Wednesday, 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 02:38PMFriday, April 11, 2014
Louisville was the home of Hunter S. Thompson, the Lord of gonzo journalism until he blew himself up in 2005. For Thompson, every story about the world was really a story about himself. Thom…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:35AMTuesday, April 8, 2014
Lauren Gunderson, whose I and You played at Olney Theatre Center to significant critical and audience success, has won the prestigious Steinberg/ATCA award for that play, the American Theatr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
It’s a little freaky, brothers and sisters, to see Stephen Spotswood’s Morning, Miranda only a few days after viewing Ann Randolph’s excellent Loveland in Arena. It is a rare thing to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AMTuesday, March 11, 2014
In July of 2010, Arena Stage announced a revolutionary idea: five promising young playwrights would receive a regular salary from the company, including health insurance, and access to compa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Most adults can dress themselves, and so when we hear these days that someone has been engaged as a dresser by a theater company we assume that his job is principally to assist cast members …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:20PMMonday, March 3, 2014
There is an astonishing turn of events toward the end of I and You, but let’s not talk about that. Let’s talk about Walt Whitman instead. Whitman was a revolutionary who overthrew poetry…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:19AMMonday, February 3, 2014
NextStop Theatre Company’s production Richard III is a rare instance where the operation is a failure, but the patient lives. Look, Shakespeare’s comedies and dramas offer a fertile fiel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
Next year, theatreWashington President Linda Levy promises, the Helen Hayes Awards will be bifurcated, with separate awards going to productions based on the number of Equity cast members. I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26AMMonday, January 27, 2014
We Americans have no creation myth (although sometimes we mythologize our creation) but Britain, having staggered forth fifteen hundred years before we did, does, and it is the legend of Art…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMMonday, January 13, 2014
When we were young, the search for a life partner was so organic a part of our lives that we barely understood what we were doing. We would study for geometry and fill out college applicatio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMMonday, January 6, 2014
“The best thing for the inside of a man,” Ronald Reagan once said, “is the outside of a horse.” In this odd, affecting early Sarah Ruhl play, the outside of a horse provides an odd, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:44AMMonday, December 23, 2013
Our Suburb is the decidedly nonfictional town of Skokie, Illinois, where playwright Darrah Cloud’s version of the Webbs and the Gibbs are the Majors, a relentlessly right-thinking gentile …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AM“Preach the Gospel,” St. Francis of Assisi is reputed to have said. “If necessary, use words.” There are plenty of words in Wasn’t that a Mighty Day?, now at the Anacostia Playhous…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:40AMMonday, December 16, 2013
The fine actor Matthew J. Keenan recontextualizes Dickens’ Christmas Carol in this play, and his company, Keegan Theatre, is producing it for the third consecutive year. Keenan, a native o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:17AMFriday, December 13, 2013
Just the Two of Each of Us is the story of King Mark the Only (Mark Chavez) and his wizard, Leopold (Shenoah Allen) who quest after immortality so that they can be really prepared when a mon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:38AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Oscar Hammerstein II’s minor accomplishment was that he was the greatest lyricist in the history of Broadway, the principal author of a half-dozen of the most revolutionary and seminal mus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:23PMMonday, November 18, 2013
On March 20, 1973, Charles Goodrich, handsome, arrogant and rich, told Katherine Stoddard – who had believed, to that point, that they were man and wife – that their marriage was a fraud…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMMonday, November 11, 2013
The man in the pig mask looks over the reservations for your name. He is having difficulties, and is not helped by the fact that he is in handcuffs. “Look harder,” says his mistress, who…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:03PMMonday, November 4, 2013
- a play written in rhyming couplets and so your reviewer rises to the challenge - If you teach a poet two hundred years’ dead, it’s not surprising that you could be led to a dalliance, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMIt is a bold company which reaches back to 1530 to launch its season, and a bolder company still to stage a play about making account to God in this relentlessly secular city and age. But th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AMSaturday, November 2, 2013
It is 1962, and we are in some terrible parallel universe. Nuclear destruction has unloosed itself on the world, and as a mother herds her three children into a fallout shelter, we hear the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMWednesday, October 16, 2013
A $25,000 donation by Ford’s Theatre Trustee Ronald O. Perelman has assured that the theater building will be open for the remainder of its planned run of The Laramie Project, notwithstand…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:10AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Steven Dietz’s Rancho Mirage could also, with justice, be called Dinner with Horrible People, but that title would lack the mytho-poetic cachet of the title actually chosen. So the prolifi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMWednesday, September 18, 2013
TheatreWashington, the nonprofit entity which conducts the Helen Hayes Awards, Washington’s annual celebration of theater excellence, last night announced that it would henceforth be givin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:17PMTuesday, September 3, 2013
Some people long for Hummels – the tiny porcelain figurines of children in lederhosen. Some people long for love. And some people long for love and Hummels, and they’ll be gathered at the North American Convention of the M.I. Hummel Club at Bally’s Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on September 7 to watch I […]The post From Fringe to Vegas: I < 3 Hummels performs at Bally’s appeared first on DC Theatre Scene.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMFriday, August 30, 2013
The first time Linda Elyse Bryce met Gary Maker, she was helping to run a program called “The Angels” for Shakespeare Theatre Company. The Angels recruited Shakespeare subscribers and do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AMLinda Elyse Bryce, a veteran supporter of multiple theaters in the Washington area, has won the 2013 Gary Lee Maker Audience Award, DC Theatre Scene’s award committee announced today. Bryc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:02AMMonday, August 12, 2013
Does it strike you as somehow – well, decadent – to have a sumptuous meal of shrimp, Caesar salad, chicken, pork and roast beef, topped with a generous ice cream sundae preparatory to wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:21PMFriday, July 26, 2013
It is an unpromising start. The title is a slur describing comfortable suburban white boys who pretend to be black. It is based on a much worse slur, an expression which white bigots used wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:23AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
“Anybody have a birthday today?” Sherry Berg, playing a Transylvanian from the Planet Transsexual, calls out. She is wearing an excellent black leather corset and fishnet stockings, and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AM 
