Free Night of Theater is Back

FREE NIGHT OF THEATER, locally organized and sponsored by the League of Washington Theaters, is back and bigger than ever with 17 theatres offering 21 productions. Tickets go on sale Monday, Oct 1st at noon.  For those who don’t remember, last year’s tickets were swooped up almost immediately.
But before you get ready to reserve those [...]

Race, Injustice, Healing and Hope

A Lesson Before Dying Sparks Community Dialog

by Debbie Minter Jackson

The final session of a four-part series organized at Round House Theater explored “race, social justice, and other issues in the play” and involved a stellar panel of presenters – John C. Brittain, preeminent lawyer in the field of civil rights and social justice, Montgomery County [...]

A Lesson Before Dying

A Lesson Before Dying

By Romulus Linney based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines

Directed by Timothy Douglas

Produced by Round House Theatre

Reviewed by Tamera Izlar

Read Debbie Minter Jackson’s companion report Race, Injustice, Healing and Hope

 The elegant Round House Theatre, with its courteous, friendly front of house staff, did little to prepare me for the cold, raw desperation [...]

Studio Turns 30 This Weekend

This weekend, Studio Theatre celebrates the beginning of its 30th year with a weekend long celebration including a reading of the first play produced by Studio, Lanford Wilson’s The Rimers of Eldritch. Amazingly, Studio Theatre was able to assemble the original cast, who have flown in from all over the country for the event.  For the [...]

Merrily We Roll Along

Dreamgirls

Well

Well

By Lisa Kron

Produced by Arena Stage

Directed by Kyle Donnelly

Reviewed by Janice Cane

Well is a fantastically original play that explores both personal and societal issues. Well, it’s really a play within a play. Or no, wait, it’s really a theatrical exploration inside a theatrical exploration. Or is it a play within a theatrical exploration? Oh! Maybe [...]

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher

Adapted by Nathan Weinberger and Paata Tsikurishvili from a short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Produced by Synetic Theater

Directed by Paata Tsikurishvili

Reviewed by Tim Treanor

For the first twenty minutes, The Fall of the House of Usher is the best thing I have ever seen Synetic do. Edgar Allen Poe’s pyrotechnically [...]

Yaegel T. Welch on My Children My Africa

Personally Speaking:  Actor Yaegel T. Welch

Cast member of My Children! My Africa!  

Interviewed by Joel Markowitz

He commands the stage with emotion, power and strength. He’s Yaegel T. Welch, a talented young actor who is playing Thami Mbikwana in Studio Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of the Athol Fugard play.  Peter Marks called him “the extraordinarily impassioned [...]

No Exit

No Exit

By Jean-Paul Sartre   Translated by Paul Bowles

Directed by Robert McNamara

Produced by Scena Theatre

Reviewed by Tim Treanor

The remarkable thing, considering how celebrated Jean-Paul Sartre is as a chronicler of the human condition’s hopelessness, is how conventional No Exit really is.  It is not an existential treatise, it is a morality play, in which some thoroughly [...]

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