65 stories by "Ryan Taylor"
More Ryan Maxwell photos from this year's fabulous Helen Hayes Awards at The Anthem. Recognize anyone? Leave a caption (include the photo #)Â in the comments below and we'll add it. Feel …
Why the heck is From the Mouths of Monsters only running this weekend? The workshop production currently in all-too brief residence at the Kennedy Center's Family Theater is more than …
There's a great jazz band in residence at the Kennedy Center, featuring lively, poppy, soulful original music by Terence Blanchard. It alone is enough to recommend a glance at Bud, Not Buddy…
Playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer is having something a breakout year here in the District. The Kennedy Center recently premiered his new piece for young audiences Where Words Once Were,…
Language is a playground. Structures and agreed-upon rules are there to be bent and broken, juxtaposed and toyed with. The Kennedy Center's latest commission, Where Words Once Were, posits a…
How much can a single great performance carry a whole production? That question is put to the test in Taffety Punk's staging of Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's An Iliad, a semi-contempo…
You might have heard about the Deepwater Horizon flick that just came out. I’ve not seen it, but based on the trailers it's a big, bloated action disaster action movie that focuses …
New works by local playwrights and artists dominated the 2016 Capital Fringe audience-chosen awards this year, announced by Capital Fringe's Julianne Brienza: Best Comedy went to John Kri…
Vote Early. Vote Often! The most important election of 2016 is coming up soon. I write of course, of the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival Audience Awards. This year's awards are hosted by our go…
Pssssst. Hey, you. Pssssst. I've got a secret for ya. See, I've found this really cool little mobile app called PokémonGo. You walk around in the real world and catch…. Oh, you've heard o…
Whisper Into My Good Ear features two old men sitting on a bench talking for about an hour. They talk about mortality. They talk about the indignities of aging bodies, loss of eyesigh…
There's something exciting about seeing history through the eyes of the losers and villains, it's something about the dramatic tension between history being written by the victors and idea t…
We're ten days into Fringe and I'm writing this during the first major rainstorm of the festival. Making it this long without severe weather is something of a minor Fringe miracle. Gives me …
Let's all give a nice big "welcome home!" to prodigal son Zack Myers, a locally-born multi-talent currently based out of Miami. Myers is currently camped out on the fringes of Fringe in the …
Christopher McDonnell, producer, director, and star of In A Nutshell, Â is to be commended for his ambition. For his production at this year's Capital Fringe festival, he has chosen to pre…
Gender performance is a balancing act. This is the only-mildly pretentious thought that popped in my mind while watching the ambitious new local dance/circus/theatre company Steal A Step.…
We're seeing a particularly intriguing trend emerging at this year's Fringe: area burlesque performers and troupes trying their hand at more traditional narrative storytelling, while trying …
The Class Act Players are young, talented, and ambitious to an almost irritating degree. With SuperNOVA, the college-aged troupe presents their second full-scale original musical in as…
Just minutes away from the opening of Capital Fringe 2016, Ryan Taylor takes a minute to pen the first entry of DCTS’ newest column, On the Fringe. Take it away, Ryan – Wel…
I must be getting soft in my old age, because I rather liked Bridges of Madison County. I better turn in my Fringe card and buy a mini-van. The touring run of Bartlett Sher's Tony-winning Br…
I had simple plans this Sunday. Laundry. Chores. Shopping for a small dinner party I'm hosting. And finishing off my review of District Merchants, the latest classical adaptation from loc…
"For you to be happy is all I've ever wanted…" Pretty words. Funny how often the subtext is “as long as you're happy how I want you to be happy.” Control issues abound in The W…
Paul Watson is, by all evidence, a fascinating man. Best known for a famous photograph of the corpse of a UN soldier being desecrated on the streets of Mogadishu, the Pulitzer Prize-winning …
Good to have you back, Solas Nua. The U.S. premiere of Deirdre Kinahan's Wild Sky marks the welcome return to full theatrical production of Irish-focused arts group, now under the artistic d…
Laura C. Harris has now starred in my two favorite Signature Theatre productions. Her star turn in the immensive physical (and criminally underseen) Tender Napalm put her on my fanboy map…
