Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Playwright David Ives’s mastery of rhymed verse builds on Molière’s 17th-century comedy of manners. Together, they will leave your sides aching. The School for Lies is the fourth French…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
A wordless production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame makes plenty of sense: Quasimodo has literally gone deaf from ringing the bells of Notre Dame. And on a deeper level, the primal forces a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Speculative political fiction written six months ago and set a mere two years from today is a bold thing to write and produce. But there was a moral imperative to the subject of this play …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
In the midst of a fever dream, The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington flips the power dynamic of Mt. Vernon and leaves first First Lady Martha Danbridge Washington …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMThursday, April 20, 2017
The Late Wedding doesn’t have a traditional plot. Instead, the play is more like a lesson plan: Its central theme is introduced and explained methodically, and then the audience is exposed…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
With puppetry, projection, lighting, and video timed perfectly to a live, original, nerdcore rap score, .d0t:: a RotoPlastic Ballet runs like clockwork, even as it tells the stories of machi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMMonday, April 3, 2017
Nilaja Sun’s latest solo-performance, Pike St., calls back to her upbringing in the Lower East Side to invoke a rich cast of characters, but is held back by a design choice and brief dur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Coolatully hits every single trope of a modern Irish story with an impeccable, though taciturn exactitude. Solas Nua is “the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMMonday, March 13, 2017
Coolatully hits every single trope of a modern Irish story with the impeccable, taciturn exactitude. Solas Nua is “the only organization in the United States dedicated exclusively to conte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32AMTuesday, February 21, 2017
There are many different types of laughter in a theater: Chuckles from slapstick, a knowledgeable laugh at word play… God of Carnage reaches into the audience, grabs hard, and drags ou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMMonday, February 6, 2017
Baby Screams Miracle is a wild storm of religion, sexuality, and family that leaves the audience unsure if the rest of the world is still standing. From the first moment that Cody Nickell as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
Full of song, love, and laughter, As You Like It will sweep you off your feet. If you don’t love it at first sight, wait. Of all the couples in this romantic story, the best chemistry in A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMThursday, January 26, 2017
Lumina Studio Theatre packs LEAR with high-concept projections and mute scenes, but does best when they give their actors room to play. Director/Assistant Director David Minton’s adaptatio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMThursday, December 1, 2016
Something strange happened last Halloween: The Tarot Reading took its first steps. With both inaugural performances sold out, the brainchild of Alan Katz and Quill Nebeker could have a long …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMFriday, November 18, 2016
In Straight White Men, playwright Young Jean Lee finds remarkable insight and startling sympathy with our society’s least oppressed identity. Far from a brutal if well-deserved takedown, L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AMTuesday, November 8, 2016
The Welders’ latest show, Girl in the Red Corner by Stephen Spotswood, falls short of some expectations, but makes up for it in its many human moments delivered by its talented cast. Aud…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:31PMTuesday, October 18, 2016
Switching between mediums can be as difficult as telling someone about a dream. If the new version cannot deliver on everything the original does (next to impossible), it better bring some v…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMTuesday, October 4, 2016
Staceyann Chin is a memoirist, a spoken-word poet, and a live wire. The best qualities of all three are on display in her autobiographical show, MotherStruck now at Studio Theatre. The show …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:00PMFriday, September 23, 2016
It is a daunting challenge to perform as Anne Frank. Not only is she an historical figure whose face is known worldwide, but she is also one who went through puberty during the events that m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:45PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
For a show about scars, YOU HAVE MADE A STORY ON MY SKIN is surprisingly comforting. It embodies a beautiful acceptance and even love for the wounded past and scarred present that make us wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:10AMSunday, August 21, 2016
The Last Class: a Jazzercize Play makes the most of its setting. The story is told in real time during an actual jazzercize routine. The cast’s hard-earned sweat is corporeal proof of thei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
Jamie and Duncan’s Glorious Suicide at the End of the World is like a dream, effortlessly insane and delightful, though light on narrative. Matthew Schott and Alex Garretson wrote the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AMFriday, July 15, 2016
Right Brain Performancelab’s The Elephant in the Room has an ambitious goal: To engage the audience with theatrical epistemology by way of vaudeville, musical theater, ballet, Butoh, clown…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:50AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
At first, the MLK Jr. Memorial Library’s Room A-5 dwarfs the audience for Imperial Theatre Live’s production of Waiting for Godot. They come in and sit in clumps of twos or threes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMMonday, July 11, 2016
The Rude Mechnical’s Reflecting Antigone is true Fringe: Unique and moving, if weighed down by imperfect execution. If you can forgive it for its many rough edges, you will find a solid an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMThe Bard has yet another win to tally. 15 Villainous Fools is a meat-and-potatoes show for Capital Fringe, but rarely so well done. The show is a retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Com…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AMSaturday, July 9, 2016
At the top of the show, David Kessler admits that he has a problem: He cries too much. Tears of every emotion at just about any occasion, but especially at weddings. Little does the a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:19PMDr. Erik Mueller might have the most fascinating resume in all of Fringe this year, but The Computer That Loved’s meditation on his love life is still a work in progress. Mueller, who wrot…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50AMFriday, July 8, 2016
Petunia and Chicken from Animal Engine Theatre Company transforms the basement of a synagogue into the vast and harsh plains of Nebraska, two actors into a huge and colorful cast, and anoth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PM 
