Everything about Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play is ambitious. Clocking in at just under four hours (yes, you read that right), the three-play cycle chronicles the staging of Passion plays across three places in geography, politics, and history. It uncovers, in the process, parallels in faith, morality, and aspects of human nature.
The T Party, kinky and sweet
I’m not a church-going man; the theater is my church. It’s where I go to experience, and aspire to create, the sort of communal experience that a house of faith provides so many. Call me an idealist, but I believe that theater has enormous and unique potential to tear down walls between groups, to reveal […]
How We Got On from Forum Theatre
From the seed of Robert Moses’ “ghettofication” of the Bronx via urban planning to the first time DJ Kool Herc spun tables on a makeshift sound system, the birth of hip-hop has been considered an urban phenomenon. But while hip-hop’s origins lie in the city and on the coasts, the city and the coasts aren’t […]
Forum Theatre Wins $12K Grant from American Theatre Wing
Forum Theatre, the Silver Spring-based company which brought such plays as The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Angels in America and Gidion’s Knot, among others, to DC over the last five years, has won a $12,000 National Theatre Company grant from the American Theatre Wing, ATW announced yesterday.
UpClose: Actress Caroline Clay in Gidion’s Knot
As an actor, Caroline Stefanie Clay seeks out opportunities to tackle challenging roles in complex plays and she found a big one playing Corryn Fell.
Gidion’s Knot
Gidion’s Knot is a story of irredeemable grief. It is a story about the fragility of childhood, and whether it is the duty of parents to protect their children or to let them flower. It is a tale about artistic freedom, and whether it can have limits, and if so, what those limits are. In […]
Forum stays in Silver Spring as new management takes over the downtown performance space
The theatre venue in downtown Silver Spring now known as Round House Silver Spring will have a change of name and management beginning July 1, 2014. It will become the Silver Spring Black Box Theater, managed by Theatre Consortium of Silver Spring, comprised of the four arts organizations primarily using the popular venue located next […]
Frank Britton returns to Judas Iscariot for final week
Actor Frank Britton survived a vicious attack on the streets of downtown Silver Spring following the opening night cast party for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. From his hospital bed, Britton said “They could have blown me away. But instead they just broke my face … I’m moving on and I just want to […]
Police arrest DC man in assault on Frank Britton
Tonight, the Montgomery County Police announced that they had arrested 18-year-old Elijah Jeremiah Smith of Washington, DC, in Monday night’s Silver Spring assault on and robbery of actor Frank Britton. Washington police assisted in the arrest. According to the Montgomery police, “items of evidence related to the assault and robbery were recovered” at the suspect’s […]
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
Sometimes, we could all use a little love and understanding – even, perhaps, the man who betrayed Jesus Christ. In Forum Theatre’s crackling production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, a superb cast brings an emotional, modern day spin to Jesus’ betrayal and Judas’ subsequent trial before a jury of ethereal peers. Director John […]
Forgiveness and Forum’s production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
– These interviews were conducted before the attack on cast member Frank Britton on Monday night – Jesus, Judas Iscariot and Mother Teresa walk into a bar . . . Actually, a courtroom, in Purgatory, where Judas is on trial to determine his eternal fate. Will he suffer everlasting damnation, or is there another option […]
Frank Britton hospitalized after attack in Silver Spring
Monday night, May 26th, after the cast party celebrating the opening of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Frank Britton was mugged and severely beaten on his way home. The injuries are serious but not life-threatening (thank God). He spent the night in the emergency room at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, where he is […]