Writers Theatre
7 posts
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2016 Capital Fringe Review: ‘The Golden Smile’
It is probably not a good idea, near the end of a maniacally inscrutable and incessantly unfunny musical, to have one character sing, apropos the show, “It’s over! It’s done!” and then have another...
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Capital Fringe 2014 Preview: ‘Point…Blank…Period!’ by Tramaine Brathwaite
We all have one. That friend that you share WAY too much information with. That friend that you say the most embarrassing things to and know, secretly, they are thinking the same thing too. One day I...
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Capital Fringe Review: ‘Bully’ by Leslie Weisman
Entering the theater, we are greeted, and just this side of visually and audibly—threateningly, or unintentionally?—assaulted, by the sight and sounds of a slim, intense young man doing athletic...
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2013 Capital Fringe Show Preview: ‘Bully’ by Lee J. Kaplan
A hit in theatres and schools since its sold-out New York City premiere last Fall, Bully will appear at the Capital Fringe Festival in July and in the New York International Theatre Festival...
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‘Miriam’ at Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center by Jessica Vaughan
You don’t watch Miriam by writer, choreographer, and dancer Nora Chipaumire so much as you experience it. This one-hour performance piece that explores light and dark and black and white, breaks most...
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Steve LaRocque on His New One-Man Show – ‘Byline: Ernie Pyle’
He hated war, but he felt compelled to go back to it, again and again. He said, “There’s a war on and I’m part of it… I’ve got to go, and I hate it.” Ernie Pyle was one of the first “embedded”...
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Steve LaRocque on Playing Father Jack in ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ at Quotidian Theatre Company
Old friends are the best friends. Shortly after I came to the Washington DC area in 1994, I had a chance to portray the irascible S.B. O’Donnell in Brian Friel’s play Philadelphia, Here I Come. I...
