Thursday, March 26, 2015
How a playwright adapted the story of a crooked Maryland rabbi for the stage
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 11:06AMFriday, September 6, 2013
Can'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 09:56AMMonday, August 19, 2013
It'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 12:28PMFriday, June 7, 2013
Culturally 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 10:00AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
How 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 06:47PMFriday, May 17, 2013
Disagreement 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 03:24PMFriday, March 22, 2013
Earlier 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 10:07AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Audiences 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 02:54PMThursday, January 3, 2013
In 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 08:27AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Inviting 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 04:19PMFriday, June 22, 2012
The 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 02:00PMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Zachary 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 02:09PMFriday, May 11, 2012
White 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 01:01PMWednesday, May 2, 2012
The 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 02:38PMWednesday, April 25, 2012
Making 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 12:42PMMonday, March 12, 2012
The 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 05:02PMTuesday, January 31, 2012
On 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 05:30PMWednesday, January 25, 2012
The 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,�…
SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 01:32PM 
