Produced by Round House Theatre By: Fiona Zublin A Prayer for Owen Meany is a monumental book (by prolific novelist John Irving), and its 600 pages would seem to be an impossibly candidate for adaptation. First of all, there is its daunting length-and even more intimidating is its beloved status in American culture. If one […]
Archives for September 12, 2006
Review: Arena Stage’s fearless version of Cabaret says “Never Forget”
The long history of Cabaret makes it extremely difficult to produce something refreshing and new for the seasoned theatre audience here in Washington, DC. I think, even more difficult, is the task of pleasing the critics who all have their favorite production. It was only a week or so ago that at least one major critical […]
Review: In the Mood at Olney Theatre Center
About twenty years ago, a James Caan-Mandy Patinkin movie called Alien Nation imagined the existence of a drug which enabled – indeed, compelled – users to work endless hours under subhuman conditions, cheerfully. It was addictive, both to the users and to those who took advantage of their supernal efforts. In the movie, decent men […]
Red Light Winter
Produced by Studio Theatre by Debbie Minter Jackson The Studio Theater’s production of Red Light Winter takes cold to a new dimension with the blustery drafts, howling winds, and frosted windowpanes. For talented playwright Adam Rapp, not even freezing temperatures can match the cold of unrequited love involving two friends straddling between Amsterdam and New […]
MacBird
Is this a dagger which I see before me? MacBird, by Barbara Garson, Performed by the American Century Theater Reviewed by Tim Treanor MacBird is agitprop. It cannot be usefully reviewed as though it was a piece of conventional theater, since its objectives are different. Moreover, in keeping with the American Century Theater’s mission of […]