842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
theatreWashington, the umbrella organization to promote area theater which sponsors the annual Helen Hayes Awards, has issued a call to the general public seeking potential judges for those …
Dr. Jaylee Montague Mead, an astronomer who opened up the universe of theater in this City through acts of shrewd and profound generosity, passed away from congestive heart failure this morn…
Whaddya think? If some cataclysmic event wiped out humanity except for a man and a woman, unrelated and of reproductive age, locked in a bomb shelter with a tank full of fish, would we be ab…
On September 29, our beloved Washington Nationals will be in Miami, carrying the hearts of every true Washingtonian with them as they nail down the Eastern Division title. For the rest of ou…
Keegan’s Spring Awakening sweeps the musical categories ; three Arena Stage productions receive top awards Click to go to our Audience Choice page Keegan Theatre was the first local th…
Finalists just announced for the Audience Choice Awards Aug 15, 2012 — After an initial round of balloting which ended last night, Audience Choice voters selected six shows and perform…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company announced today that it is adding three additional productions, including the National Theatre of Scotland's well-received Black Watch, to the 2012 portion of…
Forget all that you may have heard about August: Osage County. It is not a dark comedy where an Estelle Parson-ish virago grandmother skewers her pampered children with her acid tongue. It i…
In 2011-2012, we got theater that money couldn't buy. In this provocative article, my erstwhile colleague Chad Bauman lamented the fact that our Helen Hayes Awards " like the Tonys and many …
Some of the most renowned names in American letters will find their way onto the American Century Theater's stage in 2012-2013. Among the strangest and most powerful: Orson Wells' Voodoo Mac…
Arlington's Signature Theatre, a Tony-award winning company which specializes in musicals, will be awash in harmony for its August 4th open house. The noon-to-10pm celebration will feature f…
Catherine Asaro is a person of formidable accomplishment. A physicist with a PhD from Harvard, she has written twenty novels in her "Saga of the Skolian Empire" science fiction series as wel…
The clever and provocative premise of Washington-area playwright AP Carroll's new play is that the Roman occupation of the land of Israel, the appearance of Jesus Christ (Kofi Owusu) and the…
The rube Wade (Mark Pagan) wanders onto the stage. In a pitch-perfect South Dakota accent " straight out of "Fargo" " he explains that normally he volunteers for his Church of the Nazarene d…
Quotidian, located in Bethesda's Writer's Center, will offer plays based on three great stories for its fifteen anniversary season in 2012-2013. The Company will open with James Joyce's The …
It is September 11, 2001. The United States is under attack. Huge commercial jets have slammed into New York's Twin Towers. In Washington, a third commercial jet has slammed into the Pentago…
Let's make some things clear at the outset. In All-Nude College-Girl Revue, nobody is nude. Nobody is in college. Nor is it a revue. It is instead the life story, more or less, of Lisa Faith…
Once upon a time, a very bad thing happened to Kaballah (Kathleen Alvania), and so as she grew older she turned into a raptor " a carnivorous bird, with razor-sharp claws and a beak capable …
We walk into the darkened Bedroom of Fort Fringe. There, in the shadowy corner of the stage, is a mannequin, with snow-white face above black clothes. The mannequin stares at us. Her eyes be…
We do not go in for burlesque much in Washington, but to our northern neighbors in Charm City, it is a big deal. Burlesque is so much in the fiber of Baltimore that its chief sage and poet, …
So have you seen this in a Fringe show? The protagonist, a gay man (you know this because the opening song is "Everyone I Know is Gay"), after the obligatory "Men are Pigs" song (presumptive…
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, like the great play which gave rise to it, is a puzzle box yielding different treasures every time you open it up. I'm delighted to report that Infinit…
This show is brief and funny. So this review will be brief. Click for tickets to Why So Serious Why So Serious is twenty-five minutes or so with the comedian Trevor Joyner. He is a funny guy…
The title of this fun show recalls the Sex Pistols' smashing album, “Nevermind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols“, and Patrick and Maxwell Denney, the ambitious co-creators, d…
In Church, we go to church. That is to say, we sit in darkness on folding chairs, bathed in religious music, grand and engaging, and beautifully sung by an unseen and uncredited choir. …
