Monday, May 25, 2015
"The strength of the show, directed by Michael Baron, is in "The fun choreography of the ensemble scenes (think Fezziwig's party), as well as in the splendid design"- particularly Rui Rita's…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMThursday, July 10, 2014
Kate Robards is blonde and white, and she is about to play some Chinese people. Should we be worried? “No!” she says. “It’s not that kind of show. And it’s emba…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMFriday, December 20, 2013
Five years and 241 articles ago, I took a bus downtown with a notebook in my back pocket. DC Theatre Scene had given my an assignment, and I was on my way to write my first professional thea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:19PMThursday, December 5, 2013
Faced with an ailing actress unable to perform on Sunday night, Noises Off director Doug Wilder made the rather unusual decision to pull on a spare dress and play the role himself, venturing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Some interviewees, once seated, need a bit of a prod to get talking. But Maurice Hines has left them all in the dust by the time I hit ‘Record.’ The renowned director, singer, an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMFriday, November 22, 2013
The Mead Theatre Lab has rarely felt as inviting as it did for Wednesday night’s performance of Protest, the thoughtful political two-hander currently being produced by the internation…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? Last winter, when The New York Times Magazine ran a feature under that headline, the idea of a creature that lives on and on with no biologi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMIt’s not a coincidence that so many solo performers touch on isolation in the stories they tell. These are individuals who, more often than not, had the spotlight shined on them in some wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:47AMThursday, October 31, 2013
At first glance, the handsome high-ceilinged apartment in which nearly all of The Argument plays out seems too spacious. How are two actors — even two very good actors — to fill …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMFriday, October 4, 2013
An accomplished teacher and educator as well as a talented director, Stevie Zimmerman has become rather adept at bringing out the creative potential in people. So it’s fitting to have …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
The lives of the Pettway women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama are stitched indelibly into the quilts they made. And as the presence of those quilts grew in the American consciousness — evolv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PMA shutdown of the federal government only comes along every so often, but crises of leadership are nothing new. Since this week is shaping up to be a good one for some reflection on this poi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThursday, September 26, 2013
For someone who plays a suicide bomber every night, Estelle Parsons keeps an awfully sunny disposition. The Oscar-winning actress, 85, is in DC to play Alexandra, the headstrong protagonist …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMMonday, September 23, 2013
A career as a stage actor won’t make you a millionaire, but if you’re working with New York’s Bedlam Theatre it’ll definitely save you a gym membership. The amount of exercise that A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMFriday, September 20, 2013
The voices in Joan of Arc’s head guide her on a journey into parts unknown, winning hearts and minds to her cause. The cast of Saint Joan are living a similar life these days, having wande…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Getting a leg up from your family is awfully nice. But what happens when that lift suddenly falls away? Such a precarious moment arrives for the idealistic young activist Emma Joseph early o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Life in the Galway countryside gets rather soggy, but playwright Martin McDonagh can strike a match just about anywhere. The first few scenes of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, the jet-black 19…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AMMonday, July 29, 2013
All things Fringe must come to an end. But as with everything else in the festival, the closing night of the 8th Annual Capital Fringe was cause for celebration last night at the Baldacchino…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMSunday, July 28, 2013
It’s hard enough to find your voice when creating a solo show, but Laura Zam went further — she’s settled on about thirty. In Married Sex, Zam takes interviews with a wide …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMSaturday, July 27, 2013
Tonee Bollocks and Gabriel Sweetbottom may or may not be their real names. The DC State Players may or may not exist. And their Fringe production of Agamemnon may or may not be a terrible sh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:39PMNo Fringe festival is complete without a show about sex, drugs, and depression. There are plenty of ways, however, to have less good fun of it than Avalanche Theatre Company is having with A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:14PMTwenty years ago, Kevin Boggs left the small Appalachian town of Jonesborough, Tennessee for the big city. His transformation, as he has described it, “from yokel to local” while…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:10PMFringe producers sometime ask each other: How big is your audience tonight? For Ali Oliver-Krueger, that’s sort of a trick question. The audience members at shows by Interact, the Whea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:00PMI sit down for a talk with the puppet people. Not the only puppet people in town, mind you, but Pointless Theatre are the heirs apparent. The company started up in the summer of 2009, and no…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMThursday, July 25, 2013
Think your Metro ride over to Fort Fringe took awhile? Alan Harris will one-up you – he’s come over from Wales for the run of his new play Marsha. With him is Welsh actress Julia Thomas,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:18PMThe six foot tall panda bear that saunters onstage in the middle of Natsu Onoda Power’s beguiling new ensemble show is rather unexpected. Unless, that is, you’ve gotten to know O…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMFringe is a melting pot for people of all backgrounds. At the moment I’m getting to know a less common pairing: a classical poet and an actor skilled in long-form recitation. Magus Mag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
I find Sam Simon at the Baldacchino Tent in the afternoon, sitting with his director Jessie Roberts and enjoying a few moments of calm before showtime. After our interview he’s headed …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AMMonday, July 22, 2013
DC Theatre Scene photographer Ryan Maxwell is back for week two of the festival, and we’ve got some of his favorite photos from Fort Fringe over the past few days with this new additio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Hunter Styles explores the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent Bar, alongside videographer Todd Clark, looking to interview an eclectic series of theatre artists about their Fringe shows. The people inte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:51AMMonday, July 15, 2013
The corporation isn’t so much in the business of robot-building as it is in “the manufacture of artificial people,” explains Harry (played by Mike Rudden), the manager of Rossum’s Un…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:28PM 
