Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater is searching for young DC-area actors, ages 10 – 18, for next season’s production of Oliver!, opening October 30, 2015 in the Fichandler Stage.
Archives for April 16, 2015
Rorschach’s ‘very still & hard to see’: a horror fan’s dream. (review)
In the jarring very still & hard to see, playwright Steve Yockey injects dark Japanese folklore into Stephen King’s mold of creeping horror, set far too close to home. Rorschach Theatre’s production leads the audience through a maze of darkly funny and just plain dark tales of ordinary people whose secrets take on terrifying lives […]
Joe Brack’s new play: inside the mind of presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth
“There’s no justification, none of that, but it’s an incredibly interesting story. I don’t know that it’s ever been told before, and certainly not in this fashion,” Matty Griffiths said to me. He’s directing Don’t Die in the Dark, a play written by Joe Brack and featuring Brack in the role of the infamous actor-assassin […]
Review: MET’s insightful Elephant Man
“Sometimes I think my head is so big because it is so full of dreams,” John Merrick offers to an attractive visitor, one of the first women he ever encountered who did not recoil in horror at the sight of him. The soul-bearing insights of a poetic spirit are revealed throughout Bernard Pomerance’s touching play […]