A Christmas Carol

A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORY OF CHRISTMAS
Adapted by Michael Wilson with Original Direction by Matt August
Original Staging Recreated by Mark Ramont
Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy
There’s a reason for the standing ovation at the end. Experiencing Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol at the Ford’s Theatre is thrilling.It’s more than the spectacular technical effects: Rumbling [...]

The Little Prince

The Little Prince
Produced by Round House Theatre
Reviewed by Rosalind LacyA plane with an open cockpit makes a crash landing during a thunder storm in the Sahara Desert, miles from help. As the Aviator fixes his plane, an extraterrestrial person, the Little Prince, pops out of the cockpit. He orders the Aviator to “Draw me a [...]

Cinderella

Cinderella  
Music by Richard Rodgers and Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Produced by Olney Theatre Center
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
I am going to give you this straight up, without frou-frou or folderol.  If your kids have not yet become cynical, or worse, analytical, you should take them to this show.  I know it’s a [...]

Tomorrow

Produced by Quotidian Theatre Company
Reviewed by Debbie Minter Jackson
Quotidian’s production of Tomorrow does justice to the quiet, deliberate tone of Horton Foote’s adaptation of a short story written by William Faulkner.  Set in a dreary Mississippi farm town in the early 1900’s, the play tells the back story about a sole dissenter on a jury [...]

The Throat Interview by Guest Interviewer Hugo Medrano, Producing Artistic Director of GALA Hispanic Theatre

“This is a really wonderful production. It goes right to the heart of human emotions. Very touching.” Hugo Medrano, Producing Artistic Director of GALA Hispanic Theatre talks with members of the company of THROAT, the bold new play by Mando Alvarado, who is joined here by director Michael Ray Escamilla and actor Raul Castillo. They [...]

Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis

Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis
by Charlotte Jones
Produced by Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
At Christmastide, hope floats from the heavens like snow and cloaks us in a robe of optimism and cheer.  We pray for, or fantasize about, a peaceful world where people are free and bellies are full.  We imagine the [...]

Still Going Solo

Communion and Bulletins from Fatland
by Debbie Minter Jackson 
There’s something to be said about being “the nation’s oldest continuing women’s theater”– that’s a lot of keeping power.  Horizons Theatre celebrates its thirtieth season with “Still Going Solo,” a collage of solo pieces reflecting the company’s distinctive mission, talent, and innovative perspective.  The two intriguing pieces that [...]

Proof

 Proof
by David Auburn
Produced by Firebelly Productions
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
          Proof is less a great play than a great opportunity for actors to put together a memorable and satisfying evening of theater.  The slender plot revolves around the discovery of a complex and significant mathematical proof locked in the desk drawer of Robert (Don Kenefick,) a [...]

Ari Roth tells us about Theater J’s new season

Ari Roth tells about Theater J’s commitment to new plays, this year’s
full season of new work and the Peace Cafe.  Listen here.

Equus

 
Equus
by Peter Shaffer
Produced by the Washington Shakespeare Company
Reviewed by Tim Treanor
Consider the horse.  I am looking at one right now in my neighbor’s yard.  He is an enormous gelding, six and a quarter feet high at the withers and weighing well over a thousand pounds.  Retired from an indifferent career in the racing profession, he [...]

Next Page »