Saturday, July 14, 2018
Once there was a couple that so loved peace and justice that they would blow up buildings and kill people on its behalf. After that, they would move to another town, changing their identitie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:54PMFriday, July 13, 2018
Bartleby the Scrivener, in Herman Melville’s short story of the same name, was a man of massive silences, who spoke only when his employer asked him to do something. “I would pre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMWednesday, July 11, 2018
Colin Hovde, who has served as Artistic Director of the Anacostia-based Theater Alliance since 2011, will be stepping down from that position at the conclusion of the 2018-2019 season, the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMMonday, July 9, 2018
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, Albert Einstein once said, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and rocks. It is after the war now. The great cities are …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMThere are stories we must approach carefully, as we might, unarmed, approach a wolf in a leg trap. Amy E. Witting’s wolf of a story, The House on the Hill, is such a tale. It is a stor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMSunday, July 8, 2018
The buzz about The Cake is that it attempts to humanize a cakemaker who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple, but it is different than that, and better. Bekah Brunstetter’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54PMHas there been, in our lifetimes, a greater political enigma than our 40th President, Ronald Wilson Reagan? We saw him, as the public man, on our television screens for twenty-eight years: t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PM“Where does the past exist,” asks O’Brien, “if at all?” “In records,” replies Winston Smith. He is tied to a chair. “It is written down.” “In records. And–?” “I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PMThere are two people on the stage in front of us – Leroy Grant (Jason Bowen) and Berta (the remarkable Bianca Laverne Jones), writhing in love and sorrow – but a third character hangs ov…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMTuesday, July 3, 2018
This week, The Hub Theatre welcomed Matt Bassett as successor to Helen Murray as Artistic Director, the company announced. Bassett, an actor, director, and former Helen Hayes judge, first jo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMFriday, June 29, 2018
DC Metro Theatre Arts Senior Reviewer Wendi Winters was one of the five people killed by a gunman in the offices of The Capital Gazette yesterday, DC Metro Theatre Arts reported today. Winte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMThursday, June 28, 2018
The American Shakespeare Center, a Staunton, Va.-based company dedicated to producing Shakespeare in the manner he might have been originally produced, has named longtime DC Shakespearian di…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMMonday, June 25, 2018
Five minutes into Flood City — clearly as part of that play’s idiosyncratic plot — Theater Alliance Artistic Director Colin Hovde interrupted proceedings to announce, among…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMWednesday, June 20, 2018
Adventure Theatre-MTC will reach into classic stories to create its five-show 2018-2019 season, the company announced. Included will be two world premiere musicals co-produced with outstandi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMMonday, June 18, 2018
The Capital Fringe Festival, DC’s annual theatrical adventure into the new, the innovative, the small, and the off-the-wall, is now open to the ticket-buying public. Here’s what …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMFriday, June 15, 2018
The singular genius of Hamilton, the greatest musical ever written, is that it recognizes that the American Revolution did not end with Yorktown, but is ongoing, even today, and that there a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PMThe Rainbow Theatre Project, dedicated to producing art which captures the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, will present a five-production sixth season which incl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PMWednesday, June 13, 2018
In The Tempest, the lordly Prospero, formerly known as the Duke of Milan, is marooned on a miserable island with his daughter as his only human company. He also has Caliban, a growling subhu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMFor its 11th season, Tyson’s 1st Stage will have a war story, a story about the aftermath of a war, a story about a tragic war fought in a high school, a story about a man returning fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMFriday, June 8, 2018
In Series, for many years under the leadership of its founder Carla Hübner, will begin its first season with Timothy Nelson as Artistic Director this September, mashing great composers up w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMWednesday, June 6, 2018
Forum Theatre, long noted in DC for its raw and politically provocative theatermaking, has elected to cease operations, effective immediately. “As we began preparing for Forum’s 15th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
You have heard this story before, but each time it comes at you in a different way, offering new anxieties and insights in equal measure. In Bluebeard, the beautiful young wife is given the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMMonday, May 21, 2018
“More matter and less art,” Queen Gertrude enjoined Polonius during one of his interminable dissertations. After watching Gabrielle Reisman’s Flood City, I feel ya, Your Ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:32PMWednesday, May 16, 2018
The seven shows hosted by the National Theatre next season will be either straight from New York or heading there. The Broadway at the National series opens with the world premiere of Beet…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMMonday, May 7, 2018
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre has devised a 2018-2019 season designed to set you up with prize-winning plays and classics, and then blow you away with acclaimed fresh works, including t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
It is 2011, and we are in a tattered 4th-floor walkup in Maspeth, Queens. The lights bathe a gigantic poster of Derek Jeter, a Hall-of-Fame quality shortstop who played for the New York Ya…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMMonday, April 30, 2018
Keegan’s 2018-2019 season will begin next September with a reprise — of John Strand’s Lincolnesque, which Keegan first ran in 2009. A young Congressional aide, desperate to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMMonday, April 23, 2018
A witch hunt, properly viewed and conducted, is a necessary part of society’s advancement — if we understand “witch” to be some part of the invisible universe which c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMFriday, April 20, 2018
A Sondheim, a couple of Broadway hits, a couple of brand spankin’ new shows, and a boatload of cabarets. Signature Theatre’s 2018-2019 follows the familiar contours of recent sea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48PMThursday, April 19, 2018
You’ve binge-watched “Breaking Bad,” “Orange is the New Black,” and “House of Cards.” So why not binge-watch the reign of England’s King Henry…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMTuesday, April 17, 2018
Hah! Did you think that the Kennedy Center forgot about you just because you are, like, eight years old? No way. The enormous theatrical machine that is the Kennedy Center will turn out seve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PM 
