Tag: Tonya Beckman
Interview: Playwright Sonya Kelly on ‘How To Keep an Alien’ at...
Can love really cut through red tape and conquer all even when there are stringent immigration rules? D.C.-area audiences will find out in Solas...
Review: Molière’s ‘Don Juan’ by Taffety Punk Theatre Company
There is always a good reason to see Tonya Beckman perform, and she is a superb Don Juan. Her rendition of the famous seducer...
Review: ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’ at Constellation Theatre Company
Thornton Wilder's allegorical paean to humanity's survival "by the skin of our teeth" has itself become a marvel of endurance. First staged in 1942,...
Spine: ‘Or,’ not as in Either, at Round House Theatre
First of all, for theatre lovers, there is nothing as delightful as watching three top notch actors have fun on stage, and with Holly...
Review: ‘OR,’ at Round House Theatre
The revolution will not be televised. Nope, it is on stage at Round House Theatre with a playful, headlong charge of a wild comedy. The...
Review: ‘Fickle: A Fancy French Farce’ at Olney Theatre Center
Modernizing Comic Antiquity, Or What Would a Classic French Farce Look Today: Fickle Brings the Laughs at Olney Theatre Center
In an age where it...
Meet the Cast of ‘The Second Shepherds’ Play’ at Folger Theatre:...
In Part 4 of a series of interviews with the cast of Folger Theatre’s The Second Shepherds’ Play, meet Tonya Beckman.
Sophia: Please introduce yourself...
Review: ‘The Second Shepherds’ Play’ at The Folger Theatre
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...
Review: ‘The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane’ at Imagination Stage ...
Imagination Stage presents The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, a stage adaptation Kate DiCamillio's award-winning novel. The story follows a china toy rabbit through...
Review: ‘After the War’ at Mosaic Theater Company of DC
When you decide to be a dissident artist--think Paul Robeson--you'd better be willing to suffer the consequences.
When you challenge a nation's founding mythology, an...
‘Harvey’ at 1st Stage
1st Stage Theatre presents Harvey, Mary Chase's 1945 Pulitzer Prize-winning comedic drama, directed by Michael Chamberlin. When a high-society family makes a desperate attempt to...
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival: ‘Can’t Complain’ at Spooky Action Theater
Over the course of the fall of 2015, more than 50 DC area theater companies will participate in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, an...
Spooky Action Theater’s ‘Don’t Complain’ Plays Tonight Through October 25th
A soaring, poetic Irish ghost story for the Women's Voices Theater Festival
Spooky Action Theater launches its 2015-2016 Season with a World Premiere:
Can't Complain by...
Magic Time!: A Report on the Women’s Voices Theater Festival Reading...
The Kennedy Center’s entry in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival was a one-night-only reading of Roe, a new two-act play by Lisa Loomer that...
Mosaic Theater Company of DC Announces 36 Actors Slated for Their...
Helen Hayes Award winners and DC favorites join internationally recognized artists and strong newcomers in a company committed to telling diverse stories.
Mosaic Theater Company...
‘Bootleg Shakespeare: The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ at Taffety Punk Theatre...
You know that nightmare where it’s opening night of a play and you realize you don’t know any of your lines and you’ve barely...
‘Passion Play’ at Forum Theatre
During the Roman times, theatre was a savage sport: need a crucifixion, grab a slave.
During the Dark Ages, theatre disappeared under the cloak of...
The Riot Grrrls Present ‘The Tempest’ at Taffety Punk Theatre Company
A salty sea breeze is in the air this season, at least in DC area theatres. A few weeks ago, Shakespeare Theatre Company closed...
‘Bloody Poetry’ at Taffety Punk Theatre Company at Capitol Hill Arts...
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats--the English Romantic Poets, believers in love, nature, passion, instinct, revolution,...
‘Charm’ at Taffety Punk Theatre Company at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
I could make this my shortest review ever and point you straight to the ticket page. But that might be less than convincing, so...