39 stories by "Barbara MacKay"
The playwright shares the backstory of 'Wanda's Way,' her one-woman play about a Black police officer.
The whimsical comic tale told on an enchanting new stage.
A story about a rebellion and a suppression begins a multi-year partnership between Arena Stage and the renowned African American dance company.
In her solo performance outdoors, supreme storyteller Lori Brown Mirabal reveals the fun in opera for both children and adults.
'Here Be Sirens' is the phrase cartographers used for many centuries to warn sailors of marine dangers. Composer Kate Soper borrowed the name for her musically complex, theatrically rich ope…
Playwright Nilo Cruz labels his latest work, Exquisita AgonÃa, a "family drama." Actually, the show that is currently playing at GALA Theatre is two family dramas that converge. The first…
Known internationally as a visionary man of the theater, Bill T. Jones has built a reputation over the past 38 years for his ability to visualize the human condition through choreography and…
If your parents taught you that opera is the ultimate blend of words and music, where both elements are dependent on the other and that the end result is far more than the sum of its parts, …
Alix Sobler's play Sheltered, based on real-life characters, is a rarity. It is a history play that doesn't fall into the trap of portraying a period in history in such detail that it forget…
Every September 11, America mourns the tragic events that astonished and saddened people around the globe in 2001: the attack on New York's Twin Towers and Washington, D.C.'s Pentagon. Each …
Think back to when you were in high school. You went to classes all day and came home and did homework, right? And maybe you took piano lessons once a week or played a sport. Seventeen-year-…
If you attend Studio Theatre's current production of the brilliantly acerbic White Pearl and feel in the first ten minutes that you're not sure you know what's happening, don't worry. Playwr…
In partnership with the Embassy of the Czech Republic's Mutual Inspirations Festival, and in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, the Alliance for …
If you're not ready to give in to an autumnal chill in the air, one of the hottest place to be right now is decidedly Teatro de la Luna. In its Friday night series, Noche de Luna: Tango Show…
Gerald C. Wood is an author and expert on the brilliant Irish playwright and filmmaker Conor McPherson. Wood is Professor and Chair of English at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Ten…
British playwright Caryl Churchill is a revolutionary playwright. In her career, she has upset theatrical expectations many times over. She plays with gender and fools with time. She invents…
George Bernard Shaw published Candida in 1898. Though it was not performed in London until it was a hit in New York in 1903, where it inspired what Shaw called "Candidamania," the play's Ame…
You could approach Trying at 1st Stage as a realistic, two-character play about a real-life character, Judge Francis Biddle, and his new secretary, Sarah Schorr. Born to a life of wealth and…
In 2003, John Patrick Shanley started writing a play about an America full of opinionated people, people who were certain they were right, people who shunned intellectual debate. From Shanle…
He has had major stage roles in everything from The Crucible to Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow, Moscow. He has appeared in films as different as "Isn't It Romantic?" and "Shutter…
Nucky Walder and Mario Marcel are household names to many Spanish-speaking residents of Washington, DC. For more than 60 years, Marcel, who is from Argentina, has dedicated himself to acting…
If you are a fan of Ann Richards, the straight-talking, liberal Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995, or alternatively, if you were living on the opposite side of the globe and somehow missed…
If you're in the mood for a drawing-room comedy exploring the social habits of the British upper class in the Edwardian era, Bethesda's Quotidian Theatre Company should be on your list. Quot…
When Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe planned to tackle the subject of depression, they decided to avoid more familiar approaches: plays about self-destructive superstars who are too far r…
To theater historians, dramaturgs, and lovers of all things Greek, the promise of a production of Aeschylus' The Oresteia is enough to drive one mad with joy. To begin with, of all the Greek…
