play reviews

I was a 2012 AltWeekly Awards finalist in the category of Arts Criticism, circulation 50,000 and above, for my writing on theater for the Washington City Paper. I placed second.

For The Washington City Paper

24, 7, 365 (Feb. 2011)
4,000 Miles (March 2013)
60 Miles to Silver Lake (April 2010)
After the Fall (Nov. 2011)
After the Quake (Oct. 2011)
The Aliens (Nov. 2012)
Amazons and Their Men (March 2010)
American Utopias (April 2013)

Andy and the Shadows (April 2013)
Art (April 2011)
Astro Boy and the of Comics (Feb. 2012)
Barack Stars: The Wrath of Rahm (Feb. 2010)
Basra Boy (Feb. 2011)
A Behanding in Spokane (March 2013)
Beyond the Horizon (Jan. 2011)
The Big Meal (May 2012)
Blood Wedding (Feb. 2012)
BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA (June 2011)
Body Awareness (Sept. 2012)
Boged (Traitor) An Enemy of the People (Jan. 2013)
A Bright New Boise (Oct. 2011)
Cabaret Macabre (Nov. 2011) (Nov. 2012)
The Carpetbagger’s Children (Feb. 2011)
Cat’s Cradle (August 2010)
The Chosen (March 2011)
A Clockwork Orange (Oct. 2012)
Clybourne Park (March 2010)
The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Vol. One: Early Plays/Lost Plays (April 2012)
A Commedia Christmas Carol (Dec. 2012)
A Couple of Blaguards (Oct. 2012)
Courage (June 2010)
Dirt (Oct. 2012)
Double Indemnity (June 2012)
Dying City (Oct. 2012)
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Sept. 2012)
A Fox on the Fairway (Oct. 2010)
God of Carnage (April 2012)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Feb. 2013)
Golden Boy (Dec. 2010)
The Golden Dragon (Nov. 2011)
Goldfish Thinking (Aug. 2012)
The Golem (May 2013)
The Government Inspector (Sept. 2012)
Gruesome Playground Injuries (May 2010)
Hairspray (Dec. 2011)
Hamlecchino, Clown Prince of Denmark (May 2012)
Happy Days (Sept. 2011)
Hellspawn (Oct. 2011)
Hellspawn II: Black Aggie Speaks (Oct. 2012)
The History of Invulnerability (June 2012)
The History of Kisses (June 2011)
House of Gold (Nov. 2010)
Hughie (Feb. 2013)
I Wish You Love (June 2011)
An Iliad (Jan. 2013)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Aug. 2010)
Improbable Frequency (Oct. 2010)
In Darfur (April 2010)
Into the Dollhouse (Feb. 2012)
Juno and the Paycock (March 2011)
Kafka on the Shore (Feb. 2013)
King Lear (April 2011)
Krapp’s Last Tape (Dec. 2011)
Let Me Down Easy (Jan. 2011)
Long Day’s Journey into Night (April 2012)
The Lost Ones (Oct. 2010)
Lungs (Oct. 2011)
Mabou Mines DollHouse (Oct. 2011)
Mad Forest (Sept. 2011)
Mary Stuart (Nov. 2010)
The Master and Margarita (Nov. 2010)
Master Harold… and the Boys (March 2011)
The Million Dollar Quartet (Dec. 2012)
The Minotaur (Jan. 2013)
Mojo (Dec. 2010)
Mondo Andronicus (March 2010)
The Moscows of Nantucket (May 2011)
The Motherfucker with the Hat (Feb. 2013)
Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play (June 2012)
Much Ado About Nothing (Sept. 2011)
The New Electric Ballroom (April 2011)
New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza (March 2012)

No Man’s Land (May 2013)
The Normal Heart (June 2012)
On the Waterfront (April 2012)

Optimism!, or Voltaire’s Candide (2013)
Owl Moon (Feb. 2011)
Passing Strange (July 2010)
Public Enemy (April 2010)
PURGE (June 2011)
Reckless (Oct. 2012)
Red Herring (March 2011)
The Resurrectionist King (April 2011)
Return to Haifa (Jan. 2011)
Richard III (Nov. 2010)
The Saint Plays (Sept. 2010)
The Servant of Two Masters (May 2012)
Something You Did (Sept. 2010)
Steel Magnolias (Aug. 2011)
Stop Kiss (Sept. 2011)
The Taming of the Shrew (May 2012)
That Face (March 2010)
Thurgood (June 2010)
Time Stands Still (Jan. 2012)
The Tooth of Crime (May 2012)
A Trip to the Moon (Dec. 2012)
Twelfth Night (May 2013)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Jan. 2012)
Tynan (Jan. 2011)
Uncle Vanya (Aug. 2011)
Vanitas (April 2013)
Venus in Fur (June 2011)
The Walworth Farce (April 2011)

Wallenstein (April 2013)
We Fight, We Die (Oct. 2011)
The Weir (Feb. 2011)
Why Torture Is Wrong and the People Who Love Them (June 2011)
Wives and Wits: Overruled and Village Wooing (May 2012)
The Woman Who Amuses Herself (May 2009)
Women Beware Women (Oct. 2010)
Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie (Nov. 2012)
You, Nero (Dec. 2011)

For DCist

33 Variations
7 (x1) Samurai
Accident
Antony and Cleopatra
Ah, Wilderness!
Arcadia
Bad Hamlet
Busted Jesus Comix
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Death of a Salesman
The Director: The Third Act of Elia Kazan
Frost/Nixon
Happy Days

The Heavens Are Hung in Black
The Hefner Monologues: How Hefnerian
How Theatre Failed America
The K of D
The Lion King
MacBeth

A Man for All Seasons

Marat/Sade
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Now What?
Portia Coughlin
Rashomon
The Rivalry (Jan. 2010)
Scenes from the Big Picture
The Screwtape Letters
Shintoku-Maru
Speed the Plow
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Super-Secret Show
The Tempest
Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
Trad
The Unmentionables

Wishful Drinking

For The Washington Examiner

As You Like It (Nov. 2009)
Circle Mirror Transformation (Sept. 2010)
Disco Pigs (Nov. 2009)
The Fall of the House of Usher with The Tell-Tale Heart (Nov. 2009)
A Flea in Her Ear (Nov. 2009)
The Four of Us (Jan. 2010)
Full Circle (Nov. 2009)
Hamlet (May 2010)
I Am My Own Wife (Jan. 2010)
Living Dead in Denmark (Aug. 2009)
Orestes, A Tragic Romp (Feb. 2010)
Port Authority (Oct. 2009)
Reasons to Be Pretty (March 2010)
Sink the Belgrano! (Aug. 2010)
Some Girls (March 2010)
Sunset Boulevard (Dec. 2010)
Three Sisters (Jan. 2010)
The War of the Worlds (Nov. 2010)
Wife Swappers (Dec. 2010)
Young Frankenstein (Dec. 2009)

For WETA’s Around Town

Art (April 2011)
Clybourne Park (Aug. 2011)
The Walworth Farce (April 2011)

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