Project 1

Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Maria/Stuart By Jason Grote (produced 2008)

“followed the scene-for-scene structure of an 1800 German Romantic tragedy”

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36099

“referred to as ''kitchen-sink'' dramas…”

http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/stage.php?ak=3722

BOOM by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb (produced 2008)

“grandly wacked-out apocalypse fantasy in…”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/11/AR2008111102261.html

“a soaring, wonder-filled creation myth…”

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=36477

Antebellum By Robert O’Hara (produced 2009)

“O’Hara begins his serio-comic drama...”

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/display.php?id=37013

“how the increasingly sci-fi leaning story...”

http://dcist.com/2009/04/antebellum_in_progress.php

BARACK STARS by THE SECOND CITY (produced 2009)

“cross hairs of this enjoyably polished sketch-comedy revue...”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/16/AR2009071604020.html

“a zany revue of zingers and blackout comedy Second City”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/17/theater-presidential-comedy/

The Unmentionables by Bruce Norris (produced 2007)

“Bruce Norris's pleasingly knife-twisting satire...”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/06/AR2007090602624.html?tid=informbox

“The drama begins (and ends) with one character..”

http://www.aislesay.com/CHI-UNMENTIONABLES.html

Current Nobody by Melissa James Gibson (produced 2007)

“for a comedy about a female war photographer’s...”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/theater/17ishe.html?_r=1

“alls into an uneasy middle ground between comedy and drama...”

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/dc/dc326.html

STUNNING by David Adjmi (produced 2008)

“the play migrates intriguingly from the path of comedy to a realm more plaintive and tragic.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/19/AR2008031903587.html

“In "Stunning," the melodrama does not...”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/mar/21/stunning-clash-of-cultures/

Vigils by Noah Haidle (produced 2007)

“the comedy's whimsical underpinnings...”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/ AR2007020601874.html

It's a romantic premise...”

http://www.metroweekly.com/arts_entertainment/stage.php?ak=2538

The Faculty Room — Bridget Carpenter (produced 2006)

“Carpenter's satiric drama may...”

http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/dc/dc237.html

“is going to be a pungent black comedy about life on...”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/16/AR2006061601872.html

Big Love — Charles L. Mee (produced 2002)

“explosively theatrical hybrid, the vaudevillian tragicomedy.”

http://www.curtainup.com/biglove.html

“The dark romantic comedy exuberantly...”

http://www.dailycamera.com/theater-dance/ci_13785905

American University

Tartuffe by Molière (produced 2009)

“Molière’s 17th century comedy “Tartuffe” gets...”

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/02/review-tartuffe.html

“...more in the nature of burlesque...”

http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/theater/reviews/01tart.html

Thoroughly Modern Millie - Book by Richard Morris (produced 2008)

“Creating a musical comedy takes an amazing...”

http://www.musicals101.com/millie.htm

“It is a musical in the...”

http://www.curtainup.com/thoroughlymodernmillie.html

Urinetown - Book by Greg Kotis (produced 2007)

“a neo-Brechtian absurdist melodrama about a city...”

http://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/reviews/urinetown03.htm

“Urinetown is an enjoyable musical, although...”

http://tech.mit.edu/V121/N66/urinetown_copy.66a.html

The Hundred Dresses by Ralph Covert and G. Riley Mills (produced 2007)

“With its world premiere of the musical “The Hundred Dresses,”

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/the_theater_loop/2009/10/hundred-dresses-tale-of-bullies-and-bystanders-is-the-best-yet-by-chicago-chidrens-theatre-.html

Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman (produced 2007)

“It's an unpretentious suspense melodrama, as slam...”

http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9E0CE5DB1639F93BA25750C0A964958260

“...play as an intense and serious thriller,..."

http://www.gazette.net/stories/01202010/entemon111158_32550.php

University of Maryland

Marisol by Jose Rivera (produced 2008)

“...only settings that count in this gruesome fantasy...”

http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html? res=9F0CE5DD123EF932A15756C0A965958260

“...Jose Rivera's apocalyptic diatribe about war...”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/18/ AR2009031803992.html

Catholic University of America

Angels in America by Tony Kushner (produced 2002)

“At center stage, "Angels" is a domestic drama,...”

http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9f0ce2dc1431f936a35756c0a965958260

“Mixing fantasy and realism, soap-opera and grand opera,..”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2007/jun/28/theatre