Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?
March 11, 2010 by Tim Treanor
Filed under Features, Our Reviews
Josh Kornbluth is the Joshua Bell of talk. His Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? is an arpeggio which takes us, forcefully and gracefully, to the land of I and Thou, where we, and all, are loved.
Some Girl(s)
March 7, 2010 by Tim Treanor
Filed under Features, Our Reviews
Here’s how you can tell your play is working: when you’ve got an Amen Corner. And there was plenty of that in No Rules Theatre’s first production: LaBute’s Some Girl(s).
Mauritius
March 3, 2010 by Tim Treanor
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In the world of Bay Theatre’s Mauritius, promises are written on water, truth and lies are of equal value, and business is done with a slap to the face or a punch to the gut.
Dear Sara Jane
February 28, 2010 by Tim Treanor
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It is a measure of the Obama Administration’s successful wind-down of the war in Iraq that Dear Sara Jane, Victor Lodato’s complex meditation on the uses of violence now being given a careful and intelligent production by the Hub Theatre,
QuestFest’s wordless theater festival returns to DC area
February 28, 2010 by Tim Treanor
Filed under News and Views
Quest: Arts for Everyone, a Maryland-based organization “committed to using the arts to…enable individuals who have been marginalized to realize their full potential” will collaborate with The Theater Project and Creative Alliance of Baltimore and Washington’s Gallaudet University to stage QuestFest 2010, a two-week festival of primarily non-verbal theater, in the two cities. The [...]
Arena Stage to return home with a 45-project 60th season
February 25, 2010 by Tim Treanor
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Arena Stage announces its 60th season which will inaugurate the Mead Center for American Theater in October, 2010.
High Fidelity
February 25, 2010 by Tim Treanor
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High Fidelity is an aggregate of great music and funny lyrics hung on a lame story with unlikeable characters, and Landless Theatre plays the hell out of it.
The Atheist
February 25, 2010 by Tim Treanor
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The atheist Augustine Early (Eric Lucas), a poor boy from Kansas, discovered at an early age the liberating force of deciding that there is no God. So he burns down his trailer in order to give himself and his mom better Section 8 housing.
Henry V
February 23, 2010 by Tim Treanor
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Henry V, in part, an account of Henry’s against-all-odds campaign against the French, culminating in his fantastic triumph at Agincourt. At bottom, it is a description of how a moral man exercises great power.
Sweeney Todd
February 22, 2010 by Tim Treanor
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Signature’s 20 anniversary production is a full-throated Sweeney Todd; a roaring in-the-raw production, demented, dangerous and fierce.











