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Robinette Shines in Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful – A Heartwarming Family Drama

Robinette Shines in Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful – A Heartwarming Family Drama Ford’s Theatre Jordan Wright October 3, 2022 Special to The Zebra

(L-R) Nancy Robinette as Mrs. Carrie Watts and Emily Kester as Thelma(Photo/Scott Suchman)

Set in Houston, Texas in 1953, The Trip to Bountiful is a nostalgic family drama […]

Oslo ~ Round House Theatre ~ At the Lansburgh Theatre

Jordan Wright April 30, 2019

It’s a treat to have Bethesda-based Round House Theater present in DC’s Lansburgh Theatre. Ongoing renovations of Round House are scheduled to be completed in mid-September in time to kick off their fall season. An even better treat was the chance to see this exciting production of J. T. […]

The Panties, The Profit and The Partner ~ Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Class Shakespeare Theatre Company

Jordan Wright December 14, 2018

The curiously clever and titillating thread that runs through David Ives’ hilarious trio of comedies is a pair of red silk panties that keeps turning up in the oddest places. If that doesn’t make you sit up and beg to know more, I don’t know what will.

Ives […]

Born Yesterday ~ Ford’s Theatre

Jordan WrightSeptember 27, 2018

“The whole damn history of the world is the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish,” pronounces Ed Devery, Harry Brock’s outlier attorney. It was this line from Born Yesterday that put playwright Garson Kanin square in the sights of Senator Joe McCarthy during the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. Described […]

Jefferson’s Garden ~ Ford’s Theatre

Jordan Wright February 1, 2018

It’s a curious thing that American Playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker is more famous in Great Britain where she is the Resident Writer at the Royal Court Theatre and has lately been awarded a commission to write a new play for the Royal Shakespeare Company. That’s heady stuff.

Christopher […]