Tuesday, August 28, 2018
Sometimes it is just easiest to say it up front as clearly as possible: I loved The Ice Child—an old-school-esque “once upon a time” fairy tale about very real-world, right now issues …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMThursday, June 28, 2018
Second City is back at it again with Second City’s Generation Gap…or How Many Millennials Does it Take to Teach a Baby Boomer to Text Generation X?, now invading the Kennedy Center to h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMMonday, June 11, 2018
It’s a funny title, isn’t it? Dancing in My Cockroach Killers. Yet, profoundly telling. About stereotypes. About other cultures. About “our” opinions of Latinos. Yet, this is not a s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMThursday, May 31, 2018
Charlotte’s Web, the beloved children’s book by E.B. White, is an emotionally taut tale that plays well with music by Charles Strause, who’s next musical was Annie. Here, Creative …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMTuesday, May 8, 2018
As it opens, The Speed Twins makes no bones about were you are: Dyke Heaven! A purgatory of sorts, set up like a seedy bar reminiscent of London’s now shuttered Gateways Club, where a dru…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Alice in Wonderland is so well known that it’s easy to forget the original two books—Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking-Glass—were written in 1865 in Queen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
In its latest offering, the In Series has pulled a twisty, two-for-one punch with aplomb, presenting two Cuban Zarzuelas, based on the same novel, as Act I and Act II in a single show. It’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMMonday, March 26, 2018
Much like its storied source material, (Frank L. Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz), The Wiz is an American cultural institution. Seven Tony Awards in 1975. Numerous revivals. A 1978 film …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27AMMonday, March 12, 2018
This Little Light, like so many Venus Theatre productions, is a gem that radiates the very joy it dares us to find in ourselves, and each other, when we fear we’ve lost it most. If you …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMMonday, February 19, 2018
Light Years celebrates the cornerstone to all human relationships, the first and most defining: child and parent. In this case, the focus is Robbie Schaefer and his father Konnie (Bobby Smi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AMWednesday, February 14, 2018
Adventure Theatre MTC’s Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a laugh-out-loud journey through the worst calamities of childhood, and appealing to kids and adults …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:41AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Waxing West is a rich, moving story of immigration, culture clash, and revolution—the common political kind and a deeper, internal, personal kind. A little over a decade after the Romanian…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:03AMFriday, November 17, 2017
Life: it’s not about good guys or bad guys. It’s about good choices and bad choices. And, Felonious Munk, a bearded comedian out of Chicago courtesy of Second City, is a solid, candid gu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Sometime in the not too distant past, an ornate street lamp, that you could easily imagine encircled by fog, glows at a dingy train depot early morning. Byron Jones, looking dapper in a suit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24PMMonday, October 23, 2017
In a time in American history where gun control, collusion, corporate taxes, labor issues, immigration, war, and threats of violence dominate the daily news, Assassins feels chillingly relev…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMSaturday, October 14, 2017
The Effect is a beautiful rumination on what love is—a combination of naturally occurring chemicals with which the brain floods the body. Or something altogether different. Something contr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMSaturday, October 7, 2017
Caravanning to the stars and beyond—to a planet of flowers somewhere at the edge of the universe—is a nice coda to a long week. Even if it is a journey designed for kids. Music, after al…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMTuesday, September 19, 2017
For I Killed My Mother, you enter Spooky Action Theater through the bowels of a church, winding through the basement where performers are stationed—singing, strumming guitar, watching you …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
It’s never more apparent how salacious the bard is than when watching The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), a ridiculously wonderful semi-improvised comedy that parodies, r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train—a disturbing, dark dramedy by the Pulitzer-prize winning Stephen Adly Guirgis and first performed in 2000—places incarceration and morality side by side an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Rodgers and Hammerstein, the team which gave us Carousel! Sound of Music. Oklahoma! South Pacific. The King and I, undoubtedly have one of the most celebrated musical theatre canons in the w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Wig Out! is beautiful, raw, and real. And magically human, bonding me to the sadness, joy, and fear of wonderfully deep characters. To be candid, this is a world—the underground Ball Cultu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMMonday, July 10, 2017
An hour of music—wonderfully moody ballads, bluesy numbers, and almost twangy folk songs—is always an hour well spent. Even if that music largely focuses on supernatural themes. Monsters…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. What a clever mnemonic device to track the tragic lives of Henry VIII’s many wives. And this play will not let you forget it. It has…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
North Korea’s nukes hurtle toward the U.S.—targeting both rural and urban areas—and we’ve got 15 minutes left to live, all the while being “monitored” by an unknown Russian opera…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:12PMMonday, June 12, 2017
Patsy Cline is easily the queen mother of country music—her importance to the genre on par with the Carter Family, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Loretta Lynn. She was a pioneer, paving t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMGenius. Fearless. Absolutely fun. Flying V Fights: The Secret History of the Unknown World is a pop culture junkie’s wet dream. And, given the violence, skin, and sexual innuendos, there�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
A gunshot. Chaos. Followed by shock. And a nation, almost on cue and in sync, let’s out a collective wail of grief. But the cries of a lone, new widow displease the gentry surrounding her …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Scheherazade’s mystical folktale, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, still spins its magic. Taken from James Norris’ 1940 adaptation of The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, Adventu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31PMTuesday, April 4, 2017
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is as delightful today as ever, and Toby’s Dinner Theatre does it just right. If you are a certain age—somewhere between 30 and 40—Beauty and the Beast…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMMonday, March 27, 2017
The name Donny Hathaway probably doesn’t ring too many bells these days—certainly not as many as Stevie Wonder or Roberta Flack, his contemporaries—but you likely sing him every Chris…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PM 
