slithy! And gyring and gimballing were happening all over the stage! And, this take on...
‘The Tempest’ at Annapolis Shakespeare Company
In William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, the richness, the grace and the grandeur of the English language itself entertain in a way that only the...
Alex Zavostovich on Molotov Theatre Group’s New Artistic Advisor Richard Hand...
Alex Zavostovich introduces us to Molotov Theatre Group's New Artistic Advisor Richard Hand and Their 2014-2015 Season
Joel: Tell us about Richard Hand and how he came...
‘In the Forest, She Grew Fangs’ at The Washington Rogues by...
In the Forest, She Grew Fangs, written by Stephen Spotswood and produced by The Washington Rogues, is a dark journey into the adolescent psyche....
‘The Birds’ at Quotidian Theatre Company by Jane Coyne
First came du Maurier, then came Hitchcock, and now comes the DC premiere of Conor McPherson’s The Birds at Bethesda’s Quotidian Theatre Company.
Good stories...
Capital Fringe Review: ‘To Know A Veil’ by Christina Marie Frank
I would say this show is a "must see," but "see" isn't the appropriate term. Artistic innovator Emma Crane Jaster and her lovely ensemble...
Preview of Conor McPherson’s “The Birds” at Quotidian Theatre Company by...
Do you have your tide tables? You know: those listings that tell you high tide, low tide, water height, etc. Every newspaper from a...
2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘To Know a Veil’ by Emma...
I was first inspired to create To Know a Veil while traveling in Morocco a couple years ago. It was my first time in...
‘Mouse on the Move’ at Imagination Stage by Lauren Katz
Typically when I review a show, I bring a friend whose feet reach the ground while sitting in the audience. However, for this particular...
Preview of Conor McPherson’s “The Birds” at Quotidian Theatre Company by...
Do you have your tide tables? You know: those listings that tell you high tide, low tide, water height, etc. Every newspaper from a...
‘A Maze’ at Rorschach Theatre by Amanda Gunther
There are two kinds of mazes - the one where you start on one side and work your way through to the other, and...