842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
More accustomed to sequins and spotlights, Natascia Diaz talks about her role as Denise Savage in John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo Some people go to theater for the glamour of it…
Witness for the Prosecution is a six-course meal of a play, a lip-smacking, eye-rolling, stomach-rumbling grand buffet of " wait for it " vintage fifties, English-style murder, complete with…
Ponka Nation Festival to Read Play Based on Seminal Civil Rights Case The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will present a free staged reading of Waaxe's Law, Mary K…
Bay Theatre co-founder Lucinda Merry-Browne, who left that company to found an Annapolis theater school, today announced that the school has become a "teaching theater company" with a slate …
The Picture of Dorian Gray " banned! A Farewell to Arms " banned in Boston! Twelfth Night " banned in New Hampshire! In the shadow of Round House Theatre's production of Fahrenheit 451 " in …
Dec 22nd, 1989 was the end of a world in Romania. Everything its people had endured for two generations or more " privations which caused them to wait hours in line for a half-dozen eggs or …
Does this sound a little " what's the word? " twee? A festival of European theater for the 2 to 12 set. October 14 – November 10, 2011 Cool Frogs, from the Netherlands Well, ma…
It is with great sadness that we report that the death of Gaurav Gopalan, an aerospace engineer who doubled as a director, dramaturge and production manager, has been ruled a homicide. Polic…
Kuti’s Afrobeat was just the background to his workouts until 30 years later when he brought the musician’s story to Broadway Consider Fela Ankulapo Kuti. In his fifty-nine years…
Gaurav Gopalan, whose death rocked the DC theater community earlier this week, probably died of natural causes, his longtime partner told DCTS. Bob Shaeffer, who lived with Gopalan and their…
Gaurav Gopalan, an aeronautical engineer who brought boundless energy, a vigorous intellect and startling insight to theater in the Washington area, was found dead in Columbia Heights on Sat…
To begin with, The Habit of Art is not a play about an imagined encounter between W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, late in their lives. It is a play about a play about this fict…
"Bernie, do you follow baseball?" asks gnomish, delightful Solomon Galkin (Mike Nussbaum). He is talking to Bernard Madoff (Rick Foucheux), the most notorious criminal of the twenty-first ce…
The pre-production version of Deborah Margolin's Imagining Madoff was largely composed of dialogue between the notorious criminal named in the title and the famous writer, holocaust survivor…
The 2011 DCTS Audience Choice Awards polls closed Wednesday night at midnight, and the results showed that, even though area residents weathered an earthquake and Hurricane Irene, they took …
An Interview with Rick Foucheux The actor's stock-in-trade is his ability to empathize with the character he plays, in order to make that character recognizably human, with clear motivations…
Deadline for applications is Wednesday, September 6th. The Helen Hayes Awards is seeking an unspecified number of new judges for a three-year cycle of evaluating professional productions in …
Voting opened this morning for the fifth annual DCTS Audience Choice Awards in which the staff of DC Theatre Scene nominate the best productions and performances from the previous season, an…
A musical is an odd beast, and one which does not occur in nature. When was the last time that you, while crowding into the Metro, or pouring coffee for your sweetie, or advising on the debt…
The newly re-named company announces casting for its Falstaff-centric comedy We all know this story…the one about Happy Hal, the Prince Who Stayed out Late. The heir to the English throne …
Something Past in Front of the Light is “The Exorcist” for grownups. Playwright Kathleen Akerley's genius script recognizes, as “The Exorcist” did not, that Satan …
World premiere youth version of Big, The Musical - Natascia Diaz joins DC cast Five or so years ago, when Adventure Theatre was an undersized children's theater with a tiny budget and les…
"What's in a name?" the Bard of Avon once asked. "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Perhaps. But it wouldn't be as well described, and so after twenty-one years as The Washingt…
If you hit the link at the bottom of this article, you will reach a machine designed to tell you how much fun you'll have next season. For maximum effect, sort by date, and imagine yourself …
Tell me if this sounds familiar. There's this thing in the middle of the room, and it's growing. In fact, it's consuming everything in sight. First it's the size of a beaver, then of a Dober…
