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Roger Catlin

Roger Catlin, a member of the American Theatre Critics Association, is a Washington D.C.-based arts writer whose work appears regularly in SmithsonianMagazine.com. and AARP the Magazine. He has also written for The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide and Salon and was a staff writer for The Hartford Courant in Connecticut for 25 years. 

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Review: AGRESTE (DRYLANDS) at Spooky Action

Review: AGRESTE (DRYLANDS) at Spooky Action

October 31, 2023

Out in an arid, underpopulated northeastern Brazil, an unusual but not entirely inconceivable love story plays out, presented as a kind of morality lesson or at least a cautionary tale.

Review: ORLANDO at Constellation Theatre Company

Review: ORLANDO at Constellation Theatre Company

October 19, 2023

Virginia Woolf was onto something when she wrote her novel “Orlando: A Biography” 95 years ago — a tall tale of aristocracy and adventure for a poet who also happens to change gender.

Review: BAÑO DE LUNA (BATHING IN MOONLIGHT) at GALA Hispanic Theatre

Review: BAÑO DE LUNA (BATHING IN MOONLIGHT) at GALA Hispanic Theatre

September 12, 2023

The tantalizing notion of a forbidden romance was part of Tennessee Williams’ “The Night of the Iguana,” Colleen McCullough’s novel “The Thorn Birds” (made into a TV miniseries with Richard Chamberlain), and the hot priest that tantalized Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag.

Review: FELA! at Olney Theatre Center

Review: FELA! at Olney Theatre Center

July 16, 2023

It’s only the third time the Maryland regional powerhouses have collaborated, and people still recall their only other two such efforts, “Angels in America” in 2016 and “In the Heights in 2017.

Review: WHAT'S GOING ON NOW at Kennedy Center

Review: WHAT'S GOING ON NOW at Kennedy Center

June 19, 2023

The National Symphony Orchestra’s intent this weekend was to pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of native son Marvin Gaye’s classic “What’s Going On” album, a high water mark for both social commentary and Motown soul.

Review: HADESTOWN at National Theatre

Review: HADESTOWN at National Theatre

June 8, 2023

When the cast of “Hadestown” emerge on stage at the National Theatre waving to the waiting audience, they’re received with cheers like old friends.

Review: ON THE FAR END at Round House

Review: ON THE FAR END at Round House

April 13, 2023

When elders pass, surviving family members often learn more than they knew about the departed by clearing out their home and going through papers left behind.




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