Double Double-Headers as ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION & LOCALLY GROWN FESTIVAL COME TO A CLOSE
Our winter of 6 new commissions wraps up today with the final two performances of The Kinsey Sicks’ comedy which rocks out on weekends like nobody’s business. Read More »
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Locally Grown Solo Shows Return After a Month of Cultivation
As our festival winds down — only one more reading to go — this Sunday at 5 — we’re seeing amazing things take root — a shaping, pruning, deepening and snipping process that’s really a cultivator’s dream — to be able to be with a play for weeks — in Read More »
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HOT & COLD Pushes Us Into The New
Gwydion Suilebhan’s new play took us places no other play has traveled to before on the Theater J stage — or any other stage, for that matter — A newly-constructed level-4 biohazard laboratory, pristine and precise, connecting to a typical, upper middle-class suburban kitchen, joining the lab via a shared “mud room” and “air lock. Read More »
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Latest TJ Commission Begins Tonight (SOLD OUT) Just like Arena Stage’s RED
So it’s the season for commissions — we’ve just launched 5 in Locally Grown and our 6th of the season begins previews tonight. Read More »
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On Commissions – The Hows & The Whys – Discuss
Tis the season for new play commissions in our midst. We’ve launched 5 of them with Locally Grown, and we’re soon to be ushering in a 6th with the world premiere comedy, ELECTILE DYSFUNCTION, THE KINSEY SICKS FOR PRESIDENT which begins performances, Read More »
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Week #3 of Locally Grown Readings
Fascinating unfoldings on Monday and Tuesday of this most recent week of Locally Grown readings. Let’s hear from those who attended COLD NOVEMBER LIGHT by Stephen Spottswood. . Read More »
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Not Everything is Solved With a Treenorah
Shirley here. While we’ve been blogging a lot about THE RELIGION THING, we’ve stayed sort of quiet about, well, the religion thing. Be assured, the play’s look at interfaith families has not gone unnoticed–either by us or in the press. Read More » -
Ari is Interesting!
Grace here. Just wanted to share some pretty snazzy news about our fearless leader, Mr. Ari Roth, who was named one of the Top 10 Most Interesting Jews by Washington Jewish Week. Check out his most memorable Jewish experience of 2011…. . Read More » -
More on THE RELIGION THING; and an interview with the playwright
This blog entry comes to us from Frank Disalvo, a Theater J Literary Intern and MFA Playwriting Candidate at Catholic University. Frank served as dramaturg on Theater J’s production of THE RELIGION THING. Read More » -
‘The Hampton Years’ – First Full Length Play Presentation in Locally Grown Festival – Hits a Homer!
Jacqueline Lawton’s The Hampton Years explores the relationship between art professor Viktor Lowenfeld and his students, John Biggers and Samella Lewis. The commissioned work underwent 4 major drafts before its first airing Monday night in the Aaron and Cecile Goldman Theater. Read More » -
Locally Grown Readings Are Launched!
An inspiring double-bill tonight — MARRIED SEX by Laura Zam and THE PROSTATE DIALOGUES by Jon Spelman. Some amazing revelations. Soon to post any number of responses. Share your thoughts about these intensely rich, very personal works. Read More »
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Locally Grown & The State of DC Theater (in The Post)
Everyone’s talking about the unprecedented consideration that The Washington Post Sunday Arts section has given to The State of DC Theater in a series of about 10 different articles. Here’s a link to the lead piece. Read More » -
Talking Back to THE RELIGION THING After First Two Previews
450 people have seen THE RELIGION THING thus after our first two Pay-What-You-Can previews. Who’d ‘a thunk a local play by a no-name playwright would draw a Sold Out audience on a night when we didn’t even run a Guide ad in the Post? We’re all thrilled with the community’s interest in what we’re cooking up. Read More » -
‘Tis a New Year and a New Festival Sprouts Forth (PWYC’s Start Tonight!)
Happy New Year, People! There’s a lot of good stuff going on!!! The press is welcoming a brand new festival with very generous interest and we’re thrilled for the light being shined on local playwrights in our brand new LOCALLY GROWN Festival! So here’s the first of three wonderful features, and more’s a coming. Read More » -
End of Trip/End of Year
Fitting to be leaving this summation of the last 48 hours in Israel to the last day of 2011, a year that began with a month of Israel immersion courtesy of the Cameri Theatre’s coming to DC to launch our “Voices” Festival and share the moving majesty of their Hebrew-Arabic production of Return To Haifa . Read More » -
Why Ramallah?
from Stephen Stern… Ari’s posting on our day in Ramallah is a heartfelt, mind-engaged entry into the passions and chasms of separation at the heart of the entanglement of Israelis and Palestinians. Read More » -
Ramallah Hopes/Ramallah Blues
Two last plays on Sunday bring IsraDrama to a rich conclusion, with a final wrap-up and closing night party—but all that’s 19 days ago now (!) and hardly the end of the experiential journey we need to share before New Year’s Eve shuts this saga Read More » -
Acknowledging TJ supporters Who Made Our Trip to Israel Possible
As we wind down our Israel-trip postings — hopefully we’ll bring them to a sterling conclusion with the close of 2011 and then turn full attention that is the excitement of our new Locally Grown Festival–we want to repost a casual comment that Read More » -
An American in Tel Aviv – Day Three
On Thursday we gathered on the tour bus at 9: 30 for our trip to Jerusalem. This day has been hard for me to write about, for a number of reasons. While nothing about Israel is simple, Tel Aviv is at least straightforward–I kind of get it. Read More » -
Isra-Drama Finale from Stephen Stern
Part 2 of Stephen’s posting… (see here posting #1) Ari (on the shoulders of Jennifer’s and Shirley’s postings) has provided a comprehensive look at rich theatrical connection, discussions, and “controversies” at Isra-Drama. Read More » - Load More
