842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
The The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts is offering a musical theater training program for novices with a twist " at the end of the program, you're in a show. The musical will be Rag…
Who is this man, this beast, this Red Bastard? He is not " to reassure readers of a certain age " Joe Stalin, back from the dead. Nor is he Christopher Hitchens, who some consider a well-rea…
Since the fine dramatic actor Helen Pafumi has written the Hub Theatre's current offering, Merry, Happy…What? you may be fooled into thinking it is a heavy drama, full of Christmasy angst.…
All right, so you've just stepped out of Arena's jaw-dropping Oklahoma!, or the fabulous Mary Zimmerman Candide at the Shakespeare Theatre, or some equally astonishing Washington production …
Well. I wouldn't exactly use these guys as Washington political consultants, since they apparently believe that Adrian Fenty is Italian " more on that later " but the latest Second City visi…
Although it is not immediately apparent from a survey of his accomplishments, Doug Wright is a sort of poet of artistic privation. He tells his most famous story, I Am My Own Wife, with thir…
It is the season of good cheer, and perforce time for a party. Jake (Tony Greenberg) inspects the signage on the wall of his living room. "Deck the halls with your balls," it says in cheery …
The Synetic Family Theater will be moving its production of The Nutcracker from its intimate Shirlington digs to the company's main theater space in Crystal City, VA. The move is designed so…
In these cash strapped times, how do you mount a blockbuster production of a Depression era musical featuring the work of two Tony Award winning artists? Olney Theatre Company was able t…
No man is a donut, but it is possible to be as inert and insubstantial as a day-old cruller, and it is roughly this state that Arthur Przybyszewski (Richard Cotovsky), the owner of the epony…
Westboro Baptist Church, which has won notoriety for picketing the funerals of American soldiers killed overseas, will picket the Richard Montgomery High School production of The Laramie Pro…
Maybe there's something in the water in Ireland. Not only are they writing new plays by the boxcar, they're writing new types of plays, using approaches which never occurred to Aristotle. Th…
At the beautiful new Cultural Arts Center at Silver Spring, all concrete and lucid glass, there is a room full of junk encased in a cage of twine. On the dust-encrusted floor the scattered r…
The lyrics are no more than serviceable, the story moves in random fits and starts, some of the acting is not of the greatest, and the dialogue is occluded with cliché ("time moves…like m…
Richard Washer to be First Draft’s first Resident Playwright October 21,2010 – First Draft, the play-and audience-development branch of Charter Theatre, has named Richard Washer …
I have delayed my review of Bay Theatre's production of this Terrence McNally play for nearly a week, for two reasons. The first is that, despite my great admiration for McNally's work, I di…
Blood Sweat & Fears III " The Red Velvet Curtain This latest collaboration between Molotov Theatre Group and Shawn Northrip is designed with a particular type of audience in mind. You kn…
