Originally conceived by Wilson and former collaborator Todd Kreidler, the play first came to life as a one-man show that Wilson only got one chance to perform.
Set in racially charged 1963, Tony Kushner’s 2006 play about a struggling African-American family brings down the house.
Things get mystical in this flawlessly acted, emotionally affecting production.
This month brings two options for dark Irish comedy to the stage, plus a number of other shows.
The D.C. Preservation League wants Brookland’s iconic Round House to be designated a historic landmark.
Craig Wallace and Jeff Allin in Round House Theatre’s production of ‘Permanent Collection’. Photo by Danisha Crosby “You can’t be on both sides.” So says Sterling North (Craig Wallace), the new director of a private suburban art museum in Thomas Gibbons’ trenchant, provocative Permanent Collection. Sterling knows exactly which side he’s on, and so does his opposition, the museum’s education director Paul Barrow (Jeff Allin). The two are so far into their respective sides…
A scene from Round House’s 26 Miles. Round House Theatre’s production of 26 Miles will lose potential audience members with its plot synopsis, which features the words “mother,” “daughter” and “heart-warming,” and conjures up thoughts of Steel Magnolias and chick flicks. Yet there’s barely any hugging, crying or any stereotypically feminine gestures iin this intelligent exploration of divorce and estrangement. Thanks to a solid script by Quiara Alegria Hudes, 26 Miles rises well above…
Yarrrrrr. Forget Jacob Marley and Sugarplum Fairies. What DCist wants for Christmas this year is pirates. And Round House is more than happy to oblige. Their production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (a new version by Broadway vet Ken Ludwig) fully embraces the pirate fascination that our culture has embraced even before Johnny Depp made the word “savvy” his own. The story is one familiar to many who grew up with the tale –…
This review was written by contributor Chris Klimek The Director: The Third Act of Elia Kazan, now in its world premiere run at Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, takes a few more liberties with its subject than did Orson’s Shadow, another recent Round House production about titans of the stage and screen. The latter play imagined what Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier might have talked about during their real-life collaboration on Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros,…
MONDAY At Chapters, they’re mad for mystery writers on Mondays in March, and for alliteration at all other times. Today, they have a fine guest: Laura Lippman, who’ll be reading from her latest, What the Dead Know. 445 11th Street, NW, 1 p.m. TUESDAY Tom Bissell and his father, an ex-Marine who served in the Vietnam War, travel back to Vietnam on a journey that retraces both national and personal history. He’ll be in town…
