Tag: Ryan Sellers

This new nonverbal play for children 3 to 6 perfectly encapsulates how reading can make worlds come alive. By KJ MORAN VELZ

Puppeteers Jay Frisby and Ryan Sellers on performing inside the people eater. By JILLIAN PARKS

There couldn’t be a more perfect setting for Irish playwright Deirdre Kinahan’s In the Middle of the Fields than the grassy, clovered slope of...

How, exactly, does one make theater in the middle of a pandemic? People are sitting on the couch streaming The Umbrella Academy. Broadway is...

If KISS were starting out today, they'd be trying to get noticed on a streaming music site like Spotify. And followers would find their...

In the DMV area, there are plenty in the political and social elite who can be found clicking away on their social media working...

The twelve little girls in two straight lines of Ludwig Bemelmans’ beloved children’s series have taken the stage this holiday season in Creative Cauldron’s...

I have to admit something: this was my first Synetic Theater production. I assure you, however, it will not be my last. I had...

Fans of Synetic Theater's music-and movement-based works derived from classic texts will find a surprise twist in the company's latest offering. Typically, a Synetic...

One Thousand and One Nights, the collection of classic Islamic tales upon which Mary Zimmerman built The Arabian Nights, now playing at Constellation Theatre...

Synetic’s The Taming of the Shrew is disarming, decadent, and a great visual rush. It is also great, dialogue-free storytelling with its own edge...

In Part 3 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Matthew R. Wilson. Sophia: Please introduce...

In Part 2 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre's The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Megan Graves. Sophia: Please introduce yourself...

In part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre's The Second Shepherds' Play, meet Ryan Sellers. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to...

Well beyond just comfort and joy, The Folger’s production of The Second Shepherds’ Play, a medieval English mystery about the ultimate power of faith to...

Romeo and Juliet at the Shakespeare Theatre is a revelatory theatre experience. Director Alan Paul’s version of Romeo and Juliet has a complexity and...

Synetic Theater’s The Man in the Iron Mask is a good yarn, well told. With the production Synetic continues to expand beyond its original...

Synetic is one of the very few theatre companies that pull off “cinematic” well. Without sacrificing the intimacies and excitement of live theatre you...

Ah, the importance of the costumes actors wear to set the scene for any stage production: the shapes, colors, textures. How the fabric flows,...

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet opens with a chorus announcing the fate that will befall the title characters in just two hours’ time. Synetic Theatre’s...