626 stories by "Celia Wren"
Partway through dramatist Will Eno's quirky, philosophical and nearly plot-free "Middletown," an eccentric couple who have opted to tour a run-of-the-mill small American community explain th…
A muse and a band seemed to battle it out for Savion Glover's affection Saturday night. At times during the now-rapt, now-meandering "Dance Holiday Spectacular" performance at George Mason U…
Somewhere in clothesline heaven, assorted long fibers are giving thanks for the existence of the Neo-Futurists. Because the adventurous Chicago troupe has elevated the status of the entire s…
The words "belligerence" and "banana" may not usually appear in the same sentence. But among the noteworthy traits of Daphna, the opinionated, fervently Jewish 22-year-old at the heart of Jo…
No chess set appears in the 1960s living room that's the setting for director Stephen Jarrett's staging of "Entertaining Mr Sloane." But you could almost swear that the board game was underw…
"All this rushing around " I feel quite giddy," the evil mastermind Professor Moriarty remarks at one point in "Sherlock Holmes," running at the Warner Theatre through Sunday. The Napoleon o…
Among the stars of Washington Stage Guild's latest production: a comb, a metal bucket and a tray of cornflakes.Sure, there are also human performers in "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio P…
ASHLAND, ORE. " The princely title character in "Pericles" sails from country to country, meeting with shipwreck and human villainy, devastating loss and unexpected joy. The version of "Peri…
With apologies to Falstaff, the better part of valor is not always discretion. You have to be glad that Brave Spirits Theatre has flung caution to the wind and staged an almost entirely re-g…
With its pill-dispensing stations and trim, backless sofas, this hospital lounge doesn't look like a stomping ground for cannibals. But cannibals do lurk here, as do space pirates, lizard pe…
It is a relief to report that there has been no ruinous gentrification of Avenue Q. It was back in 2003 that the thoroughfare gave its name to a gleefully irreverent, puppet-enhanced musical…
Is Google making us stupid? Maybe, maybe not. But the wired lifestyle has certainly dimmed the acumen of Amelia, Barnaby, Chantal and Dagobert, the principal characters in Emilio Williams's …
A big tip of a tropical-fruit-bedecked hat to Pointless Theatre for its distinctive and ebullient contribution to the Women's Voices Theater Festival. Many young theater companies might quai…
Is there something about mini-marts that prompts soul searching? You might almost think so after watching Jacqueline Goldfinger's "Trish Tinkler Gets Saved" and Julia Starr's "The Long Way A…
Lewis Carroll, who was an Oxford University mathematics lecturer, might have delighted in calculating the speeds that cascade through Synetic Theater's darkly hallucinatory "Alice in Wonderl…
The dervish ethos goes way beyond whirling.That's likely to be one takeaway from "Dervishes and Their Belongings," an exhibition of about 300 historical artifacts at the Turkish American Com…
Launching a career is tough. And the last thing an ambitious young professional needs is a chatty ghost elephant seeking to transform the 9-to-5 landscape into a mythological killing field.T…
A messy office is an ominous signifier in "The Point," a play with the good intentions, and much of the bluntness, of a public-service announcement. Currently on view in a stiffly acted, pau…
A dignitary should know how to make a proper entrance, and Elizabeth I " all four of her " gets the business right in "texts&beheadings/ElizabethR." Created and directed by the adventuro…
Not many young musicians find their muses in a university archive, but fiddler and singer Maarja Nuut is indebted to the University of Tartu's Viljandi Culture Academy, in her homeland of Es…
In one of the funnier moments in "Whenever You're Near Me I Feel Sick," Jennie Berman Eng's slender rom-com variation, an airport's recorded-announcement voice starts functioning as a supere…
Here's one thing you don't learn in film school: sheep wrangling. Though the central character in Ana V. Bojórquez and LucÃa Carreras's latest film is a young girl, the supporting cast…
Have humans put the universe through the heavy-duty cycle when it really needed a quick spin on delicate? It's hard not to get carried away with the metaphorical possibilities of the laundro…
To gauge the intensity of "Yerma," Spanish director José Luis Arellano GarcÃa's latest collaboration with GALA Hispanic Theatre, consider that the production doesn't even pause at interm…
"Exile saves you even as it shatters you," said Wajdi Mouawad, a Lebanese-born writer, director and performer who is one of the most-produced playwrights in France and Canada. Mouawad knows …
