Monday, 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 11:33AMSunday, July 16, 2017
Four hundred years ago, William Shakespeare wrote a play about a King four hundred years before him, and thus in King John we are thrust into a barely imaginable past, before the invention o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMThursday, July 13, 2017
There are surprisingly few one-actor musicals. Even rarer: solo musicals where the protagonist juggles razor-sharp daggers. Make your one-actor, dagger-juggling musical about a lesbian circu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
This year the Contemporary American Theater Festival, like the nation itself, has given itself over to political conflict. Whether we are in the classroom, or a Nazi interrogation chamber, o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Wild Horses is the story of a thirteen-year-old girl making bad choices, in the company of her close friends, who also make bad choices, and of their bad-choice-making associates. She has ba…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PMAt the end of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the Judge offers the heroic John Proctor a deal. Confess to witchcraft, he says, and we will spare your life. More than that: you will go free. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMEleanor Burgess’ play could, with justice, be called Oleanna — The Next Generation. Like the Mamet play, this is the story of a student and her professor. Like Oleanna‘s Ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
So tell me what’s better: living in the love, support, and strength of a community at the cost of your independence, or living a life that’s free and lonely? “Living with other people …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMTuesday, June 20, 2017
Screens shaped like shards of broken glass splay the Theater J stage. Upon them the company, in collaboration with the Holocaust Museum, has projected photographs and home movies taken in Ge…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMMonday, June 19, 2017
“I can call spirits from the vasty deep,” brags the Welsh mystic Owen Glendower, in Henry IV, Part 1. “Why, so can I, or so can any man,” retorts Hotspur. “But …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMFriday, June 16, 2017
GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 42nd season will feature four mainstage plays, including two world premieres, as well as films, dance, and a weekend of solo shows. GALA will open its season wi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThursday, June 15, 2017
Folger Theatres’ 2017-18 season, announced yesterday morning, will be full of plays by the usual gang: Shakespeare, Congreve, Shaw. But not everything will seem familiar. The theater t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
The Source Festival’s tenth birthday party is a subdued one, and this year’s lineup is but a shadow of Sources gone by. While we usually see three debuting full length plays, the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Some plays are compelling because their dilemmas are so universal they provoke the shock of recognition in all of us. Disgraced is like that. Other plays are compelling because, though the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:36PMAmong all the fraught issues which torment the tortured search for peace in the Middle East, none spark a greater intransigence on the part of the State of Israel than the Right of Return &#…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMTuesday, May 30, 2017
Is it possible to learn something new from a 400-year-old play? Yes, if the play is rich in insight and wisdom; if the production is attentive to detail and willing to take risks; and if the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMThursday, May 18, 2017
There are thirty-five characters in Scena Theatre’s production of Fear Eats the Soul, and thirteen actors to play them, but as it is a love story it is really only about two people. On…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMWednesday, May 17, 2017
Behold the King. He is standing in front of a boiling, roiling thunderstorm (“Blow, wind! And crack your cheeks!”), beard laced with iron, wild hair crowned with an even wilder l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMTuesday, May 16, 2017
It was a brave man who first et an oyster, Jonathan Swift once wrote. Maybe so, but not nearly as brave as someone who seeks to stage Timon of Athens, which could otherwise be known as ̶…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:18PMMonday, May 15, 2017
“People like us, who believe in physics,” Albert Einstein once said, “know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThursday, May 11, 2017
It’s a wonder that we Irish haven’t gone extinct from all our slow courting. Beyond President Kennedy, there are no Irish Casanovas, and there are certainly none in John Patrick …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMThursday, May 4, 2017
Compass Rose Theater, from their intimate Annapolis, MD space, will be offering a 2017-2018 season which will examine large issues, historical turning points, and the yearning of people for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:02PMImagination Stage will fill the minds of its young audiences in 2017-2018 with the classics — some of them with a twist — but will start its season with a fresh play about a youn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:02PMMonday, May 1, 2017
So what’s going on at the Kennedy Center for the next Theatre* season? Everything. The freshest Broadway plays. One-day musical tributes. Theater in Dutch. And Norwegian. Hot director…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:31AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Hub Theatre’s 2017-2018 season will offer a new production of a play familiar to Hub audiences, a brand spanking new play written by an area playwright, and another brand new play writ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Having remodeled its physical plant, created a small black box playing space, and renamed itself, Baltimore Center Stage has picked a 2017-2018 season designed to shake up its audience’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMThursday, April 20, 2017
Chesapeake Shakespeare Theatre’s six-play 2017-2018 season will feature a production of Red Velvet, the story of an extraordinary production of Othello, within a schedule of three well…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Is it sacrilegious to suggest that Easter was a good day to see The Magic Play, since the story of Easter, if true, is the greatest magic act in human history? I here use magic in its broade…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMMonday, April 17, 2017
You would expect a company which derives its name from a speech in Henry V to do a good job with the play itself, and by and large We Happy Few acquits itself well. But there are shortcoming…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMTuesday, April 11, 2017
Lynn Nottage’s Sweat, a mystery play set in an economically deteriorating small town, has won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Pulitzer Committee announced yesterday. Sweat, whic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMQui Nguyen’s (Living Dead in Denmark) Steinberg Award-winning play Vietgone will highlight Studio Theatre’s 2017-2018, according to a partial season schedule released by the comp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AM 
