A Boston Marriage At Source

By: Ronnie Ruff         Boston Marriage – The Actor’s Theatre Of Washington

Anyone who has loved someone and thought they might be losing them can appreciate what Boston Marriage is really about. Not so much about the witty and terribly funny barbs that fly to and fro — the play is about is love and the [...]

A Remarkable Inheritance

By: Tim Treanor
The Heiress, Olney Theater Center

Reviewing a show like Olney Theater’s The Heiress presents almost insurmountable difficulties. The purpose of a review is to describe a play’s successes and failures, evaluate them against each other, and come to a reasoned conclusion about the worth of the enterprise. For The Heiress, there are no failures. [...]

Three For One

Over at Curtain Up you can read 3 good reviews of This Lime Tree Bower, The Story and Carrie Potter and the Half-Blood Prom.  Check them out by clicking here 

This Lime Tree Bower

Come on in and sit around the table with Dan Brick, Eric Lucas and Joe Baker.. Let them tell you an Irish tale full of laughs and fine lessons learned; storytelling is something these lads are very, very good at. These three actors take this play by Conor McPherson and turn it inside out, upside [...]

Death and Life

By: Ronnie Ruff      Death and The King’s Horseman       WSC 
Death and The Kings Horseman written by Wole Soyinka is thought by many to be his greatest work but it is rarely produced in the United States. The play is an aggressive venture for WSC but they historically have made it a point to choose plays that [...]

By Love Possessed

By: Tim Treanor
The Dybbuk       TheaterJ – Synetic Theater

So: what did you think a collaboration between Theater J and Synetic Theater would be like? After all, the coolly cerebral Theater J has staged productions about the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (Hannah and Martin) and about religious debates against the backdrop of the Inquisition (The Disputation). On [...]

Words That Fly

By: Ronnie Ruff

Eleemosynary                                          Catalyst Theater
Spelling Bees, flying children and the joy of articulate vernacular are all part of the simple diversion that is Lee Blessing’s Eleemosynary. This is a story of three bright women;  a mother, daughter and grandmother and the ties that bind them together.
There is nothing traditional about these women or their relationships but [...]

Midwives, an exploration of gray

By: Ronnie Ruff
Midwives  Round House

Sometimes during a life threatening illness people feel the need to unburden their conscience of past mistakes and transgressions. Enter Midwives, the latest production from Bethesda’s Round House Theatre. The play is adapted from the Oprah Book Club selection, written by Chris Bohjalian and adapted for the stage by Dana Yeaton. Bohjalian [...]

Dream Theatre

Velvet Sky
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson
Who hasn’t had an occasional bout of insomnia, hint of paranoia, or fear of things that go bump in the night? Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Velvet Sky explores all of these psychological elements in the context of an American family with serious and strange issues. From the first magical moments of a [...]

Less Is More

By: Ronnie Ruff

Driving Miss Daisy       
NobleHeart Repertory Company
One of the wisest things a small theatre company can do and one of the hardest lessons to learn is not to over reach. It is far too easy to forget the limitations that come with a modest budget and smaller stage. Failure to heed this oft forgotten concept [...]

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