Tag: Kathleen Akerley

Director Kathleen Akerley's gender-bending re-imagining brings fresh twists to the Prince of Denmark and the characters around him.  By DEBBIE MINTER JACKSON

The audience becomes a participant-observer in this project-in-progress: live filming of a modern adaptation of Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard.' By JULIAN OQUENDO

Kathleen Akerley, known for fearlessly bending the time-space continuum in her absurdist-leaning scripts, now applies that imaginative energy to Shakespeare.

Director Kathleen Akerley's adaptation modernizes the story's politics by removing Caesar from the stage.

Here's an idea for a grad lit student in search of a dissertation topic:  "Bewilderment and Brilliance in the Theater of Kathleen Akerley." That...

It’s the time of the theater season for those with a taste for the offbeat and original, and time to accept the invitation for...

4,380 Nights is a raw, emotionally charged political theater production that makes the movie Zero Dark Thirty look timid. That is my trigger warning about...

This is a most peculiar play, but in a very good way. It's more about its form than its content. And that's what makes...

DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #9: Best Performances in Musicals in Professional Theaters in DC, MD, and VA Are: Gassan Abbas in I Shall Not Hate at Mosaic...

Let's say a wealthy patron approaches an ensemble theatre company with a proposition: "Shakespeare? Why so much Shakespeare? Why so revered? Surely, other playwrights deserve...

CHERRY RED PRODUCTIONS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR IAN ALLEN FOUNDS “THE KLUNCH” A NEW THEATER COLLECTIVE OPENS ITS FIRST PRODUCTION: ELAINE MAY’S GEORGE IS DEAD AT DC ARTS CENTER THURSDAY, DECEMBER...

CHERRY RED PRODUCTIONS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR IAN ALLEN FOUNDS “THE KLUNCH” A NEW THEATER COLLECTIVE FIRST PRODUCTION TO BE THE DC PREMIERE OF ELAINE MAY’S GEORGE IS...

The Women’s Voices Theater Festival Launch Party was more than a celebration. It was a defining moment for DC theater. The National Museum of...

Kathleen Akerley’s Night Falls on the Blue Planet is a rapturously funny and brainy comedy about a woman named Renee who is losing her...

The eagerly anticipated Women’s Voices Theatre Festival kicked off with the opening of Longacre Lea’s production of two world-premiere one-acts, which the company collectively...

Back in the ‘30s they called ‘em Cliffhangers. They were weekly serials that played before a main feature at the movies. They turned into...

Here are this week's Scene Stealers. Congrats to our honorees! _______ Stacy Crickmer as Lady of the Lake singing 'Diva's Lament' and "Find Your Grail' in Monty...

This is a cunning conundrum of a play. It moves back and forth in time, sudden lighting changes signal shifts from realistic to magical,...