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  • Dream Role: Holly Twyford on being Bottom

    By on January 28, 2016

    Holly Twyford has helped shape D.C.'s theater scene by taking on gender-bending roles, including Bottom in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

  • Good Grief: Bad Dog (review)

    By on October 8, 2015

    Olney Theatre's Bad Dog is a very funny comedy about serious problems

  • Social Contractions

    By on January 10, 2013

    If you've heard of British playwright Mike Bartlett, it's no doubt because of his provocative play Cock, which last season created a sensation off-Broadway –...

  • Dirty Truth

    By on October 31, 2012

    Right now there's a freestanding toilet in a remote section of the third-floor stage at Studio Theatre. There's also a lot of dirt on the...

  • Review: Time Stands Still

    By on January 12, 2012

    ''Happy trails.'' ''Be careful!'' Two ways to say goodbye to someone – one playful and lighthearted, the other cautionary and concerned. Those are also the...

  • Heartfelt Tribute

    By on November 3, 2011

    Holly Twyford almost chokes up recalling the first decade of the AIDS epidemic, when fear and death ran rampant. ''I still have a kind of...

  • Lingering Kiss

    By on September 22, 2011

    Actress Rachel Zampelli decided it was now or never to push for a new production of Stop Kiss. ''I was looking into the mirror, wondering...

  • Leading By Example

    By on November 4, 2009

    Before wrapping up his Nov. 2 testimony in favor of the marriage-equality bill the City Council is considering, Andrew Hertzberg got down on one knee...

  • Happy Endings

    By on January 7, 2009

    When Douglas Carter Beane had the idea to write a play about the struggles of a closeted movie star, he initially dismissed it as old-fashioned...

  • International Flair

    By on June 4, 2008

    If you are in the mood for a cozy evening of subtle, intelligent, and thoroughly amusing theater, then Anne Washburn's The Internationalist is just the...

  • Stage Presence: Theatrical Bonds

    By on April 6, 2005

    In 1999, Jeanette L. Buck -- a local filmmaker, playwright and director -- was accosted by a stranger in her home, brutally attacked and left...