Hi Theatre Fam! Jon Jon here! I got a chance to correspond with some of the wonderful folks at Imagination Stage, who are gearing up to open E B White's classic Charlotte's Web. Even though …
The hottest ticket in town right now is Tina Fey’s bound-for-Broadway musical Mean Girls, at the National only through December 3. According to the National’s online box offic…
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair, before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
Author’s note: The following is an account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, the real-life inspiration for Inherit the Wind. If you are unfamiliar with either the trial or the play, I re…
The real trial of the 20th century did not involve some imbecile driving a Bronco in a low-speed chase. Instead, it happened nearly a hundred years ago. In it, the greatest trial lawyer in A…
A political rival once said of the famed French foreign minister, Talleyrand, that he “would sell his soul for money and he would be right, for he would be exchanging dung for gold.…
Safe as Houses seizes a few opportunities to explore how unintentionally hurting loved ones does not make that hurt any less your responsibility. It gets bogged down, however, in handwringin…
There was reason behind the fact that I had not yet seen The Book of Mormon. The show, a pop culture lodestone and the apex theatrical event until it ran up against the wave of adorat…
"It's almost as much a political event as an artistic one," Al Jirikowic (my companion at Thursday night's performance of Burning Doors from Belarus Free Theatre) said to me. He also s…
From its roots in ancient Greek culture, the story of Electra has withstood the ravages of time. Electra, herself, stands as a bloodstained woman, something of a patron saint of revenge.…
When he was 12 years old, Paata Tsikurishvili was introduced to the story of Peter Pan on stage. "My dad took me and I just loved the story; the little conflicts with their parents, you want…
"Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Regina George?" If this line resonates with you, there's a good chance you are among the many anxiously awaiting the musical v…
A play with music, Nina Simone: Four Women meditates on songstress Nina Simone's transition from a singer to an activist, eventually writing songs that would underscore the Civil Rights Move…
Memory is a home we can't help but live in. Wandering from room to partitioned room, we reflexively replay the moments that define us in our search of what they mean for who we are. Deb Sivi…
John de Lancie is set to star in Mosaic Theater Company's production of Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Robin Baitz' Vicuña & The American Epilogue as Kurt Seaman, a Donald Trump-inspi…
There is still dictatorship in Europe. Protestors are beaten in the streets. Artists and activists are tortured in prison. An iron-fisted strong man rigs elections and crushes all opposition…
What wonderful serendipity in Baltimore this October. On one side of Fayette Street, the Hippodrome Theatre recently hosted the musical The Color Purple with heroine Miss Celie realizing …
Nora Achrati considers herself "very much a character actor." "I was very intrigued by the premise of Mystery School and the opportunity to play these very different characters," she says, s…
In a time in American history where gun control, collusion, corporate taxes, labor issues, immigration, war, and threats of violence dominate the daily news, Assassins feels chillingly relev…
Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
Peter Pan and Captain Hook should see a therapist together. How can they not realize by now that their commonalities are greater than their differences? Both are childish, boastful, and untr…
"A lot with a little" encapsulates 4615 Theatre Company's jewel-box production of Sophocles' Electra. British dynamo Nick Payne's clean, contemporary translation of the classical revenge-and…
Jon Jon Johnson is getting ready for the closing performance of Tarot Reading IIIÂ on October 22, created by The Tarot Reading and based on the ancient Tarot cards. It’s a unique exp…
“It's crazy”, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that "after all these years I'm still trying to justify my life." Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking specific…
Prior to seeing Folger's production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, I spoke with director Robert Richmond and set designer Tony Cisek about the dramatic transformation of the theatre …