Tag: Joe McCarthy
Review: ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’ at Laurel Mill Playhouse
Politics, laughter, and lunacy come together in this lesser known Neil Simon comedy, Laughter on the 23rd Floor which opened last night at Laurel Mill...
Review: ‘Watch on the Rhine’ at Arena Stage
Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine came to DC for a command performance on January 25, 1942. The occasion: Franklin Roosevelt's 60th birthday. America...
In the Moment: ‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ at Signature Theatre
What a way to blast open the new theater season. So take your seat at Signature’s bold, daring, muscular production of a tale about...
Review: ‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ at Signature Theatre
The early days of American jazz come fully back to life in Signature Theatre’s Jelly’s Last Jam. But if the notion of spending two hours...
2016 Capital Fringe Preview #32: ‘Hunt’: Part 2 by Jean P....
HUNT: A Political Drama about Power, Blackmail and Tragedy in the U.S. Senate
It’s hard to believe that the events in this play actually happened,...
2016 Capital Fringe Preview #22 ‘Hunt’ by Jean Bordewich
HUNT: A Political Drama
NEW POLITICAL PLAY IS BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF PARTISAN POLITICS, HOMOPHOBIA, BLACKMAIL AND TRAGEDY IN THE U.S. SENATE
HUNT: A Political...
‘Tramp’s New World’ at Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
In 1949, Pulitzer Prize winning author and film critic James Agee wrote a screenplay treatment for Charlie Chaplin, that has since been titled Tramp's...
‘Diner’ at Signature Theatre by David Siegel
Music easily helps us drift back to another time and place, one that is fading away even as we try to keep it alive...
Spine: ‘Diner’ at Signature Theatre by Robert Michael Oliver
In 1982, when Barry Levinson's Diner (the film) opened nationwide to positive reviews, the Reagan Revolution had just begun, the Vietnam Syndrome was about...
Capital Fringe Review: ‘Nightmerica’ by Andrew L. Baughman
Veteran DC Artist B Stanley, Artistic Director of Theatre Du Jour, has this annoying habit of making me think every time I walk into...