Tuesday, 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 11:01AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
OK, so you’re Eric, a cop, played by Noah Schaefer, and you’re in charge of the highest-stakes stakeout of the year — the one which will get you off your desk duty and into…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
Be honest with me: when you saw Michael Urie in his one-actor show, Buyer and Cellar, about working in Barbara Streisand’s basement, did you think “Hey, that guy should play Haml…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMWednesday, January 17, 2018
Baltimore’s Hippodrome, which specializes in brief visits by touring Broadway hits and classics, will offer a 9-production 2018-2019 season anchored by a June, 2019 visit from Hamilton…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMMonday, January 15, 2018
I have the answer to the question you all are dying to ask about NextStop’s new play — “how did it treat Millard Fillmore?” — but before we get to that let̵…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMFriday, January 12, 2018
“Home is the place where, when you go there,” Robert Frost wrote, “they have to let you in.” And so it is for the hapless Blake family, strivers and dreamers like all…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:17PMSunday, December 31, 2017
Hub Theatre Artistic Director Helen R. Murray (formerly Helen Pafumi) will be leaving the company she helped found to take the helm of the Aurora Fox Arts Center in Aurora, Colorado in July,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
Has this ever happened to you? You’ve just washed up on some beach, are nursed back to health by your new best friend, and you decide to take a look around. Suddenly, two hoodlums atta…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMFriday, December 8, 2017
Macy’s in New York now allows kids to sit on the laps of its Santas by appointment only. But David Sedaris remembers the good old days, when kids were kids and men were — well, m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMMonday, December 4, 2017
Rich, roiling, profound and profane, Conor McPherson’s St. Nicholas is A Christmas Carol turned inside out. Whereas Ebenezer Scrooge had his blighted stinginess scoured through a visio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMWednesday, November 22, 2017
The Ethan McSweeny-helmed Twelfth Night currently at Shakespeare Theatre’s Harman Hall is the darkest, most melancholy production of a Shakespearean comedy I have ever seen. You too, I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMMonday, November 20, 2017
The business of an artist is not much different than the business of a baseball umpire, though his field of vision is bigger. The artist must see the world, and then call it as he sees it. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMTuesday, October 31, 2017
The Paul Selig play that Edge of the Universe Players 2 is now performing in the Woolly Mammoth rehearsal space could, with justice, be called Five Interesting Women, Some of Whom Have Issue…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMMonday, October 30, 2017
The real trial of the 20th century did not involve some imbecile driving a Bronco in a low-speed chase. Instead, it happened nearly a hundred years ago. In it, the greatest trial lawyer in A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:18PMAuthor’s note: The following is an account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, the real-life inspiration for Inherit the Wind. If you are unfamiliar with either the trial or the play, I reco…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:18PMA political rival once said of the famed French foreign minister, Talleyrand, that he “would sell his soul for money and he would be right, for he would be exchanging dung for gold.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMThursday, October 12, 2017
In 1939, the S.S. St. Louis set sail from Hamburg for Cuba with 937 passenger, most of them German Jews hoping to begin new lives away from the Nazis. Their hopes were based on a Cuban law w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMFriday, September 29, 2017
There are hardly any travelling salesmen now, and yet we are almost all Willy Loman. We remember the home run we hit to win the big game in high school, when in fact we rode the bench at P.S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Nothing succeeds like excess, Oscar Wilde once wrote, and nowhere is that more true than in America. We are the land that invented competitive eating; when the Olympics finally welcomed prof…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Harrowing, chilling and profound, Lela and Co. is a story about the stories we tell ourselves in order to keep sane, or in order to protect the status quo, or in order to be polite — …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMWednesday, September 13, 2017
Duane Johnson, who sexually assaulted Tricia McCauley and then murdered her as she tried to fight him off, has entered a plea agreement under which he will serve thirty years in prison for f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMAn arsonist is an artist of obliteration; a wizard at turning matter to energy, and then dissipating the energy until it is nothing. Where before the arsonist came there was a home, a painti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMTuesday, August 29, 2017
The Quotidian Theatre way-back machine will be in full operation this season, as the company’s four-play season starts in the present (or near-present) and catapults us back in time, l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMFriday, August 18, 2017
Shakespeare is our North Star because every time we do one of his great plays, it is an opportunity to rethink our assumptions, as they define our present selves. I first saw Othello in 1969…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMTuesday, August 15, 2017
It will be time for the Women’s Voices Festival next January, but at Falls Church’s Creative Cauldron, every play in its 2017-2018 season will be an examination of the experience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMWednesday, August 9, 2017
WSC Avant Bard will bring some familiar names — in one case, in a whole new play — into its three-production 2017-2018 season. Lauren Gunderson (I and You) brings us the life and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Silver Spring’s Forum Theatre will produce four plays — one of them yet to be announced — in a season which features the human struggle against the crushing forces of conve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMTuesday, August 1, 2017
Anacostia’s Theater Alliance, which scored big earlier this past June with the debut Mollye Maxner’s devised play, Still Life With Rocket, will do itself one better this year, wi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMMonday, July 31, 2017
The 4615 Theatre Company has joined the ranks of full-time producing DC-area theaters this year with a four-production schedule balanced between classic and contemporary stories. The Silver …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Night Seasons is forty years in the history of the unpleasant Weems family, reduced to two hours, more or less. Notwithstanding this compression, the two hours traffic of our stage seems lon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMMonday, July 17, 2017
When we are young we do not hide our naked souls from the Godlike scrutiny of our parents, so we do not lie about our thinking. We lie only about our acts. Since we are all sinners, our acts…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AM 
