208 stories by "Susan Berlin"
Director PJ Paparelli has brought it to life for Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company by emphasizing the youth of its characters and the fact that the journey to maturity hasn't changed …
Director Susan Fenichell has staged a beautifully intimate production of Donald Margulies' play "Time Stands Still" at Washington's Studio Theatre, anchored by a carefully constructed perfor…
Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, and director Eric Schaeffer have created a bright, effervescent production of "Hairspray" as a joyous holiday gift to the Washington community.
Playwright Amy Freed may have thought she was writing a pointedly witty political satire about cults of personality and the seduction of power, but "You, Nero," now on the Fichandler Stage a…
The national tour of Matthew Lombardo's play "High" starring Kathleen Turner launched at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston last night, but failed to take wing.
"Equivocation," the current production in the Kreeger Theater at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, examines the interplay between truth and fiction, specifically the interrelationship of histor…
As of now, "A Second Chance," the two-person musical receiving its world premiere at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, shows promise, but it has a way to go as a fully staged work.
Stage adaptations of Charles Dickens' story of Ebenezer Scrooge are an unavoidable part of the Christmas season. What Feininger has done is to retell the story in a lighthearted format, usin…
Director-choreographer Mark Waldrop has done a solidly professional, if not especially exciting, job with a capable cast and orchestra.
The Folger Theatre has staged a fairly traditional version of "Othello" while, across the river in Arlington, Virginia, Synetic Theater has remounted its honored "silent Shakespeare" adaptat…
Under Sanchez's sensitive direction, the actors ably embody the contradictory feelings of people thrown into an environment they can't control, thrilled to be alive but guilty that their fri…
What sort of person actively prays for God to bring on the apocalypse, rapturing believers to heaven while preparing to destroy the earth? It might be that mild-mannered fellow working at th…
Through its American Voices New Play Institute, Washington's Arena Stage provides support to playwrights during three-year residencies. Judging from the sparkling production of the first wor…
At Olney Theatre Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, director John Going has staged a solid - if occasionally stolid - production of the thriller.
This production, well directed by Stephen Rayne, is powerful enough that its good points more than compensate for its weaknesses.
Alan Bennett's play "The Habit of Art," now at Washington's Studio Theatre, imagines a late-in-life meeting between two 20th-century intellectual titans, poet W.H. Auden (Ted van Griethuysen…
E. Patrick Johnson created "Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South" as a book of interviews with African-American gay men. Now he has brought it to life as a solo performance which, in Signat…
MetroStage in Alexandria, Virginia, has found a fine vehicle for actors in John Patrick Shanley's play "Savage in Limbo," and director Lise Bruneau—a notable performer herself—has brough…
o many things change as years and eras pass, but surprisingly, some things don't seem so different after all. Playwright Alice Childress wrote "Trouble in Mind" in 1955, during an era of Jim…
Author Ray Bradbury has been quoted as saying of his writing: "I don't try to predict the future. I try to prevent it." The jolting multimedia production of "Fahrenheit 451," Bradbury's own …
After successful runs in London, on Broadway and internationally, the musical "Fela!" is launching its American tour at the Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall in Washington.
Clifford Odets' 1950 play examines the lives of a once-promising actor derailed by alcoholism, a hotshot director determined to give the actor a chance to start over, and the actor's support…
Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, adds to its list of firsts by presenting two new musicals in rotating repertory to launch its 22nd season.
Director Michael Kahn and his seven-member cast strike all the appropriate notes in this tale of love and money, adapted from a 1708 work by the French playwright Jean-François Regnard.
Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company received such a strong audience response to its 2010 production of Clybourne Park that it brought back the entire eight-member cast, and James Kro…
