842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
Telling the truth – then and now. An interview with the author of Equivocation Equivocation, opening next Monday at Arena Stage, is an unusual play and its author is an unusual pla…
It is 1938, and Europe is settling down to dream the worst nightmare in human history. Georg von Trapp (George Dvorsky), an Austrian hero of the Great War, has lost his wife, and is about to…
The problem with Ebenezer Scrooge is not that he's selfish or wrong-headed " he's right about Christmas, and you know it " it's that he's lonely. Scrooge is as miserly toward himself as he i…
Cast from the national tour of Jersey Boys will stage a benefit concert on November 28th at D.C. Improv to support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the local charity Food & Friends.…
The Normal Heart will replace Like Water for Chocolate in season’s lineup; Mary T and Lizzie K is postponed The Tony Award winning Broadway production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer…
DCTS to include the Mary Goldwater Awards in its permanent archives For nineteen years, the Washington theater community honored its own in a unique way: for excellence, regardless of catego…
Arena Stage will be hosting a complimentary Thanksgiving dinner and an evening of theater for America's veterans and their families on Friday, November 25th, the company announced yesterday.…
No hystery mere: writer/director Tom Mallan's purpose is to take the most powerful story in royal English history " Henry of Monmouth's growth from a frivolous delinquent into the greatest o…
If you're like me, you find it easy to justify an eighty-mile trip to see a hot actor – one never seen on Washington stages – Â play a classic role in a great play. So for that…
“Anonymous” says ‘no’. Freud agrees. Who are we to believe? Court is in session and Tim Treanor argues his case. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let's review the ev…
Jim Petosa, who has served Olney Theatre as its artistic director since 1993, will step down at the end of 2012, the company announced today. Jim Petosa (Photo: Kalman Zabarsky / Boston …
In Lissa Levin's snorer of a play, Sex and Education, now being force-marched through its paces by Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre, Miss Edwards (Ellen Mansueto), an English tea…
Blake Robison, who has served as Round House Theatre's Producing Artistic Director for the past seven years, will leave at the end of the season, the theater announced yesterday. Robison wil…
In the bucolic Eastport Plaza, the Compass Rose Studio Theater is nestled comfortably between Ahh Coffee (whose products you are welcome to bring into the theater) and Eastport Liquors (not …
There are no ghosts. You know this, and so do I, so let's stop all the nonsense. Also, there are no zombies or vampires, no matter how much we would have it otherwise; and aliens do not wish…
O, Mabou Mines, what hath though wrought? Or " overwrought? Anyone who saw how the brilliant Mabou Mines production of Peter & Wendy at Arena Stage four years ago explored the melancholy…
The Shakespeare Theatre Company today announced that noted stage and screen actor Kevin Kline will join Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn for a conversation in front of an audience at t…
Rorschach Theatre Company, which is currently producing after the quake, a play based on two Haruki Murakami short stories, will make copies of the popular Japanese novelists newly released …
Patti LuPone, who won a Tony, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award for her work as Rose in the Styne/Sondheim/Laurents musical Gypsy, is the recipient of Signa…
DC's Source Festival, which produces a dozen-and-a-half ten-minute plays each June to go along with full-length plays and productions from blended disciplines, seeks interested Source audien…
Members of the cast of Les Miserables The National Tour cast of Les Misérables, currently onstage at the Kennedy Center, will step out on October 24 to present a concert to benefit Broadway…
Forum Theatre will stage a reading of Larry Kramer's Tony Award-winning The Normal Heart on Monday, November 7 at 7.30 as a fundraiser for the company. Kramer's play, which won the 2011 …
We have, by virtue of our earthquake last August, an inkling of what the people of Kobe, Japan suffered sixteen years ago. The deep inharmonious rumble " the incomprehensible undulation of t…
It is 2009, and we are in the midst of a recession. A bad one. Good small theaters " Catalyst, Firebelly, Didactic, Meat and Potatoes," are gone, swept out in a blood tide of depressed ticke…
Ayun Fedorcha, a Helen-Hayes nominated lighting designer who served as resident artist for two Washington companies, passed away after a long illness on September 28th. She was 53. Ayun Fedo…
