Wednesday, April 10, 2019
Mosaic Theater will dedicate its fifth season to the stories of men and women who come to political awareness, and the consequences of that awareness. The company’s eight-production 2019-2…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:51PMTuesday, April 2, 2019
So, in Native Son, Bigger Thomas (Clayton Pelham, Jr.), a man with no options, lives in a one-room apartment on the South Side of 1940 Chicago with his mother (Lolita Marie) and his brother …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:10PMFriday, March 22, 2019
Michael Bobbitt, a director, choreographer and playwright who has served as Adventure Theatre MTC’s Artistic Director for nearly twelve years, will leave the company in July to become Arti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:22AMTheater J, its old stage at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center completely refurbished, will offer a slate of six new(or new-ish) stories about older (or ancient) events for its 2019-20…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMMonday, March 18, 2019
Most of us are uncompromising in our youth, and, buffeted by the winds of time and experience, grow smooth and mellow in our old age. In that sense, John Quincy Adams lived his life backward…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:28PMTwo shows about music — one an Outer Critics Circle Best Musical awardee; the other a show about the awfulest music ever — will bookend Rep Stage’s 2019-2020 Season, which will also in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMSaturday, March 16, 2019
Stephanie Ybarra’s first season as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage will be full of new stories from fresh artists but will also include one of the oldest stories in all of thea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AMFriday, March 8, 2019
In the 2019-2020 theater season, Arena Stage may well be the place to go to meet interesting people: the acid-tongued Texas Governor Ann Richards; Fidel Castro; Ken Ludwig’s mom and dad, s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:05PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
The 2019-2020 season will be a busy one at Olney Theatre Center with 16 plays, concerts, and presentations as part of the company’s 82nd season. Musicals will frame the opening of the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:51PMMonday, March 4, 2019
For its 2019 season, Quotidian will offer audiences the opportunity to see two plays which they may have missed during their runs earlier in the area. The season will open with Michael Holli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Synetic Theater, Washington’s acclaimed movement-based company, will remain in its Arlington, VA facility at least through late 2022, its landlord announced. Speculation about the fate of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
Ford’s Theatre will present two of the best-known theater stories in the English-speaking canon and two plays about outsiders in America in its 2019-2020 season, the company announced yest…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:14AMMonday, February 18, 2019
We knew about autism in 1947, when Ruth and Augustus Goetz translated Henry James’ “Washington Square” to the stage as The Heiress, but we understood it only as a sum-zero …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMWednesday, February 13, 2019
The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, which has turned out professional actors for forty-three years, will no longer be affiliated with Studio Theatre after this summer, founder Joy Zinoma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMImagine a mass of humans in a great hubbub and babble of conversation. It could be the House of Representatives before the gavel sounds, or the nave of a church in the moment before services…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Want to know what the most powerful man in the world is really like? Why not ask the man who plays him on stage? We may judge and condemn others with abandon, but there is one character with…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMFriday, January 25, 2019
Kenneth Lin wrote for “House of Cards” back when “House of Cards” was cool. But what denizens of our town know is that, for the terrifying and the bizarre, there ain&…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PMThursday, January 24, 2019
Writers excavate the marrow of life in order to create their fictional universes, and thus are sometimes required to mine their own marrow for their art. So it was with Paula Vogel, who lost…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12AMMonday, January 21, 2019
Do you think we have problems, with our enormous partisan divide? It is 2022, and the French are electing a new President. In one corner, the National Front’s Marine Le Pen (Stacy Whit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMTuesday, January 15, 2019
The Hub Theatre, which has been performing for the previous ten seasons in Fairfax VA’s New School on Silver King Court, is leaving that venue immediately and will be performing their …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMFriday, January 11, 2019
Jojo Ruf, a co-founder of the Welders Playwriting Collective and the Coordinating Producer of DC’s Women’s Voices Festival in 2015, will take the reins as the new Managing Direct…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMThursday, January 10, 2019
Arena Stage is making a limited number of tickets to its productions of Kleptocracy and The Heiress available for free to furloughed Federal employees, Arena Stage informed DCTS today. In ad…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Most theaters want big audiences, of course. But there are some subtle, intimate plays which are best performed before a small audience — a hundred or so. And some experimental pieces …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMFriday, January 4, 2019
Bekah Brunstetter, a North Carolina playwright whose work has frequently graced DC-area stages, will write the book for a Broadway musical version of the Nicholas Sparks’ bestseller, T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMMonday, December 24, 2018
The two Washington-area theaters with a large Federal Government footprint will remain open during the partial shutdown of the Federal government, the companies reported. Ford’s Theatr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMThursday, December 20, 2018
If you are a theater enthusiast (and we know you are), how busy could you have been in 2018? 464 productions = 38 days, and 16 hours If you watched all 464 shows, back to back, assuming the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMMonday, December 10, 2018
And so you are a cat (Sharisse Taylor) on Wild Island, which is all full of banyan trees and red vines, and one day you see an egg as big as a Galapagos turtle. Because you are a cat, you sn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMFriday, December 7, 2018
There will always be an England, and its people will always tell bad jokes. If you draw a strange warmth and comfort from that, boy, do I have a show for you. MetroStage’s Christmas at…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMWednesday, December 5, 2018
No two things are more opposed to each other than war and Christmas. Christmas is a time to love life and our neighbor, to wish peace and good will toward all. War is a time to hate our neig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMMonday, December 3, 2018
What was the best drama you saw this year? Perhaps you saw Network in New York with Bryan Cranston. Or maybe the best drama this year was at the family table, on Thanksgiving. Maybe it was i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
Anacostia’s Theater Alliance announced that it has selected Raymond O. Caldwell, its Associate Artistic Direct, to succeed Producing Artistic Director Colin Hovde at its helm next year. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AM 
