Tag: Washington Stage Guild
Victorian lady detectives are back on the case in ‘Escape from...
Washington Stage Guild's latest — subtitled 'A Madcap Mystery’ — is a fresh and enjoyable take on the 'whodunit' genre. By HALEY HUCHLER
DCTA 2023 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Creative Components (Professional)
These designers, directors, and playwrights made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DCTA 2023 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Performances
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DCTA 2023 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Productions
These professional productions made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
Lynn Steinmetz reflects on her ‘romp in the park’ in ‘Arms...
The veteran DC actor talks about playing the wickedly funny matriarch in George Bernard Shaw’s classic anti-war comedy. By RAVELLE BRICKMAN
A delightful ‘Arms and the Man’ at Washington Stage Guild
Shaw's comedy takes witty aim at class distinctions and military pomposity in a plot that any rom-com writer could envy. By BOB ASHBY
DCTA 2022 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Creative Components (Professional)
These designers, directors, and playwrights made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
DCTA 2022 Staff Favorites: Outstanding Professional Performances
These performances made an indelible impression on our writers this year. Did we overlook a favorite of yours? Let us know in a comment!
Stage Guild’s ‘Memoirs of a Forgotten Man’ is timely reminder of...
The intriguing tale ably told by Washington Stage Guild warns how history repeats.
DC-area theaters unite to extend COVID vax and mask requirements
Shows go on as Theatre Washington announces continued safety efforts.
Fugard’s ‘My Children! My Africa!’ at WSG still speaks urgently
Washington Stage Guild revives the extraordinary play written just before the end of apartheid in South Africa.
Washington Stage Guild revives Shaw’s ‘Devil’s Disciple’ with simplicity and skill
Many well-made and renowned plays are rarely seen onstage. Extensive staging requirements, such as multiple locations or an expansive cast of characters, often give...
Beyond the script: Playwright Steven Dietz talks about ‘Bloomsday,’ a love...
You don’t have to read Ulysses—or, for that matter, know anything about James Joyce, its author, or Leopold Bloom, its hapless hero—to love Bloomsday.
The...
Washington Stage Guild delivers skillful production of Dickens’ ‘Hard Times’
Like many of Charles Dickens’s sprawling novels, Hard Times chronicles the lives and times of multiple characters dwelling in England’s mid-19th-century industrial chaos. But unlike...
Washington Stage Guild Refreshes Shaw’s ‘Candida’
George Bernard Shaw published Candida in 1898. Though it was not performed in London until it was a hit in New York in 1903,...
Review: ‘Resolving Hedda’ by Washington Stage Guild
What if your favorite dramatic heroine could – just for once – alter her tragic fate? That’s the question posed by playwright Jon Klein...
Review: ‘All Save One’ at the Washington Stage Guild
It was another time. It was a time of high anxiety. Even private lives were far from private in the treacherous, early 1950’s with...
Washington Stage Guild Founder Ann Norton Steps Down as Executive Director
The Washington Stage Guild announced the stepping-down of Executive Director Ann Norton, one of WSG’s Founding Members. Norton’s 32 years in leadership roles helped...
Review: ‘Summerland’ at Washington Stage Guild
What began as a mundane two-hander focused on stiff argumentative males in an investigative procedural play, develops into something pleasingly knotty and intense. All...
Review: ‘Alabama Story’ by the Washington Stage Guild
"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have." - James Baldwin
Southern humor, gentle...