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Jeffrey Walker is proud to be a contributor to DC Theatre Scene and Broadway World's DC region. He also writes 'Stage Views,' a column for the theatre reviews and views for a weekly newspaper. When not writing about the theatre, he teaches theatre arts in Northern Virginia and lives with his wife and sons safely below the Beltway. Follow him on Twitter: @StageViews.
Spank! head writer and director Jim Millan talks about the show.
Taking guilty pleasures to new heights, the “Fifty Shades” trilogy by fan-fiction writer E. L. James broke publishing records and set Kindles afire and Nooks a-quivering with the rough and steamy escapades of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey. [Read more...]
The gods moved to New Orleans for the music.
So goes the premise of Dan Dietz’s riff on an ancient Greek tragedy, Clementine in the Lower 9, the latest from Forum Theatre, opening May 23rd at Round House – Silver Spring. [Read more...]
A blind date can be a boon or a bust for two strangers seeking romance. But what if the couple know each other and use blind dates as a game in an attempt to keep a spark in their relationship? [Read more...]
For your consideration: An evening of theatre with echoes of “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek.” And if you look closely, you also might find glimmers of Waiting for Godot. The thespians playing out these staged science-fictional forays possess keen intellect and the chameleon-like abilities to transform into all manner of characters, human or otherwise. [Read more...]
Offering seven weekly roundtrip flights to Paris, via the swinging sixties, Rep Stage is currently flying Boeing Boeing direct from the Smith Theatre at Howard Community College. [Read more...]
For the current production of Bill Cain’s deeply personal How to Write a New Book for the Bible, Ryan Rilette, producing artistic director at Round House Theatre, has moved to the director’s chair for the first time since taking the reins at the Bethesda theatre. The former producing artistic director of Marin Theatre Company in California’s Bay Area and Southern Rep Theatre in New Orleans took over at Round House from Blake Robison in August, 2012.
Costume designer Murell Horton has a simple philosophy: “Theatre, to me, is really good storytelling if it’s done well. It’s also about coming together to create a world that had not been there before.”
Thanks to Horton’s work, when audiences enter the worlds of ancient Rome and 17th Century Germany at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, it’s easier to tell a plebeian from a senator or a grenadier from a general. [Read more...]
An Interview with Olney Theatre’s Jason King Jones and actor Michael Russotto
Take four middle-managers from a Manchester business firm – think the UK version of “The Office.” Now hurl them into a rough and tumble setting where these members of the British middle class are literally fish out of water, being trapped on a tiny island in England’s Lake District. Now, it sounds more like “Survivor.” [Read more...]
When you are fourteen, choosing which clothes to wear and lunch table politics should top the list of big events of your school day.
Jason Papadopoulos wishes those were his biggest problems. He lives with a family secret that he protects at all costs. That secret and how Jason manages adult-sized challenges is the impetus for Jason Invisible, now having its world premiere at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater. [Read more...]
Nancy Opel is a trouper, yet, until now, her thirty year career in theatre missed one thing. Her credits include a who’s who and a what’s what of distinguished productions: Broadway’s Evita – at the ripe old age of 22, Sunday in the Park with George, Triumph of Love, Urinetown, and Memphis. [Read more...]
American Theatre Wing Interviews I AM THEATRE (TCG)