You might say The Trump Card keeps getting dealt one new hand after another. Since Mike Daisey's monologue played to acclaim in August at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Donald Trump's ca…
I'd never been to Beertown, though I knew it by reputation as a must-visit burg. Folks had told me of this storied hamlet in the heartland where the local citizenry gather every five years t…
Like a gift that keeps on giving, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream keeps on rekindling. Dreamer after dreamer reconceives it as if anew. And last night that classic spark reignited at…
So far as I can tell, The Catholic University of America's Drama Department turns out a lot of local talent. I keep seeing mentions of it in program bios around town. Must be something go…
"Why can't we talk about anything real in school?" The question is posed by Solomon, a nerdy high school student and wannabe journalist, whose teacher has forbidden him to report on the topi…
Now and then there comes a production of a play that is so spectacularly original it confounds one's every expectation of what can be achieved in theater. The story"a marvel in itself"could …
I happen to like solo performance pieces a lot and I've seen many. There's something I love about the immediacy of a single performer claiming my attention"and maybe stirring my emotions or …
One measure of the quality of a play is how it stays in one's mind the next few days. Or the next weeks or months or years. Not just how it plays on stage. How it remains in the brain. There…
Near the end of What We're Up Against, Theresa Rebeck's incisive comedy about workplace sexism"just opened in a kick-ass production at The Keegan Theatre"a question is posed by Eliza, a very…
Having enjoyed the first weekend of Rabble Crew Productions' How To… Sex Education, I went back for seconds"another set of four short plays on the ever popular theme of sex…and the never…
Cat Stevens (as he was known then) last performed at The Kennedy Center back in November 1971 just months after it opened. Much has changed since then, including his name (which became Yusuf…
Rabble Crew Productions has a proclivity for mounting edgy, sex-themed theater in fringey places around town. Last December they did Madeline Farrington's Glory Us at The Fridge in Easter…
Yesterday at The Anacostia Playhouse, the real world and the world onstage converged. It was like a communal emotion-meld through theater, the human heartbreak untold in too many headlines b…
"Can feminism be funny?" inquiring minds at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company want to know. For that is the conundrum that connects Sheila Callaghan's Women Laughing Alone With Salad, Woolly's …
What is it that's so tried and true about plays about siblings? Must be something universal, because there are so gosh darn many of them. Structurally they obviously make for auspicious cast…
Post-Play Palaver is an occasional series of conversations between DC Metro Theater Arts writers who saw the same performance, got really into talking about it, and decided to continue their…
Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine, which premiered in London in 1979, is rightly considered a landmark play. It is pivotal for me personally as well, ever since I saw the legendary Tommy Tune pro…
When I saw this new musical on the fifteenth anniversary of 9/11, there were no more than ten minutes during it when my eyes were dry. They welled up from the first scene. Sure, I know I tea…
Forum Theatre has a knack for picking trenchant works of theater that buzz with relevance to hot-button topics. Its current offering is a perfect case in point. Given this nation's rising ti…
The imposing lobby of a tony Manhattan apartment building"all sleek gray marble, glass, and stainless steel"commands the spacious 1st Stage stage. Sound Designer Neil McFadden has created a …
Two of DC's most important independent theater collectives bearing witness as black artists to #BlackLivesMatter are Brave Soul Collective and African-American Collective Theater (ACT). B…
John: I first discovered your writing when I saw Maytag Virgin during the Women's Voices Theater Festival, and as I said when I interviewed you back then, "it was one of those experiences of…
It is the morning after I saw a compelling and telling bioplay about Louis Armstrong just opened at Mosaic Theater Company, Terry Teachout's Satchmo at the Waldorf. I have my earbuds in; I'm…
Step Afrika! will present free performances in all eight wards of DCAugust 24 to September 20, 2016. The full schedule of 2016 tour dates is available online. Here is John Stoltenberg'…
There's a good chance that watching FEAR"Kathleen Akerley's playfully subversive new comedy at Longacre Lea about a troupe of actors in the throes of performing Shakespeare"will change your …