Grant Cloyd makes his QTC debut in The Night Alive as Kenneth. He shares how he approached playing “evil.” “Evil has no meaning” – so says Maurice in scene 4 of The Night Alive. In many ways, working on a character as troubled and troubling as Kenneth has entailed adhering to that adage. As a performer... Continue Reading →

Chelsea Mayo was last seen at QTC in this summer's The Lady with the Little Dog as Anna Sergeyevna. In The Night Alive, she plays Aimee. How is your role in The Night Alive different from your role in McPherson’s The Veil? In The Veil, set in 1820s Ireland, I played Hannah, a teenaged girl... Continue Reading →

For an evening of thought provoking drama, see Quotidian Theatre Company alum and playwright Audrey Cefaly spread her wings with her latest play, The Gulf, at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. Cefaly’s play portrays two lovers drifting along in a spare boat, adrift in the middle of a backwoods Southern river delta, as they sort through their... Continue Reading →

Why in the world, you might ask, would Quotidian Theatre Company choose to stage Conor McPherson’s NY-Drama-Circle-Award-Winning Play The Night Alive after its Bethesda neighbor, Round House, so successfully produced the play just one year earlier? Well, let’s go back to December 2013, when QTC co-founders Jack Sbarbori and Stephanie Mumford saw the difficult-to-categorize work... Continue Reading →

Read the glowing review of the show by Chekhov scholar and reviewer Andrew White on Broadway World. Here's a sample that we really like... "As Anna, Chekhov's heroine, Chelsea Mayo captures the quiet desperation of a woman who has been taught her whole life to deny herself everything-and who genuinely struggles with the prospect of... Continue Reading →

Quotidian’s PR assistant, Lauren Katz, chats with Christine Kharazian, who plays the Violinist and Gurov's wife. What was your first theatrical experience? While I have been involved in many productions as a musician, my first truly theatrical experience was with Quotidian's A Little Trick a couple of years back. However, while I was on stage... Continue Reading →

In his short lifetime—he died of tuberculosis at age 44—Anton Chekhov wrote more than 400 short stories and numerous plays (and all while practicing medicine, which helped to inform his writing). As a writer myself (although, of course, one far less prolific, despite having lived more than a decade longer than Chekhov did), I can’t... Continue Reading →

Reservations for this Sunday's performance indicate that almost all seats are filled! If you wanted to see the play on Sunday, but haven't reserved seats yet, please consider another performance. Subscribers who wanted to attend the post-show talk on Sunday may want to consider going to the 23 July dramaturg session at 7 p.m., instead.... Continue Reading →

Quotidian’s PR assistant, Lauren Katz, chats with Zach Roberts, who plays the Pianist, Anna's husband, and many other roles. What was your first theatrical experience? My mom is an opera director, so my first experience was as a shepherd in a production of Amahl and the Night Visitors when I was about 3 years old! How did... Continue Reading →