30 stories by "Jessica Pearson"
Niamh Lynch (Emily Landham) has been calling her mother, Teresa, (Dearbhla Molloy) all morning.  Unable to reach her and fearing the worst, she rushes to her mother's house. Upon arriv…
Theatre, at its best, has the ability to be a powerful tool for political and social change. That means, right now in particular, #blacktheatrematters. Word Becomes Flesh is a shining exampl…
Ntozake Shange's iconic for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf was groundbreaking when it was first produced in 1975 and, for better or for worse, …
Carmen: An Afro Cuban Jazz Musical, co-produced by Olney Theatre Center and Tectonic Theater Project, takes the tragic heroine of Bizet's 1875 opera and transports her to Cuba in 1958, when …
In the summer of 1991, the three Rosensweig sisters, Sara (Kimberly Scraf), Gorgeous (Susan Rome) and Pfeni(Susan Lynskey), reunite in Sara's London home to mark the occasion of the eldest s…
Martin Dysart (Michael Kramer) is a child psychiatrist going through the motions of what he calls "career menopause," when his good friend Hesther Salomon, (Kathleen Akerley), a court mag…
In a none-too-fashionable London neighborhood in the early 1960s, middle-aged Kath (Claire Schoonover) invites the young Mr. Sloane (Mathew Aldwin McGee) to rent a room in the home she share…
I am usually a strict adherent to the "No Christmas till after Thanksgiving" edict, but I am happy I broke my own rule and started my holiday season a little early with Washington Stage Guil…
 The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh takes place in the isolated Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland, in 1934. The familiar rhythms of life on the island of Inishmaan are disru…
Mosaic Theater Company does not, it appears, intend to tread lightly. Its inaugural season opened with the new play by Jay O. Sanders, Unexplored Interior (This Is Rwanda: The Beginning a…
In Jami Brandli's Technicolor Life, Maxine Hunter (Isa Guitan) is a precocious ninth grader with a passion for SAT words and troublemaking friends, but she has more on her plate than the typ…
Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End is full of the wit and wisdom of the woman herself; written by journalist/sister duo Allison and Margaret Engel, the play allows Erma (Barbara Chisholm) to tell he…
Princess Margaret, by Patricia Connelly, is an emotionally charged journey into the life of a poor young girl in the late 1960s. Eleven-year-old Margaret (Allison Frisch) is caught stealing …
Queens Girl in the World is a story of change, discovery, and self-acceptance set against the tumultuous backdrop of Civil Rights-era New York City. Playwright Caleen Sinette Jennings tells …
The best plays are those that ask more questions than they answer: Night Falls on the Blue Planet is one of those plays. Renee (Jeanne Dillion-Williams) might not have hit rock bottom yet, b…
The Women's Voices Theater Festival began with two very different plays by two very different playwrights: How We Died of Disease-Related Illness by Miranda Rose Hall and Bones in Whispers b…
Dust to Dust, presented by the Class Act Players, follows mid-western farmer's son Toby (Preston Kemp) on his journey from his Depression-ravaged family farm to New York City, where he hopes…
Do you trust me? Really, do you trust me? Because if you do, stop reading this review right now and go see Blind Pug Arts Collective Presents: The Theatre of Self-Loathing Presents: Who's Af…
Added Tweedledee, "you like poetry" "Yes, pretty well- SOME poetry" Alice said doubtfully " Lewis Carroll Using events from Lewis Carroll's Alice books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and …
Don't come expecting a history lesson. I know no more about the biographical details of Stokely Carmichael's life than I did when I entered the theatre. Instead, what I got was a lesson in t…
This show has a fire eater. An honest to God, lights the torch aflame and sticks into his mouth fire eater. If that isn't enough to  get you here then, dear reader, read on… Leila Blaze…
Young Playwright's Theater was founded in 1995 by playwright Karen ZacarÃas in order, through interactive in-school and after-school programs, to teach DC metro area students to "promote …
In the director's notes, director/writer/performer Michael Oliver quotes Archibald MacLeish: "A poem should not mean/but be." I would add, "Or be performed". Embodying Poe falls somewhere be…
Derek Evans is a professional Teddy Roosevelt. His show, called The Man in the Arena for the purposes of Fringe, is usually known simply as The TR! Show and is performed at school assembl…
A lot of people love Romeo and Juliet. Some of these people are women, and many of those women love the play because of the character of Juliet. I acknowledge and accept this. Charlene V.…
