90 stories by "Roy Maurer"
To clip characters helpless from the bounds of their classic works and conjure up the residue of their stories requires bravery in vision, deftness in execution, and a wholehearted love for …
Audiences for playwright Larry Kramer's landmark 1985 agitprop drama The Normal Heart, will undoubtedly include those old enough to have been aware of and remember the baffling and fearful y…
The account of young American Jews who created some of the most popular and enduring superheroes of the golden age of comic books " invincible heroes who stood for truth and justice " while …
The first big production number from Flora the Red Menace, "One Good Break," a paean to young seekers everywhere, couldn't be more apt as the theme behind the show's creation. For musical th…
It's got Sinatra's dulcet cool and Tharp's kinetic heat baked in but still this puddin' can't rise. Come Fly Away, a remixed version of the 2010 Broadway dance revue now at The Kennedy Cente…
Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! plays a welcome trick on you. While enjoying a lighthearted situational comedy of stock family shenanigans, set in a time and place out of extant memory and …
Renaissance woman Natsu Onoda Power is generating a reputation for original, highly inventive performance pieces. Writer, director, designer, theater prof at Georgetown University, Onoda Pow…
I was on my way to the basement of a church in NW Washington to see a play I had never heard of, a minor work from a major voice in theater, one of my favorites, in fact. I was directed arou…
Get thee down to Penn Quarter's Sidney Harman Hall to behold Shakespeare in the tropics, under the palms, smoldering in the Caribbean sun: it's the one about the guy who secretly loves the g…
Unfinished business is at the heart of Conor McPherson’s ghost story of a play, Shining City, an often potent and truthful accounting of the way we live. Currently onstage at Quotid…
Synetic Theater's distinctive take on the Bard endures with the company's Speak No More Silent Shakespeare Festival's second offering: Othello. Synetic stamps its signature on one of Shakesp…
The odyssey of the redemptive thief turned champion of the innocent and the good, the story of the lodestar Jean Valjean and "the miserables" triumphantly returns to the Kennedy Center reple…
Who is that boogeyman scaring the gullible and accommodating? Is it the headless Hessian wreaking terror on the residents of Sleepy Hollow, immortalized in Washington Irving's classic 1820 t…
Who would've bet that a musical, by turns wacky and heartfelt, guided by a suicidal narrator struggling with his sanity"himself a metafictional send-up of anachronistic boys' detective ficti…
Steve LaRocque shines in Quotidian's No-Frills Cherry Orchard The peasant-born millionaire Yermolay Alexeyevich Lopakhin often commands center stage in Quotidian Theatre Company's earnest, n…
