All stories by Celia Wren on BroadwayStars

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Good grammar is essential to the D.C. judicial history lesson that is ‘Trying’ by Celia Wren

Joanna McClelland Glass’s 2004 play gets an intimate, workmanlike production from 1st Stage.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:24PM
Wednesday, September 4, 2019

In this Kit Kat Klub, there’s a little less sleaze but just enough sizzle by Celia Wren

“Cabaret” at Olney Theatre Center captures a society’s disastrous and willful moral myopia.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:54PM
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Lynn Nottage’s comic ‘Fabulation’ maps a slide down the social ladder by Celia Wren

As a fallen P.R. star, actress Felicia Curry drives the satire.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:06PM
Monday, July 29, 2019

In ‘Volta,’ Cirque du Soleil riffs on street sports by Celia Wren

Great visual beauty trumps mysterious wispy narrative.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:48PM
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Jane Hawkins takes center stage in Synetic’s reimagined ‘Treasure Island’ by Celia Wren

The action-driven troupe adapts Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:12PM
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

A little earnest absurdism about bodily functions goes a long way in the Welders’ ‘LadyM’ by Celia Wren

New show implies that the stigmatization of menstruation is part of a broader tradition of oppressing women.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:42PM
Monday, July 15, 2019

Too much monotone in ‘Bright Colors’ at Studio Theatre by Celia Wren

The one-man rant is admittedly funny, but too often feels like a single overstretched idea.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:48PM
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Anxious men and other world-builders at CATF 2019 by Celia Wren

This year’s edition of the nationally renowned Contemporary American Theater Festival in West Virginia features six works, including four world premieres.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:18PM
Monday, June 24, 2019

Angst and comedy among the Olympians in ‘Pantheon’ by Celia Wren

Happenstance Theater stages a rewarding, if not entirely flawless, riff on Greek mythology at Joe’s Movement Emporium.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:36PM
Thursday, June 13, 2019

‘Prufrock’ puts a new dance spin on T.S. Eliot by Celia Wren

A director and a choreographer stage a landmark modernist poem.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:48AM
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

No shoo-in success for two new plays about female artists by Celia Wren

The play “#solestories” is flawed but displays ingenuity and vigor that are lacking in “Gwen & Ida.”

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:24PM
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Greek tragedy continues to have its moment in fierce new keys by Celia Wren

‘Klytmnestra’ and ‘Fragments of Sappho’ riff anew on ancient tales.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 04:24PM
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait by Celia Wren

Local writer Allyson Currin’s play is often funny, ultimately moving and occasionally slack.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PM
Thursday, May 16, 2019

‘On Display’ movement installation examines body image by Celia Wren

“We make decisions together,” choreographer says of artists with and without disabilities.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:24AM
Wednesday, May 15, 2019

‘On Air’ at Creative Cauldron is a tuneful, engaging tour through little-known history by Celia Wren

The new musical is based on the real-life couple who launched America’s first radio station.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:42PM
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

‘Member of the Wedding’ is Southern Gothic looking for flavor by Celia Wren

1st Stage revives Carson McCullers’s tale of an awkward adolescence.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:33PM
Thursday, May 2, 2019

‘Fame the Musical’ gets an added Latin accent by Celia Wren

Dreamers will be central to Luis Salgado’s new production at GALA Hispanic Theatre.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:06AM
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Constellation Theatre conjures up a sensory-rich ‘White Snake’ by Celia Wren

But at Faction of Fools, a slapstick murder mystery falls flat.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:06PM
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Monday, April 1, 2019

‘Columbinus,’ re-creating the 1999 Colorado high school shooting, remains disturbingly relevant by Celia Wren

Incisive performances define the play, which was drawn from interviews.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:00PM
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival by Celia Wren

Two black actors play brothers named Lincoln (for the president) and Booth (the assassin).

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:40PM
Thursday, March 14, 2019

The Yiddish classic ‘The Jewish Queen Lear’ gets an English debut at Theater J by Celia Wren

A once-popular adaptation finds its way back to the stage.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 10:52AM
Thursday, March 7, 2019

A plot that twists on Rembrandt and a rhino by Celia Wren

Playwright Heather McDonald returns: ‘It’s a lot easier to emerge than reemerge.’

SOURCE: Washington Post at 11:01AM
Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Two plays set at the intersection of race and violence in America by Celia Wren

‘Blood at the Root’ examines strife at a high school; ‘Twilight’ takes place amid the 1992 L.A. riots.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:13PM
Thursday, February 28, 2019

New Joe Calarco drama ‘Separate Rooms’ debuts at emerging 4615 Theatre by Celia Wren

Good acting fleshes out a premiere from the author of “Shakespeare’s R&J.”

SOURCE: Washington Post at 12:24PM
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Hansol Jung’s ‘Among the Dead’ unwinds a strange, time-hopping trip of war by Celia Wren

The audacious phantasmagoria appears at Spooky Action Theater.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 03:04PM
Monday, February 18, 2019

Big ideas anchor ‘Reykjavík’ and ‘The Old Man, the Youth, and the Sea’ by Celia Wren

Romantic images and deep themes link new works at Rorschach and GALA.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 01:06PM
Thursday, February 14, 2019

A clowning ‘Cyrano’ without words? That’s how Synetic Theater rolls. by Celia Wren

Vato Tsikurishvili makes his directing debut, and at the last minute steps into the lead.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:24PM
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Comedy, romance, satanic menace and a talking cat in Constellation’s ‘The Master and Margarita’ by Celia Wren

Production at the Source is a vivid, often bracingly stylized epic.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 07:12PM
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

American Ballet Theatre’s ‘Harlequinade’ isn’t anything exciting, but it sure is colorful by Celia Wren

The funny yet garden-variety work is at the Kennedy Center through Feb. 3.

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:36PM
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

The familial irritation in ‘Gulf View Drive’ is likely to strike a chord with every viewer by Celia Wren

Another play about beleaguered lovers is Pointless Theatre’s new offering, “Visions of Love.”

SOURCE: Washington Post at 02:04PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
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