Thursday, June 27, 2019
Third time still charms with Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing, blood-drumming 2015 musical about Alexander Hamilton, whom he describes in his syncopated, ear-worm lyrics as a �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMWednesday, June 12, 2019
The door slam heard around the world. Has there ever been a more memorable exit than Nora Helmer banging the door closed on her life, marriage and children in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s Hou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMTuesday, June 4, 2019
A medical emergency. If that’s not song and dance material, I don’t know what is. But under composer William Finn’s tunefully neurotic steerage, serious brain trauma becomes a bright, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMTuesday, May 21, 2019
How many me’s can you fit in one teenage body? Jacqueline Marie Butler (Erika Rose) ponders this question and endeavors to find her place in the world in Queens Girl in Africa, D.C. playwr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMMonday, May 20, 2019
2933 Ericson Street may prove to be as potent and prescient as August Wilson’s 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the setting for many of his epic plays and the place where…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMThursday, May 9, 2019
It seems somehow written in the stars that Michael Kahn would choose the world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s The Oresteia as the final show of his towering tenure as Artistic Director a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMMonday, May 6, 2019
If there was ever a time for old-fashioned spoofy fun, it’s now. Your chance to goof off comes courtesy of Rep Stage’s joy-buzzery production of The 39 Steps, directed by Joseph W. Ritsc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMWednesday, May 1, 2019
If someone told you to run down to the Lansburgh Theater to see a three-hour play about back-channel diplomatic negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Army (PLO), you’d p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:33PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
Like my mama used to say, just because somebody asks for something doesn’t mean you have to give it. In the case of the Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s exemplary Black Pearl Sings!, it�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Toby’s Dinner Theatre has been transformed into a cathedral for its towering production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, including some of the most powerful and moving choral work you are l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:17PMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Full disclosure: As a mere slip of a girl I used to read Bullfinch’s Mythology and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology for fun and enlightenment and when I couldn’t sleep I would populate the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
If breakups were only confined to the couple in question, life would be easier. Throw friends, children, potential new partners into the mix and it really takes a village to visit Splitsvill…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMFriday, March 8, 2019
“This play changed my life,” proclaims shtetl tailor-turned-stage-manager Lemml (Ben Cherry) in Paula Vogel’s incandescent Indecent, and as you look up in wonder at the candle and stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:33PMTuesday, March 5, 2019
How can one play make you low in spirit but high on life? In less than two hours, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 takes you on a whip-smart ride between sadness that race and class issues remain…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:57AMFriday, February 8, 2019
If there was ever a time for a bit of cheek, it’s now. We could all use some impudent humor, especially of the female variety. And there’s no better place than the august Folger Theatre,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
We quickly learn that Everything Is Wonderful is Amish shorthand for “Shut your pie hole, I beg you.” But you wouldn’t want to miss a single plainspoken word of this magnificent, whole…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMMonday, January 28, 2019
La Vie Boheme is not mort. On the contrary, it is shiny and perky as all get out. That could be a problem for those who consider Rent, the late Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking 1996 rock m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMMonday, January 14, 2019
Furloughed? Sick of snow? Cheer up. You could be a member of the People’s Temple. The Reverend Jim Jones (Lance Bankerd) and his tragically devoted followers are back from the jungles …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMTuesday, December 11, 2018
“Laugh or cry; it’s up to you,” my mother used to say. At Baltimore Center Stage’s stirring production of acclaimed playwright Marcus Gardley’s play A Wonder In…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Bright as a boutonniere, Everyman’s production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a strutting peacock of a show that portrays the mores of Victorian society with…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMTuesday, November 6, 2018
Want to replicate the experience of seeing the pre-Broadway tryout of the musical version of Beetlejuice in the comfort of your home? Just pound down 19 espressos with a pound of candy chase…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
The white-hot rage and caustic bitterness against de-industrialization, unemployment, minorities, and immigrants, not to mention races and religions other than white and Christian, may have …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Racy photographs stoke the mayhem and comedy of local playwright D.W. Gregory’s world premiere play, Dirty Pictures, but its true catalyst lies in finding beauty in the ordinary and overlo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
Hold onto summer heat and humid emotions just a little while longer with Baltimore Center Stage’s juicy production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The lies we tell ourselves so we can sleep and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
Dancing at Lughnasa casts a spell before the actors utter a word. Irish music peppily plays as you enter the theater and drink in Yu-Hsuan Chen’s painterly set–with sinuously twi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMThursday, September 6, 2018
The last place you’d think to go for a little peace and quiet is the theater. But that’s what happens in Round House Theatre’s production of Bess Wohl’s 2015 off-Broadway hit, Small …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMMonday, July 30, 2018
Dave is a musical for our times. A snapshot of our current political climate swathed in red, white and blue, the world premiere musical with music by Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), a book by the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
Break out the Bedazzler and falsies and shimmy into your Spanx. It’s high season for drag in downtown Bethesda, thanks to the fierce and funny The Legend of Georgia McBride, playwright Mat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMFriday, May 18, 2018
“Butter. Sugar. Flour.” These three words are sprinkled like incantations throughout the 2016 musical Waitress, a tasty, buttermilk tart and bright woman-powered show that features Sara …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMThursday, May 17, 2018
“We’ll wait and see.” Normally, words of prudence and patience. In the context of Karen Hartman’s intense epistolary play, The Book of Joseph, the words are a chilling death senten…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Theater is traditionally thought to be a place of communion, a meeting of like-minded souls who crave a good story. Playwright Annie Baker turns that expectation on its head, along with so m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:38PM 
