“A Winter’s Tale” according to Standford University’s Stephen Orgel, “is a story to be told or read in front of a fire on a long winter’s night.” In this season of never-ending, blistering N... Read more
One Sunday night in 1983, New York City’s WYNY-FM made radio and television history by introducing the world to a little German-Israeli American woman. What she talked about that night was a... Read more
One of the most influential and inspiring artists of our time, the late Ursula K. LeGuin was a pioneer in the genre of science fiction and a literary behemoth. Nestled amongst her collection... Read more
Think back. When was the last time you visited the theatre and experienced a show starring Native Americans? “Annie Get Your Gun” does not count. Now think back and tell me when was the last... Read more
In 2015, Washington DC’s theatre community came together to form the Women’s Theater Voices Festival, a festival of plays composed by female playwrights. Three years and a ton of hard work l... Read more
In Nina Simone’s “Sinnerman” a man runs all over creation looking for a place to hide, while Simone asks him repeatedly, “Oh Sinnerman, where you gonna run to?” It’s not unlike the mother in... Read more
In the original 1982 New York Times review of the Public’s production of “Top Girls,” critic Frank Rich explained the way that the playwright Caryl Churchill sees the theatre as “an open fro... Read more
There are plays that leave you breathless, there are plays that leave you speechless. “Wilderness” is one of those plays that doesn’t leave you when you walk out of the theatre, in a truly u... Read more
Recently, I was watching a movie from a franchise that deals heavily with superheroes, and one scene, in particular, gave me pause. In this scene, a character triumphantly throws a bag of pr... Read more
Tucked away in the heart of America’s capital is a little slice of the Emerald Isle known as the Keegan Theatre. This theatre is so connected to their Irish roots, in fact that they have put... Read more
