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Filtering by Tag: The Studio Theatre
Greg Alverez Reid and Marquis D. Gibson as a kingslayer and his nephew in Fat Ham. (Margot Schulman)
My City Paper review of Studio’s production of Fat Ham, James Ijames’ Pulitzer-winning Hamlet rewrite, is here. You can also read my profile of the playwright from last May.
Multi-hyphenate theatermaker James Ijames, courtesy of the artist.
My Washington City Paper feature about Good Bones, Studio Theatre’s new world premiere from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony Award nominated playwright and actor James Ijames is here.
Tara Grammy and Maboud Ebramhimzadeh in English. (DJ Corey Photography)
Here’s my Washington City Paper review of Sanaz Toossi’s play English, now in a fine production at the Studio Theatre.
I didn't write about Ella Hickson's Oil, the best play I've seen this year. But I did review Lucy Kirkwood's The Children, the second-best. I'm struck by how different two plays with ecological themes written by British women born in the 80s that premiered in 2016 can be. I also wrote about Folger's new production of the seldom-staged Shakespeare comedy, Love's Labor's Lost, and discussed it on Around Town, below.
Elliott Bales and Nehassaiu deGannes play a longtime senator and the rookie rep who primaries him. (C. Stanley Photography)
I reviewed Kings, DMV native Sarah Burgess's smart drama about an idealistic freshman Congresswoman, for the Washington City Paper.
British soldiers survey an Irish village circa 1830 in Translations. (Teresa Wood)
I've got reviews of two shows I enjoyed in this week's Washington City Paper: Studio Theatre second-in-command Matt Torney's confident new production of Brian Friel's 40-year-old Irish classic Translations, and Aaron Posner's The Winter's Tale over at the Folger. The former as a lot of superb performers who haven't worked a lot in Washington before. The latter has a bunch of Posner's favorite actors (and mine), but it's Michael Tisdale as the maniacal King Leontes who runs away with the show.
With the return of theatre season comes the return of me trying semi-convincingly to smile on command! Robert Aubry Davis, Jane Horwitz,and I have shot a new batch of short Around Town segments discussing a great pair of shows I reviewed for the Washington City Paper last month, Studio Theatre’s production of Skeleton Crew byDominique Morisseau and Theatre Alliance’s remount of their Helen Hayes Award-winning 2016 version of Marc Bamuthi Joseph Word Becomes Flesh. How to embed those videos here eludes me because I’m an analog guy, but I’ve got links.
Read MoreCaroline Stefanie Clay and Tyee Tilghman in Skeleton Crew. (Teresa Wood)
You've got two, two, two big shows written by and starring people of color up in the District just now: Skeleton Crew, the third entry in Dominique Morisseau's Detroit series, has the same concerns as Lynne Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning Sweat but it's a better play, and Studio Theatre's production is built to last. And Psalmayene 24's multi Helen Hayes Award-winning production of Marc Bamuthi Joseph's Word Becomes Flesh is back at Theatre Alliance for a remount starring the same superb cast it did last year. I review both in this week's Washington City Paper. For which I also wrote the cover story, for some reason. It's not like I get paid by the word, people.
