Let me sum this up for you right away: if you love a good laugh, go see The Typographer’s Dream. Now, onto the more serious business of detailing why—witful, wisdom soaked, full of storytelling infused with snappy dialogue and emotional weight. The Typographer’s Dream explores the notion of identity tied to work and how our […]
Waverly Gallery
The Waverly Gallery By Kenneth Lonergan Directed by Christopher Carroll and Dana Edwards Produced by Didactic Theatre Company Reviewed by Tim Treanor In The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan paints a subtle, honest, and exquisitely detailed picture of a family wracked by Alzheimer’s. It is a family portrait because Alzheimer’s doesn’t attack the sufferer alone: it […]
The Glory of Living at Didactic Theatre Company
Didactic Theatre Company is a fresh addition to DC theatre for a number of reasons — the most important is they stick to their mission which includes making us think outside the box. Even though their latest show, Rebecca Gilman’s The Glory Of Living, is not up to the standard set by their last few […]
Beautiful Child, Didactic makes a fearless choice
Like The Goat or Who is Sylvia by Edward Albee, Beautiful Child by Nicky Silver is a play that scares critics and audiences alike with hard to handle subject material that evokes our most deeply held feelings of disgust. Didactic Theatre’s mission includes promoting the reality of disparity based on a variety of circumstances. They […]
Review: Bright Ideas, a child-rearing comedy from Didactic Theatre
Every generation reinvents child rearing, thinking they have new insights the previous generation did not, almost as if their generation was the first to raise brilliant scientists, authors, painters, inventors and statesmen. The current breeding class puts an immense amount of pressure on themselves to find the BEST preschool, getting put onto waiting lists and […]