Monday, February 17, 2020
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?” So wonders the desperate Joad family in Steinbeck’s “The Grapes of Wrath,” as they burn their belo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMMonday, January 27, 2020
Beneath differing customs and languages, are people basically the same? Playwright Yussef El Guindi makes a strong case with his unique and endearing romantic comedy Pilgrims Musa & Sher…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03PMFriday, December 13, 2019
Is it possible for everyone to be right at the same time? How do we hold society together when people can’t agree on basic facts? Mosaic Theater Company’s whip-smart Eureka Day takes a d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMFriday, November 15, 2019
“Take me for what I am. Who I was meant to be.” So sings Maureen in one of RENT’s most famous ballads. Those famous lyrics are also perfect advice for people headed to the National The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMThursday, October 3, 2019
Five men, three chairs, and 75 minutes of improv set in the world of the Bard. That’s the simple premise of The Improvised Shakespeare Company. But the payoff is so much more. At the Kenne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMFriday, September 13, 2019
It is possible for a good solo show to deliver some of the greatest magic in theater. In Solas Nua’s innovative production of The Smuggler, actor and artistic director Rex Daugherty captiv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMThursday, May 23, 2019
Playwright Allyson Currin’s poignant new work Sooner/Later captures the messy reality of relationships and family in a funny and brutally honest way. From the crushing awkwardness of a fir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Actress, playwright, and advocate Liza Jessie Peterson is a force of nature fighting to expose the wrongs of America’s sprawling prison system, one performance at a time. Her rousing one-w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AMTuesday, September 18, 2018
How do we honor our past without closing doors to the future? What do we owe our parents and grandparents, when weighed against the prospects of our children and their children? These wren…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMWednesday, June 20, 2018
The Emperor of Atlantis feels simultaneously “too soon” and “right on time”. The creative minds of In Series have devised an inventive, timely, though somewhat uneven double bill tha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PMMonday, April 16, 2018
Memory can be a warm blanket, a cruel knife, and a revolutionary act all at once. Gala Hispanic Theatre’s must-see En el Tiempo de Las Mariposas (In the Time of Butterflies) unfurls a gri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMSaturday, December 30, 2017
What better way to ring in the New Year than with a little magic? The Illusionists unites five unique magicians in a spectacle that, while cheesy at times, still has the power to truly dazzl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMThursday, September 21, 2017
Karen Zacarías’ laugh-a-minute comedy Native Gardens has arrived at exactly the right time, delivering a dearly-needed burst of satire and levity to Washington, DC audiences. Director Bla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48PMMonday, July 24, 2017
Adapting Shakespeare to a modern context is always a dicey proposition – witness the NY Public Theater’s ongoing “Julius Trump” firestorm. But Welders playwright and Washington Post …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMMonday, July 17, 2017
What would have happened if Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassination had failed – but the danger wasn’t over? Lancer and Lace pulls on this historical thread and weaves an interesting ye…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
You probably know Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and War of the Worlds, but did you know he was also an accomplished magician? In Orson the Magnificent, consummate showman Lars Klores takes …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMThursday, April 20, 2017
The true story of Aphra Behn is the epitome of “stranger than fiction.” In Round House Theatre’s rollicking production of Or, director Aaron Posner, Holly Twyford, and company gleeful…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMTuesday, February 14, 2017
Think of your favorite pop-up book as a kid: the bright colors, the interactive story, the giddy surprise of action leaping off the page. This feeling of childlike wonder drives Constellatio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMThursday, January 12, 2017
Tell me if this sounds familiar: Two people locked in a pivotal contest of ideas and ideologies, steeped in international espionage, with the fate of millions hanging in the balance. If you …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMTuesday, October 25, 2016
Playwright Conor McPherson has a signature knack for framing the big questions inside quiet, unassuming lives. In Quotidian Theatre Company’s moving production of McPherson’s The Night A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:15PMMonday, October 17, 2016
As we approach Halloween, Convergence Theatre sets out to prove to audiences that the most shocking horror can derive not from our imaginations, but from our own cruel history. The game cas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:38PMThursday, September 15, 2016
Family – just because you love them, doesn’t mean you have to like them. Theater J’s alternately side-splitting and emotional production of The Last Schwartz follows the dysfunctional …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:58AMFriday, June 24, 2016
Seven years ago, Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey explored the devastating cost of mental illness in their Tony-winning Broadway debut of Next to Normal. Now Keegan Theatre is bringing the gripp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21AMSunday, June 19, 2016
The Kennedy Center’s crowd-pleasing yet inconsistent production of Kinky Boots could also be called “A Tale of Two Musicals”. Show-stopping soul and R&B numbers led by the transcen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:58PMSaturday, June 18, 2016
The transgender community’s newfound visibility and public support, after years of living in the shadows, has not come easily. Georgette Kelly’s moving Ballast follows the journey…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:55PMDreams are, by and large, a random jumble of thoughts and experiences remixed by our subconscious. They may not make a lot of sense, but they certainly leave an impact. That’s largely how …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:13AMFriday, May 20, 2016
As gaming and virtual reality become ever more ingrained into popular culture, it’s about time that some creative minds brought it into the world of theater. In the interactive escape dram…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:19PMTuesday, May 17, 2016
From Shakespeare to “Arrested Development”, when family and large inheritances mix, things are bound to get messy. Arcturus Theater Company’s adaptation of August Strindberg’s surrea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMWednesday, April 27, 2016
At their best, fairytales allow adults and children alike to gently explore lessons of life, love, and loss, while safely ensconced in a cushion of abstraction. At their worst, they enable u…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMMonday, April 11, 2016
Before Prospero, Miranda, Ferdinand, and even Caliban…there was Sycorax. In One Word More, writer and performer Annalisa Dias offers a bold, mind-bending vision of Shakespeare’s The Temp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMThursday, March 24, 2016
Among the pivotal works of modern literature, novels like “Infinite Jest” and “Finnegan’s Wake” have proven so dense, so abstract, so impenetrable as to be nearly …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:15AM 
