In his Director's Notes, Paata Tsikurishvili quotes a line from Hamlet: "Suit the action to the word, the word to the action." In its latest show, The Three Musketeers, written by brothers B…
There are many factors that have affected where I have chosen to go to school and why. One major consideration of Johnny and me is monetary. Our various degrees (an MFA and BFA for hi…
"I'm not dead yet," is an oft-quoted line from the 1975 film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The musical, Monty Python's Spamalot, has a whole number based on this line and, likewise, is a…
It was a fantastic weekend in the life of this couple, "Married to the Stage." I was able to visit my husband for the first time in three weeks, received a huge, adorable teddy bear for Vale…
A squall. A gale. A storm. A tempest. Synetic Theater's production of The Tempest, the latest installment of their Silent Shakespeare Series, can be described using all of the above words. I…
With soldiers still encountering difficult conditions, to say the least, in Afghanistan and more veterans attempting to reconcile acts committed in the intensity of war with the decorum expe…
Take key events of the past century. Add some music by a Russian composer. Throw in television, radio, and video game transmissions and broadcasts. Frame it with Marc Chagall's paintings,…
Well, the wait is over. Or perhaps this is only the beginning. I received my first acceptance into a PhD program last week. Here is the story: I was rushing into a meeting for the show I am …
       "Winter is coming." Or, well, it is already here. As I type this, my cell phone keeps vibrating with DC text alerts warning of a "winter storm," anticipating…
Sometimes, being married to the stage takes you to strange places and leaves you with more than just enhanced party skills. Johnny, for example, has always wanted to learn woodworking, creat…
Not long ago, my aunt observed me knitting away and asked where I had learned the skill. "Well, when you work in other centuries, you just pick things up," I replied. She laughed, but it's t…
Being "married to the stage" is one thing when one partner is the actor and the other the bookish dramaturg, as is the case with Johnny and myself. It is quite another when both partners are…
“Married to the Stage" can be stressful. Contrary to popular opinion, when both partners try to weave their careers around the trials and travesties that occur onstage, having a succes…
At the start of Shakespeare's Globe's production of Hamlet, the entire cast gathers onstage, with the lights up, playing instruments and singing a variation of "Little Beggar Man." Later, in…
My husband may live in an imaginary village, but we both belong to the category of ‘imaginary friends.’ Recently, I sat down to chat with a kindergartner and his almost-three-yea…
My husband lives in an imaginary village. A shire, to be exact. He works in another century, too, and has for the past three years. Currently, he is living in the year 1590 in the 35-acre Sh…
My husband moves better in high heels than I do. I came to this realization about a year before we were married, during our studies in the School of Theatre at Penn State University. …
"Honey, I don't think I can go to the next level. I just don't see myself going higher here." "It's okay, my love. I support you." This was a conversation I had several weeks ago with my hus…
"Often times, I've observed that organizations feel forced to prioritize art, audience, and artist. O Starsf the three, the artists are, more often than not, left to their own devices," …
Brian Feldman's one-man "show" BFF takes its single audience member on a two-hour journey- literally- to becoming Feldman's, well, "BFF." Feldman's "friend-building excursion" may take the a…
English-language opera, Greek tragedy, Mozart, tragedy, comic moments, and ballet: The In Series at the Atlas Performing Arts Center has it all in Charlotte Stoudt's translation and adaptati…
Something may be rotten in the state of Denmark, but energy is high and comedy very much alive in Faction of Fools' current production, Hamlecchino, which takes Shakespeare's HamletÂ�…
Quotidian Theatre Company's Mission Statement reads, in part, "By providing realistic situations and dialogue, we want to give the audience the impression that they are witnessing events ove…
There is a fine, fine line between loving and loathing, in the "interplay of joy and darkness," as Director Paata Tsikurishvili, and Founding Artistic Director, and CEO of Synetic Theater so…
Playwright Will Eno has been described by The New York Times as "a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation" and it is no surprise. Eno's play, The Flu Season, produced by Nomadic Theat…