14 stories by "Deryl Davis"
In a pointed and personal Q&A, the Pulitzer Prize"winning playwright shares why he wrote about a priest's lapse from celibacy. By DERYL DAVIS
A man walks into a bar. Let's call him Navi, and let's say he's the research and development director of a small Silver Spring"based theater company " we'll call it Flying V " and he's come …
A character named Virgil relates their awakening to the preciousness of life.
The award-winning playwright and screenwriter on why he writes about life, death, and the soul.
A ritualistic tour of the afterlife through the cavernous spaces and dark corridors of a church.
Consider this: If the Emperor Nero really did fiddle while Rome burned, he might have been playing one of his own compositions (albeit in a distinctly minor key). That's a supposition one ta…
-Â These interviews were conducted before the attack on cast member Frank Britton on Monday night - Jesus, Judas Iscariot and Mother Teresa walk into a bar . . . Actually, a courtroom, in…
We're suckers for a good match up: Frazier versus Ali, Lincoln versus Douglas, Celtics versus Lakers . . . C. S. Lewis versus Sigmund Freud? The latter would surprise many of us, who would n…
Alliance for New Music-Theatre's spirited, quirky The Vaclav Havel Project offers delightful commentary on the perennial question of the artist's role in society. When that artist is former …
Veteran D.C. actor Tom Story describes Moth, a tale of high school bullying and its violent repercussions closing this weekend at Studio Theatre's 2ndStage, as the kind of play he would have…
Hip-hop has gotten a bad rap, according to Psalmayene 24 (Psalm), the writer and director behind Cinderella: The Remix, the final installment of a three-part Hip-Hop Children's Trilogy runni…
Once on this Island, the diverting Caribbean-themed musical running at Olney Theatre Center through May 4, is more than just a pastel-colored stroll through island culture to a calypso beat.…
Twelve Angry Men it is not. In that serious courtroom drama from the 1950s, twelve " yes, angry " sequestered jurors debate in real time the guilt or innocence of a man suspected of homocide…
Is justice contextual? Does it mean one thing for a nation recovering from decades of brutalizing dictatorship and another for the individual who suffered that brutalization? And how does th…
