842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
Plays by or about Jesus Christ, St. Thomas More, Johannes Gutenberg, Nora Ephron and a talking dog characterize NextStop's 2014-2015 season, but first, the young Herndon, Virginia company wi…
The 2014-2015 Theater J season will feature new plays by Helen-Hayes-award winning playwrights Aaron Posner, Renee Calarco and Tanya Barfield along with the work from some of the most celebr…
The great Northern Irish golf pro Rory McIlroy, who drove a golf ball forty yards at the age of two and thereafter slept with a golf club, fingers interlaced so that he could memorize the pr…
The happy news that comes out of Pallas Theatre Collective's amiable if uneven production of She Stoops to Conquer is that they prove they can do Restoration Comedy " explosive dialogue, lar…
Let's get to the bottom line first. I am not in love with Rep Stage's production of this classic musical, and it is almost entirely the fault of Paul Edward Hope in the crucial role of El Ga…
I wish I could like this story, a lighthearted tale of three sisters dying young in Chicago ninety or so years ago, more than I do. The Hub Theatre presents it briskly and stages it imaginat…
Folger Shakespeare Theatre's 2014-2015 will focus on the political and the historical, the company announced yesterday, including a production of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart which will …
Constellation Theatre, which has built its reputation on authentic stagings of classical plays, announced that its three-play 2014-2015 season will consist of two relatively modern plays and…
The central dilemma of this play is that one of the Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus (Noah Brody) is no gentleman. Instead, he is a cad who seduces and abandons Julia (Jessie Austrian), betrays …
Much Ado About Nothing, a riotous play which features the scathing wordplay of the world's most famous love-hate relationship, Beatrice and Benedick, scored an upset victory over the legenda…
There is a good story within Moth's eighty minutes, and director Tom Story and his two-actor cast tell it in bold, powerful strokes. It is a story of compassion, bullying, and betrayal, and …
Louisville was the home of Hunter S. Thompson, the Lord of gonzo journalism until he blew himself up in 2005. For Thompson, every story about the world was really a story about himself. Thom…
Lauren Gunderson, whose I and You played at Olney Theatre Center to significant critical and audience success, has won the prestigious Steinberg/ATCA award for that play, the American Theatr…
It's a little freaky, brothers and sisters, to see Stephen Spotswood's Morning, Miranda only a few days after viewing Ann Randolph's excellent Loveland in Arena. It is a rare thing to see tw…
In July of 2010, Arena Stage announced a revolutionary idea: five promising young playwrights would receive a regular salary from the company, including health insurance, and access to compa…
Most adults can dress themselves, and so when we hear these days that someone has been engaged as a dresser by a theater company we assume that his job is principally to assist cast members …
There is an astonishing turn of events toward the end of I and You, but let's not talk about that. Let's talk about Walt Whitman instead. Whitman was a revolutionary who overthrew poetry. He…
NextStop Theatre Company's production Richard III is a rare instance where the operation is a failure, but the patient lives. Look, Shakespeare's comedies and dramas offer a fertile field fo…
Next year, theatreWashington President Linda Levy promises, the Helen Hayes Awards will be bifurcated, with separate awards going to productions based on the number of Equity cast members. I…
We Americans have no creation myth (although sometimes we mythologize our creation) but Britain, having staggered forth fifteen hundred years before we did, does, and it is the legend of Art…
When we were young, the search for a life partner was so organic a part of our lives that we barely understood what we were doing. We would study for geometry and fill out college applicatio…
"The best thing for the inside of a man," Ronald Reagan once said, "is the outside of a horse." In this odd, affecting early Sarah Ruhl play, the outside of a horse provides an odd, affectin…
Our Suburb is the decidedly nonfictional town of Skokie, Illinois, where playwright Darrah Cloud's version of the Webbs and the Gibbs are the Majors, a relentlessly right-thinking gentile fa…
"Preach the Gospel," St. Francis of Assisi is reputed to have said. "If necessary, use words." There are plenty of words in Wasn't that a Mighty Day?, now at the Anacostia Playhouse, but the…
The fine actor Matthew J. Keenan recontextualizes Dickens' Christmas Carol in this play, and his company, Keegan Theatre, is producing it for the third consecutive year. Keenan, a native of …
