49 stories by "Jane Horwitz"
"I'm not noted for my realism," jokes director Kathleen Akerley.
Heather McDonald has long moved on from her prize-winning 1995 play for one actor, "An Almost Holy Picture." The character, Samuel Gentle, is a former Episcopal priest whose life and faith h…
With a little more than two minutes left on the clock, a college basketball coach self-destructs in "The Play About the Coach." Watching actor/playwright Paden Fallis perform this mini theat…
An untalented artist, newly arrived in 1909 Vienna, young Adolf Hitler (Cameron McNary) throws a shrieking tantrum after mistakenly using brown polish on black shoes. A spoiled mama's boy, h…
The D.C. Black Theatre Festival was founded in 2010 to celebrate all aspects of African American theater arts, from avant-garde to gospel-laced fables to morality tales to Tyler Perry's bran…
The horrors of Catholic school as remembered by playwright Christopher Durang in "Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You" are manifold, hilarious and tragic. His 1979 play is a howl ag…
Funny how a revolutionary aesthetic that paved the way for avant-garde theater can seem quaint when sampled nearly a century after it was born.
The pair of one-acts presented under the title…
"Why are those people annoyed with me?" the older gentleman asked his wife in a highly audible stage whisper.
She wasn't sure, but I was sitting in front of them at the Lansburgh Theatre, a…
A picture-book backdrop and a brightly colored jungle gym are the only fixed elements in "Five Little Monkeys," the new show running " and jumping " through June 3 at Adventure Theatre MTC i…
Could there be a better moment to do "Working," an audience-friendly revue of songs and monologues based on Studs Terkel's 1974 book of interviews with American working folk?
Keegan Theatre'…
When you sit smiling for two-plus hours in a theater and don't realize it until your face starts to ache, you know you've sojourned for a bit in theatrical heaven.
It's a place theatergoers …
Jay Alvarez's short but galvanizing solo piece "Be Careful! The Sharks Will Eat You!" gives Americans a good-natured nudge. In a poignantly personal way, the actor/playwright reminds us why …
In some ways, Warren Leight's Tony-winning memory play "Side Man" is a kitchen-sink drama about a warring married couple and the beleaguered son who tries to make peace and keep the home fir…
The emotional stakes are high in Geoffrey Nauffts's "Next Fall," an affecting tragicomedy about love, faith and death, at Bethesda's Round House Theatre through Feb. 26. Thanks to a gifted …
Art and commerce can make strange bedfellows in the world of nonprofit theater, especially in hard times.
Olney Theatre Center's Jim Petosa knows that for sure. He has led the upper-Montgom…
Think you're too sophisticated to play along with an interactive theater company?
Well, think again. The clever folks at Dog & Pony DC have collectively devised a theater piece about a s…
"Jersey Boys" is irresistible, and the touring company now at the National Theatre gets it almost entirely right.
This Broadway hit (it has been running since fall 2005 and has played Washin…
The new Web site for theatreWashington launched today. Days before, Jane Horwitz  spoke with theatreWashington's President & CEO Linda Levy Grossman and her Director of Communicati…
Sheri Herren, 50, says it's been a "healing process" for her and her daughter Laura Herren, 23, to play mother and child onstage in "Steel Magnolias." Keegan Theatre is doing Robert Harling'…
Beau Willimon's 2008 play Farragut North, about the cynical choices of a young political press spokesman, gets a Hollywood makeover that expands, but doesn't necessarily improve it. (center)…
How long has it been since you read or recited "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? Or Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"? How about Edgar Allan Poe's "Anna…
What makes people happy? Playwright Jennifer L. Nelson asks the cosmic question in her new comedy, "24, 7, 365," which will run Feb. 10-27 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
A look at the improvisational creative process of director Mary Zimmerman and her design team, the folks behind "The Arabian Nights," now at Arena Stage.
