St. Mark’s Gospel Conceived by Alex McCowan Directed by Paul Takacs Produced by Theater Alliance Reviewed by Steven McKnight If I ever see Michael Tolaydo at a party, I will make a beeline to his side because he is a brilliant storyteller.  Given the opportunity to tell “The Greatest Story Ever Told” (to borrow the […]

 Ambition Facing West By Anthony Clarvoe Produced by Theater Alliance Directed by Jeremy Skidmore Reviewed by Tim Treanor There was a time, in the heart of human history, in which men who sought to escape the straightjacket of their society took to westward travel.  It began in the late 16th and early 17th  centuries, when […]

Lazarus Syndrome By Bruce Ward Produced by Theater Alliance Directed by Paul Douglas Michnewicz Reviewed by Tim Treanor In 1983, concert pianist Elliott Liteman (Michael Kramer) discovered that he had contracted AIDS.  He watched in horror and helplessness as dozens of his closest friends, and tens of thousands of other people, died.  How did he, […]

3/4 A Mass For St. Vivian — Theatre Alliance  By Ronnie Ruff It wasn’t night time when I attended 3/4 A Mass For St. Vivian. It was a wonderful Saturday afternoon, really warm outside, a bit of a breeze blowing. Inside the H Street Playhouse it was that purple haze of dusk, the moon clear and […]

Beginning with Alexander Strain’s opening lines it is obvious that Colleen Wagner’s The Monument, mounted at H Street Playhouse by Theater Alliance, is a play that describes horrible pain and suffering. This production draws you in to its tragic narrative and by plays end you find yourself left with many difficult questions to ponder. Not […]

By: Tim Treanor Two Rooms, produced by Theater Alliance, at H Street Theater Two Rooms is one of a pair of mainstage productions which anchors Theater Alliance’s ambitious two-month Pangea Project. In Earth’s early days, all land was contained in a single mass. Scientists call this land mass “Pangea”. In Two Rooms, the American hostage Michael […]

Critic Tim Treanor takes on a reviewing partner, Valeria Lamarra  Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a children’s play, adapted from a children’s novel by the great Salman Rushdie. I am a 55-year old lawyer. Should I be reviewing this play? I don’t think so. Children possess an imaginative faculty which is gone by […]