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Launch Of Major New Play Festival With Two World Premieres,  D.C. Premiere Of New Jocelyn Bioh Play,  Gala With Broadway Leading Lady Kelli O ’ hara, And Regional Premieres Artistic Director Ryan Rilette and Managing Director Ed Zakreski are thrilled to announce the full six-show lineup for Round House Theatre’s 44th Season. Following a historic season of digital performances — including the Drama League-nominated festival “The Work of Adrienne Kennedy: Inspiration & Influence” and the world premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s “The Catastrophist” — Round House is excited to wel...

July 8, 2021 Regina Aquino stars in the one-woman show "We're Gonna Die" at Round House Theatre. (Photo: Paige Hernandez) Round House Theatre — which has produced numerous virtual plays during the pandemic — cautiously invited a limited, masked and socially distanced audience back into the building for its production of “We’re Gonna Die” and filmed it for digital streaming audiences. The theater plans to open its doors to everyone for in-person viewing come fall. The play is a mixed bag of complicated emotions about hope in the face of despair. Although it has clearly good intentio...

In the most trying of times, the Round House Theatre has managed to put together a pretty remarkable season, entirely online but leaning on one-person showcases that eliminated the need of distancing among cast members. They perform on fully dressed theater sets (instead of a Zoom window), before a minuscule audience, either to bolster the actor or provide laughs in the spaces needed. As with previous offerings this season, the streamed presentation of Lucy Alibar's "Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up" begins with the few audience members, in masks and face shields (and sometimes masks ...

Photo by Harold F. Burgess II. “Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up,” written by Oscar-nominated (“Beasts of the Southern Wild”) Lucy Alibar, is directed by Ryan Rilette and has opened virtually at the Round House Theatre. The play is a one-woman show starring Beth Hylton (an Everyman Theatre resident company member), one of the best local talents who carries the weight of this play with aplomb.  The play is semi-autobiographical but you will notice parallels to “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It has two main themes.  The first is that everyone, no matter how heinous their crimes...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is the subject of a new play - and he's also the playwright's husband Thomas Floyd, The Washington Post Jan. 22, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Actor William DeMeritt portrays Nathan Wolfe in "The Catastrophist," Lauren Gunderson's one-man play based on the real-life virologist (who is also Gunderson's husband).Marin Theatre Company As not just the husband of a playwright but the subject of her latest work, virologist Nathan Wolfe knows that when it comes to onstage depictions of real people, the writer gets the last word. Wolfe sur...