Thursday, November 2, 2017
Hey Theatre Fam! Jon Jon back, after seeking out some of the talented and friendly company members of We Happy Few. These frequent collaborators are presenting their latest offering, The Do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMWednesday, November 1, 2017
Families wishing to delight children this November have more than the usual choices. Holiday shows, Christmas Carol at Ford’s and Washington Ballet’s Nutcracker at the Warner are…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMTuesday, October 31, 2017
The hottest ticket in town right now is Tina Fey’s bound-for-Broadway musical Mean Girls, at the National only through December 3. According to the National’s online box office�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMWednesday, October 4, 2017
As the country grieves over yet another mass shooting and grapples with the question of what could drive anyone to contemplate such a hideous act, two productions of the Stephen Sondheim/Jo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMThursday, September 28, 2017
Georgia Snow of The Stage broke the news that Kwame Kwei-Armah, once his tenure as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage ends this June, will become Artistic Director of The Young Vic …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMMonday, September 18, 2017
We have 2 free pairs of tickets from Shakespeare Theatre Company to see Harold Pinter’s The Lover and The Collection at the Lansburgh Theatre. STC Artistic Director Michael Kahn (Old T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Tonight at 7:45pm, Broadway and Off-Broadway theaters will dim their lights in honor of Sam Shepard, playwright, actor and director who died of complications of ALS on Thursday, July 27 on h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMSunday, July 23, 2017
The TheaterMania sponsored Capital Fringe winners of the Audience Choice Awards were announced tonight: Winner Best of Show – Fringe Audience Awards Hexagon 2017: Let Freedom Zing! P…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PMThursday, July 13, 2017
“My employer is an asshole.” Shakespeare said that. Ok, not exactly. But the Rude Mechanicals somehow fit the line seamlessly into Arden Now, their abbreviated and modified – yet stil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMSunday, July 9, 2017
The tagline for Larry E. Blossom’s latest Capital Fringe offering, Just Like A Woman, is “Will Trans Trump Fear in These Troubled Times?” Unfortunately, neither the issues of transphob…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33AMMonday, July 3, 2017
First came Nelson Pressley’s in-depth article on theatre makers as activists in Sunday’s Washington Post. Now comes this call to take theatrical activism to the streets. Ameri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMFriday, June 30, 2017
We have 2 free pairs of tickets from Shakespeare Theatre Company to see David Ives’ The School for Lies in its closing week at the Lansburgh Theatre. A farce set in 17th century Franc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMFriday, June 23, 2017
The National Theatre is giving up its hemp and sand rigging system. Rebecca Cooper, writing for Washington Business Journal, posted the fascinating backstage story today. While The National…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04PMWednesday, June 21, 2017
No other play now on area stages has been more enhanced by its soundtrack than Theater Alliance’s Still Life with Rocket. Nielson’s underscored music, sound effects and songs …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMMonday, June 19, 2017
The box office for Capital Fringe has just opened, and, on this opening day, we begin our Fringe coverage with a preview of John Morogiello’s Blue Over You. Show prices range from $7 (…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMThursday, June 15, 2017
Playwright A. R. Gurney died Tuesday, June 13, 2017 in his home in New York City. He was 86. A native of Buffalo, NY, the beleaguered city appeared as the setting for some of his 86 plays. �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMresults.
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SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Two of the most important awards of the evening received short shrift on the broadcast. The great Broadway actor James Earl Jones received the Lifetime Achievement in Theatre Award at the To…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AMFriday, June 9, 2017
We are very pleased to share this announcement with you. Washington, DC, June 9, 2017—The editors and publishers of DC’s two major theater websites—DC Theatre Scene and DC Metro Theate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18AMThursday, June 8, 2017
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SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:54PMTuesday, June 6, 2017
Just announced – Howard Shalwitz will be leaving his position as the artistic head of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, a position he has held for nearly forty years, at the end of the 2…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMTuesday, May 23, 2017
Thanks to the generosity of Creative Cauldron, we can award 15 pairs of tickets to the closing weekend of the new musical Kaleidoscope. From Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMFriday, May 19, 2017
Capital Fringe Festival has posted its schedule a few weeks early to give Fringe fans the chance to make plans and take advantage of money saving offers. This year, Capital Fringe runs fro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMMonday, May 15, 2017
This year’s ceremony is being held at the historic Lincoln Theatre with Washington favorites E. Faye Butler and Lawrence Redmond as co-hosts, followed by an after-party hosted at Was…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42PMSaturday, May 13, 2017
Best arrive on time for Nearly Lear, a one-woman clownish Shakespeare adaptation blowing through the Kennedy Center for just this weekend. That’s not just because KC’s Family Theater may…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMWednesday, May 10, 2017
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche invites its audience to the 1956 Annual Quiche Breakfast, a pastiche of 1950s femininity that whets the appetite for Capital Fringe, with high energy antics, ridi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMTuesday, May 9, 2017
The Rainbow Theatre Project, whose ambition it is to present “plays and musicals that reflect the unique experiences, interests and history of the LGBTQ community,” has announced…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMThursday, May 4, 2017
Carolyn Griffin and I, co-producers of the Cabaret in Tribute to Joel Markowitz on May 1, 2017, thought we had a handle on all the details. But there was one surprise. Minutes before the hou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
“Break a leg.” We say it, but what theatre tradition does it stem from? Dorothy Stanley explains on one of the hundreds of podcasts available on DCTS. Theodore Bikel, Maurice Hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMTuesday, May 2, 2017
The DC theatre community celebrated the storied accomplishments of theatre lover Joel Markowitz last night at Alexandria’s MetroStage with an evening of music from some of Washington&…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMMonday, May 1, 2017
“The Authoritarian playbook is well known. Create a constant state of crisis that only a “strong” leader can solve. Encourage fear, divide the populace and scapegoat racial or reli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AM 
