Review: POTUS at NextStop Theatre Company
by Ken Kemp - Oct 8, 2024
Aaron Sorkin's original concept for The West Wing was a show depicting the behind-the-scenes workings of the White House, focusing on the President's top advisors and staff, with the President playing a very minor, cameo role.
THE TAMING By Lauren Gunderson Comes to The Vault at Capital One Hall
by Stephi Wild - Sep 5, 2024
Tweetering, pandashrews, and undying giddiness for James Madison-what else could you expect to find at a Miss America pageant? In this hilarious, raucous, all-female 'power-play' inspired by Shakespeare's Shrew, contestant Katherine has political aspirations to match her beauty pageant ambitions.
SCORCHED Comes to Expats Theatre This Month
by Stephi Wild - Sep 14, 2023
Expats Theatre will present the live stage production of Scorched (original French title Incendies) by Lebanese-Québecois playwright Wajdi Mouawad. Learn more about the production and find out how to get tickets here!
Review: SOPHISTICATED NEW ONES at Unexpected Stage Company
by Martrese Meachum - Jun 27, 2022
What did our critic think? Sophisticated New Ones, written by well versed television actor, writer and show creator Keith Powel is not a throw away play. Set in the time leading up to President Barack Obama's first election, this story centers an antique repair shop owned and operated by a divorce' and her adult son. It explores the conflict between what one has to give up in order to move forward. It's directed by Unexpected Stage Company board member and stage veteran, Dawn Thomas Reidy.
Unexpected Stage Company Presents Keith Powell's SOPHISTICATED NEW ONES
by A.A. Cristi - May 16, 2022
As part of its thirteenth season, Unexpected Stage Company presents Sophisticated New Ones by Keith Powell (This Is Us, 30 Rock), directed by Dawn Thomas Reidy (Raisin in the Sun at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company). The production will run June 15 to July 3 in the Fireside Room, an intimate 30-seat venue, at the River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation building, located at 6301 River Road in Bethesda. The production will also be offered virtually.
Full Cast Announced for The Show Must Go Online's DOCTOR FAUSTUS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 23, 2021
The Show Must Go Online today announced the full cast for their upcoming livestreamed performed reading of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. This is the third instalment in their Month of Marlowe series, preceded by Edward II (9 June) and Dido Queen of Carthage (16 June) and followed by the Marlowe Lives Cabaret (30 June).
Pomegranate Room Presents Inaugural Audio Play Festival
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 6, 2021
Pomegranate Room will present their inaugural audio play festival, Echoes: Stories from Mythology. Five one-act audio dramas feature modern retellings of stories from Chinese, Greek, and Norse mythology and folklore. Each story 'echoes' its original with a lens reflective of the world today.
IT'S (NOT) ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION to be Presented by Creative Cauldron
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 20, 2021
Creative Cauldron will present “Difficult Conversations: Bridging the Divide,” a new series of original plays. Addressing this challenging time of division and conflict, Creative Cauldron looks to writers in the DMV for inspiration and healing.