842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
The staging is impeccable, the acting is first-rate, the script is amusing and, to the extent you can say this about a play which has Hitler, Freud, Lucifer and Pope Francis talking to each …
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the first in a series highlighting this year's Helen Hayes…
Everyman Theatre announced this weekend that a venerable thriller and a venerable farce will bookend its 25th-Anniversary season, which will otherwise contain new comedies, a John LaChiusa m…
The disciple Paul converted to Christianity after being knocked off his horse by a shaft of light, and hearing a voice say, “Saul, why dost thou persecute Me?” The conversion of …
The Wonder of Will, a season long celebration of the Bard by the Folger Shakespeare Library will culminate with a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare (and the…
A new adaptation of an old story and a successful adaptation of an even older story will join two Shakespeare plays (one of which is produced quite rarely) in Folger Theatre’s 2016-201…
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will do some time-traveling in its 2016-2017 season, with four plays from Shakespeare; another story taken from the Bard’s lifetime; an icon…
Mosaic Theater, buoyed by a million-dollar grant from the Logan Foundation, will launch an eight-play second season which will “unearth and investigate issues of race, social inequity,…
Fans of Sartre will know this setup: three guys walk into a small room in the afterlife. But unlike No Exit, the characters in The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and …
Theater J, long a dominant company in Jewish theater throughout America, will offer a 2016-17 season full of plays about dominance under attack — including a perhaps surprising choi…
To memories dulled by the passage of time, Lyndon Johnson seems like a bumptious interloper on the smooth passage between Jack Kennedy’s understated elegance and Richard Nixon’s …
Shepherdstown’s Contemporary American Theatre Festival will offer a five-production schedule which will include new plays by Chisa Hutchinson, whose Dead and Breathing ignited the 2…
The Reva and David Logan Foundation, a Chicago-based organization dedicated to supporting social justice, the arts, scholarship and investigative journalism, will give Mosaic Theater Company…
Baltimore’s Center Stage will kick off the 2016-2017 back in its Calvert Street home after a $28 million renovation with a production Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderos le Laclos…
Tom Horan’s Static, in which a young girl who knows the legend of a couple driven mad by the objects in their house grows up to acquire the house — and the mysterious box of cass…
Rep Stage will present a four-production season of stories about strange things, but doubtlessly none will be stranger than the story of Dorian’s Closet, a musical about the life of fa…
Signature Theatre will bookend next year’s season with musicals about Jelly Roll Morton and Jesus Christ, and will also feature five brand spanking-new plays, the company announced …
The Tony-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company will present a “future history” fresh from Broadway, a musical, a new adaptation by the delightfully eccentric Elevator Repair Servic…
Constellation Theatre Company will celebrate its tenth anniversary season with a wildly successful contemporary musical, a children’s story set on stage and Mary Zimmerman’s rean…
Olney Theatre Center will continue its three-tier approach to programming next season by producing nine full-run plays at Olney, co-producing Tony Kushner’s two-play cycle Angels in…
A con man, sharp tongues, dizzying heights, the afterlife and peeing will make up an unusually adventuresome season of theater at Herndon’s NextStop, the company has announced. …
Round House Theatre will co-produce both parts of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America with Olney Theatre this fall, Round House announced yesterday. The joint production will kick off …
Unexpected Stage Company, operating out of the Randolph Road Theatre in Wheaton, MD, will offer a two-production slate for 2016Â which will literally encompass life and death. From July 14…
Arena Stage’s ten-production 2016-2017 season will feature theatrical presentations of true events (including a new play by local playwright Jacqueline Lawton), as well as a two-play L…
Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s meditation on the deteriorating American working class wrapped in a who-done-it, heads up a list of six finalists for the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA N…
