744 stories by "John Stoltenberg"
The teenage diarist Anne Frank appears as a puppet; an author tries to pull strings to stage her story.
It's as if Suzan-Lori Parks scalds and skins the body politic in one fell swoop.
Michael R. Jackson's 'big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show' will open in spring 2022 at the Lyceum Theatre.
There's got to be more to it than a cool chance to groove on the oeuvre of Britney Spears. | Column by JOHN STOLTENBERG
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize"winning musical sings of a singular poet's journey from self-loathing to self-respect.
"What is important in this moment for Signature," says its new artistic director, "is how we are creating a culture of consent going forward."
The text keeps us off-kilter in a way that tickles us silly even as a sobering undercurrent churns.
A gutsy and gifted project called Working in DC puts on an ebullient show to remind us of the everyday dignity of work.
Playwright Dane Figueroa Edidi mixes romance and vengeance and packs volumes of truth into stunning poetic dialog.
The post Rep Stage radio play 'Ghost/Writer' is some mind-blowing writing a…
Men behaving badly is a masterplot in life and art as old as time, and Mike Daisey has given it a doozy of a twist. Not ten minutes into his one-night-only monologue Scott and Andy and All t…
In observance of the the 12th annual International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31, 2021), we republish this in-depth conversation with two leading lights in DC-area theater. "John S…
In celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, The Essential Theatre Performances in Cyberspace will present Rosa Parks: Such a Time. Written and performed by Gwendolyn B…
1st Stage is proud to be participating in the #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence project, working with visionary teenage playwrights across the country who have come together to speak out ag…
As the world collectively plans to close the door (and maybe throw away the key?) on 2020, Studio Theatre offers a reflection on this complicated, unexpected, and consequential moment …
These days, in lieu of live scripted comedy, I've learned to feel lucky whenever I find online theater that gets me LOLing all alone. To be honest, that happens rarely, and never all the way…
In a meeting Tuesday night, November 17, 2020, the 26-member board of Mosaic Theater Company of DC unanimously accepted the resignation of Ari Roth, who founded the company six years ago "to…
I first learned of Dr. Linsey Marr when I read a startling opinion piece that appeared in the New York Times July 30: As "a civil and environmental engineer who studies how viruses and bacte…
During the past seven-odd years that I've contributed to DC Metro Theater Arts, I've written about upwards of 600 shows"sometimes as the designated reviewer (when I followed criticism conven…
Interview by Roberta Alves Spooky Action Theater's livestreamed New Works in Action play-reading series continues Sunday, May 14, at 3 pm with Circular by Laura Shamas. Her heritage incl…
The cultural momentum powering protests that followed the May 25 murder of George Floyd has galvanized a national and local movement for transformational change in American theater led by Bl…
In 1955 James Baldwin had just turned 30 and had written a play about a storefront church in Harlem that he could not get produced in New York. There was "no market" for it, he was told. Coi…
There is a drama on stage right now at Studio Theatre"Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu"so harrowing it will stop your heart. In it, Christopher Lovell and Jalen Gilbert give two of the most po…
The history of science is studded with female geniuses snubbed by sexism. There's biophysicist Rosalind Franklin, geneticist Nettie Stevens, chemist Alice Ball" And several such brilliant wo…
Dani Stoller's world-premiere comedy Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes is funny and witty and in its own quirky way quite deep. Plus it puts the screw in screwball. Discovered in the Sigwo…
Boys Don't Cry made this boy cry. It happened near the end. I had been watching a performance by the French dance company Cie Hervé Koubi. Seven shirtless male dancers, all from different c…
