13 stories by "Scott Meslow"
Like so many spy stories before it, The Little Drummer Girl starts with a bang. The year is 1979. The city is Bad Godesberg, West Germany. And the key motif is a nerve-jangling collection of…
At a pivotal point in Bachelorette, one character offers her take on the state of contemporary womanhood: "Age 12 is when you start to hate yourself." It's the closest the play ever comes to…
"Do u no wot the hum is?" ask the cryptic ads for Hum, which had its world premiere on Monday night at the Atlas. Having seen the play, I now know what "the hum" is. But I'm still figuring o…
The Seafarer " a Christmas-themed play set in Ireland – arrives in DC too late for both the Yuletide season and St. Patrick's Day. But that's no reason to miss it. Anyone who wants to …
There's no better place for a story about identity than the theater. No other art form depends so much on our suspension of disbelief, and our willingness to accept that any person " given e…
It would take an ambitious, forward-thinking theatre to capture British playwright Roy Williams' unique blend of kitchen-sink drama and urban patois. Fortunately for all of us, the play foun…
It's clear from minute one of Astro Boy and the God of Comics that writer and director Natsu Onoda Power is in very familiar (and very beloved) territory. Ms. Power " whose 2009 book, "God o…
If plays are judged by the sheer force of their emotional impact, Really Really " the world premiere of playwright Paul Colaizzo's contemporary, college-set drama, now playing at Signature T…
Synetic Theater " which has spent the past decade building a reputation for the "synthesis" of its "kinetic" theatrical elements " has taken a break from its acclaimed silent Shakespeare pro…
Horror is a tricky genre for both stage and screen. It relies, perhaps more than any other genre, on emotion " evoking a gut-level, sometimes primal terror that makes the viewer forget, just…
How do you solve a problem like The Two Gentlemen of Verona? Â This comedy, often speculated by scholars to be the first of Shakespeare's plays, is one of his least-beloved (and least perf…
The Dark Knightmare Before Christmas and  Breaking Hunger Recent years have seen the music industry taken over by "mashup artists" " DJs who meld numerous popular songs into a surprisi…
 Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage takes to the screen There's a scene late in "Carnage" in which Penelope " the type-A, upper-middle class mother played by Jodie Foster " asks "why is …
