753 stories by "John Stoltenberg"
It prompts a provocative question: Just who are the rhinos today?
It's as if the playwright has scripted the subtext of every relational betrayal and said all the quiet parts out loud.
The Austrian and German playwright, Daniel Kehlmann, calls his twisty script 'a play for two actors and a clock.' And it's right on time.
In its twist on Thornton Wilder's 'Our Town,' Washington Improv Theater not only cracks jokes but cracks open the emotion in the moment.
The first season planned by new Artistic Director Reginald L. Douglas aims to spark conversation across DC around issues of and for the moment.
A profoundly illuminating play about a Black man who lives in the glare of the white gaze.
In a dystopian near future, a twentysomething romance heats up steadily alongside a chilling public health crisis.
A magnificently entertaining and beautifully profound new musical has opened at Olney. Here's what love's got to do with it.
You cannot watch his performance in this shocking role without feeling agitated and aghast " and he was willing to talk about it.
The teenage diarist Anne Frank appears as a puppet; an author tries to pull strings to stage her story.
It's as if Suzan-Lori Parks scalds and skins the body politic in one fell swoop.
Michael R. Jackson's 'big, Black and queer-ass American Broadway show' will open in spring 2022 at the Lyceum Theatre.
There's got to be more to it than a cool chance to groove on the oeuvre of Britney Spears. | Column by JOHN STOLTENBERG
Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize"winning musical sings of a singular poet's journey from self-loathing to self-respect.
"What is important in this moment for Signature," says its new artistic director, "is how we are creating a culture of consent going forward."
The text keeps us off-kilter in a way that tickles us silly even as a sobering undercurrent churns.
A gutsy and gifted project called Working in DC puts on an ebullient show to remind us of the everyday dignity of work.
Playwright Dane Figueroa Edidi mixes romance and vengeance and packs volumes of truth into stunning poetic dialog.
The post Rep Stage radio play 'Ghost/Writer' is some mind-blowing writing a…
Men behaving badly is a masterplot in life and art as old as time, and Mike Daisey has given it a doozy of a twist. Not ten minutes into his one-night-only monologue Scott and Andy and All t…
In observance of the the 12th annual International Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31, 2021), we republish this in-depth conversation with two leading lights in DC-area theater. "John S…
In celebration of the Martin Luther King Jr. national holiday, The Essential Theatre Performances in Cyberspace will present Rosa Parks: Such a Time. Written and performed by Gwendolyn B…
1st Stage is proud to be participating in the #ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence project, working with visionary teenage playwrights across the country who have come together to speak out ag…
As the world collectively plans to close the door (and maybe throw away the key?) on 2020, Studio Theatre offers a reflection on this complicated, unexpected, and consequential moment …
These days, in lieu of live scripted comedy, I've learned to feel lucky whenever I find online theater that gets me LOLing all alone. To be honest, that happens rarely, and never all the way…
In a meeting Tuesday night, November 17, 2020, the 26-member board of Mosaic Theater Company of DC unanimously accepted the resignation of Ari Roth, who founded the company six years ago "to…
