842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
Bruce Norris won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this astonishing play not simply because of what he wrote, but for what he permits his actors to do. Most plays show characters utterin…
Here is the story of six members of three exotic species of wildlife who have entertained New Yorkers for over two decades: (1) Silo (Dan Crane) and Roy (Matt Dewberry), two male chinstrap p…
It is Venice in the middle of the 16th century " or the mid-1920s, in New York's Little Italy, as director Ethan McSweeny would have it; it doesn't matter. Salerio (the excellent Andy Murray…
Brothers and sisters, before we begin our meditation on Gregory Hischak's theatrical accomplishment, let us draw our context (as Hischak may have) from scripture: specifically, from Genesis …
We have been telling each other stories through theater for twenty-seven hundred years, but that doesn't mean we can't do it better. Two hundred years ago, a proposal to sing songs in the mi…
As Spacebar opens, Kyle Sugarman's dad (Brian Razzino, good in this) is dragging himself into Kyle's room, carrying a neat whiskey for fortification. He looks like he is preparing himself to…
Michael Hollinger, who is enjoying a well-deserved revival here (he co-adapted Folger's Cyrano with Aaron Posner, and his Red Herring had a recent run at Washington Stage Guild), was a violi…
You are in the lobby of Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, in America, waiting to get into Forum's bobrauschenbergamerica. The problem is that you don't know whether you've actu…
Richard Henrich finds his own measure for happiness There's something about the laws of physics that freaked Albert Einstein out. Certain particles can be related " "entangled" is the term p…
"I always think a playwright's job is to let actors do their stuff," playwright David Ives asserts. "I think what we're supposed to do is write wonderful things for actors, who are much more…
How light is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Alan Ayckbourn musical now playing at 1st Stage? Imagine a chiffon pie, covered with whipped cream and meringue. It is lighter than that. Imagine a field…
Thursday, May 26, 2011 – The D.C. City Council yesterday passed a 2011-2012 budget for the City " without the 6% tax on live arts performances that Mayor Vincent Gray had proposed. The…
At Lumina Studio, the Next Generation invokes a story set twenty generations ago The young prince Edward (Aidan Close) kneels down to be knighted by his father, King Henry VI (Emma Bergman).…
Arthur Laurents, whose fabled Broadway career as a writer and director began with two short lived productions but who eventually wrote the book for such monumental successes as Gypsy and …
Washington Mayor Vincent Gray has unveiled a 2012 budget which would subject tickets to DC theatres to the City's 6% sales tax. The tax, Gray predicts, would generate $2,303,000 in FY 2012 a…
In this earnest, ambitious piece, Synetic alumnus John Milosich attempts to confront racism using song, video, movement, myth, and self-examination. Does he succeed? Well, no, not entirely. …
J. Fred Shiffman, whose droll theatrical wit informed a fantastically versatile talent for over three decades, will end his storied stage career and become a full-time agent for Capital Tale…
The compromise budget which kept the Federal Government operating this year will have a "devastating" effect on small arts organizations, including small theaters, according to the Washingto…
Speech & Debate is about silence and lies, and about the sort of secrets that adults keep from teenagers and teenagers keep from each other. Another way to say this is that it is about s…
If you want to see a play about friendship, go see Art at Signature. But if you want to see a play about art, you should see Lee Blessing's Chesapeake, now playing at the Bay Theatre in Anna…
Sidney Harman, businessman, author, philanthropist, has dies Sidney Harman, an extraordinarily successful businessman whose generosity contributed to the performing arts in Washington, died …
Oyez, oyez, oyez, all you girlz and boyez! Last night, rhe Honorable the Supreme Court of the United States (supplemented by Judges from the Honorable the Less Supreme Courts) let the extort…
9 Circles, a play about a tortured young soldier's climb through an Iraqi inferno, has won the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award as the best new play arising out of regional theater in…
The impending shutdown of the Federal Government would also close Ford Theatre's performances of Liberty Smith, the Ford Theatre Society announced last night. The announcement reverses a …
Some say the world will end in fire, the poet Robert Frost observed, and some say in ice, but at Woolly Mammoth next season the world will end with a rampage of feral pigs, a hip-hop Thomas …
