Friday, March 25, 2016
Rep Stage will present a four-production season of stories about strange things, but doubtlessly none will be stranger than the story of Dorian’s Closet, a musical about the life of fa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AMThursday, March 24, 2016
Signature Theatre will bookend next year’s season with musicals about Jelly Roll Morton and Jesus Christ, and will also feature five brand spanking-new plays, the company announced ye…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMWednesday, March 23, 2016
The Tony-winning Shakespeare Theatre Company will present a “future history” fresh from Broadway, a musical, a new adaptation by the delightfully eccentric Elevator Repair Servic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMMonday, March 21, 2016
Constellation Theatre Company will celebrate its tenth anniversary season with a wildly successful contemporary musical, a children’s story set on stage and Mary Zimmerman’s rean…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMOlney Theatre Center will continue its three-tier approach to programming next season by producing nine full-run plays at Olney, co-producing Tony Kushner’s two-play cycle Angels in A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMSaturday, March 19, 2016
A con man, sharp tongues, dizzying heights, the afterlife and peeing will make up an unusually adventuresome season of theater at Herndon’s NextStop, the company has announced. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:39AMThursday, March 17, 2016
Round House Theatre will co-produce both parts of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America with Olney Theatre this fall, Round House announced yesterday. The joint production will kick off a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:34PMUnexpected Stage Company, operating out of the Randolph Road Theatre in Wheaton, MD, will offer a two-production slate for 2016 which will literally encompass life and death. From July 14 t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Arena Stage’s ten-production 2016-2017 season will feature theatrical presentations of true events (including a new play by local playwright Jacqueline Lawton), as well as a two-play L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMSweat, Lynn Nottage’s meditation on the deteriorating American working class wrapped in a who-done-it, heads up a list of six finalists for the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMMonday, March 14, 2016
Holly Twyford will reach another milestone in her notable career as a Washington actor when she tackles the role of Martha in Edward Albee’s masterpiece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AMFriday, March 11, 2016
The 2016-2017 Kennedy Center’s theatre season promises to be a farrago of familiar classics, ambitious new works — from Broadway and everywhere else — productions staged b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AM Synetic Theater, Washington’s revolutionary movement-based theater company, has announced a schedule of all-movement shows for 2016/17 in which there will be no dialogue. At al…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AMThursday, March 10, 2016
Chaos, confusion, mystery and excitement will reign supreme in the 2016-2017 season which Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company announced yesterday, including Clare Barron’s controversial Bab…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:20AMMonday, February 15, 2016
The connection between our recent confirmation of Einstein’s theory of gravitational waves and St. Valentine’s Day may not be immediately apparent, but they are both covered by t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:12PMMonday, January 18, 2016
Will Eno’s Middletown, now at Herndon’s NextStop Theatre, is what Our Town would have been if Thornton Wilder had made his characters hopeless, heartbreakingly lonely and a littl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMWednesday, January 13, 2016
The critic Sneer (Robert Dorfman) is an argumentative, dyspeptic man with a heart of rubble, who is never more happy than when he is in distress and telling you about it. His colleague Dangl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMMonday, December 28, 2015
I’m retired now as a critic and when I see a play it is generally as a civilian. In days of old, I might see upwards of a hundred fifty plays a year, and the experience was as commonpl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:34PMFriday, December 11, 2015
When Salomé, having won her era’s version of Dancing with the Stars, selected as her prize an all-expenses trip to the afterlife for poor John the Baptist, was she engaged in a crimin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMMonday, December 7, 2015
George is dead, the victim of an exceptionally bad day on the intermediate slope at Vail, so his widow Doreen (Kerri Rambow), a wonderfully self-absorbed rich person, needs to make this some…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
We think of ourselves as a forward-looking people, but our holidays are all firmly rooted in the past — specifically, in the sepia-tinted days of our early youth, when the air was cold…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Harvey, a great classic of the American theater (it won the Pulitzer in 1944, beating out The Glass Menagerie) now at 1st Stage in McLean, is a story in which the hero, Elwood P. Dowd (Jonat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMWednesday, October 21, 2015
In 2001, using a massive federal grant, the City of Washington decided to turn the Arthur Capper/ Carrollsburg Housing Project into a mixed-income community, displacing the 707 families with…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
“What’s in a name?” Juliet asks as she contemplates life with a Montague. But if the name is “Naked Girls Reading,” which is five women who are exactly that, al…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:39PMMonday, October 12, 2015
Brothers and sisters, if you are a fan of the Good Old Ultra Violence — and I know not everyone is — Bug is the place you should be. SeeNoSun Onstage gives this delightfully deme…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:15PMThe measure of a mature culture is not that it celebrates success, but that it accepts failure and moves on. Thus the great thing about the Women’s Voices Theater Festival is not that …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMTuesday, September 15, 2015
David S. Kessler, an avid, area-wide theatergoer who this year broke through the other side of the stage by writing, producing and performing Wombat Drool at Capital Fringe, is the recipient…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMThursday, August 27, 2015
The Smithsonian invited DC Theatre Scene to present the next season to their audience, and as part of that presentation, DCTS Senior Writer Tim Treanor talked about shows he particularly ant…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
On August 20th, DC Theatre Scene spoke at the Smithsonian Museum’s Ripley Center. Senior writer Tim Treanor talked about some of the shows he was looking forward to next season. Below …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
This is part 3 of our See More and Save series taken from material presented August 20th at the Smithsonian Museum’s S. Dillon Ripley Center. What? You’re back? So nice of you! You c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AMMonday, August 24, 2015
On August 20th, a panel of DC Theatre Scene writers presented a preview of the 2015-2016 theatre season at the Smithonian Museum’s S. Dillon Ripley Center. Tim Treanor was one of the p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PM 
