Tuesday, 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 10:34AMSunday, July 14, 2013
Fireball XL is what Star Trek would have been like if the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise had been populated entirely by women, and also if Gene Roddenberry had been cheerfully insane. Back …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
The Sam Simon who write and performs The Actual Dance is not the famous Sam Simon – not the co-creator of The Simpsons and TV produceer who is now, with horrible irony, dying of cancer –…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Karl Marx said that history was a story told first as tragedy and then again as farce. Apples and Oranges is a tale told twice, too – both times as sit-coms. In one version, Dana and Rex (…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30AMTuesday, July 2, 2013
Lumina Studio’s Artistic Director David Minton, on Sunday, called a Lumina report that a Lumina spokesperson had given DC Theatre Scene “strictly internal and used to generate new ideas�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:59AMThe principal lesson of Adventure Theatre’s curiously inert and un-Adventuresome production of the Dr. Seuss classic appears to be watch out for mom, since the shenanigans our laid-back Ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AMMonday, July 1, 2013
“What will happen then to the objects, including possible spaceships, that [fall] into [a] black hole?” Stephen Hawking once asked. “According to some recent work of mine, the answer i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:20PMSaturday, June 29, 2013
DC Theatre Scene has learned that Lumina Studio Theatre, the Montgomery County Company known principally for its classical productions or classical mash-ups using casts composed primarily of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:15AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Mark Rhea was rehearsing an emotional moment in Rabbit Hole – a difficult, heartbreaking play and next on the Keegan agenda – with his real-life wife, Susan. “It was this high-tension …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AMSaturday, June 15, 2013
Hold on, Millie Martindale (Raven Bonniwell)! You got some ‘splainin’ to do. You’ve just tried to break a date with your husband’s boss’ awful wife Kitty Sunderson (Karen Lange) by…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMFriday, June 14, 2013
Joseph Campbell once said that a myth was a public dream, and a dream was a private myth. In the mountains of Peru, or else in someone’s mind, there is a myth about a fox, a crow and a har…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AMThursday, June 13, 2013
Four and a half years ago, scientists from the Tawani Foundation decided to test Lake Untersee – a highly alkaline body of water capped by a thick shelf of ice in Antarctica – for extrem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:11PMThe phrase “artistic blind date” is full of implication, suggesting not only that the matchmakers at Cultural DC put these artists together at the outset of their collaboration but that …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:08PMThe DC Council on the Humanities has awarded a grant of $1,750 to DC Theatre Scene for website improvements. “Thanks to the Council on the Humanities, our new site will have a fresh look, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
“Good Christ, we need new forms, new passions, new work, new ideas,” Con rails in Stupid Fucking Bird. “New forms of theater that can actually make you feel like living better or fulle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMThe Twelve Days of Christmas, Renee Calarco’s new play based on the world’s longest Christmas song, will highlight Adventure Theatre MTC’s 2013-2014 season. It will feature…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12AMMonday, June 10, 2013
The six short plays which make up the Source Festival collection Afterward lack the individual superstar brilliance of some of the plays in its other two collections, On the Cusp and In the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AMSunday, June 9, 2013
It is a complicated and difficult art to do a ten-minute play. The playwright must establish his emotional tone immediately, and thereafter add to it. John Guare says that the playwright has…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:52PMSaturday, June 8, 2013
Let’s face it: the principal reason you (or anyone) goes to an evening of ten-minute plays is to sample the future. Writing a compelling ten-minute play is an important step in a playwrigh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:43PMTuesday, June 4, 2013
One hundred and fifteen years ago, the Moscow Art Theatre produced a play by an obscure playwright – really, a physician who wrote plays – which changed the history of theater. The play …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:41AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Have you given your life over to artifice, sacrificed authenticity for convention, hidden your real self from the public view? No? Well, you’re wearing pants, aren’t you? So, the questio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMConstellation Theatre Company will do plays set in contemporary Japan, 17th-century Paris and ancient Greece in its three-production 2013-2014 season, the company announced yesterday. Conste…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:58AMFriday, May 24, 2013
Laughing Daughter’s Second Act: Who’s Laughing Now? You probably think this is a story about Crystal Mosser, the songbird who made her start in Washington theater and who has since made …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMThursday, May 23, 2013
Virginia’s Arlington County has awarded Signature Theatre a $250,000 grant – principally so that it can pay its real estate taxes to Arlington County, the County announced Tuesday. About…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMGhost-Writer, Michael Hollinger’s story of a Victorian novelist’s secretary who continues to complete his novel after the novelist has passed on, will be extended until June 16, MetroSta…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:53AMMonday, May 13, 2013
It is easy to think of The Submission as “Tootsie” for writers. But Jeff Talbott’s eloquent, tedious story is both larger and smaller than the Dustin Hoffman vehicle. Larger, because…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMMonday, May 6, 2013
“This is a very pleasant room,” the garrulous Mr. Spooner (Christopher Henley) says to his host, the silent, opaque Mr. Hirst (Brian Hemmingsen), and indeed it is, as it is festooned eve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Bay Theatre Company, a twelve-year-old Annapolis-based company, announced last night that it is suspending operations effective May 12, 2013. Board of Directors President Barbara Brown blame…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AMMonday, April 29, 2013
You are in a dimly lit bar, with checkered tablecloths on tiny tables. A small stage is to your left. This is where the magician will appear. The place seems made for magicians. The walls ar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMSaturday, April 27, 2013
Let’s get this out first: on February 10, 1992, the supremely successful athlete Michael Gerard Tyson was convicted of rape. He denies to this day having committed the crime, but he admits…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:56PMFriday, April 26, 2013
Disgraced, the story of an American lawyer born in Pakistan who is forced to confront his Islamic heritage, has won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the organization has announced. Ayad Ak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58AM 
