50 stories by "Morgan Halvorsen"
Any avid fan of South Park will know that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have a very evenhanded approach when covering issues of religion–universal satire. Their Broadway musical …
The Vietnam War was a difficult and controversial event in American history. Young men died by the thousands, surrounded by enemies, half a world away from their homes. And sending them ther…
Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, directed by Stephen Lawless and now playing at the Kennedy Center, begins with a long overture set against a backdrop of rolling ocean waves, fram…
There is no other play in Shakespeare’s canon that conjures the power of fear and superstition the way Macbeth does. From the first appearance of the witches, it’s made clear tha…
The InSeries’ Artistic Director Carla Hubner noted at the beginning of Saturday night’s performance of Vincenzo Bellini’s La Sonnambula that it was a “bigger piece th…
According to the Washington Stage Guild, their production of In Praise of Love is the first Terence Rattigan play produced in Washington, DC since In Praise of Love premiered at the K…
One might think that the stunning intimacy of Folger Shakespeare Library's theater would be too cozy for King Lear, but the space only serves to amplify the drama, humor, and overall human c…
Quattro Gatti’s production of Dateline: Macbeth, written and directed by (and starring) Andy Hopper, is a strange, frequently funny, darkly morbid take on William Shakespeare’s c…
The phrase “Jacobean tragedy” may not inspire enthusiasm in modern theatergoers, but We Happy Few’s production of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, directed admira…
On March 3, 1991, a Los Angeles construction worker was beaten with police batons over 50 times by local police. A year later, the acquittals of all four police officers would spark the 1992…
Mara Neimanis has truly taken In-Flight Theater to a new level in her production of Air Heart. Written by Neimanis, and performed by her on a spectacular metal sculpture of a plane made by L…
The Wars of the Roses were a time of extreme turmoil in Britain. In 1399, Henry of Bolingbroke, grandson of Edward III, deposed his cousin Richard II and took the throne for himself as Henry…
In 1987, the First Intifada broke out and plunged Israeli cities and Palestinian villages into utter chaos. Every neighbor was suddenly a potential enemy, and many feared for their lives and…
Green Day's seventh studio album, American Idiot, is almost a decade old but the sentiments expressed have changed little since 2004. The American public is still oversaturated with media…
Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town, which first premiered in 1938, has left a lasting mark on American drama. Its minimalist, meta-theatrical style and its keen insight into t…
There are few things that get people into the holiday spirit better than holiday music. The Kennedy Center's Pops series concert Happy Holidays!, featuring the National Symphony Orchestra, t…
In life and in love, one of the chief questions is whether it is more important to be tactful or truthful. Molière's The Misanthrope, now playing at Vagabond Theatre, follows the story of A…
Virginia Woolf, the woman after whom Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (now playing at Spotlighters Theatre) was named, was part of the high modernist movement, an artistic comm…
Attempting a stage edition of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (in its theatrical adaptation by Robert Kauzlaric) is, at the very least, ambitious. A cynic might call it borderline impossible–…
Countdown to the Happy Day by Thomas W. Stephens, currently playing at Heralds of Hope Theater, is a profound and startling look at the ways that grief and poverty impact people. Two very di…
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall is inscribed with nearly 60,000 names of soldiers who died or were reported missing in action during the Vietnam War. Millions of people visit the memorial…
Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories, now playing at the Capital Fringe, epitomizes the definition of theatre. From the moment the street-wise adapted characters of Ovid's Metamorphoses …
In Medea, now playing at Mobtown Players, an ancient drama is played out amidst the glitz and glamour of 1930s Hollywood. It is the story of a woman driven by rage and indignation, seeking r…
Private Lives by Noel Coward, now playing at Vagabond Players, is over eighty years old but no less funny or relevant than when it first premiered in 1930. It tells the story of Elyot (Micha…
The main advantage of Spotlighters Theatre’s rather unconventional and intimate space is that a family drama like Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance feels as if it is taking place…
