In ‘Adrift’ by Happenstance Theater, we laugh at our demons
The delightfully inventive show is full of physical comedy, music, puppetry, dance, and striking visual imagery that lingers in the mind. By DERYL DAVIS
The delightfully inventive show is full of physical comedy, music, puppetry, dance, and striking visual imagery that lingers in the mind. By DERYL DAVIS
In a pointed and personal Q&A, the Pulitzer Prize"winning playwright shares why he wrote about a priest's lapse from celibacy. By DERYL DAVIS
A man walks into a bar. Let's call him Navi, and let's say he's the research and development director of a small Silver Spring"based theater company " we'll call it Flying V " and he's come …
A character named Virgil relates their awakening to the preciousness of life.
The award-winning playwright and screenwriter on why he writes about life, death, and the soul.
A ritualistic tour of the afterlife through the cavernous spaces and dark corridors of a church.
Consider this: If the Emperor Nero really did fiddle while Rome burned, he might have been playing one of his own compositions (albeit in a distinctly minor key). That's a supposition one ta…
-Â These interviews were conducted before the attack on cast member Frank Britton on Monday night - Jesus, Judas Iscariot and Mother Teresa walk into a bar . . . Actually, a courtroom, in…
We're suckers for a good match up: Frazier versus Ali, Lincoln versus Douglas, Celtics versus Lakers . . . C. S. Lewis versus Sigmund Freud? The latter would surprise many of us, who would n…
Alliance for New Music-Theatre's spirited, quirky The Vaclav Havel Project offers delightful commentary on the perennial question of the artist's role in society. When that artist is former …
Veteran D.C. actor Tom Story describes Moth, a tale of high school bullying and its violent repercussions closing this weekend at Studio Theatre's 2ndStage, as the kind of play he would have…
Hip-hop has gotten a bad rap, according to Psalmayene 24 (Psalm), the writer and director behind Cinderella: The Remix, the final installment of a three-part Hip-Hop Children's Trilogy runni…
Once on this Island, the diverting Caribbean-themed musical running at Olney Theatre Center through May 4, is more than just a pastel-colored stroll through island culture to a calypso beat.…
Twelve Angry Men it is not. In that serious courtroom drama from the 1950s, twelve " yes, angry " sequestered jurors debate in real time the guilt or innocence of a man suspected of homocide…
Is justice contextual? Does it mean one thing for a nation recovering from decades of brutalizing dictatorship and another for the individual who suffered that brutalization? And how does th…