N’Jameh Camara is playing Nettie in The Color Purple, now concluding its national tour at The Kennedy Center. “Nettie is the younger sister of Celie and looks at her environment and won…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AM“We either repeat mistakes or don’t update our own sense on what love is for,” Kathleen Akerley, artistic director at Longacre Lea, said in our recent interview about her upcoming deb…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMThe Trans-Atlantic Time Traveling Company, Holly Bass’ latest work, conceptualizes one of the most urgent ideas of our time: what it means to be free and how we can all move towards a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AMMusicals based on movies are all the rage these days with titles like Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, Bronx Tale and King Kong dominating Broadway marquees and the ads in Times Square. Arena Stage…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AMLast January, Synetic Theater’s performance space (1800 S. Bell Street in Arlington) experienced somewhat of a theatrical disaster when a sprinkler system situated above the theater, p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMEphraim Sykes can’t seem to leave the ’60s. He played Otis Williams in the Broadway show Motown the Musical, was a critical darling as Seaweed in NBC’s Hairspray Live, and now can be s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMWhen two-time Helen Hayes winner Rick Hammerly woke up recently, a “morning” after taking the stage as fiercely funny drag queen Miss Tracy Mills in Round House Theatre’s The Legend…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMDirector Nick Olcott was intrigued when he learned that playwright Patrick Flynn had a different take on the Peter Pan stories, a new play written from Tinker Bell’s point of view. Michae…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThe Tony-winning director explains the special place D.C.’s Kennedy Center holds in his heart.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMThanks to a 14-year run on Broadway and an even longer 19-year run in London’s West End—which continues to this day—Mamma Mia! is one of the most beloved jukebox musicals ever. It’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMIn 1941, Jacob Lawrence became one of the first black artists to have his work shown in a New York City art gallery, with his powerful Migration Series on display, a sequence of 60 paintings…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMAs William Shakespeare’s only comedy set in the new world, The Tempest deals with a major act of betrayal, ill treatment, the development of magic arts and a revenge plot that other playwr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMD.C. Playwright Bob Bartlett has always been curious about the ways humans respond to injured or distressed animals, and that theme seems to find its way into his writing again and again. In…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMThe Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers who were accused of raping two white American women on a train near Alabama in 1931. The boys were falsely accused of the crim…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMCuba is flush with artistic richness but because of travel limitations over the years, few Americans have been able to experience the abundance of great painters and performing artists that …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMWriter Octavia Butler is that rare African American woman who found success in the normally male-dominated science fiction literature genre; her work is beloved by fans of all ages and races…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AM“This season is our 25th anniversary and when I was planning it, I was really committed to representing what I thought was true to the history of the type of work that Rep Stage has produc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMIn 1991, singer/songwriter Matthew Sweet became something of a radio staple after the release of his third album, “Girlfriend,” which was hailed by critics and fans alike, and establishe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMCirque du Soleil’s Luzia is opening tonight and here through June 17, performing under its familiar big top in Tysons II, McLean, VA. And just like every Cirque show, this one promises…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:36PMBrittany Alyse Willis used to commute to work by riding the Red Line from Maryland into Metro Center to work at one of the shops at the Natural History Museum, and although she didn’t know…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:13PMWhen Studio Theatre decided to stage Irish master Brian Friel’s Translations this season, the timing seemed like a perfect fit for Studio’s Belfast-born associate artistic director Matt …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMChristopher Michael Richardson is “easing on down the road,” nightly as the Lion in Ford Theatre’s imaginative production of the Tony-winning, The Wiz, which runs through May 12. “Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:47PMAfter Avant Bard’s successful Helen Hayes Award-nominated production of The Gospel at Colonus last season (the original cast was nominated for “Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMAlthough Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi might not be a name people recognize, many know his story and the historic Supreme Court case which bears his name— Hirabayashi v. United States. The so…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMDr. Ruth Westheimer is a beloved ’80s icon. The tiny, yet big-opinioned sex therapist was a fixture on late night talk shows and the radio throughout the decade, and even fronted several o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:49PMIt was more than a dozen years ago that actor Heather Raffo, whose family is from Iraq, recognized a void of female Iraqi protagonists in American theater. That propelled her to write and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AMMost theater performers don’t get to spend Valentine’s Day with their significant other, but that’s not the case for Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis, who spent the night kissing, embracin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMYou can’t judge a show by its title, and never was that more the case than with Something Rotten!, the musical farce now appearing at the National Theatre, which provides a rip-roaring, la…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:25PMIn 2007, Richard Henrich adapted the Ursula K. Le Guin book, The Lathe of Heaven, for a production at Spooky Action Theater, which he directed. But the show didn’t completely fulfill his v…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:49AMPut a group of high school junior girls together and the conversations could range from anything from boys to movies to selfies, but when those girls are part of a win-now, demanding soccer …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMFrom 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.
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