Thursday, July 5, 2018
Actor Elan Zafir answers our questions about his play coming to Capital Fringe, The Unaccompanied Minor. – Tell us about the moment when you said to yourself: I just have to do thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24AMTuesday, July 3, 2018
Black Confederates have long been considered a minor historical footnote, and even a debatable one at that. What isn’t open to debate is the fact that there were some 4 million Blacks …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMJohn Lanou wrote Love in Three Scenes to explore “love in the age of rage.”The piece could stir controversy (on both the right and the left) as it tackles Muslim-American patriotism,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMMonday, July 2, 2018
Word Dance Theater hasn’t done a Fringe since 2008 so I wanted to do it this year. We always meet new people and pick up new audiences. Also, I like the “low tech” quality of the Fri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMFirst, how we got here: In November 1955, a group of young Washingtonians and a former member of the then-all-male Princeton Triangle Club decided to put on a show devoted to “pure fun and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMSaturday, June 30, 2018
I fell in love with Hawaii in 1997 when my first wife and I took a vacation there. You might say my love of Hawaii outlasted my first marriage. But that’s another story. In 1998, I bou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMFriday, June 29, 2018
I first encountered the script for Ghosts by Elford Alley, when I was applying as a director for a Halloween one-act festival, last year at the Little Theatre of Alexandria. While reading al…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMMonday, December 18, 2017
A week doesn’t go by that I don’t read something interesting, informative or helpful about the theatre community in DC Theatre Scene. Times are truly chilling when accusations …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:33AMFriday, September 8, 2017
Having lived my life in relative obscurity, I now find myself on the brink of celebrity. My early kittenhood was full of sadness, even tragedy. I was found stuffed in a downspout. My fur had…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMFriday, September 1, 2017
While theatre communities across the nation were enjoying their dark Monday, Houston, Texas’ theatre community was in the middle of a natural disaster. As Hurricane Harvey continued to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMThursday, July 27, 2017
It’s that time of year again! That most glorious time each summer when for one magical week the Capital Fringe festival is extended. It’s a great chance to see the hit Fringe shows you …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMThursday, July 20, 2017
Some people find the Fringe festival to be an intimidating environment. Sure there’s a ton of great art and stuff going on, but how can one truly connect with the people behind the art and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMMonday, July 17, 2017
Ally Theatre Company’s second-ever production is radically different from the first, Miz Martha Washington, a darkly comedic historical play. Conceived and directed by Taylor Reynolds from…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54AMSunday, July 16, 2017
Douglas Stafford is a very talented juggler. If that is an interest of yours, if you like juggling, and you’ve got an hour, then you may like this show. Stafford is pretty good as a magici…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04PMWillie Carlisle is an astonishing performer, and if I were only reviewing his performance of mountain folk music, I’d recommend this show with the entirety of my full heart. Guitar, banjo,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMToni Rae Salmi is an actor seen frequently on DC stages, most recently “enjoyably grand” in Perfect Arrangement at Source Festival. In Help Me, Wanda!, she belts out a rockin&…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AMSaturday, July 15, 2017
There are no absolutes in Proper Care of the Peace Lily. In this 100 minute performance, everything exists in relation: analogies, power differentials, and those actual familial relations t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:04PMExit, Pursued by a Bear, produced by Barabbas Theatre for their 2017 CapFringe entry and directed by Kevin O’Connell, is a welcome DC introduction to Lauren Gunderson’s pithy, rat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMBy far the best show I have seen at Fringe so far this year, The Regulars will have you laughing in your seat, squealing at insider “DC” jokes and dancing in the aisles, (Really, be pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMDancing Through Life…By the Way is a one-man show starring Christopher Bennett. No director is credited in the Playbill, but it appears that Mr. Bennett did the majority of the heavy lift…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMThe post World War II Japanese dance theatre form, Butoh, is traditionally performed in white body make-up. Slow controlled movement, body tension and muscular involvement may rely on elabor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMFriday, July 14, 2017
A light night of theater Repentance is not. In one uninterrupted dialogue that unfolds over the course of 90 minutes, Repentance tells a story of mental anguish, power games and abuse. N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMFour black men in their forties sit around a chess game in Dupont Circle park in 1980. They open the show singing barbershop-quartet style, an upbeat song about themselves: They are the 1342…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMLet’s get this part out of the way quickly: Lisa VillaMil’s Kara Sevda (at Shopkeepers through July 22) is an exhilarating piece of theater, masterfully and assuredly directed by Kat H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54AMThursday, July 13, 2017
KOENIGSBERG – It started off a day just like any other. My colleague and I had just finished a performance of our play I’m Margaret Thatcher, I Is! at Atlas’s Lab II venue (plug pl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMInternet addiction is no laughing matter. However, for the talented team now lighting up the stage at the Sprenger Theatre at Atlas, the Internet–and all the craziness it has produced–is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMThere is no doubt in my mind that Jane Franklin Dance’s Aflight brings something special to Fringe. Usually based in Arlington, this group blends music, dance, and visual art in a way th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Over the 65-minute run time of Caroline Bennett’s Garbage Person Karaoke, there are moments of painful comedy and bitter emotional connections with that specific kind of heartbreak that k…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMMonday, July 10, 2017
Welcome to show business! And welcome to this comedy revue where four talented actors burst on and off the stage offering send-ups of various show biz situations, real and imaginary. Geoffre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMLIFE: A Comic Opera in Three Short Acts is neither quite an opera nor a musical; it is not a really a comedy or a drama. It’s a bit of everything, using classical music, Broadway, doo-wop…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMOne of the most frequently performed plays in America today, The Laramie Project, is now on view at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, where the bare stage of the Lang Theatre has been transf…
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