842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
Joseph Campbell once said that a myth was a public dream, and a dream was a private myth. In the mountains of Peru, or else in someone's mind, there is a myth about a fox, a crow and a hare.…
Four and a half years ago, scientists from the Tawani Foundation decided to test Lake Untersee " a highly alkaline body of water capped by a thick shelf of ice in Antarctica " for extremophi…
The phrase "artistic blind date" is full of implication, suggesting not only that the matchmakers at Cultural DC put these artists together at the outset of their collaboration but that we m…
The DC Council on the Humanities has awarded a grant of $1,750 to DC Theatre Scene for website improvements. "Thanks to the Council on the Humanities, our new site will have a fresh look, a …
"Good Christ, we need new forms, new passions, new work, new ideas," Con rails in Stupid Fucking Bird. "New forms of theater that can actually make you feel like living better or fuller or 
The Twelve Days of Christmas, Renee Calarco’s new play based on the world’s longest Christmas song, will highlight Adventure Theatre MTC’s 2013-2014 season. It will feature…
The six short plays which make up the Source Festival collection Afterward lack the individual superstar brilliance of some of the plays in its other two collections, On the Cusp and In the …
It is a complicated and difficult art to do a ten-minute play. The playwright must establish his emotional tone immediately, and thereafter add to it. John Guare says that the playwright has…
Let's face it: the principal reason you (or anyone) goes to an evening of ten-minute plays is to sample the future. Writing a compelling ten-minute play is an important step in a playwright'…
One hundred and fifteen years ago, the Moscow Art Theatre produced a play by an obscure playwright " really, a physician who wrote plays " which changed the history of theater. The play was …
Have you given your life over to artifice, sacrificed authenticity for convention, hidden your real self from the public view? No? Well, you're wearing pants, aren't you? So, the question on…
Constellation Theatre Company will do plays set in contemporary Japan, 17th-century Paris and ancient Greece in its three-production 2013-2014 season, the company announced yesterday. Conste…
Laughing Daughter's Second Act: Who's Laughing Now? You probably think this is a story about Crystal Mosser, the songbird who made her start in Washington theater and who has since made it b…
Virginia's Arlington County has awarded Signature Theatre a $250,000 grant " principally so that it can pay its real estate taxes to Arlington County, the County announced Tuesday. About $85…
Ghost-Writer, Michael Hollinger's story of a Victorian novelist's secretary who continues to complete his novel after the novelist has passed on, will be extended until June 16, MetroStage A…
It is easy to think of The Submission as "Tootsie" for writers. But Jeff Talbott's eloquent, tedious story is both larger and smaller than the Dustin Hoffman vehicle. Larger, because unl…
"This is a very pleasant room," the garrulous Mr. Spooner (Christopher Henley) says to his host, the silent, opaque Mr. Hirst (Brian Hemmingsen), and indeed it is, as it is festooned everywh…
Bay Theatre Company, a twelve-year-old Annapolis-based company, announced last night that it is suspending operations effective May 12, 2013. Board of Directors President Barbara Brown blame…
You are in a dimly lit bar, with checkered tablecloths on tiny tables. A small stage is to your left. This is where the magician will appear. The place seems made for magicians. The walls ar…
Let's get this out first: on February 10, 1992, the supremely successful athlete Michael Gerard Tyson was convicted of rape. He denies to this day having committed the crime, but he admits f…
Disgraced, the story of an American lawyer born in Pakistan who is forced to confront his Islamic heritage, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the organization has announced. Ayad Ak…
Synetic Theater, the DC Area's unique movement-theater specialists, will be presenting four adaptations of works better known for their dazzling language in its 2013-2014 season, the company…
NextStop Theatre Company, the Herndon-based professional theatre company which has grown out of one of the DC-area's best community theaters, announced an ambitious five-production season fo…
Jacques Brel was alive and living on the stage of the 29th Helen Hayes Awards last night as the MetroStage spectacular swept three of the big musical theater awards, but it was also a dream …
The world premiere of Paul’s Case, an original opera based on a Willa Cather short story, will be UrbanArias's next production later this month, the company announced today. The sho…
