Friday, 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 07:58AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Synetic Theater, the DC Area’s unique movement-theater specialists, will be presenting four adaptations of works better known for their dazzling language in its 2013-2014 season, the compa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32AMMonday, April 22, 2013
NextStop Theatre Company, the Herndon-based professional theatre company which has grown out of one of the DC-area’s best community theaters, announced an ambitious five-production season …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:31AMTuesday, April 9, 2013
Jacques Brel was alive and living on the stage of the 29th Helen Hayes Awards last night as the MetroStage spectacular swept three of the big musical theater awards, but it was also a dream …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:19AMMonday, April 8, 2013
The world premiere of Paul’s Case, an original opera based on a Willa Cather short story, will be UrbanArias’s next production later this month, the company announced today. The sho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37AMAll the Way, a story about Lyndon Johnson’s frantic efforts to win passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, has won the 2013 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:55AMSaturday, April 6, 2013
Elie Wiesel once wrote that the opposite of love was not hate but indifference, and for seventy-five of its ninety minutes this odd, affecting play is a festival of indifference – in parti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:07AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Folger Theatre will feature four of the Bard of Avon’s finest plays in its 2013-2014 season, the company announced today. Leading things off will be one of the great Shakespearean tragedie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34PMThursday, March 28, 2013
Rep Stage, the professional company producing from Howard Community College, has apparently lost the services of Artistic Director Michael Stebbins, DC Theatre Scene learned tonight. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
The Shakespeare Theatre Company will fill out its mainstage 2013-2014 season with a production of the Stephen Sondheim musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and will add tw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Peter’s Alley Theatre Productions, in its current production of Proof, tests the following theorem: let x = one of the thirty best English-language plays of the last twenty years and let y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:38AMThe Soviet Union is no more, and the days when reaching an agreement with it on arms control was a matter of planetary life and death are fading into memory. Why, then, would a play about tw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:39AMThe King and I, the musical retelling of “Anna and the King of Siam” which made Yul Brenner an international star, will run at Olney Theatre Center November 14 through December 29, 2013,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:19AMSunday, March 17, 2013
Baltimore’s CenterStage this week announced a seven-play 2013-2014 season which includes a favorite from Will Shakespeare, a Christmas play by Paula Vogel, and Bruce Nelson in a role made …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:01PMThursday, March 14, 2013
– On Monday, March 18 at 7.30 p.m., The Shakespeare Theatre’s “Expert Witness” series will feature a Watergate investigator, an actor, a lawyer, a U.S. Senator, and a former cand…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMMichael Kahn will make his Studio Theatre directing debut and Stephen King’s bloody thriller Carrie will find its way to Studio’s stage as a musical during its 2013-2014 season, the comp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Heartless, Sam Shepard’s latest take on the human condition, will be one of five plays at the heart of the Contemporary American Theater Festival’s 2013 Season. Heartless tells the story…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Arlington’s Signature Theatre will feature four world premieres among its eight 2013-2014 productions, the company announced today. Included are the latest from Really Really playwright Pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Forum Theatre’s fifteenth season will include a revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Forum’s sensational hit from its 2007-2008 season, from May 22 to Ju…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Ford’s Theatre’s 2013-2014 season will feature two well-known plays, one Tony Award-winning musical, plus a musical adaptation of the Doris Betts short story “The Ugliest Pilgrim”, t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AMThursday, February 21, 2013
Round House’s 2013-2014 Season – it’s first under new Artistic Director Ryan Rilette – will feature five stories about powerful women in crisis, along with one of the great classics …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Butterfly is a story about the prophet Todd (Michael Mack), son of the prophet Jules (Ken Jackson), on the last day of his life. Gigi Buscaglio as Gertie and Ken Jackson as Jules (Photo: Cou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMChristopher Henley, the long-time Artistic Director of WSC Avant Bard, will step down from that position in order to spend more time with his family, the company announced today. Tom Prewitt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMMonday, February 18, 2013
Venus Theatre, the Laurel, Maryland troupe which specializes in plays about the experiences of women, will offer a four-play season in 2013 in which three of the works are world premieres, t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMSaturday, February 16, 2013
Three macabre plays which were later transformed into movies will make up the 2013-2014 season for Molotov Theatre Group, the company announced this Valentine’s Day. The Capital’s only t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Shakespeare’s R&J is a dance, exquisitely choreographed by Joe Calarco with words and music by Williams Shakespeare. It is the Bard’s great tragedy, done up almost to the word, but r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50AMMonday, February 11, 2013
It takes a bold producer to put on a show that calls itself Black Comedy, particularly in a town which already has one black comedy playing at Studio and another in the halls of Congress. Bu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMFriday, February 8, 2013
Jason Loewith, a playwright and director with considerable experience in the theatrical business world, has become Olney Theatre’s new Artistic Director, the company announced yesterday. J…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:53AMThursday, February 7, 2013
The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s 2013-2014 season will feature one of the Bard’s most controversial plays as well as the vivid historical dramas Henry IV Part I and Part II, the company…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
The Motherfucker with the Hat is not to be confused with The Cat in the Hat, but it is also not to be confused with The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, another Stephen Adly Guirgis play which r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
The King is in a terrible way. Wounded, bleeding, he sees his world in disarray. The upstart Richmond has the field. Now he will have Richmond. His loyal aide Catesby urges retreat: “Withd…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21AM 
