BWW Review: WET's STRAIGHT WHITE MEN Examines Privilege but Takes the Long Way Around
by Jay Irwin - Jan 14, 2018
As you enter the theater for Washington Ensemble Theatre's Straight White Men , currently playing at 12th Ave Arts, you are greeted with Hip Hop music with questionable lyrics amped up to the point that you can feel the bass in your filings. You're told at the outset of the show that the reason for this is to take away the privilege of being comfortable from most in the audience who wouldn't care for that. What follows is Young Jean Lee's overly stereotypical and clich examination of four straight white men and their privilege. So, I can only assume seeing an interesting play with a point was also a privilege we were denied.
BWW Review: Forced RUTH AND THE SEA from Pacific Play Company Offers No Resolution
by Jay Irwin - Dec 12, 2015
In Horton Foote's beautiful play "A Trip to Bountiful" we care about the journey because we care about Carrie and the characters around her. Unfortunately in Morgan Ludlow's new play "Ruth and the Sea", currently playing at Annex Theatre from Pacific Play Company, we have few chances to get to know or like Ruth and her family as we mostly just end up seeing them be bitter and snarky to each other. That coupled with some forced dialog and exposition and clunky story structure, and what amounts is a journey that I wish I hadn't taken.
Theatre9/12 Opens THE EQUATION Tonight
by BWW News Desk - Jan 24, 2014
THEATRE9/12 presents THE EQUATION, a new play by Charles S. Waxberg author of A Shade of Green, tonight, January 24th - February 15, 2014.
Theatre9/12 to Open THE EQUATION, Jan 24
by BWW News Desk - Jan 7, 2014
THEATRE9/12 presents THE EQUATION, a new play by Charles S. Waxberg author of A Shade of Green, January 24th - February 15, 2014.
THEATRE9/12 Presents THE EQUATION, a New Play by Charles S. Waxberg, 1/24-2/15
by Courtnie Mele - Dec 12, 2013
In our time of soaring unemployment, sketchy Wall Street practices, and increasingly vast income polarity, the examination of a capitalistic economy and what it does to humanity asks to be explored. Originally commissioned by the UNITAS Theatre Co. of Los Angeles who felt the plays themes were too controversial for a new company, the workshop was produced nevertheless by the cast and crew and since revised by its author. Told through reverse chronology in Depression-era New York City with layered scenes in a nearby town house one generation later, THE EQUATION engages the audience in a "how-done-it" about a birth rather than a death. This period "play of excavation" reveals a physician and his wife who attempt to adopt the infant son of a Russian woman desperate to give her child a shot at the American Dream glittering impossibly beyond her grasp.
WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE? Opens Tonight at The Little Theatre on Capitol Hill
by BWW News Desk - Nov 8, 2013
WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE? features two comedic one-acts, one serious dose of fun: 'The Way of All Fish,' a comedy by Elaine May, and 'I Can't Remember Anything,' a wry and witty observation by Arthur Miller. Paul O'Connell directs Eleanor Moseley,* Christine Mosere*, David S. Klein, and Ruth McCree. The show opens Today, November 8th for a 3-week run at The Little Theatre on Capitol Hill.
WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE? to Open 11/8 at The Little Theatre on Capitol Hill
by BWW News Desk - Nov 4, 2013
WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE? features two comedic one-acts, one serious dose of fun: 'The Way of All Fish,' a comedy by Elaine May, and 'I Can't Remember Anything,' a wry and witty observation by Arthur Miller. Paul O'Connell directs Eleanor Moseley,* Christine Mosere*, David S. Klein, and Ruth McCree. The show opens Friday, November 8th for a 3-week run at The Little Theatre on Capitol Hill.