When you go to one-night-only theater, you never know what you'll get. There's no word of mouth, no buzz, no yelping from critics. It's like speed blind-dating And if the one-night-stand in …
It's kind of a tossup these days whether Matthew R. Wilson is more newsworthy because he's leaving as artistic director of Faction of Fools, the Commedia dell'arte company he founded, to tea…
Before I spoke with Psalmayne 24 about his direction of The Shipment"which plays through June 13, 2015, at Forum Theatre"I read the play by Young Jean Lee. John: I found the script powerful …
By the end of Act One, I was stunned and shaken. By the end of Act Two, I was speechless, not wanting to move. And I had seen this show before. The movie too. I already knew that it has a da…
There have been some great plays set in locker rooms that lay bare the anxieties underlying men's lives. After all, the sports locker room is the archetypical site of respite from the male-m…
Tanya Barfield's play The Call seeks to give dramatic expression to the stark chasm between first world problems and third world problems. In so doing it tackles a topic with vast global con…
A bright 18-year-old named Dontrell has had a dream. He saw a man with the face of his father who is captive on a slave ship crossing the Atlantic. In the dark hold of the vessel he saw that…
“Every ghost story is kind of like a history lesson," says the young woman identified as A History Major in The Great Lieutenant Sprinkle Didn't Save Me, an intriguing new play by J…
The Broadway and West End audiences that made Frederick Lonsdale's On Approval a hit in the 1920s could not possibly have guessed how this light comedy would play in 2015. Bet they would be …
LOVE GODFREY/LOVE GEORGE, by John Stoltenberg has a FREE staged reading TODAY, Sunday, May 3, 2015, at 2:00 pm at the MLK Library John: Readers of DCMetroTheaterArts know you as a writer abo…
A play by contributing writer John Stoltenberg will have a staged reading Sunday, May 3, 2015, at 2:00 pm at the MLK Library. John sat down with himself to pick his brain about it. John: Rea…
As we are ushered into the tiny dimly lit theater, constructed as a claustrophobic black box with only two rows of chairs on all sides, we enter a nightmare more harrowing and disquieting th…
The Revolutionists, an ambitious and promising new play by Lauren Gunderson, is getting a spiffy first full production courtesy of The Catholic University Department of Drama prior to its pr…
The fourth-floor black box at Studio Theatre has housed some extraordinary original storytelling. Recent productions of Terminus and Moth leap to mind. The space, called Stage 4, seems like …
A steampunk staging of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus without any spoken or signed language? Just movement and mime and lighting and scenic effects? Sounds crazy, right? Well, dependin…
Last night, on the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, I was in a DC theater venue of a very different sort: a tiny white-box art-gallery space dow…
Very Still & Hard to See is neither quiet nor a challenge to perceive. Its aural and optical pleasures are bountiful. For this production of Steve Yockey's cycle of supernatural short pl…
When I arrived to see Drunkle Vanya last night, the first thing I did was order a vodka. I don't typically drink before I review, but in this circumstance it seemed part of my job, since the…
Watching the annual student spring dance concert last night at Howard University, I was taken aback from the get-go. What I saw was so impressive in conception and execution, so powerful in …
There is no humor in one's own unhappiness. To be lonely and disappointed in life is not to be amused. To feel empty and over the hill is not to be tickled. Yet when we laugh at the woes and…
There be eerie goings-on inside the DC Arts Center black box where Molotov Theatre Group is staging a spell-binder of a show about a psychic experiment to create a ghost by occultish committ…
Now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a depiction of eroticism so intimate and artful that it left me woozy with awe and wonder. No one takes their clothes off. There are no phony…
So dere's dis play goin' on in town called Da Norvegians, and it's set in Minneapolis and it's got Norvegian characters in it, so I tought I should go check it out, on accounta I vas born de…
After Michael Poandl and John Stoltenberg, both DCMTA writers, saw a recent performance of Passion Play at Forum Theatre, they found themselves chattering back and forth trying to figure out…
You'd be hard pressed to find a better theatrical catharsis for high school angst than Dog Sees God, Bert V. Royal's funny/poignant reimagining of characters from the Peanuts comic strip pla…