Sunday, July 26, 2015
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground begins ‘The Playmaker Series: CATF 2015.’ In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated with the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:36AMSaturday, July 25, 2015
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground begins ‘The Playmaker Series: CATF 2015.’ In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated with the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:10AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground begins ‘The Playmaker Series: CATF 2015.’ In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated with the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:18PMThursday, July 16, 2015
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground begins ‘The Playmaker Series: CATF 2015.’ In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated with the…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:43PMMonday, July 6, 2015
The Playwright’s Playground – The Playmakers CATF 2015: Playwright Barbara Hammond on We Are Pussy Riot This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground begins ‘The Playma…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:58AMMonday, March 2, 2015
In this edition of The Playwright’s Playground, I interview playwright Lisa D’Amour, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and interdisciplinary artist who comes from a long line of female storytell…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 01:08PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
Hedda, Hedda, I hardly know you. The emotionally ambiguous, deeply layered and mysterious Hedda Gabler whom one could argue is a victim as much as anti-heroine, is more narrowly defined in t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:33PMMonday, October 27, 2014
Rachel Bonds’ play The Wolfe Twins is the first commissioned play to be produced by Studio Theatre. The funny and heartbreaking glimpse into life centers on two siblings who have drifted a…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:27PMTuesday, October 21, 2014
Since the age of nine, Justin Simien knew that he wanted to be a filmmaker. Years later after attending college at Chapman University in Orange County, California and working several Industr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:38AMFriday, October 17, 2014
Will Power is an award-winning playwright and performer, rapper and international educator. Currently on the faculty at The Meadows School of the Arts/SMU, Power is also the Andrew W. Mellon…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:01PMWednesday, October 15, 2014
How do two unlikely celebrities become friends? Everyone has a public persona, but that persona is not necessarily their entire being. “I snuck in the back door,” Stepin Fetchit says ste…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:10PMSunday, October 12, 2014
What you see is what you get when it comes to Mike Epps doing standup comedy. On October 10 and 11, 2014, Epps performed for DC audiences his brand of “comedy for the grown and sexy” in …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:20AMFriday, October 10, 2014
It’s a new day. Esperanza Spalding left a lasting impression on October 8, 2014 to a sold-out house at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA, as one of her few Birthday celebration stops in her …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:11AMMonday, October 6, 2014
For the past fifteen years, the unique, raspy voice and audacious style of Grammy Award winning Macy Gray has steadily released soulful, jazzy music becoming a beacon in the world of contemp…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:30PMFriday, September 26, 2014
There is great passion and intensity with Award-winning Playwright, David Adjmi. “I want to be able to live up to my ambition. I want to feel that I can be a part of the theater in a signi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:39PMThursday, September 25, 2014
Writing is deeply personal. For David Adjmi, playwright of Marie Antoinette, writing is not only personal it is something that is stirring, deeply passionate, and all encompassing. In the pr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:17PMTuesday, September 23, 2014
I don’t believe He brought me this far (to leave me.) In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry ’s A Raisin in the Sun was a groundbreaking, electrifying original work of theater when it made its debu…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:50AMFriday, September 19, 2014
For Michele Shay, directing Seven Guitars is not simply directing another play; it’s personal and a vivid part of her story. “We are addicted to ‘story’ and we become inspired by eac…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:14PMThursday, September 18, 2014
“We are addicted to ‘story’ and we become inspired by each others lives,” says Michele Shay, the Director of No Rules Theatre Company’s current production of August Wilson’s Seve…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:57PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Playing in repertory with Mozart’s The Magic Flute – Impempe Yomlingo at Shakespeare Theatre Company is the season opener of their STC: Presentation Series – the passionate…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:59AMSunday, September 14, 2014
The South African Isango Ensemble makes a joyful noise with soaring, full of life signature flair performing catchy rhythms, and singing beautiful melodies fusing classical arias and ethnic …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 10:37AMMonday, September 8, 2014
Life is Beautiful is more than Academy Award-winning film title, that savored notion is a mantra generations of Americans are nurtured to hope, dream, and believe. The adventure and escape t…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:24PMMonday, August 4, 2014
The curtain closed yesterday, August 3, 2014, on the 24thseason of five plays at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, but the anticipation to next season’s 25th anniversary has alr…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 06:47PMSunday, August 3, 2014
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground continues The Playmaker Series: CATF 2014. In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams and talent associated …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:35PMSaturday, August 2, 2014
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground continues The Playmaker Series: CATF 2014. In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated with the pl…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:26PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Aaron Posner is a director and playwright whose impact is nationwide, and he is one of the hardest working men in theatre. Posner’s Award-wining play Stupid Fucking Bird (Helen Hayes …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:42PMWednesday, July 30, 2014
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground continues The Playmaker Series: CATF 2014. In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated with the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:22PMJohnna Adams. The playwriting voice of Johnna Adams is bold and unique and the genre and styles of her plays are an eclectic mix. In 2013, Johnna received a Steinberg/American Theatre Criti…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 02:46PMTuesday, July 29, 2014
The Playwright’s Playground: Playwright Johnna Adams Discusses Giving Herself Permission to Write and Reveals ‘Gidion’s Knot’ Challenges and the Gordian Knot Analogyby Sydney-Chanele…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:13PMMonday, July 28, 2014
This Special Edition of The Playwright’s Playground continues The Playmaker Series: CATF 2014. In a series of in depth conversations, I speak with the artistic teams associated with the …
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 07:36PMFriday, July 25, 2014
A perfect performance is not what qualifies great acting, it’s an impassioned one. The laid out intensity and confident determination of Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s absorbing perfo…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 05:55PM 
