How a playwright adapted the story of a crooked Maryland rabbi for the stage
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:06AMCan't the Anacostia Playhouse catch a break? Last week the playhouse's chief operating officer, Julia Robey Christian, went public on Twitter about the latest in a long line of bureaucratic…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 09:56AMIt's six hours before the first preview of Broke-ology at the Anacostia Playhouse and I'm sitting on the plush red couch at center stage. The couch's ultimate destiny, I'm told by Theater Al…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 12:28PMCulturally specific theater offers a different experience to different audience members. It can make viewers reconsider their assumptions about others, and perhaps even their own identity. T…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:00AMHow to Build an Arts District If You Build It, Who Will Come? Stage of Development What to Expect at LUMEN8 2013 Anacostia's Arts Scene Is Growing A month after the Anacostia Playhouse was…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 06:47PMDisagreement is a natural part of any collaborative creative process. With most theatrical productions, the creative team works toward a director's vision for the play. As such, the buck sto…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 03:24PMEarlier this week, D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson rejected Anacostia Playhouse's attempt to work around a parking requirement that's holding up construction on the theater. As City Pap…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 10:07AMAudiences awaiting Anacostia Playhouse's opening in April may have to wait longer than expected. About two weeks ago, with demolition complete and building set to begin, the project hit a pe…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:54PMIn 2012, D.C.'s theater companies threw an admirable amount of support behind local playwrights. Most prominently, Theater J launched the Locally Grown: Community Supported Art Festival and…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 08:27AMInviting an audience to give feedback on a work-in-progress is already a little tough for writers. Letting them hear only 20 minutes of an unfinished work can be especially daunting. But Sat…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 04:19PMThe events that inspired The Heroes' Tale have been on Cheryl Butler-Poole's mind for decades. Back in the 1980s, the D.C.-based playwright lived in the Dupont area. One evening she fell in…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:00PMZachary Fernebok will tell you unequivocally that fantasy is his genre of choice. Drawing inspiration as much from cult-classic video games like the Monkey Island series as dramatists like G…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:09PMWhite noise, as we know it, is any number of innocuous droning sounds, easily tuned out. But what if it were a powerful force that dictated the nature of human interaction? In the alternativ…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:01PMThe black-box theater at Source is not an obvious place to build a pool. First of all, it's small—a perfect space for intimate audiences and shows that focus on content but eschew spec…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:38PMMaking theater in unconventional locations poses unconventional challenges. Like algae growing in your performance space, for example, or unseasonably cold rainstorms and the ambient noise o…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 12:42PMThe political gets very personal when someone in the family decides to run for president. Especially if you are Candace Gingrich- Jones, a lesbian and the half-sister of Newt Gingrich. Th…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 05:02PMOn one hand, you have Gwydion Suilebhan, the playwright and blogger who organized and moderated this past Sunday's town hall-style discussion on "The State of the D.C. Playwright” at Theat…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 05:30PMThe star-crossed lovers lay entwined and unrecoverable in Sniper Alley for days following their death. Mark H. Milstein took his photograph of the bodies of Admira Ismic, a Muslim Bosnian,�…
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