Produced by Washington Stage Guild Reviewed by Rosalind Lacy   Jason Stiles and Sunshine Cappelitti  (photo: C. Stanley Photography)    As the Washington Stage Guild director Bill Largess observes in The Countess  program, the scandal of the 19th Century would make news in our supermarket tabloids today.In 1853, John Ruskin, a great writer who clarified […]

   An Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley Produced by Washington Stage Guild Reviewed by Tim Treanor Oh, how I wish I had liked An Inspector Calls.  Washington Stage Guild’s assiduous attention to this sixty-year-old play’s period detail is an act of nobility.  William Pucilowsky’s costumes are gorgeous, and make us long for the era when […]

If We Are Women currently at the former Living Stage space is an overly wordy story of three generations of women spending a leisurely day at a Connecticut beach house — we suffer through moaning, groaning and discussions of who had the more primitive method of dealing with menstruation. Jess (Lynn Steinmetz) is mourning her just passed […]