Studio Theatre extends Time Stands Still

Audiences have an additional week to catch Donald Margulies’ Tony Award nominated Time Stands Still. Studio Theatre just announced that their production has just been extended until February 19th. [Read more...]

DC theatre community mourns the passing of Lance Hayden Kump, artist and Studio Theatre staff member

The theatre community has lost another member. We are sad to report that Lance Hayden Kump, Marketing Manager for Studio Theatre and a gifted visual artist, died suddenly January 20, 2012. [Read more...]

Time Stands Still

When Sarah, the ambitious, chain-smoking photojournalist at the heart of Time Stands Still, returns from assignment in Iraq, she’s broken and battered. Her face and neck are scarred; her leg’s in a cast. Eventually the cast comes off, but the scars don’t.   [Read more...]

Bust

When HBO and Comedy Central’s Lauren Weedman decided to take her comedic sensibilities to the jailhouse and teach a writing workshop, her good intentions were tinged with a sense of noblesse oblige, as Weedman herself would be the first to admit. But we all know where good intentions lead.  Rather than teach a writing course, Weedman winds up becoming what’s known as a volunteer advocate. Any idealism she may have felt at the start will take a sharp turn toward realism. [Read more...]

The Golden Dragon

It started with just a simple toothache…and then everything went wrong. Studio Theatre’s tense, darkly comic production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Golden Dragon follows disparate lives forever changed by a single random event. It’s an arresting allegory for the turmoil plaguing our increasingly intertwined global community.  [Read more...]

Lungs

Feeling a bit overwhelmed by some of the magnificent productions on DC theater boards, their elegant sets and colorful costumes either enhancing or competing with the luscious language emanating from lushly made-up mouths of too many characters to count without a playbook?  If so, does Studio Theatre have a play for you. [Read more...]

British playwright Duncan Macmillan at Studio Theatre

I came to DC’s Studio Theatre  to talk to Duncan Macmillan about his latest play, Lungs, which will be making the first part of its rolling world premier at Studio on October 2nd (it opens on the 19th in the U.K. ). The play itself focuses on a young couple agonizing about – here I’m  stealing from the playbill — sex, parenthood, and responsibilities large and small. [Read more...]

The Habit of Art

To begin with, The Habit of Art is not a play about an imagined encounter between W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, late in their lives. It is a play about a play about this fictional encounter. Imagine Stoppard’s The Invention of Love having a love child with Noises Off, and you begin to understand what Alan Bennett renders here. [Read more...]

Studio Theatre’s garage sale this Saturday

Why settle for stools from Ikea, when you can have Ikea-like stools that Jennifer Mendenhall and others used in Circle Mirror Transformation? Or wouldn’t that red couch Tom Story is presently curling up in as Andy Warhol be the perfect spot for you and your iPad2? [Read more...]

Pop!

Andy Warhol played the deadpan fool but was nobody’s fool. The pop artist is still making money after death. One of his self-portraits sold for $38.4 million in a bidding war at an auction in May, 2011. Now Warhol is alive at Studio Theatre in a glitzy, high-powered, wildly funny musical, with book and lyrics by Maggie Kate Coleman and music by Anna K. Jacob, lampooning a slice of his life. POP! is an explosive and exciting multi-media extravaganza that pushes the envelope and is a must-see. [Read more...]