Tag: Randy Baker
Remembrance of protests past in Rorschach Theatre’s ‘Vox Populi’
The stirring participatory experience is a scavenger hunt for the soul of a city. By GREGORY FORD
Playwright Doug Robinson believes ‘imagination is the only way forward’
The writer behind Rorschach Theatre’s 'The Figs' talks about contemporary folktales, earnest storytelling, and facing the world through wonder. By NATHAN PUGH
Rorschach Theatre’s ‘The Figs’ tells a bizarre fable about an obsessed...
More than unexpected at every turn, the play is an adventurous romp that combines familiar fairy tale elements with the strange and uncanny. By HALEY HUCHLER
Robots give humanity one last hurrah in Rorschach Theatre’s ‘Human Museum’
The uniquely immersive play, housed in a converted retail space, manages to infuse fun and delight into the imagined future of its morbid premise. By HALEY HUCHLER
In ‘May 22, 2020’ from Arena Stage, a day in the...
“I read the news today, oh boy... / the news was rather sad…” That day was May 22, 2020.
In a leap into film docudrama...
Artists Who Inspire! #2: Deb Sivigny
Welcome to the second installment of Artists Who Inspire! During this unprecedented shutdown of live theater, DCMTA will use this space to lift up...
Rorschach Theatre remounts and reimagines ‘She Kills Monsters’ at the Atlas
A much-needed rabbit hole to explore is opening in the DMV. Let us rejoice.
It is the return of She Kills Monsters some five years...
Magic Time!: ‘Hello, My Name Is…’ at The Welders
Having heralded five* Welders productions, I approached Deb Sivigny's Hello, My Name Is... with both eagerness and wariness. Knowing that Sivigny had chosen as...
Review: ‘Hello, My Name Is…’ at The Welders
Challenging theatrical conventions, Hello, My Name Is… by Deb Sivigny, directed by Randy Baker, and produced by The Welders is like no other theater production I...
In the Moment: Interview with Theatrical Designer Deb Sivigny Part II
Continuing the conversation we started in Part I of this interview with costume and scenic designer Deb Sivigny, we delve a bit more into...
Review: ‘Forgotten Kingdoms’ at Rorschach Theatre
There are mysteries of belief and faith beneath this fascinating parable of a play, roiling like the seawater that churns below the wooden house...
Conversations with Five Makers of ‘Forgotten Kingdoms’ at Rorschach Theatre
RANDY BAKER, Playwright
Michael: Introduce yourself, Rorschach, and the play Forgotten Kingdoms in under 140 characters. Go! No, just kidding…just tell us something about yourself...
Magic Time! ‘Lord of the Flies’ at Imagination Stage
When Randy Baker told me he had directed a production of Lord of the Flies with a cast of mostly teenage girls, I knew...
Review: ‘The Electric Baby’ at Rorschach Theatre
At the center of this beautifully ambiguous and hauntingly honest play is a sick infant. The baby is peculiar, perhaps mythically so, in that...
Review: ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ at The Theatre Lab School...
The Island of Dr. Moreau is kind of like a 19th century Jurassic Park. In fact, it’s more grisly than the latter - Moreau...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Part...
In Part 8 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Jenna Berk..
Joel: Where...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: Part...
In Part 7 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Toni Rae Salmi.
Joel:...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Part...
In Part 6 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Christian R. Gibbs.
Joel:...
Meet the Cast of Avant Bard’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’: Part...
In Part 5 of a series of interviews with the cast of Avant Bard’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, meet Daven Ralston.
Joel: Where...
Review: ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ at WSC Avant Bard
Each year, Shakespeare is the most frequently produced playwright in America, and his A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the Bard's most frequently...