754 stories by "John Stoltenberg"
This is a cunning conundrum of a play. It moves back and forth in time, sudden lighting changes signal shifts from realistic to magical, the characters speak like superliterate savants, one-…
(Editor’s note: This column represents the views of its author only and does not reflect the views of myself or the staff of DCMTA.) A new book about the Matthew Shepard murder challen…
Ardent fans of Cirque du Soleil attending the spectacular new Amaluna will recognize this as one of Cirque's best tent shows ever. Now in its 30th year with a track record of more t…
At the core of this inexorable and engrossing drama by Johnna Adams is a disturbing enigma: A fifth-grade boy named Gidion, suspended from school under suspicious circumstances, has shot him…
About an hour into The Other Day as performed at The Shop, a Dutch airport clerk named Steven (played by a very dashing Dash King), shows a young American named Mark (a puppy-dog-sweet…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) What a pleasure to happen upon this gem of a show. Featuring three exceptionally truthful and touching performances on a plain platform with next-to-no productio…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) Giant Box of Porn opened in the big Warehouse black box before a standing-room-only audience Saturday, and once the show got going I knew why: This humdinger …
King's Players, a young company in DC, named after Artistic Director and Founder Timothy R. King, has presented well-received original shows at the last two Capital Fringe festivals. Its 201…
In cases of sexual contact between teachers and minor students, the perpetrator is usually assumed to be male. But there are cases of such inappropriate and criminal behavior by female teach…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) A widowed father in his late 50s lies in bed on a morphine drip, his body rife with cancer. Beside him is his thirty-something gay son, who has traveled to his c…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) First-time playwright John Bavoso's inventive and appealing script for Olizzia would make a terrific indie rom-com caper that would be a hit on the lesbian…
(Best of the Capital Fringe) If one way to tell whether a rock musical is really good is that it makes you want to come back and see it again, The Landless Theatre Company's Rock Bott…
If ever there was an Inadvertent American Hero, it's Rodney King, the black construction worker whose brutal beating in 1991 by white cops in LA, caught on videotape, appalled the world, ind…
The DC Black Theatre Festival this year offered some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educational theater company, the f…
The DC Black Theatre Festival this year offered some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educational theater company, the f…
Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educational theater company, the festival features performances in four categories: drama, deaf artists, family, and inspirational.…
The DC Black Theatre Festival, which runs through June 26, this year offers some 45 self-produced shows, most one time only. Organized annually by the DC Drama Department, a nonprofit educat…
The laughs come so fast in Buyer & Cellar"and Michael Urie's solo performance is so brilliantly engaging"that the words "funny" and "fun" seem too puny, utterly inadequate to convey t…
Audiences with a taste for pitch-dark comedy will get their fill of a deliciously unsettling feast in Killer Joe, the launch production of the aptly named new theater company SeeNoSun.…
Theater J's finale to its fine 2013"2014 season turns out to be a surprisingly poignant solo performance about a man's privates. Storyteller Jon Spelman is our genial guide; the genitals …
A resounding round of applause is owed The American Century Theater (TACT), whose sharp, smart production of Judgment at Nuremberg brings this towering play to DC Metro audiences at last. As…
When I first saw Love in Time of HIV in May 2012, I was deeply impressed. Giving voice to a young generation's encounter with the health crisis left them by their elders, the play by Kieyont…
If this were a theater review it would be an effusive rave. The production of Mike Bartlett's play Cock now at The Studio Theatre is impeccable: The lighting, the sound, the direction, the c…
Watching the world premiere of A Midsummer Night's Riot is like watching theatrical lighting strike. For the third time. In the exact same place (the Keegan Theater). With the exact same wri…
If conversation were kindling, this two-hander would combust. If argumentation were edible, this debate would be delectable. If a supersmart script played by two stellar actors were a specta…
