This is Part One of Three of a discussion with the cast of Terminus at The Studio Theatre: Nanna Ingvarsson, Katie Ryan, and Dylan Myers, and their director Tom Story. Michael: P…
I spoke with Frank Cervarich and Lex Davis talk about how they directed the outrageous A Very Pointless Holiday Spectacular. Michael: Introduce yourself to our readers, and tell them wher…
In Part 1 of a series of interviews with the cast of Shakespeare Theatre Company’s The Tempest, meet Sofia Jean Gomez. Michael: Introduce yourself to our readers, and tell them wher…
It seems DC is on the nice list this year. From classics (See: Olney) to new inventions (See: Pointless), there really is something for everyone on local stages this season. Not to be outdon…
Strictly speaking, I really shouldn't like Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore. I like theatre that is dark, shocking, provocative… I'm more comfortable at Capital Fringe than Disney on…
It's easy to get sucked into the mad frenzy of American consumerism during the holidays. Black Friday creeps ever earlier, and the Hydra of long lines, long lists, traffic lights, and cleara…
In an age of 24 hour cable news and social media saturation, the good ole' fashioned radio play may seem like an artifact of a simpler time. But for Lean & Hungry Theater, a DC based com…
Had you asked me moments before The Rez Sisters, American University's tremendous and thought provoking new play, began, I would have told you I didn't think bingo was all that interesting. …
In the past week, I've had the mixed blessing of seeing some very good shows that put the very bad side of human nature on gruesome display. The characters in Scena's Handbag, a daring pitch…
Virus Attacks Heart, a new play by Australian playwright Shannon Murdoch, is a romance for people who don't do romances. It's a horror story of a relationship that makes you ache for an inti…
Although it was written in 1938, six years before his breakthrough hit The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams' Not About Nightingales was only produced in 1998, due to the persistence of ac…
I had the honor of interviewing Director Robert McNamara and cast members Anne Nottage, Amanda Forstrom, and Haely Jardas from Scena Theatre’s Handbag, which begins performances …
“One of the most enduring features of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream is the sense that both the characters and the audience take a temporary journey into the world of the myst…
One of my favorite movies of all time is Clue, a mystery comedy (based on the board game) starring Tim Curry that is chock full of over-the-top characters and zany, slapstick farce. As I lau…
Fog was already filling the vast Concert Hall at the George Mason University Center for the Arts when I settled in to watch the first show of Virginia Opera Company's 2015 season, Sweeney To…
Like the circle of birth, death, and re-birth that is such an integral symbol in the work, Carol Campbell's The Goddess Diaries is back in a new incarnation at George Mason University. Direc…
For those theatre-goers wanting a jaunty escape from the daily grind of everyday life, Sarah Kane's 4.48 Psychosis may not be for you. This bluntly dark and poetic play, which largely dispen…
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's tango drenched Evita has achieved an iconic status that rivals that of its own subject, Eva Peron, the social-climbing, deeply flawed, yet popularly belove…
It's time to bring out the sweet tea and church crowns, because Ford's Theatre has brought a taste of the South to Washington with its spectacular production of Driving Miss Daisy. Authentic…
I wasn't quite sure what to expect as I shuffled past elegantly dressed opera-goers in the cavernous Lisner Auditorium Sunday evening. My experience with opera is mostly limited to Bugs Bunn…
Who says lighting never strikes the same place twice? All MetroStage has to do is keep bringing back Three Sistahs, the foot-tapping, gut-busting and tear-jerking family drama now back in it…
Just over ten years old, Richard Greenberg's Take Me Out has already been widely accepted into the canon of Great American Plays. This is for good reason, as Greenberg's tale of a baseball s…
Experiencing Venus Theatre's production of Daria Miyeko Marinelli's We Are Samurai feels something like when your dad threw you into the deep end so you could learn to swim. At first, it is …
Scena has gone green, and I'm not talking about reusable grocery bags. Concurrent with their production of Conor McPherson's Shining City, Scena is mounting the world premiere of Molly, an o…
I knew that Qui Nguyen's fantastical comedy She Kills Monsters had something to do with the famous (or infamous) role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. But when I was confronted by the g…