842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
I know what you're thinking: is Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya just like Life Sucks, except with a bunch of Russian guys? Let me turn the question around for you: do you think that Uncle Vanya …
That the pen is mightier than the sword is the dream of every English major, and also the theme of the Zachary Fernebok's "Pirate Laureate" series, of which this is the second exemplar. It i…
Quick quiz: who would you most like to give you their cat for safekeeping after first making you pledge your life to its well-being: (a) Tony Soprano (b) Satan or (c) the Irish rebel Padraic…
In the final five minutes of her life, a nameless hot corn girl (Tia Shearer) shivers in the cold winds off the Atlantic, argues with her pimp, Eddie Farrell (Michael Kevin Darnall), and wor…
Folger's gorgeous, sumptuous Mary Stuart is a bodice-ripper for the brainy, distilling a life-and-death moment to its constituent elements of pride, resentment, entitlement and loss. It is a…
America is engaged in an agonizing public discussion of the roles, and prerogatives, of our police force in light of recent deaths in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City. Does American Cent…
The Great Divorce is a story about the bus ride from Hell " literally: the Redemption Express from the bad section (there is no good section) of "the gray town" to the verdant fields of the …
In an electrifying conclusion to Tony Kushner's The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism, with a Key to the Scriptures, members of the cast read a letter from Kushner p…
Someone has stormed the Capitol, looted the Treasury, eviscerated the Judiciary, and declared sex illegal. No, no, not Ted Cruz. This happened thousands of years ago, and the culprit was Lys…
Has this ever happened to you? It is 1963. You're Charlie "the Duck" Clench, career criminal, and you're played by Steve Beall. You've pledged the hand of your daughter, Pauline (Megan Grave…
If you would know a cat, you must first watch him dance, and then hear him sing, and after that you will understand his story. So it is with the cats in Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's adaptatio…
On December 6, 1917 an explosion tore through Halifax, Nova Scotia, obliterating the Richmond District and shattering virtually every window in the City. The ensuing tsunami wiped out the Mi…
You know this place, although you may have never been here. There is a picture of Jack Kennedy, looking a little mischievous, on one wall. On another, the benevolent smile of His Holiness th…
Helen Bayer (Emily Townley) has multiple sclerosis. And ten minutes into this odd, funny, sad play " God forgive me " I was ready to throw her and her wheelchair down a flight of stairs. Hel…
"There's nothing wrong," Elmer Gantry (Charlie Pollock) tells a musician (Nick Lehan) in the latest version of this oft-sung tale, "with a few hot licks on behalf of Jesus Christ." For much …
"When you wear the mask for so long," Lincoln Perry, a/k/a Stepin Fetchit (Roscoe Orman) warns Sonji Clay (Katherine Renee Turner), the wife of world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, f/k/a…
To understand The Taming of the Shrew as Shakespeare intended, you must imagine it to be in a land " such as Shakespeare's England " where the observance of gender roles was a matter of life…
In the William Kennedy novel Ironweed, Francis Phelen drops his infant son while changing his diaper. The boy's neck snaps and he dies. Toward the conclusion of the first chapter, this passa…
Barbara Bear, who regularly attends more than one hundred theatrical productions a year in the DC Area, has won the 2014 Gary Lee Maker Audience Award. Bear received her award last night at …
You are a Capulet or you are a Montague, and so when you enter the DC Reynolds Bar you get a red cup or a blue cup. Thereafter, in a prelude to the saddest romantic tragedy in all of English…
We love to see the Devil on stage because " let's be honest " he's the character who is most like us. When he shows up in our stories, it is always with a wounded sense of entitlement. He ha…
Forum Theatre, the Silver Spring-based company which brought such plays as The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Angels in America and Gidion's Knot, among others, to DC over the last five years,…
On Thursday, September 18, at 7 PM, and Wednesday, September 24 at 2PM, Angelika Pop-Up at Union Market, 550 Penn Street NE, will present the filmed version of the Globe Theatre's acclaimed …
The Globe Theatre, launching its tour of America with a stint at the Folger, has created a King Lear for our times. I have seen noble Lears, pathological Lears, fragile Lears, arrogant Lears…
In her acclaimed plays 4000 Miles and After the Revolution Amy Herzog's characters face moral dilemmas, particularly concerning the conflict between loyalty to the state and loyalty to famil…
