The Ides of March

Beau Willimon’s 2008 play Farragut North, about the cynical choices of a young political press spokesman, gets a Hollywood makeover that expands, but doesn’t necessarily improve it. [Read more...]

This Rorschach inkblot looks like a phoenix

It is 2009, and we are in the midst of a recession. A bad one. Good small theaters – Catalyst, Firebelly, Didactic, Meat and Potatoes,– are gone, swept out in a blood tide of depressed ticket sales and diminished donations. And Rorschach – the most inventive, and one of the best of them all gets it harder than most. Evicted from its cramped space in the Casa del Pueblo, it moves to Georgetown University, where it can produce only in the summer. And then it stops producing there. [Read more...]

Lighting Designer Ayun Fedorcha (1957 – 2011)

Ayun Fedorcha, a Helen-Hayes nominated lighting designer who served as resident artist for two Washington companies, passed away after a long illness on September 28th. She was 53. [Read more...]