181 stories by "Hunter Styles"
They can take away your home, but they can't take your spirit. Sara Josephine James knows this better than any of us — she's responsible not only for her own spirit but for numerous ot…
Cozying up in the Terrace Theatre for Penumbra Theatre Company's reverent musical portrait of Nat King Cole is like taking a nice, long, lukewarm bath. The unvarying pace lulls you into a st…
Colleen Delany as Zara and Kerry Waters as Old Aliide (Photo: Don Summers, Jr.) When Aliide looks out her window, across her silent stretch of rural Estonian farmland, she sees a country sen…
Shakespeare Theatre Company shifts the tone of their season this spring with Harold Pinter's Old Times, directed by Artistic Director Michael Kahn. Pinter's play, first produced in 1971, exp…
If you've never felt goosebumps rise on your arms in 80 degree weather, you have a week left to seek out the experience. The powerfully haunting spectacle that is Swampoodle — hatched …
In 2008, Danielle Drakes founded TheHegira as a commitment to showcasing the stories of women of color. Now, after two years of mentorship at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, her theatre …
Sam Forman is back in town, and, for a 34-year-old playwright who has spent much of his life writing stories of  nervous, young men whose ambitions crash up against their daily insecuriti…
Summarizing what typically happens at the Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament is like trying to write a travel article on a city after talking with a few crazy people in a back alley. Who k…
What does it mean, this big, bold painting hanging right in the middle of Art? You can try to read between the lines for some hidden message, but you'll draw a blank. The painting has no lin…
The play's the thing… eventually. But the tumultuous process of getting cast — whether into a play, or out onto the street — consumes our actors' daily energies more than a…
As paper-thin and disposable as a one-sentence fortune and about as filling as the cookie it came in, Mark Brown and Paul Mirkovitch's musical pseudo-homage to China is getting a silly, spor…
Few things make theatre audiences more tense than dead bodies. Well, make that dead bodies played by live bodies, since it's rare to see a fake dead body pass muster on stage. Why bother, wh…
Michael John Garcés is the Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles, where he has both written and directed productions that explore diversity, community, and shared …
American theatre celebrates a milestone this year: on the 26th of March, the late, great playwright Tennessee Williams turns 100 years old. Schools, theaters, and arts companies around the w…
The DC-based sketch comedy troupe Brick Penguin celebrates their one year anniversary by doing their first full evening show this coming Saturday, March 5th, at the H St Playhouse. …
INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival, now in its second year Artists know full well that when a new project debuts, it's not always clear who's going to show up to see it. Given the co…
Some days we're faced with a hundred questions. With rare exception, most of them aren't that interesting. But one of those exceptions came in mid-November for Akiva Fox, most recently the L…
We can never seem to outrun our fate, but the exercise does us good. The quest of Oedipus is a futile one — to steer clear of the prophecy decreeing he will one day kill his father and…
Nothing's cozy like the cosmos. One would think that such a never-ending freezing expanse would snuff out the flames of life, but more often than not it brings us closer together, huddled in…
Most artistic directors aren’t running around onstage with an owl puppet minutes after giving the opening curtain speech. But that’s Marcus Kyd for you, an actor-manager whose ef…
The past and present don't collide in Harrison, Texas so much as they come to an uneasy truce. In the early years of Reconstruction, when townsfolk feared and distrusted the southern migrati…
What dreams may come for young Naomi is a matter of which pills, vitamins, sleeping aids and supplements she's taking that night. With no parents around, and faced with a wave of existential…
Maybe I just have brain-freeze lately, but I could swear that as the days start to get longer again, so do the ten-minute plays. Is it a trick of the light? A side-effect of the winter Solst…
The terrible consequences of war never make for short summary, but the ongoing loss of our children is surely the most egregious crime on the list. In some families, the smallest and most in…
Something about diligently recording your thoughts in a notepad seems profoundly absurd when there's a grossly overweight man-demon wandering around nearby, provoking people at random with h…
