Theatre of Pain: Woolly's "Gloria" and Round House's "Small Mouth Sounds," reviewed.

Megan Graves and Ahmad Kamal are two of the standout performers in Gloria. (Teresa Castracane)

After the customary late summer lull, I’m back on the theater beat. Last week’s Washington City Paper featured my reviews of two plays that first appeared in 2015, now making their regional premieres Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ stunner Gloria, at Woolly Mammoth, and Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl, at Round House.

FURTHER READING: My 2013 City Paper profile of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is here.

Unconvention Centers: The Welders' Transmission and Solas Nua's Wild Sky, reviewed.

Dylan Morrison Myers and Megan Graves play young revolutionaries in Wild Sky (Solas Nua).

In today's Washington City Paper, I review two new plays being staged in unusual environments. The Welders' Transmission, by playwright/performer Gwydion Suilebhan, is a thoughtful meditation on the hazards of storytelling, while Deirdre Kinahan's Wild Sky is a human-scale look back at a pivotal moment in Ireland's struggle for self-governance. It's also the first show from Solas Nua in five years. I'm glad they're back.

Youth Aches: In the Forest, She Grew Fangs and Romeo & Juliet, reviewed.

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Megan Graves and Jenny Donovan bare their Fangs. (Chris Maddaloni/The Washington Rogues)

I review Stephen Spotswood's new play In the Forest, She Grew Fangs, as well as Aaron Posner's oddly inert new Romeo & Juliet for the Folger Theater, in this week's Washington City Paper. Available wherever finer alt-weeklies are given away gratis. 

Oh, and the costume and props designer for And In the Forest is Jesse Shipley, not Jenny. My mistake.