842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
Just the Two of Each of Us is the story of King Mark the Only (Mark Chavez) and his wizard, Leopold (Shenoah Allen) who quest after immortality so that they can be really prepared when a mon…
Oscar Hammerstein II's minor accomplishment was that he was the greatest lyricist in the history of Broadway, the principal author of a half-dozen of the most revolutionary and seminal music…
On March 20, 1973, Charles Goodrich, handsome, arrogant and rich, told Katherine Stoddard " who had believed, to that point, that they were man and wife " that their marriage was a fraud, th…
The man in the pig mask looks over the reservations for your name. He is having difficulties, and is not helped by the fact that he is in handcuffs. "Look harder," says his mistress, who is …
- a play written in rhyming couplets and so your reviewer rises to the challenge - If you teach a poet two hundred years' dead, it's not surprising that you could be led to a dalliance, but …
It is a bold company which reaches back to 1530 to launch its season, and a bolder company still to stage a play about making account to God in this relentlessly secular city and age. But th…
It is 1962, and we are in some terrible parallel universe. Nuclear destruction has unloosed itself on the world, and as a mother herds her three children into a fallout shelter, we hear the …
A $25,000 donation by Ford's Theatre Trustee Ronald O. Perelman has assured that the theater building will be open for the remainder of its planned run of The Laramie Project, notwithstandin…
Steven Dietz's Rancho Mirage could also, with justice, be called Dinner with Horrible People, but that title would lack the mytho-poetic cachet of the title actually chosen. So the prolific …
TheatreWashington, the nonprofit entity which conducts the Helen Hayes Awards, Washington's annual celebration of theater excellence, last night announced that it would henceforth be giving …
Some people long for Hummels " the tiny porcelain figurines of children in lederhosen. Some people long for love. And some people long for love and Hummels, and they'll be gathered at the North American Convention of the M.I. Hummel Club at Bally's Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on September 7 to watch I […]The post From Fringe to Vegas: I < 3 Hummels performs at Bally’s appeared first on DC Theatre Scene.
The first time Linda Elyse Bryce met Gary Maker, she was helping to run a program called "The Angels" for Shakespeare Theatre Company. The Angels recruited Shakespeare subscribers and donors…
Linda Elyse Bryce, a veteran supporter of multiple theaters in the Washington area, has won the 2013 Gary Lee Maker Audience Award, DC Theatre Scene's award committee announced today. Bryce …
Does it strike you as somehow " well, decadent " to have a sumptuous meal of shrimp, Caesar salad, chicken, pork and roast beef, topped with a generous ice cream sundae preparatory to watchi…
It is an unpromising start. The title is a slur describing comfortable suburban white boys who pretend to be black. It is based on a much worse slur, an expression which white bigots used wh…
"Anybody have a birthday today?" Sherry Berg, playing a Transylvanian from the Planet Transsexual, calls out. She is wearing an excellent black leather corset and fishnet stockings, and her …
Fireball XL is what Star Trek would have been like if the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise had been populated entirely by women, and also if Gene Roddenberry had been cheerfully insane. Back …
The Sam Simon who write and performs The Actual Dance is not the famous Sam Simon " not the co-creator of The Simpsons and TV produceer who is now, with horrible irony, dying of cancer " but…
Karl Marx said that history was a story told first as tragedy and then again as farce. Apples and Oranges is a tale told twice, too " both times as sit-coms. In one version, Dana and Rex (po…
Lumina Studio's Artistic Director David Minton, on Sunday, called a Lumina report that a Lumina spokesperson had given DC Theatre Scene "strictly internal and used to generate new ideas" and…
The principal lesson of Adventure Theatre's curiously inert and un-Adventuresome production of the Dr. Seuss classic appears to be watch out for mom, since the shenanigans our laid-back Cat …
"What will happen then to the objects, including possible spaceships, that [fall] into [a] black hole?" Stephen Hawking once asked. "According to some recent work of mine, the answer is that…
DC Theatre Scene has learned that Lumina Studio Theatre, the Montgomery County Company known principally for its classical productions or classical mash-ups using casts composed primarily of…
Mark Rhea was rehearsing an emotional moment in Rabbit Hole " a difficult, heartbreaking play and next on the Keegan agenda " with his real-life wife, Susan. "It was this high-tension scene,…
Hold on, Millie Martindale (Raven Bonniwell)! You got some 'splainin' to do. You've just tried to break a date with your husband's boss' awful wife Kitty Sunderson (Karen Lange) by pretendin…
