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• Theories of the Sun
• By Kathleen Akerley
• Produced by Longacre Lea
• Directed by Kathleen Akerley and Jonathon Church
• Reviewed by Tim Treanor

Having already established herself as a premium Washington-area actor and director, Kathleen Akerley has now written a startlingly good play - not about playwriting and literature, as you may have been led to believe, but about the sweetness of life itself, and the need for its closing in order to give it meaning. (more…)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard

Produced by Longacre Lea at Catholic University.

Reviewed by Tim Treanor

“Give us this day our daily cue,” prays Guildenstern (Jonathan Church), cueless and clueless, late in the second act of Longacre Lea’s remarkably satisfying production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Alas, Guildenstern’s problem is not too little instruction but too much, and too little context. Without reliable memories, reliable information or reliable assumptions - even the law of averages seems problematical! - Rosencrantz (the excellent Jason Stiles) and Guildenstern are cat’s-paws for everyone brighter or luckier than they. Which is, as it turns out, everyone.

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