Review: A JUMPING-OFF POINT at Round House Theatre
by David Friscic - Apr 18, 2024
An exploration of what constitutes the writer’s role and ownership of material, issues of representation in the arts, racial politics and the messiness of friendship and caring are all threshed out in Inda Craig -Galván’s play A Jumping-Off Point. Now being presented at the Round House Theatre, this 90-minute play is provocative, topical, and moves briskly. The various issues it explores, however, cannot be fully explored too well in a play that tries to be too many things at once.
Ensemble Studio Theatre Announces Casting For Marathon Of One-Act Plays
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 5, 2022
Ensemble Studio Theatre (EST) has announced complete casting for the 38th Marathon of One-Act Plays, which will be fully comprised of work from artists who identify as Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC). This year's selection of eleven plays was curated by Co-Artistic Directors Mike Lew (Teenage Dick) and Colette Robert (Behind the Sheet). Ten plays will be presented across two different series from Sunday October 16 through Sunday November 13 at EST.
BWW Review: IT'S NOT A TRIP IT'S A JOURNEY at Round House Theatre
by Megan Gray - Apr 26, 2022
The world premiere of Charly Evon Simpson's new play 'It's Not a Trip It's a Journey' has opened at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, MD in collaboration with the theater's first annual National Capital New Play Festival. Simpson's play, directed skillfully by Nicole A. Watson, invites audiences along on June's (Erin Margaret Pettigrew) arduous trip, or journey rather, of self-discovery as she travels with her friends from New York City to the Grand Canyon. All four friends have a purpose drawing them towards escape. Whether it be a roadside attraction or getting over an ex, all four wind up battling thoughts, feelings, experiences, and truths that they had been suppressing about their intersecting identities of being Black and femme in this country.
THE KRAMPUS Descends On Brooklyn's Industry City This Month
by Stephi Wild - Dec 9, 2021
Dialogue with Three Chords (D3C) is back live and in-person, with BrooklynONE (bkONE) Productions, to present a reading of THE KRAMPUS at Standard Wormwood Distillery in Industry City. THE KRAMPUS is part of a holiday double bill preceded by a live recording of The Cult of Pop podcast at St. Mark's Comics next door.
Astoria Performing Arts Center Will Present Julie Benko's THE DISTRICT This Month
by Stephi Wild - Sep 11, 2021
The play, which takes place in the legal red light district that existed in New Orleans prior to World War I, follows Creole madam 'Duchess' Kitty Dewitt and the residents of her elite bordello. The Duchess has lofty ambitions for her teenage daughter Lili this Mardi Gras season... but Lili has plans of her own.
Egg & Spoon Announces 2021 Incubation Series Writers
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 11, 2021
Egg & Spoon Theatre Collective announced its 2021 Incubation Series Writers, who will each receive a fifteen-hour virtual workshop this summer. The writers are Phanésia Pharel, Reynaldo Piniella, and David Davila.