Hold on to the lightness and vivacity of summer for just a little while longer with Olney Theatre Center’s spirited, spun-sugar confection production of Nöel Coward’s Hay Fever.
Archives for September 2015
UpClose: Sheri Wilner, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Sheri Wilner’s new musical Cake Off debuts at Signature Theatre September 29, 2015. Her plays include Father Joy, Hunger, Bake Off, Labor Day, Relative Strangers, Moving Shortly, Little Death of a Salesman, The Unknown Part of the Ocean, Hell and Back, The Bushesteia, Equilibrium, The First Night of Chanukah, The End and Joan of Arkansas. Her work […]
Studio opens Chimerica: Chinese-American politics through the lens of a human story
Chimerica has been something of a sensation in London since premiering in 2013, but until now, has never been performed in America. That all changes this week when Studio Theatre stages the show under the direction of David Muse.
UpClose: Mary Hall Surface, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Stay Awake, Mary Hall Surface’s new play for very young audiences debuts October 2, 2-15 at Atlas Performing Arts Center. She is a four-time nominee for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play and five-time nominee and 2002 recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Direction. Round House Theatre, Folger Theatre, National Gallery […]
Shakespeare Theatre Company goes Jeopardy with ‘That Is the Question’
Trivia buffs – brush up your Shakespeare. Shakespeare Theatre Company invites you to show off your knowledge Saturday, September 19th at its Shakespeare Trivia Challenge, ‘That Is the Question’.
Valerie Leonard’s got Hay Fever
“You have to ‘Coward’ it,” Valerie Leonard said to me, as she considered the fine art of acting in the very distinctive plays of Noël Coward. I had begun our conversation by asking Leonard if she was a Coward aficionado. “I’m not an aficionado, but I understand the style a bit,” she responded, humbly. “What […]
The Oregon Trail at Flying V (review)
Children of the ‘90s, climb on board. The Oregon Trail, modeled after the primitive computer game of the same name, is Flying V’s contribution to the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Written by Bekah Brunstetter and directed by Amber Jackson, this world premiere uses the parameters of our cherished childhood game to balance two coming-of-age tales.
UpClose: Sheila Callaghan, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Sheila Callaghan’s new play, Women Laughing Alone with Salad, is playing at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through October 4, 2015. Everything You Touch was produced at the Contemporary American Theater Festival last summer. She is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, a […]
Page-to-Stage readings that made Rosalind Lacy’s don’t-miss list
On Labor Day weekend, Kennedy Center plaza level entry was pandemonium, noisy with skate boarders, who zigzagged and snaked in and out of a recessed pit and across a cordoned-off area. The skateboarders’ passion connected us to the 14th Annual Page-to-Stage Festival, a rich offering of short free trailers, script readings and open rehearsals of […]
UpClose: Jen Silverman, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Jen Silverman’s play, Phoebe in Winter, opens September 23 at Single Carrot Theatre in Baltimore. Her work has been produced off-Broadway by the Playwrights Realm (Crane Story), off-off Broadway by Clubbed Thumb (Phoebe in Winter), by Actor’s Theatre of Louisville (The Roommate, Humana 2016), and by InterAct Theatre (The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane).
UpClose: Patricia Connelly, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Patricia Connelly’s new play Princess Margaret opens September 17, 2015 at the Trinidad Theatre. She is an award-winning playwright and director. Her plays have been presented at the Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage Festival and have been produced in Washington, D.C., and New Mexico. Her play, The Penny or the Stone, won the Robert Bone Memorial Playwriting […]
Night Falls on the Blue Planet at Theater Alliance (review)
The best plays are those that ask more questions than they answer: Night Falls on the Blue Planet is one of those plays. Renee (Jeanne Dillion-Williams) might not have hit rock bottom yet, but she is close; she drinks too much, her relationships with her sisters are strained, and she lost custody of her 8-year-old […]