As gaming and virtual reality become ever more ingrained into popular culture, it’s about time that some creative minds brought it into the world of theater. In the interactive escape drama Happy Hour, Spooky Action Theater and Goethe-Institut bring immersive, gamified action to Washington and ask audiences “What would happen if the game characters were […]
There’s new action at Spooky Action Theater – a live video game
Escape rooms have been all the rage recently, and Spooky Action Theater is getting in on the trend with Happy Hour, a production created by German theater collective machina eX, which offers a live-action twist on the escape room video game genre.
Collaborators at Spooky Action Theater (review)
In a match that’s Man versus Monster, how do you think humanity would fare? In Collaborators, the 2011 award winning play by John Hodge (a dramatist and screenwriter known for the films Trainspotting, A Life Less Ordinary, and The Beach), humanity loses. Big time.
Can’t Complain from Spooky Action Theater Company
Christine Evans’ Can’t Complain is an exquisitely beautiful play that cuts to the bone. Luciana Stecconi brilliant set plunges us into an in-between world of gradations of gray and charcoal. Gray blankets and sheets, gray pillows, and cushioned arm chairs. A supposedly soothing atmosphere, but one that hurts to be there, like going to a […]
UpClose: Christine Evans, Women’s Voices Theater Festival
Christine Evans’ new play, Can’t Complain, debuts at Spooky Action on October 1, 2015.
Merde! Spooky Action’s Jarry Inside Out gets lost midst the murk
Spooky Action Theater’s spirited dive into the addled mind of avant garde playwright and nonsense man Alfred Jarry provides an experience of the provocateur’s life and art in a manner that complements the artist but eventually loses the audience.
The spooky action of Richard Henrich and Alfred Jarry
As the founder of Spooky Action Theater, Richard Henrich is always searching for unique works to stage at his 16th Street NW venue. For his season closer, he had to search no further than his desk drawer.
Last of the Whyos director goes big on Spooky Action’s small stage
When Richard Henrich, Spooky Action Theater’s Artistic Director, was looking for a new play by a woman playwright to run this season, he reached out to one of his favorite directors, Rebecca Holderness, to see if she had anything in mind.
Last of the Whyos, a time traveling tale of Coney Island
In the final five minutes of her life, a nameless hot corn girl (Tia Shearer) shivers in the cold winds off the Atlantic, argues with her pimp, Eddie Farrell (Michael Kevin Darnall), and worries about coyotes. And then, the night suddenly fills with creatures far more dangerous than any coyote. She feels the cold sharp […]
Spooky Action Theater and National New Play Network receive Dramatists Guild Fund awards
At the beginning of 2015, the Dramatists Guild Fund awarded $170,000 to 129 nonprofit theaters across the country, with Spooky Action Theater in Washington, D.C. among its deserving recipients.
Kwaidan, a moving production from Spooky Action
Kwaidan, a collection of “stories and studies of strange things” is a journey through Ghostly Japan being presented by the appropriately named Spooky Action Theater. With text described as poetic, and dream-like, the stories are hauntingly beautiful, eerie, and some even downright, well, spooky.
Spooky Action goes to Wonderland
Alice In Wonderland – Spooky Action Theater Talented upstart Spooky Action Theater has taken a fall in the rabbit hole that is Manhattan Project’s Alice In Wonderland and have done an admirable job not only with the fluid dialog but an even better job with the extremely fluid movement that twirls and twists before your eyes. A visual feast, […]