146 stories by "Debbie Minter Jackson"
Young new performers who you may not have heard about are finally getting their time in the ARK spotlight at Signature Theatre. Katie Mariko Mariko Murray, Ines Nassara and David Rowen h…
A Coffin in Egypt, one of Horton Foote's lesser known scripts, has one of the most unengaging titles imaginable, (it's actually derived from the last line in Genesis). Get past the title…
Nina Simon: Four Women at Arena Stage slams you from the moment you see the set depicting a blown-up church with pews flying in mid-air, windows shattered and still smoldering, dust settling…
The Ravens brings a whole new perspective to defining art. What's Shakespeare's text doing on the lips of a strip tease performer while she sliding down the pole in shimmery stilettos?…
What is it about the idea of a mistress? Throughout history the "other woman" has been called all kind of names under the sun, shunned, cast-out, run out of town, off the land " or behea…
A writer's life is peculiarly isolated and the opening sequence of Are you now, or have you ever been… makes that abundantly clear. A typewriter sits on a table with a stack of papers …
Perfectly timed since the region is still enthralled from the excitement of the near total solar eclipse, Aglaonike's Tiger is a stylistic rendering of one of the earliest female astronomers…
Debbie Minter Jackson sends back this report from her visit to the Saturday, September 2, opening day of this year’s Page-to-Stage festival at the Kennedy Center and brings back some s…
Thomas W. Jones II is older and grayer than when I saw his show 25 years ago but The Wizard of Hip is just as poignant and entertaining as he struts his stuff and delivers bucket loads of…
Talking with Janet Langhart Cohen is like stepping back in time and talking to a time traveler "she's been everywhere and knows everybody. A broadcast journalist and President and CEO of…
It's surprising how quickly a time period can be captured with a few props, boom box, land line phone and some huge Afro wigs. This world premiere by the talented Kara Lee Corthron is fi…
The timelessly wonderful Wizard of Oz still shimmers brightly. The familiar story that's over a century old delights with each well-remembered sight, sound and scene at Creative Cauldron…
The Tony Award-winning play Master Class, now at MetroStage, is a thrilling tribute to opera, love, passion and artistry. Playwright Terrence McNally includes the audience as part of an actu…
The long awaited Smart People at Arena Stage tackles issues of race and gender stereotypes from the viewpoint of four distinctly different people, each serving as a kind of archetype of hist…
For this special fully staged production after ten years of radio dramas, Lean & Hungry Theater sure picked a doozy. Lear isn’t for the faint of heart.  For one, the notor…
What Every Girl Should Know opens in pitch darkness with barely audible intermittent sounds of female pleasure, various tones and tonalities and an intermittent gasping groan. What in th…
Dry Land, though set over 100 years later than its companion piece, What Every Girl Should Know, Forum Theatre’s #nastywomenrep, is an alarming reminder that young women continue to…
Pulitzer Prize winning playwright D. L. Coburn was intrigued by DC area reviews of his play, The Gin Game, at MetroStage, enough to make a special trip to see it. He wrote the play 40…
It's a rare and unusual treat to dip into parts of history that have been cast aside, forgotten and ignored. There was a time when the circus coming to town was the most exciting thing a…
Being obedient and doing as one is told are usually good traits instilled in the earliest ages and rewarded with parental approval and societal regard. When obedience is compelled withou…
In the right hands, a simple game of cards can uncover secrets, reveal hidden truths, and topple the best intentions of polite etiquette and civility. The Gin Game at MetroStage shows…
Caroline, or Change continues the momentum of a powerhouse season at Round House Theatre. Drawn from the personal reflections of Tony Kushner, it encompasses racial and societal pressure…
In December, 1940 the bodies of two prominent American writers who died within a day of each other, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathaniel West were shipped cross country in a railcar. The st…
Mosaic Theater Company sharpens its reputation for cutting edge theatre yet again with Charm by Philip Dawkins, now getting national attention and acclaim for spotlighting gender fluidity…
The Beauty and the Beast fairy tale is timeless, and many of us have grown up with the gorgeous music by Alan Menken and lyrics from Howard Ashman and Tim Rice in the true Disney anima…
