18 stories by "Sophia Bushong"
How a playwright adapted the story of a crooked Maryland rabbi for the stage
Can't the Anacostia Playhouse catch a break?
Last week the playhouse's chief operating officer, Julia Robey Christian, went public on Twitter about the latest in a long line of bureaucrat…
It's six hours before the first preview of Broke-ology at the Anacostia Playhouse and I'm sitting on the plush red couch at center stage. The couch's ultimate destiny, I'm told by Theater Al…
Culturally specific theater offers a different experience to different audience members. It can make viewers reconsider their assumptions about others, and perhaps even their own identity. T…
How to Build an Arts District
If You Build It, Who Will Come?
Stage of Development
What to Expect at LUMEN8 2013
Anacostia's Arts Scene Is Growing
A month after the Anacostia Playhouse was…
Disagreement is a natural part of any collaborative creative process. With most theatrical productions, the creative team works toward a director's vision for the play. As such, the buck sto…
Earlier this week, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson rejected Anacostia Playhouse's attempt to work around a parking requirement that's holding up construction on the theater.
As City Pap…
Audiences awaiting Anacostia Playhouse's opening in April may have to wait longer than expected. About two weeks ago, with demolition complete and building set to begin, the project hit a pe…
In 2012, D.C.'s theater companies threw an admirable amount of support behind local playwrights. Most prominently, Theater J launched the Locally Grown: Community Supported Art Festival a…
Inviting an audience to give feedback on a work-in-progress is already a little tough for writers. Letting them hear only 20 minutes of an unfinished work can be especially daunting. But Sat…
The events that inspired The Heroes' Tale have been on Cheryl Butler-Poole's mind for decades. Back in the 1980s, the D.C.-based playwright lived in the Dupont area. One evening she fell …
Zachary Fernebok will tell you unequivocally that fantasy is his genre of choice. Drawing inspiration as much from cult-classic video games like the Monkey Island series as dramatists like G…
White noise, as we know it, is any number of innocuous droning sounds, easily tuned out.
But what if it were a powerful force that dictated the nature of human interaction? In the alternativ…
The black-box theater at Source is not an obvious place to build a pool. First of all, it's small—a perfect space for intimate audiences and shows that focus on content but eschew spec…
Making theater in unconventional locations poses unconventional challenges. Like algae growing in your performance space, for example, or unseasonably cold rainstorms and the ambient noise o…
The political gets very personal when someone in the family decides to run for president. Especially if you are Candace Gingrich- Jones, a lesbian and the half-sister of Newt Gingrich.…
On one hand, you have Gwydion Suilebhan, the playwright and blogger who organized and moderated this past Sunday's town hall-style discussion on "The State of the D.C. Playwright" at Theater…
The star-crossed lovers lay entwined and unrecoverable in Sniper Alley for days following their death. Mark H. Milstein took his photograph of the bodies of Admira Ismic, a Muslim Bosnian…
