Wednesday, July 23, 2014
On days when I’m seeing a Fringe show, I generally put my button on when I get dressed in the morning and leave it on all day. It’s more convenient that way. Yesterday I was riding the M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:58AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Gidion’s Knot is a story of irredeemable grief. It is a story about the fragility of childhood, and whether it is the duty of parents to protect their children or to let them flower. It is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:30PMMonday, July 21, 2014
Since the entertainers who make up The Capital City Showcase change from production to production, the only useful thing a review can do is address broad themes. The broad themes to The Capi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AMFriday, July 18, 2014
I know what you’re thinking, brothers and sisters. “If everybody f*cking dies, why is he writing this f*cking review? They’re all dead!” I have a single-word answer for you, my frien…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMWednesday, July 16, 2014
We know so little about the remarkable Restoration-era novelist/playwright/spy Aphra Behn (1640?-1689) that her life can serve as a tabula rosa upon which other artists project their own ide…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:52PMMonday, July 14, 2014
This video is pretty disturbing. But if you’re unfamiliar with the Rodney King story, you should probably watch it. In 1991, after being pulled over for reckless driving and x-treme speedi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:45PM“I am your spaniel,” Helen averred in Midsummer Night’s Dream, “and, Demetrius,//The more you beat me, I will fawn on you// Use me but as your spaniel, spurn me, strike me,//Neglect …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMHere, let me tell you what I saw on opening night. It won’t spoil it for you, since each rendition of Persephone will tell a different story, with a different artist in control*. So as I g…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:29AMSunday, July 13, 2014
There is a clever idea behind The Matty Matthews Foundation. But as Mies van der Rohe said, God is in the details, and playwright John McGrath and his cast will need a couple of come-to-Jesu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26PMSaturday, July 12, 2014
Okay, this show is better than it sounds. Four pathetic misfits – the squeaky-voiced Jerry Lipkin (Brandon Howell), the odiferous misogynist Spider Chavez (Ruben Rosthenhausler), the effet…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMFriday, July 11, 2014
The bass player’s hands are wracked with eczema. The lead singer belongs to a religion apparently designed for fourth-graders, and the guitarist wears a ridiculous moustache. And the drumm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:19AMFriday, June 20, 2014
We are two hundred years or more in the past, in the hold of a slave ship during the Middle Passage. An African man (Rashard Harrison), bound for slavery, slips his bonds and tiptoes quietly…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMWe generally do not grade art on the curve, but if anyone ever deserved it, the two artists who staged this artistic blind date do. Nineteen hours before We Forget, We Never Forget was about…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMMonday, June 16, 2014
“Every word,” Samuel Beckett once wrote, “is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” In Beckett’s Happy Days, Winnie (Nancy Robinette) proceeds at a rate of about si…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMSunday, June 15, 2014
Before we begin, let’s establish a few things. First, you and I are very dignified people. We are teachers or physicians or actors or homemakers or practitioners of some other honorable …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29PMBy the window, Swedian Lie folds paper cranes. Facing him, Raymond Wellacher shuffles a deck of cards. There are three chalk outlines on the floor and Meredith Bove is walking them, slowly, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04PMFriday, June 13, 2014
The family members of Tracy Letts’ Killer Joe are just like the Westons of August: Osage County would be if the Westons weren’t so sweet and cuddly and loving. Chris (Matthew Marcus) owe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AMThursday, June 12, 2014
“Some men seek immortality through their work,” Woody Allen once explained. “Some men seek immortality through their posterity. I seek immortality through…not dying.” I feel ya, Wo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PMIn 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter what sort of memorial he wanted. “I should like it to consist of a block about the size of this,” he…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMSaturday, May 24, 2014
Have we duly noted our collective obsession with the conclusion of things? Freud’s Last Session. Krapp’s Last Tape. The Last Days of Pompeii. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. The Last Hu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Plays by or about Jesus Christ, St. Thomas More, Johannes Gutenberg, Nora Ephron and a talking dog characterize NextStop’s 2014-2015 season, but first, the young Herndon, Virginia company …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:10AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
The 2014-2015 Theater J season will feature new plays by Helen-Hayes-award winning playwrights Aaron Posner, Renee Calarco and Tanya Barfield along with the work from some of the most celebr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07AMThe great Northern Irish golf pro Rory McIlroy, who drove a golf ball forty yards at the age of two and thereafter slept with a golf club, fingers interlaced so that he could memorize the pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:41AMSaturday, May 17, 2014
The happy news that comes out of Pallas Theatre Collective’s amiable if uneven production of She Stoops to Conquer is that they prove they can do Restoration Comedy – explosive dialogue,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Let’s get to the bottom line first. I am not in love with Rep Stage’s production of this classic musical, and it is almost entirely the fault of Paul Edward Hope in the crucial role of E…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51AMMonday, April 28, 2014
I wish I could like this story, a lighthearted tale of three sisters dying young in Chicago ninety or so years ago, more than I do. The Hub Theatre presents it briskly and stages it imaginat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AMThursday, April 24, 2014
Folger Shakespeare Theatre’s 2014-2015 will focus on the political and the historical, the company announced yesterday, including a production of Friedrich Schiller’s Mary Stuart which w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Constellation Theatre, which has built its reputation on authentic stagings of classical plays, announced that its three-play 2014-2015 season will consist of two relatively modern plays and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54AMMonday, April 21, 2014
The central dilemma of this play is that one of the Gentlemen of Verona, Proteus (Noah Brody) is no gentleman. Instead, he is a cad who seduces and abandons Julia (Jessie Austrian), betrays …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:11PMMuch Ado About Nothing, a riotous play which features the scathing wordplay of the world’s most famous love-hate relationship, Beatrice and Benedick, scored an upset victory over the legen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
There is a good story within Moth’s eighty minutes, and director Tom Story and his two-actor cast tell it in bold, powerful strokes. It is a story of compassion, bullying, and betrayal, an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:38PM 
