Thursday, November 5, 2020
IN Series is presenting its 2020-2021 season completely online and free through its platform, INvision, though paid access has additional perks. Their production of Orphée et Eurydice (whic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMTuesday, October 27, 2020
Lyndon Johnson is said to have called her an “ignorant niggra.” In Fannie Lou Hamer: Speak on It!, E. Faye Butler brings this so-called “ignorant niggra” – Fannie Lou Hamer – to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54AMThursday, August 20, 2020
The ongoing state executions of Black people, exemplified most recently and brazenly by the public lynching of George Floyd (with no repercussions to date for those perpetrating the brutalit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMFriday, July 31, 2020
Jacqueline Youm, founder of one of DC’s newest companies, JaYo Théâtre, is from Senegal, the daughter of an International Monetary Fund economist. Watch below as this talented performer,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMTuesday, July 28, 2020
Adjusting to the changed circumstances brought on by COVID 19, Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting has moved its 2020 graduating class performances to online audio/radio. In…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMWednesday, July 15, 2020
This is THE anthem of THE American civil rights movement that many other movements for civil rights around the world have adopted. You will have heard it sung in documentaries and the news…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMThursday, June 11, 2020
The theater is the place where things are shown: that is, it’s a mirror where things that we don’t make overt in daily life are brought out in front of us to see. While we usually talk…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:32PMWednesday, June 3, 2020
We ask: what art by artists of color sustains or inspires you? From Gregory J. Ford comes this answer. As a little Black boy being “raised” in the Church of God in Christ, the 23rd Psalm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMFriday, March 13, 2020
There are moments in this mesmerizing production of Celia and Fidel during which the entire audience holds its collective breath. We watch as a battle is being fought and a choice is being m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36PMTuesday, March 10, 2020
“Kill me now,” says Moses. “What are your Promised Land Top Ten?” counters his side- kick Kitch. Thus begins two memorable, masterful, spell-binding and heartbreaking performances by…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMMonday, March 9, 2020
ExPats Theatre’s production of Einstein’s Wife, (it bears the subtitle, An Imagined Encounter) takes place in an algorithmically graphed and projected after-life (Projections by Dylan Ur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PMMonday, March 2, 2020
The Theater Alliance production of This Bitter Earth by Harrison David Rivers is a lusty, delirious, time-suspending and pulse-pounding journey. It is also – as intimated by the title – …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:18PMMonday, February 24, 2020
At its Sidney Harman Hall, The Shakespeare Theatre has mounted what may be the quintessential production of James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner. The Amen Corner is set in a church: a Black chu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMSaturday, February 15, 2020
In The Clemency of Titus, currently being presented at the Kennedy Center under its World Stages program, we have the most unbelievable plot imaginable given one of the most delightful produ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMMonday, February 3, 2020
“He was her only child: her baby boy..maybe an A-1 student running, hiding, taking cover. The women gather crying tears that fill a million oceans. It doesn’t matter where you’re liv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMFriday, January 31, 2020
If Silent Sky is an example of what has led Lauren Gunderson to be (as the program for the production states) the “most produced living playwright in America,” it is easy to understand w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMTuesday, January 28, 2020
RS24 feels as though it takes place in Washington, DC in an era when the city was still known as Chocolate City and Egyptian Musk incense wafted through every record store and head shop in t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMFriday, January 17, 2020
“Are we? Are we human?” – a line of dialogue from Sheltered “Noah said ‘No, no you’re full of sin. God’s got the key and you can’t get in.” – lyrics of “Didn’t It…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PMWednesday, December 18, 2019
The message of the production of Black Nativity that is currently playing at Anacostia Playhouse is clearly stated in the words of the gospel composition by Edwin Hawkins: “Jesus Christ Is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PMMonday, December 16, 2019
“This is how I approach Blackness: It’s celebratory…It’s something that I don’t want to move away from, I want to move closer to.” E. Ethelbert Miller, Washington, DC-based poe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
As I watched the performance of The IN Series’ most recent offering, I thought about starting my review with a warning: “Don’t go to see L’Enfance du Christ unless you want to be tra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMMonday, December 2, 2019
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is playing in a delightful production that you should see, if you can, at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. It is a mystery. It is a paean to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMFriday, November 8, 2019
Imagine that you are a child and you are exploring your grandmother’s closets. Or you’re an adult whose grandmother has died and it’s your responsibility to go to their home and sort…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMTuesday, October 22, 2019
“You don’t need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”- Bob Dylan Shakespeare’s The Tempest is a comedy in the sense that it has a happy ending. However, we only get to th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PMWednesday, October 16, 2019
In Joy Ikekhua’s insightful reflection on School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play at Roundhouse Theater, they noted their discomfort with watching, in public, a play that exposed and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33PM 
