North of the Boulevard is not for the faint of heart; neither is it for the prudish or the overly sensitive; nor is it for those who require anything close to political correctness. North…
How does one create a social movement? How does one create a community? How does one create a mecca for a movement and a community? New play The Ashes Under Gait City by Christina Ande…
 Song of Myself: The Whitman Project, a One-Man Show that Contains Multitudes I've had a love affair with poetry that reaches back over 40 years, years before my career as an educator and…
"When will the cold Christ Quit breathing twice" Robert Hazel, American Poet Apparently never, or at least not until a new god, Christ's child perhaps, takes his place on Mount New York City…
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats–the English Romantic Poets, believers in love, nature, passion, instinct, revoluti…
Cultish musical enthusiasts have The Rocky Horror Show, movie-goers have Night of the Living Dead, 60′s rockers had The Grateful Dead, and literary enthusiasts have Three M…
I recently experienced Motti Lerner’s The Admission, Theatre J’s production remounted by Busboys & Poets at Studio Theatre (my review is here). The controversy that the play …
With today’s article, we welcome Robert Michael Oliver as he inaugurates his new column SPINE: Theatre, Culture, and History in the Belly of the Beast on DCMetroTheaterArts. Anac…
1. 'Hair' at Keegan Theatre When Hair first came to Washington in 1971, a dead downtown burst into life. The anti-war counterculture was at its height, hungering for recognition…
Lust. War. Sadism. Love. And Unicorns. What do you get when you gently push a hand grenade, with the pin yet pulled, into a…vulnerable body part? Some might call tha…
When Hair first came to Washington in 1971, a dead downtown burst into life. The anti-war counterculture was at its height, hungering for recognition by mainstream America, hankeri…
The National Theatre of Iceland produces roughly 30 shows a year. Of those 30, about 10 are new plays. One of those new plays, Harmsaga, by Icelander Mikael Torfason, has come to Wash…
Ariel Dorfman’s powerful La Muerte y La Doncella (Death and the Maiden), now playing at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theatre as part of their 2014 International Theatre Festiva…
We love the theatre. We love going out to dinner at a nice restaurant. We love going on vacation, to the beach, to the mountains, to a foreign country. We love the pleasure…
1.  'The Suit' by France's Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord at the Kennedy Center 2014 International Theater Festival Most of the theatre-going audience in the United States has a high lev…
Most of the theatre-going audience in the United States has a high level of privilege and, thus, little understanding of the life of the dispossessed, life under the yoke of racial oppres…
If you have ever wondered what your lover was thinking as he watched you getting ready for bed from across the room, or as he massaged your back with ever growing passion and sounds of anima…
There are at least three reasons you should venture out to see WSC Avant Bard’s new show, Orlando , now playing at Theatre On The Run. First of all, great literature never…
1.  'Pluto' at Forum Theatre, Roundhouse Silver Spring In the 1920s, the founder of French Surrealism, André Breton, famously said: "The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd …
In the 1920s, the founder of French Surrealism, André Breton, famously said: “The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly." Unfo…
Whether by divine order or by sheer coincidence certain people come along and change our lives, for better or for worse. Encounters with strangers, however long or brief, often have a wa…
This last Monday, February 17, The Mead Center for American Theatre at Arena Stage hosted the first evening of The Summit, a three-part discussion on theatre. The brainchild of Molly S…
Cultural DC’s production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days rings with youthful enthusiasm and skillful craftsman(woman)ship. Karen Lange’s Winnie engages with verve …
We Are Proud to Present…, now playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, asks the simple question: how do six middle class actors from the United States, one of the most powerful co…
1. ‘Mother Courage and her Children' at Arena Stage, the Mead Center for American Theatre “First of all, Bertolt Brecht is a master playwright, the likes of which come along only…