features, essays, etc.
SMithsonian
Suzan-Lori Parks and Sally & Tom (April 2024)
The Washington City Paper
By publication, then chronologically from most newest to oldest.
Playwright James Ijames: Good Bones, Great Timing (May 15, 2023)
Talk of the Nation: Mike Daisey Brings an 18-Part, 32-Hour Stage Adaptation of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States to Arena (July 11, 2019)
Action Figure: A Syrian Asylum Seeker Makes Her English-Language Debut in The Welders’ This Hope: A Pericles Project (Nov. 15, 2018)
The Troubling History of Segregated Swimming Pools Comes to the Stage in #poolparty (June 29, 2018)
Notes from the Dupont Underground: TBD Immersive's Latest Gamble (Feb. 15, 2018)
Talk Shop: Amy Saidman and Story District Celebrate 20 Years of Storytelling (WCP cover story, Sept. 14, 2017)
Staged Exit: Howard Shalwitz and The Arsonists (Sept. 7, 2017)
Can an Working Actor Get Famous in One of Shakespeare's Least-Famous Plays? (May 2017)
On Theater J's The How and the Why (Feb. 2017)
Comedian Jeff Simmermon Comes Home (Dec. 2016)
The Welders' Latest Aims for Authenticity in the Octagon (Nov. 2016)
The Next Stage (Feb. 2016)
Mike Daisey, unreliable narrator
Fringe on Top (WCP cover story, July 2015)
Storyteller John Kevin Boggs, Remembered (April 2015)
Bringing Out the DC Dead (Oct. 2014)
The Life Despotic with Drew Cortese (Feb. 2014)
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, profiled (Nov. 2013)
Sweet and Lo-Fi: At Fringe, Inspiration and Professionalism Aren’t Always Found in the Same Place (Aug. 2013)
Faux REALS: On the Deconstruction, Mainstreaming, and Re-deconstruction of Superheroes (Aug. 2012)
Fringe, at the Center (Aug. 2012)
Mike Daisey, Unreliable Narrator (WCP cover story, July 2012)
The Fight Stuff: Getting the Boxing Right in Studio Theatre's Sucker Punch (March 2012)
Fringe & Purge blog (July 2010, July 2011, July 2012)
Metapocalypse: DC's Year of Theater About Theater (Dec. 2011)
Receipt Wisdom: Are Tickets to Fringe Shows Too Damn High? (July 2011)
Boxing on Stage (April 2011)
Taffety Punk's Reals (Jan. 2011)
Tweet Seats (Dec. 2010)
Talking Oklahoma! with Bob Mondello (Nov. 2010)
Lean & Hungry Theatre's MacBeth (Sept. 2010)
Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Darrow Montgormery)
Washington Shakespeare Company's Mary Stuart (Sept. 2010)
Video: Eight Minutes with the Cast & Crew of Ella Hickson's EIGHT (Aug. 2010)
Ed Hamell, Road Warrior (July 2010)
Tea-Jerk Reaction (July 2010)
Can the Fringe Festival Grow Up? (WCP cover story, July 2010)
The Washington Post
Ron Bohmer, the Pantom his own self (Dec. 2008) Tom Kamm, desigining Boom! for Woolly Mammoth (Oct. 2008) Jose Rivera's Brainpeople at Rorschach (June 2009) Taffety Punk's The Faithkiller (April 2009) Gary Gulman (March 2024) Maria/Stuart at Woolly Mammoth (Aug. 2008) Constellation's The Marriage of Figaro (Jan. 2009) Mermaids, Monsters, and the World Painted Purple at the Kennedy Center (Oct. 2008) GALA's Mummy in the Closet: The Return of Eva Peron (May 2009) Solas Nua's Pumpgirl (Feb. 2009) Rooms, a Rock Romance (July 2008) Jon Spelman, Digging into Shakespeare (March 2009)