744 stories by "John Stoltenberg"
The anthology of four dark comedies is an overview of the renowned playwright's themes and techniques.
What the playwright has done with Harper Lee's novel epitomizes what live theater does best: hold values up to view.
The two leads " Michael J. Mainwaring as Daniel and Josh Adams as Chris " are spellbinding together. Their unabashed attraction is palpable.
The writer-director explains why his play about young Black gay men is titled after the movie about Black women friends.
At DC Arts Center, an original musical about real-life risk-takers who went over the famous falls.
An absurdist, dark comedy sendup of toxicity on the job.
The quality of the writing and the caliber of the performances at Studio are enthralling, but here's what impressed me most. By JOHN STOLTENBERG
Playwright Paula Vogel lifts three women from 'Othello' " Desdemona, Emilia, and Bianca " and puts them in their own risqué play about today.
Paola Lázaro's scintillating script about two sexual abuse survivors is astonishingly entertaining and deeply moving.
One of the most intimate, touching, and truthful relationship dramas you're likely to experience without being in it yourself.
Chelsea Marcantel's gently touching and deeply satisfying new play is about a brother's and sister's quest for connection.
Director Joseph Ritsch and Dramaturg Khalid Long on how race, queerness, gender, and ability intersect in Tennessee Williams's classic.
From the Coil Project comes an inviting show of possibility for polyamorous playmaking.
Now performing in DC at Hook Hall is a sensual cabaret combining circus and burlesque. Is it theater? Let's see.
An iconoclastic take on the classic excites on tour at KenCen.
To the sound and lighting falls the task of making the gothic horror erupt " and by god do they deliver.
It prompts a provocative question: Just who are the rhinos today?
It's as if the playwright has scripted the subtext of every relational betrayal and said all the quiet parts out loud.
The Austrian and German playwright, Daniel Kehlmann, calls his twisty script 'a play for two actors and a clock.' And it's right on time.
In its twist on Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town,' Washington Improv Theater not only cracks jokes but cracks open the emotion in the moment.
The first season planned by new Artistic Director Reginald L. Douglas aims to spark conversation across DC around issues of and for the moment.
A profoundly illuminating play about a Black man who lives in the glare of the white gaze.
In a dystopian near future, a twentysomething romance heats up steadily alongside a chilling public health crisis.
A magnificently entertaining and beautifully profound new musical has opened at Olney. Here's what love's got to do with it.
You cannot watch his performance in this shocking role without feeling agitated and aghast " and he was willing to talk about it.
