Finding truth and beauty in the everyday
Prior to the opening of Quotidian Theatre Company’s next production, Brian Friel’s storytelling drama Faith Healer, actor Laura Russell discusses the lies and truths told in the play's conflicting narratives. *** Many years ago, I read Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried. The book recounts several tales more than once, each with a different emphasis and outcome: the reality... Continue Reading →
Subscriptions are still on sale for Quotidian Theatre Company's 16th season: The Iceman Cometh, an eighteen-actor masterwork by award-winning American author Eugene O'Neill (Long Day's Journey into Night, Hughie, Ah! Wilderness); Faith Healer, an intimate and visceral three-person narrative by influential European dramatist Brian Friel (Dancing at Lughnasa, Afterplay); and the U.S. premiere of The... Continue Reading →
Last summer, Quotidian Theatre Company produced A Little Trick, a memory play about lost love adapted from Chekhov's short story of the same name. The short play, directed by Stephanie Mumford and featuring Jonathan Feuer, Sara Dabney Tisdale, and Christine Kharazian, can now be seen in its entirety on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoXLBhUwRsM Below is the 2012 A... Continue Reading →
Quotidian Theatre Company's Helen Hayes Awards recommended production of Afterplay and A Little Trick must close Sunday, 8/19! Four performances remain: Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 2pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 2pm! For her performance in Afterplay, Michele Osherow has been nominated for a 2012 DC Theatre Scene Audience Choice Award for Best Actress!... Continue Reading →
To compliment our new production of Tony-winner Brian Friel's Chekhov-inspired Afterplay and the world premiere of Jack Sbarbori's translation and adaptation of Chekhov's short story "A Little Trick", Quotidian Theatre Company offers a free reading of The Yalta Game, Brian Friel's adaptation of Chekhov's short story "The Lady with the Lap Dog", Monday evening in... Continue Reading →
Opening tonight, Quotidian’s new production presents two short plays inspired by Anton Chekhov. In Brian Friel’s Afterplay, the Dancing at Lughnasa playwright imagines a meeting between two of Chekhov’s characters. Afterplay will be presented in tandem with the DC area premiere of A Little Trick, a memory play about lost love translated and adapted from... Continue Reading →
Opening tomorrow, Quotidian's next production presents two short plays inspired by Anton Chekhov. In Brian Friel's Afterplay, the Dancing at Lughnasa playwright imagines a meeting between two of Chekhov's characters. Afterplay will be presented in tandem with A Little Trick, a memory play about lost love adapted from Chekhov's short story of the same name.... Continue Reading →
Washington, DC – Quotidian Theatre Company will continue its ongoing celebration of the works of playwrights Anton Chekhov and Brian Friel with a free reading of Friel’s The Yalta Game, based on Chekhov’s short story The Lady with the Lap Dog. The reading will be presented at Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre Lab in Northwest DC on... Continue Reading →
Quotidian's next production is a double dose of theatre inspired by Anton Chekhov. In Brian Friel's Afterplay, the Dancing at Lughnasa playwright imagines a meeting between two of Chekhov's characters. Afterplay will be presented in tandem with A Little Trick, a memory play about lost love adapted from Chekhov's short story of the same name.... Continue Reading →
