842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
The God of Heaven, by whatever name, is the Creator of the Universe, the Unmoved Mover, the Uncaused Cause, the Inventor of time and the Proclaimer of the laws of physics. We do not know for…
About three-quarters of the way through this play, I realized that I was watching the theatrical equivalent of the 1930s horror movies I used to watch at 2 AM in the rec room when my parents…
A Teutonic instructor (Andrea Schell) stares at her class, then barks out her instructions. You are not fat, she says. You are human beings. If you were fat you could not have picked up the …
Let me make a confession up front: this play is not my cup of tea. Inspired by passages from various Tennessee Williams plays, it seems to me to be alternatively over-dramatic and murky. I w…
Behold the wretch. He squats before you, sputtering and muttering, shaking his sweat-drenched, alcohol-infused head and slapping his thigh repeatedly. He sorts through his bag of garbage, oc…
The Washington Post humor columnist Alexandria Petri has here written a play about the least funny subject imaginable: pedophiles. And is it funny? Yes, uproariously so. And is it heartbreak…
Brothers and sisters, if your plans for the 2015 Fringe Festival do not include Lathem Prince, change your plans. It's that good. The New York City-based Hunger and Thirst Theatre Collective…
Perhaps you've wondered what would happen if Monty Python produced Shakespeare's The Life and Death of King John. Well, it probably would look a little bit like this production: fierce, anxi…
"We're sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll," Will Durst announces with a twisted little smile. "And…and maybe a little nap." Durst is talking about h-h-h-his generation (and mine), the baby boom…
Ten Years and Counting, DC Theatre Scene is Still Going Strong One June evening in 2005, a woman named Noelle Wilson walks into the Gunston Arts Center's Theater II to watch a production of …
We are all actors, but none more so than our public representatives. It is one thing to invite the wind to blow and crack its cheeks, but quite another to introduce legislation which would a…
DC's Source Festival of new plays will try to extend its two-year streak of award-winning plays when it opens Friday, June 5Â at " this will surprise you " the Source Theatre, 1835 14th S…
OK, let's say you work for a member of Congress. (Maybe you do work for a member of Congress. It's hard for me to tell from here. But if you don't, just pretend.) You work ten hours a day ke…
Nominations for the richest national prize for playwrights, the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, were announced today. One premiered at Washington's Source festival.
Harry Connick, Jr. picked Michael J. Bobbitt to premiere his musical The Happy Elf; Stephen Schwartz okayed his original take on the Schwartz songbook with The Stephen Schwartz Project. Now …
The Kennedy Center announced yesterday that its 15 production 2011-2012 mainstage season will include the award-winning Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey with a new book by Terrence McNally,…
Tim Treanor says that Mary Zimmerman's 'The Arabian Nights' is "now being given sweet and vigorous voice at Arena Stage".
So you run your lance full-bore at windmills, recruit a barber in your fight against the muleteers, believe a local prostitute to be your damsel of grace, and then fall into a coma. Should s…
When I was in law school I did some acting. I wasn't very good but I was a big guy with a big voice and there's always room for that in theater. Sometimes I got paid and sometimes I didn't, …
Luna Gale, Rebecca Gilman's tale about a social worker struggling to place a newborn who has methamphetamine-addicted parents and a grandmother who belongs to an apocalyptic cult, last night…
There is not much of a story to Lights Rise on Grace, but what there is is told beautifully, and with " it must be said " grace. It begins like Romeo and Juliet, (an observation a character …
The business of judges is to understand and interpret statutes, and in order to do that they commonly try to uncover the intention of the legislature which passed that law. When your job, li…
For the second year in a row, a play which debuted at DC's Source Festival is in line for a playwriting award. Last year, Topher Payne's Perfect Arrangement received the American Theatre Cri…
What keeps you up at night, little brother? Is it that seemingly random tax audit notice you received in the mail yesterday? Perhaps your spouse has become distant, or else developed a disco…
At its best, Kid Victory is a secular high mass, both sacred and profane, with insight as sweet as its music, and music as sweet as honey from the Garden of Eden. And then, there are other t…
