Tag: Kevin O’Connell
Liberal thinking and racism on trial in ‘The Niceties’ at Perisphere...
A debate between a Black social activist college student and a white liberal history professor propels a brilliant and important play. By ANDY ARNOLD
2017 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Exit, Pursued by a Bear’ at Barabbas...
Exit, Pursued by a Bear, produced by Barabbas Theatre for their 2017 CapFringe entry and directed by Kevin O’Connell, is a welcome DC introduction...
DCMetroTheaterArts’ Best of 2016 #13: Best Direction and Musical Direction in...
The staff of DCMetroTheaterArts Best Direction and Musical Direction in Musicals and Best Direction of Plays of 2016 in Community Theatres in DC/VA/MD Are:
BEST...
2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘H5x7’
Did you miss the Henriad this past spring at BAM? Or the Hollow Crown? Do you find Shakespeare inaccessible?
Barabbas Theatre can help.
Taking a cue...
Capital Fringe Preview #50: ‘H5x7’ by William Shakespeare, Adapted and Directed...
Capital Fringe Preview: H5x7 by William Shakespeare, adapted and directed by Kevin O'Connell
“Suppose within the girdles of these walls,” begins Shakespeare’s Henry V, “Are...
Review: ‘Miss Witherspoon’ at Silver Spring Stage
Christopher Durang’s outrageous Miss Witherspoon opened last night at Silver Spring Stage. The show is directed by Kevin O’Connell and produced by Devon Seybert. Durang’s black...
2015 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Never Never’
Alexandra Petri’s Never Never is absolutely brilliant. It explores a heavy topic – pedophilia – without being overbearingly serious and dark. In fact, it...
‘The Taming of the Shrew’ at Pallas Theatre Collective
Shakespeare's Shrew is always a challenge. Misogynistic in sentiment, slapstickishly machismo in design, its story of how to tame a headstrong, stubborn woman couldn't...
‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ at Pallas Theatre Collective
Were Betty Friedan and H.P. Lovecraft to have a baby, Pallas Theatre Collective’s new musical, might be their demented offspring. The show (with music...
‘The Amish Project’ at Factory 449
Shooting sprees have become commonplace in our media consumption. Nowadays breaking news of yet another gunman and his multiple victims (the shooters are always...
‘A Steady Rain’ at The Capital City Players by Jessica Vaughan
The Capital City Players tackle a contemporary classic with Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain – about family, love, lies, betrayal and what it means to carry a...
Frost/Nixon at Silver Spring Stage by Keith Tittlermary
“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal” – Richard Nixon, in his 1977 interview with David Frost.
In 1977, British tabloid...
DCMetroTheaterArts is One Year Old Today!
DCMetroTheaterArts is one year old today. Thanks to all our readers for supporting and visiting our site. A special thank you to the theatre...
‘Copenhagen’ at Rockville Little Theatre by Terry Byrne
Forget, for the moment, all you know about quantum physics.
It’s history that matters in Copenhagen, Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning, World War II drama. Make...
‘Third’ at Rockville Little Theatre by Jessica Vaughan
Rockville Little Theatre's production of Pulitzer Prize winner Wendy Wasserstein's last play Third is layered, powerful, and very funny.
It's set the year we went...
‘A Flea in Her Ear’ at Rockville Little Theatre by Mara...
Mistaken identity? Check. Double entendres that would make your grandmother stifle a giggle? Check. Over-the-top characters going in one door and coming out another?...
Capital Fringe Review: ‘A Year of Giving’ by Jessica Vaughan
Rockville Little Theatre's production of A Year of Giving is an extraordinary story and it makes for an extraordinary play. Reed Sandridge was laid...
An Interview with ‘A Year of Giving’s’ Reed Sandridge by Kevin...
Though he’s reluctant to take credit for any of these things, Reed Sandridge is the subject, star, and co-author of A Year of Giving,...
‘The Seafarer’ at Scena Theatre by Kevin O’Connell
In Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer, Richard Harkin says of his brother, Sharky, “It’s a well-known fact in this whole area that my brother has...
‘Frozen’ at Rockville Little Theatre by Amanda Gunther
Humanity in its rarest form comes to light in the Rockville Little Theatre's presentation of Frozen by Bryony Lavery. Directed by Kevin O’Connell, this...