Thursday, June 20, 2019
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PMThursday, June 6, 2019
This was an adventurous year for Broadway, with several unconventional works that seemed a more comfortable fit Off-Broadway or even Off-Off Broadway. This is a welcome development, albeit a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
The Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it’s gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12PMFriday, May 17, 2019
Comedian Carl Reiner called his comic novel Enter Laughing, because that is the first stage direction that his 17-year-old main character is given, at his first ever-audition, and he makes a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AMThursday, May 16, 2019
From the moment Susan Sarandon makes her entrance in Happy Talk, Jesse Eisenberg’s latest play, it is clear her character Lorraine is extravagantly self-absorbed to the point of delusion. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMMonday, April 29, 2019
Nobody applauds when Annette Bening first appears on stage in All My Sons, the third Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s 1947 tragedy, the playwright’s first hit play. This is because …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMFriday, April 26, 2019
Ink recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, “a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit,” and in a year’s time made it a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Tootsie, the musical adaptation of the 1982 movie comedy about a difficult actor who becomes a beloved actress, begins bravely with an opening number in which bubbly ensemble members sing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PMSunday, April 21, 2019
Gary is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor characters …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PMThursday, April 18, 2019
Hillary and Clinton is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential candidat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
On Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it’s changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell’s concept album had been turned into an inventively…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Can a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That’s the question we’re primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson’s 19…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30PMThursday, April 4, 2019
As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that’s lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PMFriday, March 22, 2019
The most exciting moment in this fourth Broadway production of Cole Porter’s backstage musical riffing on Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew comes at the top of Act II, when the cast …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:02PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Leo (Daveed Diggs) makes an outrageous request of his best friend Ralph (Thomas Sadoski) in Suzan-Lori Parks’ bizarre, disturbing and in some ways brilliant new play, White Noise, at the P…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PMSunday, March 10, 2019
Somebody wrote “NYC Loves BMC” in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway’s Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58PMThursday, January 31, 2019
In the first Broadway revival of Sam Shepard’s 1980 play, Ethan Hawke portrays Lee, a drifter, a drinker, and a thief who disrupts the life of his younger brother, Paul Dano’s Austin, an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36PMMonday, January 28, 2019
In the month before Rent opened Off-Broadway in January, 1996, Idina Menzel was singing “The Wind Beneath My Wings” at a bar mitzvah at Leonard’s of Great Neck for the thousandth time;…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMThursday, January 10, 2019
Pharus Jonathan Young is black, gay and gifted, like the playwright who created him, Tarrell Alvin McCraney, best known for the Oscar winning film Moonlight. McCraney is making his Broadway …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMMonday, January 7, 2019
Playwright Sarah Kane killed herself at the age of 28 shortly after writing her fifth play, which offers a harrowing taste of what it’s like to live with, and die from, depression. Now t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMSaturday, December 8, 2018
Nobody can do a nervous breakdown like Bryan Cranston. As Howard Beale, long-time network news anchor gone mad, he sits in front of the camera, unable to speak, his face a dramatic repertoir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMFriday, December 7, 2018
The Cher Show, the new Broadway jukebox musical that offers a whirlwind tour of the music, life and six-decade career of the entertainer and self-proclaimed “goddamn Goddess Warrior,” …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Like a boxer faking out an opponent, Michael C. Hall as Thom Pain plays tricks on the audience: “Now I think would be a good time for the raffle,” he says at one point, then shortly afte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMThursday, November 8, 2018
While anxiously waiting in a Miami police station for word of what happened to her son Jamal, an educated African-American woman named Kendra (Kerry Washington) talks with her estranged whit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMMonday, November 5, 2018
When Torch Song opened Off-Broadway a year ago, I noted that the issues affecting gay people that it explored remained unfortunately relevant 35 years after the play had debuted on Broadway,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThursday, October 25, 2018
Elaine May is back on a Broadway stage after more than 50 years, and making the most of it in The Waverly Gallery, Kenneth Lonergan’s meticulously observed, funny and sad play about a woma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
The first fact that fact-checker Jim (Daniel Radcliffe) argues about in the essay by magazine writer John (Bobby Cannavale) is how many strip clubs there are in Las Vegas. Adult Industry N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMSunday, October 21, 2018
Gloria Steinem herself came out in the last twenty minutes of Gloria: A Life to lead the “talking circle,” an unscripted conversation with the audience. This was the officially de…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Genghis Khan had a mother; so did Amelia Earhart and Dwight Eisenhower. Perhaps Mother of the Maid, starring Glenn Close as the woman whom Joan of Arc called Ma, will start a trend of offe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
In Apologia, the well-acted, finely directed Off-Broadway production of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s 2009 play, Stockard Channing portrays Kristin Miller, a long-time activist, American expatri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04PMMonday, October 1, 2018
Using 20 songs that Bob Dylan composed over half a century, playwright Conor McPherson has fashioned a slow, sad, elliptical and occasionally exquisite theater piece set in a run-down boardi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04PM 
