842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
The Resurrectionist King, now being given active voice by Active Cultures, tells a pretty good story. Regrettably, it tells that story in the second Act, after the passage of forty-five tedi…
In the Southern Chinese Province of Guangdong there is a City called Shenzhen. A generation ago it had seven hundred inhabitants, most of whom were fishermen. Now it has fourteen million. Th…
The Golden Dragon, Roland Schimmelphennig's Mülheim Award-winning play which begins with four cooks pulling the tooth of a co-worker in an Asian restaurant and morphs into forty-eight vigne…
In the vast, soaring reaches of that old dowager, the Warner theatre, there is a conspiracy of chaos in progress. The agents of chaos are three silent bald men, wrapped in skins of cobalt…
Anyone can see the effect of oppression upon the oppressed, but what effect does it have on the oppressor? The gift that Athol Fugard gives us in “MASTER HAROLD”…and the boys, …
No Rules Theatre Company, this year’s Aniello Award co-recipient which is bi-located in D.C. and Winston-Salem, NC, will be presenting a 2011-2012 DC season which features three …
The ghosts of American history will join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Be in Ford Theatre's 2011-2012 season which the Company announced yesterday. Ford's will open the…
The Kennedy Center announced yesterday that its fifteen-production 2011-2012 mainstage season will include the award-winning Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey with a new book by Terrence McN…
Billy (Charles Johnson) is just like you. You have a J.D., an M.D. or a PhD in Political Science; Billy has a PhD in Horribleness. You hunger for a position with those powerful K Street lobb…
We have the culprit, officer, in Washington Stage Guild's production of Michael Hollinger's faux-noir gumshoe dramady, Red Herring. Really, it's obvious " I figured it out in the first few m…
This is the story of how Peter (Jeff Allin) learned that he was an animal. It took Edward Albee, now generally considered the world's greatest living playwright, about a month to write the s…
Two plays with links to Washington theater " a family drama which was seen in 2010's Source Festival and a tragicomedy about Superman which will run during Theater J's 2011-2012 sea…
We will remember 2010 as the year in which Arena Stage received three Helen Hayes nominations for outstanding resident musical and no one else " not even the venerable musicmeisters at Signa…
If Angels in America, given magnificent voice by Forum Theatre last year, showed us what love in the age of plague was like, Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare shows us plague spread out on a lo…
Round House Theatre will continue its traditional attention to classic literature during its 2011-2012 season, the Company has announced, producing adaptations of much-revered novels by Jane…
Gary Lee Maker, who once organized a little theater for the English-speaking community in Italy and later became one of the most loving supporters of professional theater in the DC theater c…
To understand Juno and the Paycock, and the masterful production it's getting from the Washington Shakespeare Company, imagine Laurel and Hardy in Beirut. Imagine Ralph Kramden meeting Moamm…
Benched is three sharply-defined characters in search of a story; half a hundred or so clever or insightful lines looking for a constructive purpose. You know the people you will see in this…
Like Water for Chocolate, a musical adaption of the best-selling Laura Esquivel novel by In the Heights author Quiara Alegria Hudes, in what is being billed as the pre-Broadway run, will lea…
Bruce (Graham Pilato) meets Prudence (Mundy Spears) at a restaurant. It is their first date, and they are both nervous. They shake hands. Bruce gestures her to her seat, and sits down across…
This is a meditation on the romance of the tragic drunk; the Yeats-quoting dipsomaniac who so feels the world's pain that it is necessary for him to polish off three-quarters of a bottle of …
Leave aside your opinions, your analyses, and your political positions, and come join the Black Watch as they go to the sweltering deserts of Iraq, and look war in the face. It is an experie…
WASHINGTON SHAKESPEARE TO REPRISE THE BARD IN KLINGON FOR BBC TaH latlh heglu'meH. That is the question. In Klingon! And to answer it, acclaimed British actor Stephen Fry (“Wilde“…
Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights, now being given sweet and vigorous voice at Arena Stage, could be with perhaps more justice called How the Mad King Shahryar Recovered his Humanity, so a…
To the earliest humans, everything was magic, from the rising and setting of the Sun to the way that flint could change a pile of dry sticks and leaves into a fire. That is to say, the every…
