Reviews by Tim Treanor

Tim Treanor DCTS Senior Reviewer He's been writing for DCTS for nearly three years. Before that, he acted a bit. He's got a play about Dracula and a novel in the works about population control through infectious diseases. By day, he's a DC trial lawyer whose shoes are stuffed with Pablo Neruda poems.

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  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

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  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

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  
Filed under News and Views

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  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

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  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

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  
Filed under Features, Our Reviews

Signature’s 20 anniversary production is a full-throated Sweeney Todd; a roaring in-the-raw production, demented, dangerous and fierce.

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