And Open Circle’s production is straight-ahead.
By The Waters of Babylon does everything it can to succeed.
Shakespeares romance is transposed to the groovy 60s.
Shakespeares romance is transposed to the groovy 60s.
Thanks to the cast, Kvetch overcomes its own lack of pith.
The Reps production is a monumental effort that includes a pool containing 840 cubic feet of water, buckets of rain falling from the rafters, and lots of moving parts onstage.
A plays characters performliterallyas if their lives depended on it.
Was this ambition?
A Dickens classic collapses before your eyes.
Like Edgar Allan Poe and Ambrose Bierce, the Rhode Island–born author H.P. Lovecraft created insular fictional worlds ruled by a…
Vashon troupe offers an intriguing piece of American Zen.
There are no surprises in this retelling of a classic.
Mrs. Klein Fascinating, disturbing, and rewarding, Sight Nine’s production of Nicholas Wright’s three-character period piece, Mrs. Klein, is just the…
A Schmeater disaster and transcendence at ACT.
Nicholas Robbins’ two new “American absurdist plays,” Sunny Cafe and Gremet, are nothing if not ambitious—with all that double-edged adjective…
The play offers little more than an educated persons move-by-move recap of the rush to war.
In a kind of kitchen-sink psychobabble that eerily imitates the tone of the play itself, Theater Schmeater’s press release describes…
In a departure from its usual gritty, avant-garde productions of plays by young authors, Washington Ensemble Theatre is tackling a…
Meet the world’s most unjustifiably confident singer.
Few writers seem as possessed by genius as Franz Kafka, the Austrian insurance-company clerk whose nightly expeditions into the recesses…
See Book-It’s Rhoda: A Life in Stories for details.
One bitter, the other bawdy.
Once upon a time, a lonely boy saves a mysterious girl from drowning. The mysterious girl—who insists she was dancing…
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