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A Theatregoer’s Guide to the English Monarchs (Post-Hastings)
as compiled by Tim Treanor
Poets, madmen, geniuses, buffoons — the monarchs of England seem to have been designed for playwrights. Here’s a list of them, their entrances and exits, and how our playwrights (and other artists) made art from them. [Read more...]
Grease is the Word…and it’s a fantastic one. Most likely, at the end, you’ll be twisting and hand-jiving up the aisles and finding it impossible to stop humming its tunes long after you’ve arrived home. [Read more...]
Over twenty years ago, Eric Bogosian rose to fame as both playwright and actor with the theatrical and film productions of Talk Radio. The prospect of a new production raises two questions. Is the script still timely and is a local actor up to the demanding challenge of playing the outrageous talk show host Barry Champlain? [Read more...]
Heralded as “an entirely new phase of musical art” when Scott Joplin played for its first performance in 1915, Treemonisha was rediscovered in the 1970s and went on to triumph on Broadway. Last seen in DC in 1976, the Washington Savoyards will present an all-new production of this “thoroughly American opera” for a new generation, under the direction of Michael J. Bobbitt. [Read more...]
According to the Washington Post’s Jane Horwitz, when 1st Stage Artistic Director Mark Krikstan heard that his company had won the Helen Hayes John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company, he hung up and said “… Oh no. Now I’ve got to make sure this show is good.”
He needn’t have worried. The show is good. [Read more...]
From ancient times, the great Greek writers– Aeschylus, Euripides, even Sophocles, who thinly disguised his characters – have tried their hands at describing the story of the murderous House of Atreus.
The Fugitives is something that might have resulted if David Lynch had taken a crack at it. [Read more...]
Charter Theater, the Arlington-based company which had made a reputation as a home for original theater by Washington-area playwrights, has indefinitely suspended production, canceling the remainder of its season. [Read more...]
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