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Monday, October 1, 2012

The Rape of Lucrece by Ross Preston

Whenever a Shakespeare play is “modernized,” “updated,” or otherwise altered to appeal to a contemporary audience, it’s important to be skeptical, for we would hate to witness …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AM

Monday, July 23, 2012

Making Love Legal by Ross Preston

Making Love Legal is funny, ambitious in its plot twists, and concludes the way comedies are supposed to end. Hint: there’s a ceremony in the final scene focused on two people in lo…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:08AM

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

In This Economy by Ross Preston

“The applicant must have a bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of relevant experience.” These are the words that the audience first encounters during In This Economy. Th…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:23AM

Monday, July 16, 2012

Tent of Dreams: An Occuplay by Ross Preston

It was fitting enough that the opening performance of the Occupy DC focused play Tent of Dreams: An Occuplay was being staged at the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent. Even more fitting was the Fringe …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:55AM

Monday, July 18, 2011

Who’s Your Baghdaddy or How I Started the Iraq War by Ross Preston

As a Fringe reviewer, it is always nice to read something in a program that acknowledges the challenges of creating the play in question. In the words of Charlie Fink, producer of Who’…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03AM

The Many Women of Troy by Ross Preston

What do the women do while the men are at war? It is this question, asked in the midst of an all-out musical and visual spectacle, that drives director Tracey Elaine Chessum’s producti…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:59AM

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Hamlet Reframed by Ross Preston

Many people have attempted adaptations of Hamlet. And so has Mel Gibson. Anytime it happens, there is always the problem of how to faithfully depict Shakespeare’s masterpiece without g…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PM

Monday, July 11, 2011

David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross by Ross Preston

David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross is a top notch play. Saturday’s performance at the Warehouse was a quality one, but it did not exceed expectations. Call me jaded, but this prod…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:40PM

Sunday, July 10, 2011

70 Million Tons by Ross Preston

Have you ever met a human manifestation of the ozone layer before? I hadn’t either, but upon viewing Terry McKinstry’s 70 Million Tons, my answer to that question will never be t…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:33AM

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