842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
Bless me, father, for I have sinned. It has been thirty-five years since my last confession, but that one didn't count because they hadn't given me my Miranda warning.
How do I put this delicately? It takes a helluva man to enjoy a clown. A clown may appeal to the inner child, but the outer adult craves a searing Mamet play or somesuch, followed by a dry m…
"This is the saddest play I've ever seen in my life," a friend opined in the lobby of the Shepherd University’s Frank Center. He is a theater professional, and has seen a lot of plays.…
This year's Contemporary American Theater Festival features two terrific world premieres, and when you go, you should make a point of sinking your teeth into each of them. Let us sink out te…
The problem with history plays is one of time. In theatrical time, the greatest of problems are resolved in a hundred and fifty minutes or less. Across that tiny stretch of time we have conf…
Attention, all ye parents of young children now pouring sweatily over your five-year-old child's application to the day care center which will most help her get into the private school which…
In a forest dark and deep, lightning sunders nature's sleep. The cabin lights flicker, and then go out " "why, it's about us!" the audience doth shout. Could playwright Neil LaBute, whose pl…
Keegan Theatre will be keeping its focus firmly on its Celtic roots during its 2012-2013 season, with supplemental emphasis on searing American drama and on musicals with a little lilt and l…
Glen Echo's Adventure Theatre – Musical Theater Center will present some adventures in size for its young audiences next season, exploring from both ends of the spectrum. Adventure wil…
New Olney Theatre Centre Artistic Director Martin Platt has wasted no time in putting his stamp on the company's 75-year history, announcing the 9 productions for Olney’s 2013 season w…
It is playwright David Bar Katz's singular insight that Superman, like the other extraordinary men and women of the comics " Batman, Spiderman and the like " were primarily the creation of J…
Brothers and sisters, we understand nothing. Not the first breath of life, when we emerge, wet and bloody, from the womb; nor the last breath, when our defeated and desiccated bodies give up…
Ryan Rilette, Producing Director of California's Marin Theatre Company, will be the new Producing Artistic Director of Round House Theatre, the company announced yesterday. Ryan Rilette Rile…
For those for whom Shakespeare is not enough, there is always Lumina. The Silver Spring-based not-just-for-kids troupe just finished celebrating its one hundredth production in fifteen years…
You can tell, in the occasional serendipitous gesture, the brilliant telling smile, why this oddball musical, this syncopated torrent of Americana, was chosen over West Side Story by the Ton…
Bethesda's Imagination Stage takes dead aim at the 4 to 12 set in a six-production season which will feature a world premiere of a Roald Dahl play, the company announced yesterday. Dahl's ne…
"It was a brave man," Jonathan Swift once observed, "who first et an oyster." Douglas Carter Beane is a brave man, and for much the same reason. He took Xanadu, a 1980's flop-o movie musical…
What would a religion which celebrated lust, music, dancing, and the drinking of wine be like? Hah! Need I even ask! The party would last until we were asked to leave the Eurozone, I suppose…
The return of Joy Zinoman directing a production of the Broadway hit 4,000 Miles will highlight a monster 12-production 2012-2013 season for Studio Theatre, the company announced this weeken…
Howard County's Rep Stage will celebrate its 20th year by exploring the 20th century, manipulating time through a four-play season which takes us from somber ghost story to high-octane farce…
Messina High Bench Knocks Out Alimony Award, but Returns Dowry; Declares Subpoena "Much Ado About Nothing" The Supreme Court of Messina rarely hears a domestic relations case, but when it do…
This poor show was treated badly by most of the New York critics, and the Tony committee favored it with only one nomination — but that was for Best Musical! Now how can you be conside…
Washington's Shakespeare Theatre Company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, got some extra sparklers when The Tony Awards selected it to receive the 2012 Regional Theatre Awar…
The Big Meal is the big deal: the moments in life that really matter " birth, love, and death " chopped up into digestible bits and soaked in a vinegar-ish marinade for eighty minutes or so.…
I am going to give you a summary of this astounding tour de farce, now playing at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab of the Olney Center for the Arts, and then recommend that you forget it imme…
