17 stories by "John Connor Buckley"
Philadelphia's The Hodgepodge Group comes to DC for a two-run production of “Slaughterhouse-Five.” Â Born as a project at Wesleyan University by director and Hodgepodge co-foun…
Hail Orson, lord of the theatre, returned now to enchant and inspire! Â Actor/director Lars Klores plays the legendary artist, back years after his demise, in his one-man magic show, ̶…
At various points during “Wig Out!,” characters pause to describe the experience that changed their life and self-image in an instant. Â For most of them, it began with their g…
In INC Productions' Capital Fringe debut, co-writers Sherrita Wilkins and Chinwe Nwosu and director Bryanda Minix take us out for a night on the town and into the world of DC dating in ̶…
What starts as a surrealist religious horror show descends into a riveting pre-mortem dialogue in Michael E. Hammond’s “Repentance.” Â Director Carl Randolph makes excell…
Irreversibility is at the core of James E. Custer's original and ambitious “This Too Comes By Hard,” about a man whose refusal to accept the consequences of his toxic life limits…
Life and everything in it is fading.  As children, we learn a harsh truth: Everyone we know will die.  That’s not morbid per se; just an unfortunate dour fact of life.  A p…
Whether we admit it or not, there’s a tendency we all have to break the world into binaries in order to simplify our decisions in the short-term or long-term.  I just did it t…
Depravity in a young girl's heart shakes everything apart in Signature Theatre's production of “Midwestern Gothic.” This brand-new dark comedy-musical based on the book by Royce …
Atlanta, Georgia, 1913, the day of the Confederate Memorial Day Parade. Â A state holding on to a lost cause becomes inflamed in a media circus in “Parade,” Alfred Uhry and Jas…
Past the point of no return, is there a way out? Â This question is front and center in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle in “Intelligence” at Arena Stage's third world-premie…
"When we are together," exclaims Nicole Spiezio as Sam, "it doesn't matter that we are both f*cking freaks."Â She is addressing Tommy Heleringer's Leo, her roommate and long-time best fri…
The pursuit of uncovering every mystery life presents is a universal one; one that drives our basic human curiosity, the arts, and, of course, science. Â And within every answer, unravel o…
Countless political events over the last week have given many pause for thought and time taken to look on where the country is, how it got here, and where it's going. Partaking in this l…
With appropriately flamboyant aplomb, the beloved, kinetic tale of a lowly carnival barker's redemption that is Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" makes it to Arena Stage's Fichandl…
Nowadays, so much of what anyone says is fully available for public viewing. We know that with fame and notoriety comes power and influence, to the point where the consequences of wha…
Society can be a toxic and antagonistic place to exist within; while we like to see the good in it, our existence and others’ are judged at almost any point by others we know, by our c…
