Tuesday, January 16, 2018
From Ramin Karimloo and Ruthie Ann Miles at the Kennedy Center to new works by Tony winner Robert Schenkkan and Heather Raffo, here’s what to see in the Capitol city.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 12, 2018
“We have been doing a classical musical in the January/February slot, but it gets dark at 5, it’s winter and cold, and that audience sometimes doesn’t like going out,” director M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMThursday, January 11, 2018
In the fall of 2015, the inaugural Women’s Voices Theater Festival, showcased 62 female-penned world premiere plays. The festival was a rousing success, garnering interest in the playwri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMMonday, January 8, 2018
Michael Kahn, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s artistic director, has lured Michael Urie to play the titular Prince for its upcoming production of Hamlet, opening next week and has pepper…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
It was back in 2008 that CulturalDC created the three-week Source Festival, a vehicle for launching new plays and fostering the careers of emerging artists. After 10 successful events, the o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
The team of playwright Rachel Bonds and director Mike Donahue (The Wolfe Twins) has returned to Studio Theatre to present Curve of Departure, fresh from its world premiere at South Coast Rep…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Michael Harris remembers fondly the first time he watched the 1971 film of Fiddler on the Roof and seeing that “big happy guy going nuts.” That, of course, was Topol as Tevye, the poor …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
In a comical nod to Christmas, the Drafthouse Comedy Theater is staging best-selling humorist David Sedaris’ one-man show, The SantaLand Diaries, from Dec. 7-23, starring Cameron Folmar (S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Forty years ago, I was introduced to the world of musical theater with my first visit to Broadway, where I was lucky enough to see Andrea McArdle play the title role in the original producti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMFriday, November 10, 2017
Bhavesh Patel has had a busy year, appearing on Broadway, performing in Shakespeare in the Park and now taking on the role of Orsino in Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Twelfth …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMFriday, October 27, 2017
When he was 12 years old, Paata Tsikurishvili was introduced to the story of Peter Pan on stage. “My dad took me and I just loved the story; the little conflicts with their parents, you wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36AMThursday, October 26, 2017
“Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by Regina George?” If this line resonates with you, there’s a good chance you are among the many anxiously awaiting the mus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMWednesday, October 25, 2017
John de Lancie is set to star in Mosaic Theater Company’s production of Pulitzer Prize finalist Jon Robin Baitz’ Vicuña & The American Epilogue as Kurt Seaman, a Donald Trump-inspi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Nora Achrati considers herself “very much a character actor.” “I was very intrigued by the premise of Mystery School and the opportunity to play these very different characters,” she…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMThursday, October 12, 2017
It isn’t every day that you’re asked to play God, so when 7-time Helen Hayes-nominated actor Tom Story was offered the chance to take on the titular role in Signature Theatre’s product…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMFriday, October 6, 2017
Langston Hughes was a noted poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry. It’s no wonder that the literary giant got a “shout out” in R…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMOn Tuesday, Oct. 10, the DC theater community is invited to the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive’s (WAPAVA) Richard Bauer Award celebration at the Woolly Mammoth Theater, in a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMMonday, September 25, 2017
In theater circles, Dominique Morisseau is regarded as one of the most significant and talented African-American playwrights working today. Last year, she made the list of Top 20 Most Produc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMTuesday, September 19, 2017
The chemistry between the characters of long-time husband and wife Willy and Linda Loman in Ford’s Theatre’s Death of a Salesman may seem stronger than most other productions of Arth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMThursday, September 14, 2017
Dreamgirls is Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen’s loose interpretation of the rise of Diana Ross and the Supremes, the challenges they had and the breakthrough of R&B groups to the mainst…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
“I was at a dinner party and someone brought up a fight they were having with their neighbors and someone else brought up a fight their parents were having with their neighbors, and we all…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMFriday, September 8, 2017
The summer is winding down and families are seeing their schedules filling up with soccer games, school events and other commitments, but theatreWashington has planned a day that allows peop…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMFriday, August 11, 2017
When Will Gartshore had the opportunity to be in Signature Theatre’s upcoming production of A Little Night Music, there wasn’t much need to think about it. “You just say ‘yes’ to a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
The National Tour of the Lincoln Center Theater Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I is currently wowing audiences at the Kennedy Center, and many of its cast will be …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
As the first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall is one of the most important judges in U.S. history. He remained on the Court from 1967 until 1991. His leadershi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:12PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
It was in the spring of 2007 when the Signature Theatre decided to hold its first-ever Open House event, a chance to introduce itself to those in the community who weren’t familiar with th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
“Any story about a world leader who realizes the only way to protect the country is not by extending walls but extending a hand of friendship to a foreigner—I find that very profound,”…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMFriday, June 30, 2017
For their inaugural Logan Festival of Solo Performance, 1st Stage will welcome acclaimed artists from San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, and New York for two-weeks of performances and communi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Before opening to wide acclaim on Broadway in 1982, and before Donny Osmond began a decade-long run as the title character in film and on stage, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMThursday, June 15, 2017
On January 25, 1996, a new musical by an unknown writer who had tragically died the night before, opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, and the landscape of theater changed f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMMonday, May 8, 2017
Audiences for Václav Havel’s Protest will be seeing it underground less than a mile from the White House in a performance space virtually unknown to theatregoers until this week. They wil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36PM 
