15 stories by "Otis Ramsey-Zöe"
Manu Kamasi grew up performing African drums and doing performance karate in New York. His parents encouraged him to enter a storytelling contest as a child, and he developed an appreciation…
Actress Valerie Leonard is among the Washington area’s greatest treasures. She starred in lead roles in New York City for 20 years before moving to the region, where she has appeared i…
Joy Zinoman, Founding Artistic Director of Studio Theatre, certainly needs no introduction. Her decades of work speak for themselves. As Director of Curriculum and Teacher Training at the th…
The Island by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona was first performed at Metro Stage in 1991 and returns in celebration of the company’s 30th anniversary. Depicting the psycho…
The incomparable E. Faye Butler has graced Washington stages so many times that we tend to claim her as our own. Arena Stage productions include Smokey Joe's Café, Pullm…
In her native Chile, Natalia Miranda entered college with dreams of being a geneticist. Happily, a theatre elective taken during her freshman year sparked a new passion. She has since appear…
In Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Choir Boy, Pharus Jonathan Young aspires to be the best singer in the history of Charles R. Drew Prep School. However, he finds himself swimming against tide…
At six years old, Geraint Wyn Davies, child of a teacher and a Welsh minister, was sitting with the organist and watching his father preach when he realized that he wanted to be a performer.…
Just before ringing out 2014, I sat down with Thomascena Nelson, an extraordinary veteran performer, and Marquis D. Gibson, a gifted newcomer, from Theater Alliance’s production of Bla…
Theater J Artistic Director Ari Roth once asserted that Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures is “as go…
Homosexuality, parenthood, and child neglect take center stage in Handbag, an "in-yer-face" dark comedy by Mark Ravenhill. The play’s dual plot concerns gay and lesbian coupl…
In Forum Theatre’s production of Idris Goodwin’s How We Got On, under the direction of Paige Hernandez, Thony Mena plays Julian, a suburban teenager trying to “navigate tum…
Set in the Deep South, Alfred Uhry’s 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning play Driving Miss Daisy explores the surprising, twenty-five year friendship between a waspish Jewish Southern widow an…
David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette takes a highly contemporary look at the famously iconic and controversial queen of France, from her growing celebrity to her ultimate demise at the hands…
Dramaturg and Howard University lecturer Otis Ramsey-Zöe launches his new series The Art of the Actor in conversation with Joy Jones and Maduka Steady as they delve into the rehear…
