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.
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 brutally bizarre and paranoid kind… Continue reading
Vashon troupe offers an intriguing piece of American Zen.
There are no surprises in this retelling of a classic.
Mrs. KleinFascinating, disturbing, and rewarding, Sight Nine's production of Nicholas Wright's three-character period piece, Mrs. Klein, is just the sort of fringe work that should… Continue reading
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 implies. A recent graduate of… Continue reading
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 Bug as a "tense comedic… Continue reading
In a departure from its usual gritty, avant-garde productions of plays by young authors, Washington Ensemble Theatre is tackling a bit of classical Greek drama,… Continue reading
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 of bureaucratic madness and erotic… Continue reading
