Monday, 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 12:07PMThursday, July 16, 2015
I grew up near Niagara Falls. Every month in the good weather, a couple of people will step over the guard rail, slip into the river and surrender to its astonishing power, to gravity and to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMThis is the most tentative assessment I’ve ever given a show, Fringe or otherwise. This is because the featured player in this production is…well, it’s you. And I have no i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Neda wants to die, and if this play had worked as I think it was intended, you might have wanted to die a little, too. Regrettably, Luigi Laraia’s earnest, plodding script has a surfei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PM“This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.” – T.S. Elliot, “The Hollow Men” Or, if you are Happenstance Theater, the DC area’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
The God of Heaven, by whatever name, is the Creator of the Universe, the Unmoved Mover, the Uncaused Cause, the Inventor of time and the Proclaimer of the laws of physics. We do not know for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:28AMMonday, July 13, 2015
About three-quarters of the way through this play, I realized that I was watching the theatrical equivalent of the 1930s horror movies I used to watch at 2 AM in the rec room when my parents…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMA Teutonic instructor (Andrea Schell) stares at her class, then barks out her instructions. You are not fat, she says. You are human beings. If you were fat you could not have picked up the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26AMLet me make a confession up front: this play is not my cup of tea. Inspired by passages from various Tennessee Williams plays, it seems to me to be alternatively over-dramatic and murky. I w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26AMSunday, July 12, 2015
Behold the wretch. He squats before you, sputtering and muttering, shaking his sweat-drenched, alcohol-infused head and slapping his thigh repeatedly. He sorts through his bag of garbage, oc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMThe Washington Post humor columnist Alexandria Petri has here written a play about the least funny subject imaginable: pedophiles. And is it funny? Yes, uproariously so. And is it heartbreak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
Brothers and sisters, if your plans for the 2015 Fringe Festival do not include Lathem Prince, change your plans. It’s that good. The New York City-based Hunger and Thirst Theatre Collecti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMFriday, July 10, 2015
Perhaps you’ve wondered what would happen if Monty Python produced Shakespeare’s The Life and Death of King John. Well, it probably would look a little bit like this production: fierce, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AM“We’re sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll,” Will Durst announces with a twisted little smile. “And…and maybe a little nap.” Durst is talking about h-h-h-his generation (and mine),…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMTuesday, June 23, 2015
Ten Years and Counting, DC Theatre Scene is Still Going Strong One June evening in 2005, a woman named Noelle Wilson walks into the Gunston Arts Center’s Theater II to watch a production o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:57PMWednesday, June 17, 2015
We are all actors, but none more so than our public representatives. It is one thing to invite the wind to blow and crack its cheeks, but quite another to introduce legislation which would a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMThursday, June 4, 2015
DC’s Source Festival of new plays will try to extend its two-year streak of award-winning plays when it opens Friday, June 5 at – this will surprise you – the Source Theatre, 1835 14…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51AMMonday, June 1, 2015
OK, let’s say you work for a member of Congress. (Maybe you do work for a member of Congress. It’s hard for me to tell from here. But if you don’t, just pretend.) You work ten hours a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:50AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Tim Treanor says that Mary Zimmerman's 'The Arabian Nights' is "now being given sweet and vigorous voice at Arena Stage".
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMNominations for the richest national prize for playwrights, the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, were announced today. One premiered at Washington's Source festival.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMHarry Connick, Jr. picked Michael J. Bobbitt to premiere his musical The Happy Elf; Stephen Schwartz okayed his original take on the Schwartz songbook with The Stephen Schwartz Project. Now …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMThe Kennedy Center announced yesterday that its 15 production 2011-2012 mainstage season will include the award-winning Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey with a new book by Terrence McNally,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMTuesday, May 12, 2015
So you run your lance full-bore at windmills, recruit a barber in your fight against the muleteers, believe a local prostitute to be your damsel of grace, and then fall into a coma. Should s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMFriday, April 24, 2015
When I was in law school I did some acting. I wasn’t very good but I was a big guy with a big voice and there’s always room for that in theater. Sometimes I got paid and sometimes I didn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:25PMMonday, April 13, 2015
Luna Gale, Rebecca Gilman’s tale about a social worker struggling to place a newborn who has methamphetamine-addicted parents and a grandmother who belongs to an apocalyptic cult, last nig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:56AMMonday, April 6, 2015
There is not much of a story to Lights Rise on Grace, but what there is is told beautifully, and with – it must be said – grace. It begins like Romeo and Juliet, (an observation a charac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMFriday, March 20, 2015
The business of judges is to understand and interpret statutes, and in order to do that they commonly try to uncover the intention of the legislature which passed that law. When your job, li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:31PMThursday, March 19, 2015
For the second year in a row, a play which debuted at DC’s Source Festival is in line for a playwriting award. Last year, Topher Payne’s Perfect Arrangement received the American Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AMThursday, March 12, 2015
What keeps you up at night, little brother? Is it that seemingly random tax audit notice you received in the mail yesterday? Perhaps your spouse has become distant, or else developed a disco…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:39AMMonday, March 2, 2015
At its best, Kid Victory is a secular high mass, both sacred and profane, with insight as sweet as its music, and music as sweet as honey from the Garden of Eden. And then, there are other t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMTuesday, February 17, 2015
I know what you’re thinking: is Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya just like Life Sucks, except with a bunch of Russian guys? Let me turn the question around for you: do you think that Uncle Va…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:57AM 
