Tuesday, July 9, 2019
In Hillel Mitelpunkt’s The Accident, a self-involved man, somewhat drunk, hits and kills a Chinese immigrant at about eighty miles per hour. Then, with his passenger, an equally self-invol…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMGaseous and unpredictable, witty and sentimental, Support Group for Men is ninety minutes traffic of our stage which seems longer, an earnest foray into secrets and feelings masked as a come…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMMonday, July 8, 2019
The great opera contralto Marian Anderson (Angela Wildflower), has been denied accommodations at the Nassau Inn because of her race. So instead she stays at the home of one of her enthusiast…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PM“If there’s one thing reality can’t tolerate,” says Dr. Phillip Cotton (Reed Birney), “it’s competition.” But you knew that already, didn’t you, Mr. or Ms. Avid Theatergoer, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMFriday, June 28, 2019
4615 Theatre Company will launch its third season with two plays in rep by distinguished British playwrights, and will finish with two world premieres by local writers. A woman has a passion…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMFriday, June 21, 2019
GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 2019-2020 season will feature a beloved classic from the Golden Age of Spanish theater leading into two plays by contemporary writers, interspersed with dance, thea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
Childhood, magic, myths and legends, and Patsy Cline — who is arguably all of those — will make up the docket for Creative Cauldron’s 2019-2020 season. Creative Cauldron will open the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Theater Alliance’s first season under the helm of Producing Artistic Director Raymond O. Caldwell will take a hard look at the experience of being Black in America in its three-play 2019…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMFriday, May 31, 2019
Bethesda-based Quotidian Theatre will be producing plays from two writers familiar to its audiences — Horton Foote and Connor McPherson — and one from Henrik Ibsen which shocked audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
Best Medicine Rep, the DMV’s only theater company devoted to comedy, will present a 2019-2020 season composed of a fresh comedy from the West Coast, a reprise of a successful 2018 producti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36PMMonday, May 27, 2019
This coming season, Everyman Theatre will inaugurate The Upstairs Theatre, its new 210-seat performance space, with a three-play new play festival, against a backdrop of five classic plays o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48PMThursday, May 23, 2019
We know very little about William Shakespeare, so we make stuff up. Thus we have Shakespeare in Love (John Madden–Tom Stoppard), which imagines the Bard falling for an aristocrat’s wife …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
The new season scheduled for the Washington’s National Theatre seems more promising, at this point, than the Washington Nationals season. The National Theatre will present seven musicals a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMThursday, May 16, 2019
The Contemporary American Theater Festival‘s 29th season will feature six new plays — four of them world premieres — which focus on the great cultural changes running through our socie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMConstellation Theatre Company, which has established a reputation for performing the sublime epics of our culture, will, in its 13th season, aspire to capture the ridiculous — and a little…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMSynetic Theater will produce — and reimagine — the classics for its 2019-2020 season, reviving two of its most notable productions — The Tempest and The Snow Queen — and adding a cla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMThursday, May 9, 2019
A world premiere from a local actor/playwright, a co-production, an old favorite, two musicals, and two stories about, or almost about, actual events make up Keegan Theatre’s 2019-2020 sea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54PMWednesday, May 8, 2019
In their next season, 1st Stage’s eclectic, collaborative twelfth season will take on air guitar wizards, race in the squared circle, aging in (a bad) place, brain surgery and the Attorney…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMNext season at NextStop Theatre Company will feature a whole lotta musicals, as well as some farce, an adaptation of a literary classic, and Katori Hall’s celebrated fiction about Martin L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMMonday, May 6, 2019
On the heels of the announcement that their company will receive the John Aniello Award as Washington’s outstanding emerging theater company of the year, Ally Theatre Company has announced…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMWe don’t know which of this year’s Helen Hayes Award nominees will receive the coveted Helen Hayes awards on Monday, May 13, but we do know this: Ally Theatre Company will receive the Jo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMSome familiar musicals and not-so-familiar plays will mark Signature’s 30th season this coming year, the company has announced. Signature starts off its season with Assassins, the Stephen …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMThe Kennedy Center’s 2019-2020 season for young audiences will feature work from Education Artist-in-Residence, perhaps better know as author, illustrator (Knuffle Bunny, and Elephant &…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMThe In Series, a Washington pocket opera company known for its innovative approach to the classics, will totally rework some of our best-known stories in 2019-2020, deconstructing, decontext…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12AMFriday, April 26, 2019
Woolly Mammoth’s 40th year marks the inaugural first season selected by its second Artistic Director, Marìa Manuela Goyanes, and for this year’s slate she has selected shows with signif…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Studio Theatre’s 2019-2020 season will include an appetizer and a main course. The appetizer is a 6-production summer season which the company calls its Showroom; it consists of two full-l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMThe Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has decided to shoot for the moon in its 2019-2020 season. In addition to doing Measure for Measure, Hamlet and Much Ado About Noting, the company will be …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
There will be plenty of the familiar in the Kennedy Center’s 17-production mainstage season — classics like Cats, Bye Bye Birdie, Jesus Christ Superstar as well as musicals for which Was…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:43PMMonday, April 15, 2019
“Stay,” the dying beloved tells her lover, “where we were so long alone together. My shade will comfort you.” But of course he does not, and instead moves to a single room in a place…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:17AMIn Shakespeare’s time, Christians were forbidden to lend money at interest (see Merchant of Venice) and so the Western world, intellectually vibrant though it was, was mostly economically …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:31AMWednesday, 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 02:51PM 
