Pop Culture Lunch Box

I have a bit of a rule that I really don't enjoy musicals. I know, I co-wrote Wiener Sausage: The Musical! Of course there are great on...

The theater industry has fallen onto some pretty hard times since the pandemic. And looking back through my blog , I can't believe my la...

After seeing Hamilton on Broadway, the inevitable next step is to dig back into Revolutionary War literature. I figure one place to start an...

Every time I start to think I'm losing interest in our season tickets to the Wooly Mammoth theater in Washington D.C., another great s...

The first thing I loved about Woolly Mammoth's recent production of Kiss was the fact that I didn't read the playbill before watc...

Peer Gynt is a man in Norwegian Henrik Ibsen 's 1867 play of the same name who is trying to discover whether he's a good modern m...

To those who have seen the Roundhouse Theater in Bethesda's current production of Rapture, Blister, Burn , it should be no surprise th...

Back in 2003, Tony Kushner's Angels in America TV mini-series probably helped open up dialogue about gay rights to a degree, but its ...

Before there was a Woody Allen or a Steve Martin or a Jerry Seinfeld, there was Oscar Wilde to deliver the funniest one-liners (a quote of...

Appropriate just wrapped at Woolly Mammoth in Washington D.C. and it is exhibit B of a triumphant return – after a series of questionable ...

As long-time season-ticket holders at Woolly Mammoth, we've been increasingly disenchanted with the company's choices of producti...

Thanks to my co-playwright, Dan Sullivan, the Wiener Sausage: The Musical! website has been revised . Although there was more there before...

Nothing surprises me anymore with D.C.'s renaissance man Dan Sullivan. That may be because I spent 5 years writing Wiener Sausage: The...

My buddy Tim Getman stepped into one of his biggest roles yet with the excellent God of Carnage , which just wrapped up a very successful...

I saw You For Me For You a couple of weeks ago at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington DC and almost immediately forgot the details ...

My favorite part of Totem was the bowl-flipping unicycle girls. Cirque du Soleil has always been on my bucket list of things to do. I fi...

I guess I've just been having too much fun this summer at my new job, but rankings on my blog of my pop-culture intake have suffered in ...

Woolly Mammoth shows are almost always between really good and near-perfect. But Civilization (All You Can Eat) , whose run ended last ni...

If you haven't been to DC's Woolly Mammoth to catch Second City 's Spoiler Alert: Everybody Dies , you've got one more week...

Photo by Stan Barouh The Woolly Mammoth 's new season is devoted to plays about the apocalypse. As readers of this blog know, I'...