62 stories by "Terry Ponick"
Born in Dublin in 1967, playwright Enda Walsh has established an impressive reputation in his native Ireland as well as Great Britain. Currently a resident of London, he's authored over a do…
He is a young, dashing, impossibly handsome politician, a rapidly rising star in his party, which prizes him for his integrity, forthrightness and brilliant oratorical skills. She is his wif…
Here and gone in the twinkling of an eye, Round Two of Solas Nua'sProject Brand New" opened and closed at Flashpoint's Mead Theatre Lab in one weekend with a quartet of works-in-progress, di…
The Keegan Theatre's new production of The Weir grabs you from the start, almost before you know it. Bright yet dark, simple yet complex, emotional yet cerebral, Irish playwright Conor McPhe…
Morning, noon, and night, gigantic waves from the windswept Atlantic crash against the craggy cliffs of three forlorn rocky outcrops at the mouth of Galway Bay. These are Ireland's legendary…
Dial the Wayback Machine to the year 2004. The Folger Theatre is mounting Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, directed and re-imagined by veteran DC director Joe Banno. He's transported it t…
Cymbeline‘s disparate themes and credulity-stretching plot have always posed serious challenges to any director willing to take it on. That's one of the reasons it's not often staged. …
Sunset Boulevard is not the best musical that Andrew Lloyd Webber ever composed. While its primary storyline"the decline and fall of an aging silent film diva–is oddly compelling, its …
It's hard to avoid running into The Nutcracker during America's year-end holiday festivities. From amateur productions featuring tiny, budding ballerinas and piped-in music to the kind of la…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's new production of Leonard Bernstein's time-traveling satirical operetta Candide is a thumping-good evening of intellectual musical theater. Generally fast-p…
Leapin' lizards! Annie's back in town! Charles Strouse's and Martin Charnin's Tony Award-winning 1977 hit Broadway musical,currently playing at the Olney Theatre Center in suburban Maryl…
The Synetic Theater troupe erupted onto the Lansburgh Theatre stage last Thursday with its own wildly, hyperkinetic vision of Mikhail Bulgakov's surrealistic novel, The Master and Margarita.…