Thursday, 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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 …
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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…
Linked From 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.…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PMThursday, May 31, 2018
The mythical city of Camelot has always been little more than a dream – a forest kingdom of unsurpassed beauty where magicians and enchantresses gleefully meddle in human affairs, knig…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMMonday, April 30, 2018
Arena Stage’s world-premiere musical Snow Child tries to be many things at once—the personal story of a married couple struggling to cope with the loss of a child; a fairy tale incorpora…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMTuesday, April 17, 2018
It’s happened: global warming has brought the world to the brink of an environmental apocalypse. Earth’s atmosphere can only support human life for one more year—maybe less. What d…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMMonday, April 9, 2018
Molière’s Don Juan—the 17th Century tale of a rakish nobleman whose insatiable libido and incorrigible charm lead him from town to town, deceiving (and deflowering) damsel after damsel …
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