744 stories by "John Stoltenberg"
Having enjoyed the first weekend of Rabble Crew Productions' How To… Sex Education, I went back for seconds"another set of four short plays on the ever popular theme of sex…and the never…
Cat Stevens (as he was known then) last performed at The Kennedy Center back in November 1971 just months after it opened. Much has changed since then, including his name (which became Yusuf…
Rabble Crew Productions has a proclivity for mounting edgy, sex-themed theater in fringey places around town. Last December they did Madeline Farrington's Glory Us at The Fridge in Easter…
Yesterday at The Anacostia Playhouse, the real world and the world onstage converged. It was like a communal emotion-meld through theater, the human heartbreak untold in too many headlines b…
"Can feminism be funny?" inquiring minds at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company want to know. For that is the conundrum that connects Sheila Callaghan's Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Woolly's …
What is it that's so tried and true about plays about siblings? Must be something universal, because there are so gosh darn many of them. Structurally they obviously make for auspicious cast…
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine, which premiered in London in 1979, is rightly considered a landmark play. It is pivotal for me personally as well, ever since I saw the legendary Tommy Tune pro…
When I saw this new musical on the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, there were no more than ten minutes during it when my eyes were dry. They welled up from the first scene. Sure, I know I tea…
Forum Theatre has a knack for picking trenchant works of theater that buzz with relevance to hot-button topics. Its current offering is a perfect case in point. Given this nation's rising ti…
The imposing lobby of a tony Manhattan apartment building"all sleek gray marble, glass, and stainless steel"commands the spacious 1st Stage stage. Sound Designer Neil McFadden has created a …
Two of DC's most important independent theater collectives bearing witness as black artists to #BlackLivesMatter are Brave Soul Collective and African-American Collective Theater (ACT). B…
John: I first discovered your writing when I saw Maytag Virgin during the Women's Voices Theater Festival, and as I said when I interviewed you back then, "it was one of those experiences of…
It is the morning after I saw a compelling and telling bioplay about Louis Armstrong just opened at Mosaic Theater Company, Terry Teachout's Satchmo at the Waldorf. I have my earbuds in; I'm…
Step Afrika! will present free performances in all eight wards of DCAugust 24 to September 20, 2016. The full schedule of 2016 tour dates is available online. Here is John Stoltenberg'…
There's a good chance that watching FEAR"Kathleen Akerley's playfully subversive new comedy at Longacre Lea about a troupe of actors in the throes of performing Shakespeare"will change your …
In real life, when we are spectators to two grown men facing off in dead-serious combat"right in front of us; with words, fists, lethal weapons, whatnot;Â unmediated by movies and such"our…
My four days in London last weekend offered time slots to see six plays"four evenings and two matinees. My strategy was to seek intriguing, fresh writing in a mix of West End, Off West End, …
Live theater is not where we turn to learn the news in real time. We have TV and Twitter and plenty other frenzied feeds for that. But live theater may be the most potent and important form …
S. Ann Johnson's Double X"an exquisitely crafted choreopoem exploring the multicultural distinctions and connections among seven women"had its DC debut Saturday after appearances in Baltimor…
Musical theater and the country could use a good renegade rock musical inspired by the Occupy Movement. The demonstrations that spread across America spurred by Occupy Wall Street shared a k…
Fans of Cirque du Soleil know to expect wonder, beauty, and thrills, and Cirque doesn't disappoint. It's a brilliantly executed brand that has become a global phenomenon (21 different produc…
I sure laughed a lot at the show I saw the other night at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Gut-busting funny, it was. And I'd highly recommend you catch it…except it was made up on the spot, never …
I first saw Dael Orlandersmith's Yellowman at the Manhattan Theater Club in 2002, with Orlandersmith herself in the role of the dark-skinned Alma and Howard W. Overshown as the light-ski…
So this strange thing happened. I was sitting at a table in a church basement that happened to be on the fourth floor of The Studio Theatre, and I was waiting to see a show called Hand to Go…
