Tag: Mark A. Rhea

Now in its 14th year, the play offers up a lively mix of passion and wit to deliver its message of forgiveness and hope. By AMY KOTKIN

Matthew J. Keenan's play delivers in the most important ways: laughter, clever dialogue, and a beloved story with heart. By HALEY HUCHER

With a heart as cold as the blustery winds blowing people in and out the door, An Irish Carol by Matthew J. Keenan finds...

With its snappy-saucy take on Chicago, The Keegan Theatre shows it knows how to give an audience the ol' razzle-dazzle. And Keegan has done the...

Now in its seventh year, the Keegan Theatre’s annual production of Matthew J. Keenan’s An Irish Carol has become a favorite Washington DC holiday...

The musical Big Fish is by any measure a feel-good show for the whole family, as evidenced by the buoyant and beautiful production now...

How does a play that starts out about real estate for gosh sake—adjacent farms in rural Ireland—become a heart-wrenching story of adjacent lost souls...

Theatre-lovers searching for a sequel to Doubt—John Patrick Shanley’s prize-winning (and frequently revived) play about nuns and priests in an Irish-American enclave of New...

Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Direction of Plays in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees! THE BEST DIRECTION OF...

Here are the DCMetroTheaterArts Staff's honorees for Best Direction of Musicals in Professional Theaters in 2016. Congrats to all our honorees: David James for A Christmas...

For the 6th year in a row, The Keegan Theatre is paying tribute to the Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, with their production of...

John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation was widely admired as an ingenious, penetrating look at contemporary society when it premiered in New York back...

Having been watching a con man on the national stage for too long now, I found myself last night watching a con man on...

In John Guare’s wonderfully enigmatic and slightly precocious play, Six Degrees of Separation, now playing at The Keegan Theatre—the ripples of interconnection run rampant...

We’ve all heard of this idea before—that there are six degrees of separation between everyone in the universe, from the president of the U.S....

In real life, when we are spectators to two grown men facing off in dead-serious combat—right in front of us; with words, fists, lethal...

Not long ago, Washington was the Murder-Capital of the USA. Crack Wars. Drive-Bys. Domestic Violence. Police Brutality. And all on a daily basis. The Murder-Capital...

The Keegan Theatre’s current and provocatively darkly comic production of Martin McDonagh’s The Lonesome West, written by the brilliant, raffish and audacious Irish playwright...

Lyssa is sitting in her living room with her father, Senator Alan Hughes. He reads to her a letter from their ancestor, General Ulysses...

We can thank the fickle fates who determine the fluky destinies of local theater programming for Keegan Theatre’s inspired late addition of Wendy Wasserstein’s...