181 stories by "Hunter Styles"
The six foot tall panda bear that saunters onstage in the middle of Natsu Onoda Power’s beguiling new ensemble show is rather unexpected. Unless, that is, you’ve gotten to know O…
Fringe is a melting pot for people of all backgrounds. At the moment I’m getting to know a less common pairing: a classical poet and an actor skilled in long-form recitation. Magus Mag…
I find Sam Simon at the Baldacchino Tent in the afternoon, sitting with his director Jessie Roberts and enjoying a few moments of calm before showtime. After our interview he’s headed …
DC Theatre Scene photographer Ryan Maxwell is back for week two of the festival, and we’ve got some of his favorite photos from Fort Fringe over the past few days with this new additio…
Hunter Styles explores the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, alongside videographer Todd Clark, looking to interview an eclectic series of theatre artists about their Fringe shows. The people inte…
The corporation isn't so much in the business of robot-building as it is in "the manufacture of artificial people," explains Harry (played by Mike Rudden), the manager of Rossum's Universal …
Stephanie Svec was seeking a new normal for years until she realized that normal is whatever she makes it. So, what's yours? Finding your own normal, and investigating how years of fear and …
Jimmy Grzelak knows not to shout 'fire' in a crowded theatre, but he gets pretty close. Clad in Eagle Scout uniform (an outfit that, unlike most theatrical costumes, this actor earned over t…
July 11, 2013 — Fringe gets the party started. Thursday night brought the summer’s eighth annual Capital Fringe Festival roaring to life, with over 30 productions opening on Thur…
Capital Fringe #8 is Hot Out Of The Gate. The summer of 2013, announces Capital Fringe, will mark “the year we spin cardboard into gold.” And while the success of each of the sum…
It's tempting to make Dada art out of this review of Allyson Currin's new play. What fun is structure and sequence when there's a big illogical world out there to celebrate? Sandwiches! Bunn…
If a night of good theatre is a main course unto itself, then the Mashup Festival at Landless is more like a pizza delivered after everyone else has gone to bed. The fun is in the shrugging …
Local playwright Jacqueline Lawton has spent over a year and a half researching and writing The Hampton Years — a play now brought to life in her first regional production. This week, …
It's been a whirlwind few decades for Rocco Landesman. Since January, he's been resting up after many busy years as a Broadway producer, theatre administrator, and national spokesperson for …
If you want to start fresh, visit Illyria. The setting of Twelfth Night is, like happiness itself, more a state of mind than solid ground, rife with opportunity for reinvention. The reality …
Interview with Arena Stage's Chad Bauman, bound for Milwaukee Rep "Go west, young man," they say, and Chad Bauman is heeding the call. Currently the Associate Executive Director at Arena Sta…
It's great to say an actor is self-possessed, but a little extra so when describing Daniel Flint's mind-warping, shape-shifting performance in his one-man adaptation of "The Golem," Austrian…
In which Spooky Action Theater’s production of OPTIMISM! and its bow to the great Voltaire  inspires Hunter Styles to let loose his inner poet. —————&#…
Michael Stebbins was making his name mainly as an actor when he took the reins at Rep Stage almost eight years ago as the new Artistic Director. But his go-get-’em spirit and his brigh…
Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth's new play, Andy and the Shadows, isn't entirely autobiographical. But when you've been working on a script for twenty-six years, it's probably inevitabl…
Every creative work is at least a little autobiographical, and rarely more so than in Round House Theatre's newest production. The thread that playwright Bill Cain uses to weave together his…
Taffety Punk likes to say that its ensemble members belong to a “theatre band,” searching for new ways to fuse music and text onstage. This fun-loving, fidgety company has repeat…
The annual Helen Hayes Awards show makes good fun out of the business of recognizing Washington-area theatre artists for their creative achievements over the past year. But the awards ceremo…
How do they do it? We talk with Jerry Whiddon, Renee Calarco and Linda Levy Grossman Every year, the Helen Hayes Awards show prompts some musing on tradition. Why is it that on this night ab…
Turning a man into myth isn't complicated — it happens easily, even naturally, over time. But finding the man at the root of the the myth can be trickier, and unfolding his page out of…
