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Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Studio Theatre announces 5 of the 7 plays from its upcoming season by Tim Treanor

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 08:02AM
Monday, April 10, 2017

“Champion” Librettist Wins $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA Award for play about boxer Emile Griffith by Tim Treanor

Michael 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 08:06AM
Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Next season at NextStop Theatre, mostly musicals with dramas by Akhtar and Miller by Tim Treanor

Herndon, 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 11:42AM
Monday, April 3, 2017

Blood Knot, directed by Joy Zinoman, at Mosaic Theater (review) by Tim Treanor

This 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 11:12AM
Saturday, April 1, 2017

The National Theatre announces its 2017-2018 season by Tim Treanor

Broadway 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 09:31AM
Friday, March 31, 2017

Signature’s 2017-2018 Season: Love, Fear and God by Tim Treanor

Love, 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 10:54AM
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Rep Stage turns to the classics for its 25th season by Tim Treanor

Howard 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 11:42AM

Lisa Kron’s Well at 1st Stage (review) by Tim Treanor

Down 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 08:18AM
Monday, March 27, 2017

Mosaic Theater of DC adds musicals next season by Tim Treanor

Mosaic 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 02:12PM

Woolly amps up the politics next season by Tim Treanor

Woolly 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 12:03PM

Theater J’s next season takes a deep look at love in the time of hate by Tim Treanor

Against 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 09:48AM
Thursday, March 23, 2017

NEA shutdown? We learned its impact on theatre in the DC area by Tim Treanor

The 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 12:06PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

What Cristofer’s Champion leaves out from Emile Griffith’s deadly seven seconds in the ring by Tim Treanor

On 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
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Conor McPherson’s Night Alive at Scena Theatre (review) by Tim Treanor

“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 04:24PM
Monday, March 20, 2017

Mnemonic takes a dramatic journey to discover our shared origin (review) by Tim Treanor

So 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 12:36PM
Friday, March 17, 2017

Round House turns 40 with a season that embraces the new by Tim Treanor

Bethesda’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 08:02AM
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Olney’s colossal, immense, really, really big 80th season’s coming up by Tim Treanor

Olney 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 11:54AM

Next season, Synetic gets kid-friendly in 2017. 2018 Will Be a Different Story by Tim Treanor

Synetic 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 06:32AM
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Woolly amps up the politics next season by Tim Treanor

Woolly 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 07:24AM
Monday, March 6, 2017

Stories of Scalia, Simone and Lyndon Johnson in Arena Stages next season by Tim Treanor

Arena 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 12:24PM

What Christofer’s Champion leaves out from Emile Griffith’s deadly seven seconds in the ring by Tim Treanor

On 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
Friday, March 3, 2017

The Gospel at Colonus, a hymn to the human experience (review) by Tim Treanor

  “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 12:06PM
Monday, February 27, 2017

Wallace opens Ford’s Theatre’s next season playing Willy Loman by Tim Treanor

  Craig 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 09:06AM
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Great Expectations at Everyman Theatre (review) by Tim Treanor

Imagine 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 09:54AM
Friday, February 17, 2017

Shakespeare Theatre Company to present Pinter, Beckett, a Musical and a whole lotta Shakespeare next season by Tim Treanor

First 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 01:24PM
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Michael Kahn stepping down from Shakespeare Theatre Company in 2019 by Tim Treanor

Michael 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 12:36AM
Monday, February 13, 2017

King Charles III at Shakespeare Theatre Company (review) by Tim Treanor

It 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 06:02PM
Monday, February 6, 2017

The River at Spooky Action (review) by Tim Treanor

It 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 12:24PM
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Holly Twyford leads a powerful cast in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf at Ford’s Theatre (review) by Tim Treanor

Jean-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 09:33AM
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Mack, Beth at Keegan Theatre (review) by Tim Treanor

Yes, 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 11:24AM
Monday, December 12, 2016

Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Center Stage (review) by Tim Treanor

Les 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…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AM

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