Wednesday, October 28, 2020
When Bryan Mercado, then 10, was first told he had been signed up for a playwriting workshop after school with Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT), a D.C.-based arts education nonprofit and p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMThursday, October 8, 2020
Working Theater’s production of American Dreams, hosted in our area by Round House Theatre, is a zany, interactive “game show” sponsored by a fictitious arm of the American government …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AMTuesday, September 8, 2020
When Studio Theatre’s acting conservatory parted ways with its’ eponymous Studio Theatre more than a year ago, the split was “existential,” according to conservatory Co-Director Joy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMThursday, March 5, 2020
Bandstand, the Tony Award-winning swing style musical is making a brief stop at The National Theatre. A story of five World War II veterans trying to rebuild their lives through music, for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMFriday, February 7, 2020
If you love groundbreaking musical theater, I suggest you navigate away from this page for just a few seconds to snap up tickets to Signature Theatre’s Gun & Powder while you still can…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s musical Spring Awakening, which opened on Broadway in 2006, was a real-life Cinderella story for its creators and young cast. Despite unconventional origins…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMMonday, December 16, 2019
No holiday season would be complete without a viewing of Charles Dickens’ 176-year-old classic, A Christmas Carol. And while my heart will forever hold true to the George C. Scott movie-ve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMThursday, December 12, 2019
In truth, I never before thought of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan as a particularly masculine, or anti-feminist, story. Most of us have warm recollections of the far-off Neverland, reached onl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMSunday, December 8, 2019
For those who were lucky enough to catch Second City’s original sketch comedy She the People when it rolled through town last December, you might be wondering how the all-female cast of co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMFriday, November 15, 2019
Newsies is a frolicking, joyous musical with a healthy dose of “kid power:” the perfect recipe for families this holiday season. Based on the original Disney film and drawing from the re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMFriday, November 8, 2019
A Chorus Line is known as one of the most pared-down, starkly intimate “song-and-dance shows” in the Broadway canon. On a barren stage—devoid of any scenery or set but for a wall of fl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMMonday, October 7, 2019
For those unfamiliar with the work of British playwright Caryl Churchill, Signature Theatre’s production of Escaped Alone (2016) may come as a bit of a shock. Skillfully directed by well-l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12PMFriday, September 27, 2019
Comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia has a rare sleepwalking disorder – one that almost killed him. As he tells it, one night—in the throes of a particularly vivid, bad-guy-chase-se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:03PMSaturday, September 14, 2019
In its best moments Love Sick—the opening show of Theater J’s 2019-20 season in its newly renovated space—is a brilliantly woven tapestry of competing forms. The music, written by Ofra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMMonday, August 12, 2019
Dear Evan Hansen is a heart-wrenching, ultimately transformative, gut-punch of a musical. The Kennedy Center’s production, directed by Michael Greif and featuring the national touring ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMFriday, August 9, 2019
“Oh. My. God. Oh my god, you guys!” Keegan Theatre’s production of Legally Blonde is so over-the-top, fabulously fun – the perfect sweet treat on a sweltering DC summer evening. Fo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48AMMonday, July 29, 2019
Blame their parents. Albert and Jennifer Chen are failing at life. Sure, they both graduated top of their class from Harvard. And, yes, Jen went on to get a medical degree and PhD (both fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMFriday, July 19, 2019
Playwright Nell Benjamin’s (Legally Blonde) The Explorers Club lambasts the last bastion of the manly man—an 1879 London gentleman’s club where explorers and scientists of great renown…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMFriday, July 12, 2019
In case you haven’t heard, the future is female—and fiercely funny. At least as told by the Pipeline Playwrights—a collective of sharp-tongued women playwrights from NoVa, each present…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMI’m going to come right out and admit it: I’m no millennial sympathizer.Too many years of sleeping under my desk and being forced (by corporate dress code) to wear nylons through DC’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
Love’s Labor’s Lost is reputed to be one of Shakespeare’s toughest plays to stage (and it rarely is). The late 16th Century comedy has a simple enough plot – one guaranteed to tee …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMMonday, April 15, 2019
Signature Theatre is known for reviving and revamping long forgotten musicals – and they don’t shy away from a challenge. Grand Hotel tells the story of a handful of strangers, drawn t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AMTuesday, March 12, 2019
I’m a sucker for Shakespeare. And having lived on Capitol Hill for more than a decade and enjoyed many events at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the opportunity to participate in an “i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMFriday, March 8, 2019
We here in Washington, DC are no strangers to a “political circuses,” but it was hard to know what to expect from Swedish acrobatic troupe Cirkus Cirkör, whose past performances have be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PMSaturday, January 26, 2019
Sheldon Epp’s Twelve Angry Men, his directorial debut at the historic Ford’s Theatre, promised a present-day take on the 1954 legal drama that follows jury deliberations in the murder tr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Playwright and Alexandria-native Sarah Burgess is known for her sharp-tongued, rapid-fire dialogue and expositions into the underbelly of American institutions. Burgess’ first play, Dry …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMMonday, November 19, 2018
If there’s one thing you’ll take away from Olney Theatre Center’s Elf the Musical it’s this: the DC musical theater scene has a tremendous talent base. To a one, Elf’s largely ense…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMSaturday, October 27, 2018
Sitting in a circle of chairs facing inwards, arranged at the outermost edges of an otherwise empty stage, it is impossible to discern the actors from the audience. There is a playful tens…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Anna Ziegler’s (Photograph 51) new two-person play Actually sets out as an intimate exploration of one of our society’s most taboo, yet timely, topics—sexual consent among two young pe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMMonday, October 1, 2018
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time playwright Simon Stephens’s two-person play, Heisenberg, is far from your typical love story. When Georgie (Rachel Zampelli), a 40ish…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMFriday, June 8, 2018
Director Marc Bruni knew he was taking a risk in revamping the classic Frank Loesser (music and lyrics) musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying for a modern Washington, D.C.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PM 
