According to the Washington Stage Guild, their production of In Praise of Love is the first Terence Rattigan play produced in Washington, DC since In Praise of Love premiered at the K... Read more
One might think that the stunning intimacy of Folger Theater would be too cozy for King Lear, but the space only serves to amplify the drama, humor, and overall human characteristics of a pl... Read more
Quattro Gatti’s production of Dateline: Macbeth, written and directed by (and starring) Andy Hopper, is a strange, frequently funny, darkly morbid take on William Shakespeare’s c... Read more
The phrase “Jacobean tragedy” may not inspire enthusiasm in modern theatergoers, but We Happy Few’s production of John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, directed admira... Read more
On March 3, 1991, a Los Angeles construction worker was beaten with police batons over 50 times by local police. A year later, the acquittals of all four police officers would spark the 1992... Read more
Mara Neimanis has truly taken In-Flight Theater to a new level in her production of Air Heart. Written by Neimanis, and performed by her on a spectacular metal sculpture of a plane made by L... Read more
The Wars of the Roses were a time of extreme turmoil in Britain. In 1399, Henry of Bolingbroke, grandson of Edward III, deposed his cousin Richard II and took the throne for himself as Henry... Read more
In 1987, the First Intifada broke out and plunged Israeli cities and Palestinian villages into utter chaos. Every neighbor was suddenly a potential enemy, and many feared for their lives and... Read more
Green Day’s seventh studio album, American Idiot, is almost a decade old but the sentiments expressed have changed little since 2004. The American public is still oversaturated with media... Read more
Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Our Town, which first premiered in 1938, has left a lasting mark on American drama. Its minimalist, meta-theatrical style and its keen insight into t... Read more
