842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
The $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award will go to a play which portrays a modern American family coping with death, illness, addiction, abandonment or the challenges of beginning anew in …
The stunningly prolific musical theater genius Stephen Sondheim has something up his sleeve. But he's not telling us what it is. Not exactly. Not just yet. Stephen Sondheim at Queens College…
Let me get to the bottom line about Jason Grote's Civilization (all you can eat), now playing at Woolly Mammoth. I like it a great deal, and I don't know why. Civilization is one of those sh…
Emma (Katie Atkinson), an assistant in a laboratory dedicated to the preservation of dying languages, is trying to learn Esperanto. She is having heavy weather of it. Finally she blurts out …
Broadway Across America has announced its 2012/2013 Hippodrome Broadway Series, a seven-production 2012-2013 season which will include the return of two Broadway shows which were highly s…
When a Washington-area playwright completes a work which is intellectually provocative, artistically satisfying, and powerfully authentic, it is a cause for celebration for those who love lo…
PJ Paparelli, having been through a battle or two of his own, knows how to direct the conflict besetting the two gentlemen of Verona. A young man of promise, moving forth from a working-clas…
Familiar hands to be at the tiller :Â Kahn, Muse, Posner, McSweeney, Lord and Taichman A brand new adaptation of Friedrich Schiller's Wallenstein by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky…
There are companies which do epics, and then there is Lumina Studio. Having put together a sixty-character amalgamation of Henry VI Part 1, 2 and 3, in which no actor was above the age of 19…
First look at what lies in store for us in the 2012-2013 season comes from Vpstart Crow Manassas-based Vpstart Crow Productions yesterday announced that its 2012-2013 season would feature…
The theatre community has lost another member. We are sad to report that Lance Hayden Kump, Marketing Manager for Studio Theatre and a gifted visual artist, died suddenly January 20, 2012. A…
Marcia Murdock Gardner, an actor, educator, dramaturg, casting director and literary manager most frequently associated with Signature Theatre, died January 20 at her Alexandria home after a…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company's hormone-drunk Two Gentlemen of Verona is a story of mad children at play in the house of their own hearts, adrift and rudderless in a storm of their passion…
Ford Theatre adds five performance dates Local actor Craig Wallace will replace David Emerson Toney as Frederick Douglass in Richard Helleson’s  three-actor Necessary Sacr…
Shakespeare in Klingon II: The Wrath of (Michael) Kahn “I’ve never worked with Klingons before and I figure, after all these years, it’s about time.” Â - STC Artist…
At Washington Stage Guild, an extraordinary story about the foot soldiers of history. History is a tale written by the victors, Machiavelli tells us. But it is usually lived by the losers " …
A man walks on to the stage, accompanied by friends. It is night, and he is a decade older than he was that morning. He has buried his young daughter today " dead, suddenly and inexplicably,…
An apparent landlord-tenant dispute between Century and Associates, the owner of H Street Playhouse, and Adele Robey, the former owner who now leases the facility from Century and subleases …
A portion of the American Voices New Play Institute transfers to Emerson David Dower, Arena Stage's Associate Artistic Director, will be leaving the company to join Emerson College's Office …
If, at some point before the lights in the Kennedy Center's commodious Eisenhower Theater dim, you wonder why am I here you may be forgiven. Ann Richards was, after all, a one-term Governor,…
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” opens a 4 week run today DC Mayor Vincent Gray announced yesterday that the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities would take over management …
"May truth and love triumph over lies and hatred." Celebrated playwright Vaclav Havel, whose 1985 play Temptation was produced to great acclaim three years ago by Constellation Theatre Compa…
Arena Stage will hold open-call auditions this weekend for four young person's roles in its upcoming production of Meredith Willson’s The  Music Man, the company announced yester…
Rebecca Ende, who served as Theater J's Director of Marketing and Communications for three years before becoming President of the Board of Forum Theater, will return to her old company as Ma…
Some plays are like the Emerald City of Oz. They are best enjoyed by skimming along the surface. Examine them too closely, and the greasepaint turns to grease. Becky's New Car is one of thos…
