45 stories by "John Geoffrion"
The heightened emotions and tragic catharses of Arthur Miller's script come quite credibly to life.
The well-structured murder mystery delivers an intriguing night out.
The intriguing tale ably told by Washington Stage Guild warns how history repeats.
During this year-plus away from live theater, many artists and creators took the opportunity to look deep into their processes and methodologies. The goal was not to get "back to normal," pe…
Jon, a filmmaker just starting to make a name for himself, comes home for the premiere of his latest film at the Lansing Film Festival. His old high school friend Vince, now a small-time dru…
"The transformative power of live theatre" has arguably become a cliché, co-opted by the marketing and development departments of large regional theatres to convince the locals of their cul…
Brave Spirits opened Henry the Fifth this past weekend, and then closed it due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the hope to return in a few weeks. A shame, for a multitude of reasons not limite…
I've spent nearly three decades working in nominally professional theatre. That is to say non-Equity but (usually) paid, albeit below a living wage, but with enough EMC points to join. Two t…
Brave Spirits' two-year repertory of Shakespeare's history cycle continues with an impressively lively production of one of the Bard's more challenging plays, Henry the Fourth, Part 2. After…
(First off: my sincere apologies to the company for my constant coughing through the performance.) Henry Bolingbroke, having snatched the English crown with boist'rous hands, must now strugg…
Brave Spirits " oh brave indeed! " have kicked off their ambitious plan to perform the entirety of Shakespeare's double-tetralogy of history plays covering one of the most tumultuous periods…
A grown daughter's soon-to-be-published memoirs of a childhood family trauma rip open long-festering emotional scars over Christmas Eve at the Palm Beach manse of an aging Hollywood B-list c…
To mark and honor the thirtieth anniversary of Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution, the Alliance for New Music-Theatre is presenting two one-act plays to honor the revolution's leader, the di…
Sometimes theatre amuses, sometimes it entertains, sometimes it moves. Oftentimes we get caught up in the protagonist's journey, sometimes we are dazzled by technical brilliance. Then there …
The second leg of 4615 Theatre Company's "Summer of Scandal" repertory, Harold Pinter's Betrayal, opened this past weekend at the Dance Loft on 14th. My review of the other play, Enron, is h…
Eighteen years ago, a Texas energy company's deceptive accounting practices finally caught up with them, their inflated stock value plummeted, billions of dollars evaporated, employees' reti…
I've been in Our Town five different times in my acting career, from college to community to summer stock to regional over a twenty year span. I have played or understudied nearly every adul…
Shakespeare's most iconic schemer is the centerpiece of Synetic's fourteenth (mostly) wordless re-interpretation of the Bard's works. The world of 15th century England is updated to a dystop…
One of the most fascinating political power struggles in history is being brought to life at Olney Theatre Center with a crackling and electric modernization of Schiller's masterpiece by the…
The Faction of Fools are at it again. After a decade adapting titles that one wouldn't typically expect of a Commedia troupe (Henry V, Our Town and The Cherry Orchard to name a few), Produci…
I am pleased to report a rising company of young-ish actors doing first-rate work: a conceptually cohesive, intimate, spunky, charming staging of a pastoral Shakespeare comedy all too easy t…
Baltimore's Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is presenting Henry IV, parts One and Two in repertory. Part One (not reviewed by DCTC, we regret) opened February 15th, Part Two opened March 15th…
If every copy of August Strindberg's Miss Julie spontaneously combusted, and from each pile of ashes emerged phoenix-like a copy of Hilary Bettis's Queen of Basel in its place, I could be pe…
Once upon a time, there was a woman named Jude who kicked a pram (a baby carriage). An empty one, don't worry, but nonetheless Jude has to complete an anger management program to avoid charg…
I've seen Macbeth performed in the round, outdoors, in the nude, multiple film and TV versions, various homages and parodies across multiple media, I saw a spirited production last month by …
