250 stories by "Jeffrey Walker"
A tiny revolution has been going on for a couple of years in the Northeast DC's Stronghold neighborhood. A patch of alley space was transformed into a thoughtful, self-contained community of…
There is a scene in Lorraine Hansberry's landmark drama A Raisin in the Sun where the troubled, young husband and father Walter Lee Younger feels he has lost any chance of finding his dream.…
The triumph and courage seen in Colossal, now onstage at Olney Theatre Center, is played out in a manner unlike most well-made plays. It's not only centered on a former college football play…
As an actor, Caroline Stefanie Clay seeks out opportunities to tackle challenging roles in complex plays and she found a big one playing Corryn Fell. In Gidion's Knot, now onstage at Nex…
BWW salutes Broadway talent who are EMMY nominated for 2014. Today, we look at Sarah Paulson, nominated for her work in the FX series AMERICAN HORROR STORY COVEN.
The dog days of summer might have some people down but not Martin Blank. The DC-based playwright and Artistic Director of the American Ensemble Theater is seeing one of his plays produced Of…
Writer and solo performer Kate Robards may have felt like a fish out of water during her stay in China, but she can boast two homes. One is the small town of Orange, Texas, where she was rai…
The beauty of the language and the brutality of this Duchess of Malfi lingered in my mind's eye for days after the cast took their final bows. Rhymed couplets curled through the air as an as…
Size Doesn't Matter does what it sets out to do by providing a showcase for eager actors. Some of the parts outshine others, diminishing the work as a whole. Fully Charged Productions, a …
For a guy who is not into mixed martial arts or kung-fu movies, I sure did love The Tournament. Bold and ballsy and featuring a kick-ass story and even kick-assier action, this show is great…
The mythology of ancient Egypt and a police procedural might make strange bedfellows but the fine folks at Guillotine Theatre make the combination work in a delightful way with Isis and Vesc…
Oh to be at Hogwarts now that summer is here! This is most definitely not Hogwarts. This is not even a side street off of Diagon Alley. This is the Lab II at the Atlas Performing Arts Center…
In Self-Portrait of a Sinner, playwright/performer Veronique MacRae seeks to show how the sinner destroys other people as well as herself. Admirable in flashes, the solo piece is impaired by…
Sexy, visceral, and physical, Flying V's original ensemble piece Flying V Fights: Love is a Battlefield packs a wallop. From love taps to sucker punches and even gladiatorial contest, Flying…
The circumstances of World War II and Hitler's legacy of conquest and persecution plunged many ordinary men and women into a crucible that tested and destroyed lives. Extraordinary events se…
Frank Anthony Polito's new play, being given its world premiere at Compass Rose Theater, owes a debt of gratitude to Thornton Wilder's Our Town, both being quiet plays about ordinary days an…
As an unemployed actor six decades ago, Hal Holbrook starting digging through Mark Twain's written words in order to fashion a staged interview in which the "father of American literature" (…
Oh, Dad. Oh, brother! A comic bird, heavy on the dark meat, Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad gives us a little family that makes the Addams brood look…
"We decided to go out with a bang." Nan Muntzing explained Annie was always on Potomac Theatre Company's wish list of musicals it wanted to produce. The family appeal and the celebrated scor…
Flower power is in full bloom at the Keegan Theatre and it's pretty damn groovy. Keegan Theatre on Church Street NW has been transformed into a hippie's paradise, like a found loft in the Ea…
Director Jerry Whiddon and actor Marty Lodge are back at Round House continuing a long friendship and professional collaboration. Jerry Whiddon was co-founder and producing Artistic Dire…
Julia Cho's The Piano Teacher is a tightly constructed chiller of a play that leads you down dark paths only to reveal unexpected recesses where the truth is darker still. The Rep Stage prod…
If music is a universal language, why not add comedy and the use of household objects to the mix? That is pretty much what Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas did in the early 1990s when the…
As perhaps the pinnacle of high comedy in the English language, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest should never lose its place among classic dramatic literature. Each carefully pl…
Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan once said, "One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach…
