As always, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC (GMCW) delivered a rollicking, lyrical, and highly entertaining evening of song and dance to mark another holiday season in the nation’s cap... Read more
Dysfunctional family Christmases have become something of a staple of popular movies, books, and plays. Perhaps this is because, like it or not, they often hit pretty close to home. In Round... Read more
At once both intimate and explosive, 1st Stage’s production of Noah Haidle’s “Birthday Candles” takes audiences on an extended ride through one lifetime—one very special lifetime of one very... Read more
Possessing a spellbinding theatrical imagination is certainly one way to describe the mind and work of iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel. Her plays test the boundaries of... Read more
Samuel D. Hunter is a playwright rapidly on the way to becoming an iconic voice of the blue collar, the downtrodden, and the frequently forgotten. Often based in Idaho (from where Hunter hai... Read more
Henrik Ibsen is on a hot streak in DC. Two high-profile theatres opened their seasons to great fanfare as they each featured an adaptation of Ibsen. Amy Herzog’s 2024 reworking of “An Enemy... Read more
AI is everywhere. As a professor, I attend numerous faculty meetings, seminars, and sessions to address the head-scratching dilemma of “what do we do with this thing?” This dilemma has been... Read more
Henrik Ibsen, arguably the forerunner of theatrical realism, did like to take little expressionistic leaps now and then, blending the bleak workaday world with a more surrealist spin on the... Read more
Swiss playwright Reto Finger’s “Cold Country” comes across as part folktale, part gothic campfire story, and part dysfunctional family drama. Combined, all of these ‘parts’ offer... Read more
Theatrically chronicling the rise and fall of Malcolm X demands a contextual framework equal to the larger-than-life mythicism of the story. Al Letson, using Shakespeare as his canvas, cast... Read more
