Ripped from the pages of Maxim and Cosmopolitan, Round House Theatre’s rollicking satire “NSFW” offers a timely, raunchy, and deeply affecting look at the media’s objectification of women. It begs the question: Does the media create the problem, or do they just exploit our own bad habits?
Uncle Vanya at Round House: one for Chekhov (review)
With several Vanyas to choose from this spring, Round House Theatre is celebrating its take on the Chekhov classic as one of the more authentic — a version of Uncle Vanya that would make the playwright happy.
Feminism on the hot seat in Round House comedy Rapture, Blister, Burn
The F-word. Not exactly a rarity in contemporary theater. But another F-word is—feminism. Feminist theory and the compromises women make combine into a snappy and rueful comedy by Gina Gionfriddo, Rapture, Blister, Burn, which sparkles and saddens at Round House Theatre.
Round House Theatre’s charming new musical, The Nutcracker
Christmas isn’t only the season of giving, receiving and familial travel, it’s also the season of theatrical traditions. My family drives a number of hours to watch the complete 3 hour Handel’s Messiah while other families see The Christmas Carol with grandparents, some Nativity play at a church, or many others. For me though, the […]
Calarco is cracking an old nut: musical Nutcracker at Round House
When Round House Theatre’s Ryan Rilette approached Joe Calarco about directing The Nutcracker, visions of sugar plum fairies and toys come to life initially gave Joe pause. “I thought it was going to be this sweet, cute holiday play,” says Calarco, “with no center or meat to it. Just a whole lot of fantasy.”
Fetch Clay, Make Man at Round House Theatre
“When you wear the mask for so long,” Lincoln Perry, a/k/a Stepin Fetchit (Roscoe Orman) warns Sonji Clay (Katherine Renee Turner), the wife of world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, f/k/a Cassius Clay (Eddie Ray Jackson) in this astonishing play, “you can’t take it off.”
Up close with Fetch Clay, Make Man stars Roscoe Orman and Eddie Ray Jackson
During the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Era, two men forged an unlikely friendship. Former movie star Lincoln Perry was better known in his heyday as the comical, stereotypical caricature of a black man, Stepin Fetchit. By the mid-1960s, Perry was hardly remembered and if he was, it was with derision or as the […]
Fool for Love at Round House
When a door slams in Round House Theatre’s production of Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love, the slam carries. Noises linger with an eerie resonance giving the impression that the entire play takes place underwater. In fact, with the play’s action confined to a motel room, the characters may as well be locked in an airtight […]
Round House’s Ordinary Days is pure joy
For a recent college grad, there’s a special feeling when stepping out into the world. Three parts excitement and one part nausea, there’s a sense that anything is possible, happiness is preordained and opportunity is all around. I’m just barely old enough to declare that “those were the days,” but there it is. At any […]
Two Trains. Two productions. Two friends exchange roles
Actors love August Wilson. Audiences love to see his plays, often more than once. Theatres love to include them in their seasons. Off the top of my head, I can think of four productions that will play around here either this season or next – Piano Lesson opens in just under two weeks at Olney. […]
A Body of Water at Round House Theatre
As humans, we fear losing control of ourselves. It is the worst nightmare of many to be infirm in some way, to lose one’s memories and to become entirely a burden on the ones we love. In A Body of Water, Lee Blessing’s latest work, he takes this concept—the terrifying uncertainty of forgetfulness—and makes it […]
Plays Under Construction Festival, 2006
The Playwrights Forum and Round House Theatre have joined forces to present the Plays Under Construction Festival, a three-week festival offering a behind-the-scenes look at the development of three new plays by three local playwrights. The festival runs March 13 – April 1, 2006 at Round House Theatre Silver Spring and the Round House Theatre […]