181 stories by "Hunter Styles"
"The strength of the show, directed by Michael Baron, is in "The fun choreography of the ensemble scenes (think Fezziwig's party), as well as in the splendid design"- particularly Rui Rita's…
Kate Robards is blonde and white, and she is about to play some Chinese people. Should we be worried? “No!” she says. “It’s not that kind of show. And it’s emba…
Five years and 241 articles ago, I took a bus downtown with a notebook in my back pocket. DC Theatre Scene had given my an assignment, and I was on my way to write my first professional thea…
Faced with an ailing actress unable to perform on Sunday night, Noises Off director Doug Wilder made the rather unusual decision to pull on a spare dress and play the role himself, venturing…
Some interviewees, once seated, need a bit of a prod to get talking. But Maurice Hines has left them all in the dust by the time I hit ‘Record.’ The renowned director, singer, an…
The Mead Theatre Lab has rarely felt as inviting as it did for Wednesday night’s performance of Protest, the thoughtful political two-hander currently being produced by the internation…
Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? Last winter, when The New York Times Magazine ran a feature under that headline, the idea of a creature that lives on and on with no biologi…
It's not a coincidence that so many solo performers touch on isolation in the stories they tell. These are individuals who, more often than not, had the spotlight shined on them in some way …
At first glance, the handsome high-ceilinged apartment in which nearly all of The Argument plays out seems too spacious. How are two actors — even two very good actors — to fill …
An accomplished teacher and educator as well as a talented director, Stevie Zimmerman has become rather adept at bringing out the creative potential in people. So it’s fitting to have …
The lives of the Pettway women of Gee's Bend, Alabama are stitched indelibly into the quilts they made. And as the presence of those quilts grew in the American consciousness — evolvin…
A shutdown of the federal government only comes along every so often, but crises of leadership are nothing new. Since this week is shaping up to be a good one for some reflection on this poi…
For someone who plays a suicide bomber every night, Estelle Parsons keeps an awfully sunny disposition. The Oscar-winning actress, 85, is in DC to play Alexandra, the headstrong protagonist …
A career as a stage actor won't make you a millionaire, but if you're working with New York's Bedlam Theatre it'll definitely save you a gym membership. The amount of exercise that Artistic …
The voices in Joan of Arc's head guide her on a journey into parts unknown, winning hearts and minds to her cause. The cast of Saint Joan are living a similar life these days, having wandere…
Getting a leg up from your family is awfully nice. But what happens when that lift suddenly falls away? Such a precarious moment arrives for the idealistic young activist Emma Joseph early o…
Life in the Galway countryside gets rather soggy, but playwright Martin McDonagh can strike a match just about anywhere. The first few scenes of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the jet-black 19…
All things Fringe must come to an end. But as with everything else in the festival, the closing night of the 8th Annual Capital Fringe was cause for celebration last night at the Baldacchino…
It’s hard enough to find your voice when creating a solo show, but Laura Zam went further — she’s settled on about thirty. In Married Sex, Zam takes interviews with a wide …
Tonee Bollocks and Gabriel Sweetbottom may or may not be their real names. The DC State Players may or may not exist. And their Fringe production of Agamemnon may or may not be a terrible sh…
No Fringe festival is complete without a show about sex, drugs, and depression. There are plenty of ways, however, to have less good fun of it than Avalanche Theatre Company is having with A…
Twenty years ago, Kevin Boggs left the small Appalachian town of Jonesborough, Tennessee for the big city. His transformation, as he has described it, “from yokel to local” while…
Fringe producers sometime ask each other: How big is your audience tonight? For Ali Oliver-Krueger, that’s sort of a trick question. The audience members at shows by Interact, the Whea…
I sit down for a talk with the puppet people. Not the only puppet people in town, mind you, but Pointless Theatre are the heirs apparent. The company started up in the summer of 2009, and no…
Think your Metro ride over to Fort Fringe took awhile? Alan Harris will one-up you " he's come over from Wales for the run of his new play Marsha. With him is Welsh actress Julia Thomas, who…
