200 stories by "Sophia Howes"
Anyone Can Be President: Secret Honor at the Fringe "Scathing" "lacerating" and "brilliant" were three of the words the late Roger Ebert applied to the 1984 Robert Altman movie of Secret Hon…
Freud said, "When a delusion cannot be dissipated by the facts of reality, it probably does not spring from reality."Â This is the essence of prejudice. In showing us a more human side of …
Roman Holiday: The Taming of the Shrew at Shakespeare Theatre Company According to scholar Jonathan Bate, "'Shakespeare' may be thought of as a vast collection of games…[some] games are re…
On the stage of the Folger Theatre, with the vestiges of the set of Aaron Posner's just-closed Midsummer Night's Dream in the background, well-known director and playwright Aaron Posner and …
Like Liza Minnelli's in Cabaret, the unforgettable image of Marlene Dietrich hovers over Kabarett & Cabaret, a production of the 2015-16 In Series at the Source Theatre. Kabarett &…
At the first press night of The History Boys by Alan Bennett, the cast and creative team were laughing and joking as the audience began to arrive. A fire had started in the flies of the thea…
Synetic Theater's As You Like It is what W.H. Auden called an "inverted pastoral""the outlaw theme of Shakespeare's play is enhanced by the transformation of the Forest of Arden into a dysto…
Pericles is a night of wonder, perfect for a romantic evening or a thought-provoking night out with family or friends. Watching it is like lying in the grass watching clouds move over a beau…
In the wake of Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement, it is the perfect time for an opera which tells the truth about race in America"Appomattox. Philip Glass, the internationally acc…
Four lost young people in a deserted beach house, in Dublin, late at night. There is a thunderstorm beating down. This is the evocative opening scene of The Magic Tree, in its American p…
Rembrandt once said, "Of course you will say that I ought to be practical and paint the way they want me to paint. Well, I will tell you a secret. I have tried and I have tried very hard, bu…
I asked Playwright Karin Coonrod to talk about her play texts and beheadings/ElizabethR, which ends its run this weekend at Folger Theatre. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our rea…
"[I]f I were turned out of the realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom," said the legendary Elizabeth I: wit, scholar, great Queen, and poet. There is no doubt …
The Women's Voices Theater Festival Launch Party was more than a celebration. It was a defining moment for DC theater. The National Museum of Women in the Arts was a superb setting for the e…
The opening of the Women's Voices Theater Festival is a good time to reflect on the state of gender parity in the American theatre, in respect to playwrights. The numbers are, frankly, appal…
Romeo and Juliet has a special place in our popular culture. BBC's 60 second Shakespeare has a hilarious front page, "Double Teen Death Horror"; "City's Top Clans Devastated after Botched Lo…
A woman's perspective on war is a powerful thing. We are often mothers, and because we can give birth, I think some of us find killing especially terrible. "I didn't raise my boy to be a …
This is a rare opportunity to see the avant-garde Theatre of Self-Loathing, bringing the best of Eastern European theatre to the DC audience. Eddie and Cassilda, winners of the 2003 CAPB Awa…
This appealing musical is an engaging discovery, performed by The Class Act Players, a theater company of seniors from Robinson Secondary School and Oakton High School in Fairfax. Toby (Pres…
WSC Avant Bard's current production of Giraudoux' The Madwoman of Chaillot, an entertaining tribute to the power of joy over despair, reminds us of the importance of the artist in an inevita…
"People do not mind being wicked," said Moliere, "but they do object to being made ridiculous." In Moliere's great play Tartuffe, the merchant Orgon is made ridiculous by his overwhelming pr…
In Part 2 of our interviews with the actors playing Rosencrantz and Guildenstern at Folger Theatre, meet Romell Witherspoon. Sophia: Please introduce yourself to our readers. What are you…
In Part 1 of two interviews with the actors who play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Folger Theatre’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, meet Ada…
Money Talks The Pallas Theatre Collective's Major Barbara is a captivating, thought-provoking comedy. The themes of class disparity, the necessity to compromise one's values to survive, and …
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the Folger Theatre is a sumptuously original production of the breakthrough play of one of England's greatest living playwrights. "I write plays" Tom…
