42 stories by "Chris Williams"
There’s an excitingly fine line between hilarity and heartbreak in Ayad Akhtar's The Who & the What, the final production of Round House Theatre’s 2015/2016 season. It’…
It's been a big year for Shakespeare, and 400 years on he can seem as remarkably modern as he does, sometimes, show his age. Ed Sylvanus Iskandar's new production of The Taming of The Shrew,…
The final production in Forum Theatre's twelfth season, Blackberry Winter by Steve Yockey, forms part of the National New Play Network's flagship initiative of Rolling World Premieres. As su…
Happy Hour, Spooky Action Theater’s innovative new production in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut Washington, is currently playing at their usual home inside the Universalist …
Lynn Nottage's Sweat masterfully explores the experience of a group of workers in Reading, PA, against the shifting economic realities of the year 2000. Recession and the de-industrializa…
Equus, now playing at Constellation Theatre Company, follows the story of child psychiatrist, Martin Dysart (played here by Michael Kramer), and his interactions with 17-year-old patient …
In Georgie: My Adventures with George Rose, currently playing at Signature Theatre, Ed Dixon brings to life his relationship with friend and mentor Tony-award winning character actor Geor…
Before I tell you Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind is brilliant, and that you should immediately go out and get a ticket (which I promise you I will tell you), I want to give a lit…
Seussical the Musical integrates a number of Dr Seuss's immortal characters and tales into an uplifting and cohesive whole. While the central story is that of Horton the elephant, who "hears…
There's a lovely sense of recurrence in A Year with Frog and Toad, currently playing at Imagination Stage, which seems particularly apt for a show tied to the passing of the seasons. The ret…
There is already a wintery chill in the D.C. air. It's almost 'fruitcake weather,' as Truman Capote's older cousin and childhood friend, Miss Sook, might put it. There is thankfully, however…
As it's now a week since Black Friday, it seems as good a time as any to reflect upon the terrible things that happen at department stores in the name of yearly tradition. In contemplating a…
Sons of the Prophet, Stephen Karam's Pulitzer Prize finalist play, follows the family of Joseph Douaihy (Chris Dinolfo) as they come to terms with the death of his father, following an unusu…
The production of Pericles at the Folger Theatre is full of magic, humanity, joy and sorrow. It is a delight to watch and a reminder of all that makes live theatre worthwhile. Shakespeare…
Forum Theatre's production of Johnna Adams' World Builders, is currently playing in the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's rehearsal studio. The play follows Whitney (played by Laura C. Harris…
The Night Alive is the most recent play by lauded Irish playwright Conor McPherson. The Round House Theatre's production, its regional premiere, comes swiftly on the heels of the work’…
'Capers is a one-woman show, by Anu Yadav, based on the housing struggle of Friends and Residents of Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg. It is the opening piece for Forum Theatre's 12th season an…
