145 stories by "Michael Poandl"
The season of giving? Joy to the world, peace on earth, and goodwill towards men? By the time the first snowflake actually falls, the holiday schmaltz can be as cloying as the Macy's fragran…
Act fast: Director Ivo van Hove's visionary production of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, which won plaudits on both Broadway and the West End since it opened in 2014, is only playin…
The DC premiere of Donal O'Kelly's Little Thing, Big Thing, playing now at Solas Nua performing at Flashpoint Mead Theatre Gallery, is an impressively entertaining dark Irish comedy. A cast …
The hypnotic new production of Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice at NextStop Theatre Company is more like a painting or a poem than a movie or a book. It's a fantastical canvas of broad brushstrokes and…
The Trump Card, an original solo performance by monologist extraordinaire Mike Daisey, is a searing punch in the gut to rival any leaked Access Hollywood tape. The current production, which …
A funny thing happens on the way out of American University's fabulous new production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. You find yourself humming along to "Comedy Tonight" o…
I go to see live theatre for a lot of reasons. I go to laugh and to be moved, to feel excitement or empathy, to be entertained in a way that just isn't possible with podcasts or Netflix. I a…
Surprisingly little greets the audience as they enter the intimate black box space at the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop where Taffety Punk Theatre Company makes their home. Set, Costume, and Pr…
Be Awesome: A Theatrical Mixtape of the 90s is less a stroll down memory lane and more of a flying leap into an exploding memory bomb. Just a few steps into the Writer's Center, where Flying…
In the program note for Rock the Line, Playwright Kathleen Warnock describes her new play as, "Kind of like Waiting for Godot, if Godot really came and played electric guitar." As it turns o…
The main reason I adore live theatre, in comparison to other art forms like cinema, is that the fiber and ligaments that make up this thing we call life – truth, in other words –…
The new play Garbage Kids by Baltimore-based playwright Jayme Kilburn, now receiving its world premiere at Venus Theatre Company, is a cleverly plotted emotional booby trap. The first act is…
Orson Welles' 1938 radio broadcast of War of the Worlds is infamous for having incited a mini UFO panic due to its vivid and realistic descriptions of a fictitious Martian invasion. The i…
There is probably no clearer distillation of classic American courtroom drama than Reginald Rose’s 12 Angry Men. The classic tale of a seemingly cut-and-dry murder case turned upside d…
Exactly one century ago, on Easter Week 1916, Irish nationalists staged uprisings in Dublin and some surrounding areas in defiance of centuries of British rule, and in particular their consc…
The whooshing, passionate ride that is Hugo Ball: a Dada puppet AdveNTuRe!!/?1!!?? " an original piece by DC’s perennial enfant terrible, Pointless Theatre Company – masquerades …
The Island of Dr. Moreau is kind of like a 19th century Jurassic Park. In fact, it's more grisly than the latter – Moreau involves the forcible creation of human/animal hybrids –…
Jersey Boys, the 2005 Broadway smash hit and preeminent "jukebox musical", is now bringing its signature blend of tough guy brashness and doo-wop dazzle to the National Theatre for a brief r…
At one point in David Auburn's multiple award-winning drama Proof, which is currently being given an exceptionally gripping treatment at 1st Stage in Tysons, Hal Dobbs gushes to Catherine…
By the time you realize that you've been emotionally captured by in a word, the breathtaking drama now playing at The Hub Theatre in Fairfax, it is too late to escape. Not that you would wan…
Venus Theatre's new tour de force production of Migdalia Cruz's Fur opens with a characteristically jarring scene: Michael, a white-suited animal lover, wheels a giant industrial strength ha…
Martin McDonagh, the erstwhile enfant terrible of millennial European drama who is now a staple of contemporary theatres across the globe, is the sort of playwright whose words need little m…
You don't have to work very hard to find your way from the box office to the theater in Flying V Theatre and the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts' new co-production of You, or Whate…
Few stories have been as revised, re-told and reconstructed as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. But a rendition that is not as performed as it should be is the 19th century opera by French Ro…
Now, in DC theatre, video games are hot. From Rorschach's She Kills Monsters to Flying V's The Oregon Trail and Molotov's Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, audiences (and Artistic Directo…
