Tuesday, 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 01:54PMThe Book of Will, in which surviving members of the acting troupe The King’s Men decide to put Shakespeare’s First Folio together, has won the $25,000 Steinberg Award for playwri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMMonday, April 16, 2018
In the morning we go down, you and I, to the bowels of the Washington Metro Transit system and there jostle and sway, with hundreds of strangers, in metal rectangular boxes through tubes dri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMMaria Manuela Goyanes will take over as Woolly Mammoth’s new Artistic Director next season, and her first season itself will be full of familiar Woolly friends — Branden Jacobs-J…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMThursday, April 12, 2018
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will be serving a nine-course meal next season, with six musicals and three non-musicals occupying the five principal venues of the place f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:34PMMonday, April 9, 2018
Murder. The conquest of France. Learning to become an actor. And food. Lots and lots of food. Gut-busting portions of foods; enough to last a decade. What could be better subjects for a litt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:00AMMonday, April 2, 2018
Mosaic Theater Company’s fourth season will bring iconic figures from our past — Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Donny Hathaway, the great R&B and Gospel singer Rosetta…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16AMSunday, April 1, 2018
MEMO TO SELF DATE: March 31, 2018 RE: DCTS April Fools Story All right, dammit, think! It’s two hours from April Fools, and you have…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMFriday, March 30, 2018
Theater J will be all around town during the 2018-2019 theater season, as the Edlavitch DCJCC makes significant renovations to its digs on 16th Street. While the Jewish Cultural Center will …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53AMThursday, March 29, 2018
Timothy Nelson, who spent ten years as the Artistic Director of the American Opera Theater in Baltimore, will return to the area after the conclusion of this season to take over the reins of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:23AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
A play written at the dawn of the 17th century and one written at the dawn of the 21st will bookend the second full season for Silver Spring’s 4615 Theatre, the company announced Sunda…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
You know this girl, this woman, this ghost. You met her in Galway, or in a small town in the Slieve Mish Mountains in County Kerry, or in Peoria — or in Bowie, or in Rwanda, or any pla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:59AMTuesday, March 20, 2018
Bethesda’s Round House Theatre will kick off its 41st Season with a $14-million capital campaign — designed to raise money to improve both the company’s physical plant and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMThursday, March 15, 2018
The first post-Kwame Kwei-Armah season at Baltimore Center Stage will feature the classics: established, new and aspiring. It will start off with one of the most celebrated plays in the Amer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PMWednesday, March 14, 2018
The Contemporary American Theater Festival’s annual 3-week July celebration will feature five world premieres and a recent work by “This is Us” producer and screenwriter Be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMMonday, March 12, 2018
What do you think of this script for a possible Merchant/Ivory film? Fade in on Melissa, a young, very three-dimensional woman, sitting on a lounge chair in her underwear. Tina, her faithful…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMFriday, March 9, 2018
NextStop Theatre Company has offered professional theater to Herndon, VA and environs for five years, but for years before that the theater’s venue was home to one of the best communit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:10AMThursday, March 8, 2018
Maria Manuela Goyanes, The Public Theater’s Director of Producing and Artistic Planning, will be the new Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theater, the company announced today. Goyanes, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:45PMThere will be a whole lotta theater going on at Olney Theatre Center next season. In addition to its nine-production subscription series, Artistic Director Jason Loewith and his crew will we…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
Synetic Theater has dialed up its customary quota of Silent Shakespeare productions for its 2018-2019 season, but the new theatrical year will also mark another production for Synetic Family…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AMWednesday, February 28, 2018
For 2018-2019, Ford’s Theatre has opted for a season of magic and optimism in which the corrupt are smited, the stingy are enlightened, wrongs are righted and children are delighted. The s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:50PMA fantasy about a high school teacher who becomes a Presidential double and then the de facto President when the real President suffers from a scandalous illness will open a season for Arena…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMWhat becomes a legend most? For the Shakespeare Theatre Company, celebrating the final year of its artistic director since 1986, Michael Kahn, it will be this: two Shakespeare plays, a new a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AMMonday, February 26, 2018
Callie Kimball is an actor and playwright who graced DC stages for several years before moving to New York City. Rep Stage will be producing the world premiere of her new play, Things that a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:23AMFriday, February 23, 2018
Are you ready to be old? By that I mean are you ready to sell your home, where you’ve lived for fifty years and raised your family, and go…elsewhere? To lay aside your lifetime f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AMMonday, February 19, 2018
In 1919, Eugene O’Neill wrote a play called Exorcism. It is about shame. It is set in 1912, and in it the protagonist confesses to his boozy friend that he committed adultery with a pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PMWednesday, February 14, 2018
It would be an odd experience, watching Heather Raffo’s Noura on a double bill with Danai Gurira’s fine Familiar. I almost did that, bookending the weekend with the two shows abo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMFriday, February 9, 2018
If the shade of Lyndon Johnson permitted himself a small smile last night, who could blame him? The irony of having the Washington opening of the second of Robert Schenkkan’s two-play …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:14AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
Forget everything you have assumed about Handbagged, Moira Buffini’s marvelous play about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It is different, and better, than tha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:41AMFriday, February 2, 2018
Ten years. Eighty-two productions — two hundred thirty-eight, if you count each short production separately. An Osborne Award. A Steinberg honor. Over fifteen hundred artists — a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Overlong and undercooked, Highwood Theatre’s The Dog Must Die puts the stop in dystopia. This tale of a society in which something has gone terribly, terribly wrong begins promisingly …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:01AM 
