Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some links to some other pieces I've written recently: A slave ship found off the coast of South Africa has artifacts that will come to the Smithsonian's new…
Theatre Review: ‘No Rules Sketch Show’
A comedy sketch show by nature is hit or miss. What the plucky No Rules Theatre Company attempts to do in "The No Rules Sketch Show" at Signature Theatre in Arlington…
Theatre Review: ‘The Revolutionists’
The woman’s role in the French Revolution is generally remembered to be the image of the fictional Lady Liberty hoisting the tri-colored flag, leading the people as her dress falls…
Theatre Review: Another ‘Uncle Vanya’
Uncle Vanya is like the relative you used to see every decade or so at family reunions. Suddenly, he’s been coming to every Thanksgiving. And now you might think he’s…
Theatre Review: ‘The Margins’ at Molotov
In 1972 a parapsychologist in Toronto tried an strange experiment — get a bunch of people together to make up a fictional historical character and then try to conjure him…
The High Speed Helen Hayes Awards
To counterbalance the echoey chaos of last year, with the Helen Hayes Awards seemed to have been swallowed up by the party it was having at the National Building Museum,…
Theatre Review: ‘After the Revolution’
With a handful of plays and still in her mid-30s, Amy Herzog may be a slightly premature candidate for a festival of her work. But Baltimore’s Center Stage has forged…
Theatre Review: ‘G-d’s Honest Truth’
The cheery cast of the world premiere “G-d’s Honest Truth” promises, early on, a story that’s “Jewish but not too Jewy.” Theatre J at the DC Jewish Community Theatre would…
Theater Review: ‘Laugh’ at Studio
The title of Beth Henley’s new play sounds like an order; at least a nudge. "Laugh" is her effort to move away from her more serious works from the stage…
Review: Pointless Theater’s ‘Dr. Caligari’
There could hardly be a more reverent salute to a great, twisted film than The Pointless Theater’s well-wrought “Doctor Caligari” which brings the influential German expressionist film to life with…