Adventurous DC theatre-goers, act now. You have but two more opportunities to see something unique and artistically gratifying: The National Theatre of Ghana performing its version of Tennes…
It's always satisfying to discover something you weren't very aware of beforehand. Last weekend, my kids and I had a great time at The Legend of Pufferfish Pat, the latest offering from Inte…
The Greatest Show on Strings! This is how our Ringmaster describes Circus! at The Puppet Co. after he has entered the stage's single ring. What follows is thirty-five minutes of engaging big…
I've just spent a most unexpectedly engaging evening at the theatre, seeing the "dragapella beautyshop quartet" known as The Kinsey Sicks in their return to Theater J, whereat they've been i…
Laura Giannarelli has been to each Helen Hayes Awards ceremony since the inception of the awards. As this is the 33rd annual, she's heard "and the award goes to" many, many times. As it was …
Awards shows are their own animal. Each iteration has its distinctive aspects, but, no matter how much they try to fight the basic formula, it's hard to avoid similarities: acceptance speech…
"Thirteen wonderful years."Â As this theatre season comes to its end, an era will come to an end as Naomi Robin leaves her job at Theater J as its long-time Casting Director. Naomi is a fr…
About halfway through Fun Home, which opened Wednesday night at the National Theatre, ten year-old Alison is in a coffee shoppe with her Dad. It's the second time during the show that father…
Dorian's Closet is a musical about the life of the drag performer Dorian Corey, mainstay of the Harlem ball scene and "Mother" of the House of Corey. She died in 1993, just a few years after…
“Since it was my decision and my timing and my will, it was easy, on that level," Joy Zinoman said when I asked her if it had been easy to stop leading The Studio Theatre, the company …
"A King and No King has never been professionally staged in the DC metropolitan area before, and it's our fifth play from the early modern era that we can say that about, in just six years o…
"It's like rehearsals are on fire." Say "Joy" to anyone at all involved with theatre in DC " as practitioner or as audience " and that person will know immediately that you are talk…
The idea seemed promising: take a classic, well-loved, mega-popular animated Disney film and remake it as a live-action movie; hire an accomplished, imaginative director; cast it with good a…
A charming Continental vibe pervades Paper Dreams, the latest offering at Imagination Stage in its series (called "My First Imagination Stage") that is specifically designed for very young a…
Three hours and ten minutes breeze by in The Select, Elevator Repair Service's delightfully inventive riff on Ernest Hemingway's classic novel The Sun Also Rises. I thoroughly enjoyed it, am…
"This role " and this play " lifts off the Earth. It flies in a certain way. It's such a great role and a great play." Robert Joy, who has had a remarkable career in theatre, film, and telev…
"When I leave here, I will try not to talk for the rest of the day." It was 9:30am when I met Holly Twyford for a chat about the rigors of playing Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, …
The last of many plays I worked on with Steve Wilhite was Richard II at WSC Avant Bard (then called Washington Shakespeare Company). I played the title role; Steve played Thomas Mowbray, Duk…
Through her work as an actor, as a yoga instructor, as an urban gardener, and as a nutritionist/herbalist, Tricia McCauley had a large network of colleagues and friends. On the day after Chr…
A great film version of a great play is a rare thing. More often than not, the alchemy that results in success on stage resists translation to the screen, Â and film history is replete wit…
Last week, we posted Part One of my talk with three local theatre-makers who have engaged Shakespeare's troublesome early comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Jonelle Walker's TAME. runs through …
So many of the benchmarks from my almost forty years working in the small professional theatre scene in Washington, DC were shared with my dear friend Richard Mancini. Opening the original S…
Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge was an experiment. Miller wanted to take the elements of Greek tragedy and focus them on a protagonist who is not a ruler or a great warrior, but inste…
WSC Avant Bard is presenting a world premiere and critics have lavished praise on its playwright. "Jonelle Walker's vivid, artfully unnerving TAME. is a retort to Shakespeare's The Taming of…
"You have to get to a place where you can just get out of your own way to play this guy." "This guy" is the infamous Roy Cohn, who is the real-life antagonist in Tony Kushner's epic, two-eve…