Tuesday, November 13, 2018
In fraught times, where do you go to find hope? Assuming the answer is not “within yourself,” might I suggest the basement of a church where, seated in a circle with a group of strangers…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
In the promotional materials for their production of Iris Dauterman’s Sing To Me Now, Rorschach Theatre has been highlighting one particular quote from the script: “Every second you hesi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
Imagine a large group of college students, surrounded by the international media, anxiously awaiting the moment when a statue depicting a key figure from their country’s racist past is top…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Before you read this review, I’d like to ask a favor of you: open a new browser tab and navigate to your favorite news/politics site and spend five minutes browsing the stories there. Seri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMMonday, September 10, 2018
While a very popular musical currently running at the Kennedy Center is asking audiences, “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” across town at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Bran…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMSaturday, August 25, 2018
It’s become a truism in the queer community that coming out of the closet isn’t a singular event. And yet, the very expression “coming out” conjures up images of individuals in their…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMFriday, August 3, 2018
What do you get when you take one of America’s most controversial theatre artists and its most divisive political issue and put them in a room together in our nation’s capital? In the ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMSunday, July 15, 2018
At this point, theatrical works about gay men and their over-the-top, overbearing mothers practically comprise an entire genre unto themselves—think Torch Song Trilogy and Mothers and Sons…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Sometimes the identities we construct for ourselves become our prisons. This is the scenario playwright M. Cristina Garcia uses as the central conceit of her play, Lesbians and the Men Who L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMSome of the best theatre presents you with an impossible choice and asks what decision you would make in each character’s place. In the case of 2000FeetUp Theatre Company’s The Body of a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMMonday, July 9, 2018
Dating. Dating in DC. A play about dating in DC. “This must be dystopian,” I thought as I entered Caos on F to take in the latest world premiere by Nu Sass Productions. To my delight, wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06PMSunday, July 8, 2018
There are certain individuals who haunt the Capital Fringe festival (and I’m not talking about the reviewers). Antigone and Medea always seem to make an appearance. And, of course, every c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMMonday, June 18, 2018
Many theatrical experiences are perfect for Pride Month, but few are devised specifically for the celebration. Enter Brett Abelman’s Switch, a new play set on the night of DC Pride, during…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMMonday, June 4, 2018
Fans of Jordan Tannahill’s work, including his 2015 book Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama—a screed against the ubiquity of the well-made play and the modern theatre�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:25PMSaturday, May 12, 2018
Montagues and Capulets. Vampires and werewolves. Rock musicians and DJs? The conflict between the latter is the proxy war at the center of Laura Eason’s The Undeniable Sound of Right Now, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMMonday, April 9, 2018
Rainbow Theatre Project’s production of Kevin Michael West’s comedy Top and Bottom contains total male nudity—of both the physical and emotional varieties. What begins as a bondage-fi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMThursday, April 5, 2018
“My drag isn’t a costume I use to hide in,” famed performance artists and playwright Taylor Mac says, “it’s exposing what I look like on the inside.” And the same…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37AMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Traditionally, a peepshow is a one-way affair—someone performs and someone (or someones) else observe, usually without being seen themselves. But I knew walking into dog & pony dc’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:09PMMonday, January 22, 2018
Autism, family obligation, and innovative design collide on stage in Olivia Haller’s This Is All Just Temporary, Convergence Theatre’s contribution to the 2018 Women’s Voices Theater F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:41AMFriday, December 8, 2017
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen’s one-person show Draw the Circle is a radical act of empathy. Not only does he explore the impact his life and gender transition has had on his loved ones and other …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMMonday, December 4, 2017
The convening of people who may not have anything more in common with one another than shared DNA at holiday time can result in more misery than merriment for all involved. A funeral, too, c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMSaturday, November 18, 2017
I walked into the DC Arts Center to catch The Book of Merman expecting a tale of half-men, half-fish, all-Mormon singers and dancers. What I found was even campier than that. Billed as “a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMWednesday, November 8, 2017
I had the entire introduction to this review written out in my head before I stepped foot in Studio Theatre to see the world premiere of Daniel Kitson’s new solo show, A Short Series of Di…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24PMWednesday, September 27, 2017
“Kids these days,” or so I’m told, use “extra” as an adjective to denote that something is more than what is usual, expected, or necessary. As a noun, it means a person hir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
While sitting in DC Reynolds on Georgia Avenue on a Sunday afternoon, I learned a new drinking game. While this in and of itself might not be remarkable for a neighborhood bar during a holid…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMSunday, July 16, 2017
“Torture numbers,” author Gregg Easterbrook once wrote, “and they’ll confess to anything.” David S. Kessler, a masterful storyteller aided by onstage musicians and projections in h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PMMonday, July 10, 2017
At this point, there’s an entire genre of books, TV shows, and films about bad bosses and the bizarre vagaries of corporate workplaces. One of the perhaps lesser-known but extremely effect…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
The unofficial rules for crafting a successful play also tend to apply to compiling the perfect mixtape: tell a compelling story, know your audience but keep them guessing, set a tone, stick…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
One barometer by which you can gauge the impact of a play is by whether it can be interpreted in wildly different ways by different audience members. Woolly Mammoth’s production of Taylor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMonday, May 22, 2017
Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s new rep of healthcare plays—Mercy Killers and Side Effects, both written and performed by Michael Milligan – tackle the broken nature of America…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AM“If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that,” playwright Tom Stoppard once said. “But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AM 
