Qui 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 08:02AMMichael Cristofer, who wrote the libretto for the opera Champion, seen at Washington National Opera earlier this year, mined the same territory to write Man in the Ring, which debuted in Chi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMHerndon, VA’s NextStop Theatre Company will be presenting musicals, serious drama, and seriously dramatic musicals for its 2017-2018 season. NextStop starts its season earlier than mos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMThis early Athol Fugard play lacks the laser-like focus of his best work, but it packs a powerful punch and stubbornly refuses to do the expected, and at Mosaic Theater, they’re playin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMBroadway past and future is on the agenda for National Theatre during the 2017-2018 theater season — plus, for an extra fee, a ticket to Hamilton at the Kennedy Center. The historic do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31AMLove, fear and the Almighty will run through Signature Theatre’s 2017-2018 season, according to a schedule jointly announced by Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and Managing Director M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMHoward County’s Rep Stage, which is presenting an adventuresome collection of plays this season, will be going old-school in 2017-2018 for its 25th anniversary, with three classics an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMDown with sick people! How annoying they are! When we want them to do something, they instead give us their excuses, their rheums and complaints, and what’s more, they present depressi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMMosaic Theater of DC’s 2017-2018 season will consist of eight plays, including two world premieres, the company’s first musical, the company’s second musical, a special thr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company, already notable for the socially and politically outspoken theater it brings to the Washington Stage, is kicking it up a notch with a sextet of hot-button pla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMAgainst a backdrop of rising tribalism in the Western World, Theater J has selected a 2017-2018 season which explores the consequences of ascendant hate, particularly during the period of i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMThe imminent shutdown of the National Endowment for the Arts, promised in President Trump’s 2017-2018 budget, will result in fewer and smaller new plays, bring an end to cultural excha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMOn the 24th of March, 1962, welterweight champion Benny Paret called former champ Emile Griffith a maricón at their weigh-in. The closest contemporary American-English equivalent to this wo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AM“Blessed is he who expects nothing,” Alexander Pope once wrote, “for he shall never be disappointed” but Pope was wrong, for you can have little and expect less, like…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMSo we know the what of history — Truman over Dewey, say, or U.S. and England over Germany, Italy and Japan in World War II — but do we know what history smells like? Knowing the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMBethesda’s Round House Theatre has staked its claim as the area’s premiere space for new stuff in the 2017-2018 season. That season — Round House’s 40th — will …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AMOlney Theatre’s 2017-2018 season will include early works by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ayad Akhtar, co-productions with Round House and Everyman theaters, and a return of the Hypocrites i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMSynetic Theater, a DC area company known nationwide for its movement-based productions, will be taking a two-toned approach to its 2017-2018 season. The 2017 portion will be full of light-da…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32AMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company, already notable for the socially and politically outspoken theater it brings to the Washington Stage, is kicking it up a notch with a sextet of hot-button pla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24AMArena Stage will bookend its next season with two plays by John Strand: a reprise of his play about the late Antonin Scalia, The Originalist, and a new musical about a couple struggling to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMOn the 24th of March, 1962, welterweight champion Benny Paret called former champ Emile Griffith a maricón at their weigh-in. The closest contemporary American-English equivalent to this wo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AM“We are at Church; the Minister (William T. Newman, Jr.) is about to preach the Gospel of Oedipus at Colonus, in the final years of his star-crossed life. He is a human tank of a m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMCraig Wallace, who smashed icons as an African-American Ebenezer Scrooge in Ford Theatre’s A Christmas Carol this season, will not only reprise that role next November but help…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMImagine a small boy in the bleak world of 19th-century England. His parents are dead; he is in the custody of his older sister, a harridan who is prone to gusts of even more extreme anger an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMFirst to announce a look at their 2017-2018 season is Shakespeare Theatre Company which will open with two minimalist one-act plays by Harold Pinter and bookend them with the grand musical …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMMichael Kahn, the Artistic Director, director and teacher whose work has dominated the theatrical landscape in Washington for thirty years and has had a national impact, will retire as Artis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36AMIt is a bold writer who writes a history of the future. It is a bold writer who bathes his play in high Shakespearean language, replete with iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets. For doing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:02PMIt looks like a love story — a Heathcliff-and-Catherine love story, where the passion is so profound and misshapen that it obliterates the boundaries of everyday reality. But it isn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMJean-Paul Sartre said that Hell is other people, but in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? we look to ourselves to find Hell, horrifying and intimate. George and Martha (Gregory Linington…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AMYes, yes, I know; the family that slays together stays together. But why is it that of all the astonishing plays in Will Shakespeare’s oeuvre, it is this story of a homicidal Scottish …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMLes Liaisons Dangereuses is like any play by Oscar Wilde, except when it isn’t. Wilde punctured the piety and pomposity of 19th-century England, to show us the underbelly of lust and g…
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