626 stories by "Celia Wren"
The Keegan Theatre's production is overall an effective showcase for a hugely affecting story.
Piece by Mindy Kaling, Brenda Withers purports to depict early relationship between the actors.
Poetic play reimagines the Oedipus myth as a contemporary love triangle in Texas.
Actor/director Toby Mulford, as Harpagon, and Molière's 1668 comedy are a perfect match.
Spooky Action Theater's Interactive theatrical experience is a twist on familiar video game.
Subtlety is not exactly the strong suit of the intermittently comic drama 'Bakersfield Mist' at Olney Theatre.
Playwright Michael Milligan chose iambic pentameter for his myth-based drama.
At the Lansburgh, a play about the writer probes theological issues but lacks visual variety.
A sense of mystery is at the heart of Rorschach Theatre's production of "The Electric Baby."
At the Folger, Reduced Shakespeare Company gleefully tackles the Bard's "first" play.
Troupe stages the surreal "To Have Done With the Judgement of God" at D.C. Arts Center.
Solo piece "One Word More" at Mead Theatre Lab also delves into questions of guilt.
Reality often swings to absurdism as a woman seeks the return of her kidnapped son.
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Musical based on the Green Day album follows three friends in post-9/11 America.
The young adults in the rock musical "American Idiot" may suffer from alienation and malaise, but they apparently don't have a problem with vertigo. In Keegan Theatre's pleasant if rather di…
At one point in the intense and memorable "1984" by the British ensemble Headlong, a squall of paper swirls through the air. A wary freethinker named Winston, having found a momentary refuge…
It is the rare police interrogation chamber that doubles as a shadow-puppetry stage. It's a rarer one still that also appears to be located inside a security-directorate meeting hall. But a …
Poetry editors around the world would turn green with envy if they knew about the current multimedia performance by Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company. In an era that gives short sh…
The eponymous heroine of the early-17th-century play "The Maid's Tragedy" could teach Ophelia a thing or two about rejection. Like Hamlet's ex, Aspatia of Rhodes sees her relationship with a…
Joviality and waggishness may not be traits you immediately associate with the Stalinist secret police. But then you probably haven't met Vladimir, the NKVD operative in John Hodge's play "C…
A mortal enemy sure comes in handy. That's one takeaway from "Señorita y Madame: The Secret War of Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein," an informative, fitfully comic, double-barreled …
"It's pretty clear that there's a love affair between audiences and 'Revelations,' " choreographer Alvin Ailey wrote in his autobiography, speaking of the work that would become the s…
His canvases may still be selling for a relative pittance, but the Pablo Picasso who shows up at a Parisian bar in 1904 is making a killing on personality. As zestily portrayed by Matthew J.…
The shadow-puppet fairies in WSC Avant Bard's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" are a striking lot. Oberon is a muscular figure with an angry thicket of hair. Titania's attendant Cobweb dangles on…
