744 stories by "John Stoltenberg"
(Best of the Capital Fringe) First-time playwright John Bavoso's inventive and appealing script for Olizzia would make a terrific indie rom-com caper that would be a hit on the lesbian…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) If one way to tell whether a rock musical is really good is that it makes you want to come back and see it again, The Landless Theatre Company's Rock Bott…
If ever there was an Inadvertent American Hero, it's Rodney King, the black construction worker whose brutal beating in 1991 by white cops in LA, caught on videotape, appalled the world, ind…
The DC Black Theatre Festival this year offered some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educational theater company, the f…
The DC Black Theatre Festival this year offered some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educational theater company, the f…
Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educational theater company, the festival features performances in four categories: drama, deaf artists, family, and inspirational.…
The DC Black Theatre Festival, which runs through June 26, this year offers some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educat…
The laughs come so fast in Buyer & Cellar"and Michael Urie's solo performance is so brilliantly engaging"that the words "funny" and "fun" seem too puny, utterly inadequate to convey t…
Audiences with a taste for pitch-dark comedy will get their fill of a deliciously unsettling feast in Killer Joe, the launch production of the aptly named new theater company SeeNoSun.…
Theater J's finale to its fine 2013"2014 season turns out to be a surprisingly poignant solo performance about a man's privates. Storyteller Jon Spelman is our genial guide; the genitals …
A resounding round of applause is owed The American Century Theater (TACT), whose sharp, smart production of Judgment at Nuremberg brings this towering play to DC Metro audiences at last. As…
When I first saw Love in Time of HIV in May 2012, I was deeply impressed. Giving voice to a young generation's encounter with the health crisis left them by their elders, the play by Kieyont…
If this were a theater review it would be an effusive rave. The production of Mike Bartlett's play Cock now at The Studio Theatre is impeccable: The lighting, the sound, the direction, the c…
Watching the world premiere of A Midsummer Night's Riot is like watching theatrical lighting strike. For the third time. In the exact same place (the Keegan Theater). With the exact same wri…
If conversation were kindling, this two-hander would combust. If argumentation were edible, this debate would be delectable. If a supersmart script played by two stellar actors were a specta…
Signature Theatre's new production of The Threepenny Opera"directed and choreographed with unerring cunning by James Gardiner"is cringe-inducing, snarky, impudent, and jarring. Everything it…
Shooting sprees have become commonplace in our media consumption. Nowadays breaking news of yet another gunman and his multiple victims (the shooters are always male) more numbs than shocks.…
Jarman (all this maddening beauty)-A Report on a work in progress For as long as there have been movies, theater artists have tried to integrate film with live performance. Something about c…
Up on the fourth floor of The Studio Theatre is a great big black box of a performance space, which isn't actually black because its walls are cinder block, rather like an institutional encl…
There's not a long list of great actors who, through their indelible bravura depiction of a great historical figure in a solo performance, warrant substituting the word "is" for "as," in bil…
The real President Jimmy Carter attended the premiere of Camp David"the engrossing new play by Lawrence Wright in which he is the central character"and offered up this mini-review of it in a…
Since mid-January an intrepid troupe of musical-theater students has been rehearsing the sweet and soulful show Violet at The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts under the ab…
Watching Arguendo"an actual Supreme Court transcript staged cheekily for chuckles by Elevator Repair Service, the New York"based troupe specializing in literary vérité"is like watching …
If/Then, the musical with the biggest heart you can imagine, is now back home in the Big Apple, and just like its main character, Elizabeth (the incomparable Idina Menzel), it is starting ov…
As many who follow local theater news know, Theater J's production of The Admission has been preceded by an offstage drama"a who's-right/who's-wrong argument, a what-really-happened/wh…
