Tuesday, 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 09:21AMMonday, January 21, 2013
It is not fanciful to compare Dr. Martin Luther King, whose birthday we celebrate today, with Moses. Like the biblical figure, Dr. King led his people out of captivity. Like Moses, the Georg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:47PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
In The Wonka Wonka Cool Girls Club, playwright Cecilia Jenkins’ debut work, Anne Marie – the Mother Superior of Mean Girls in the seventh grade – has formed “the coolest club in scho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:27PMMonday, January 7, 2013
Tryst is a story of lies, theft, and the death of dreams, which is to say it is the story of ordinary life. George Love (Felipe Cabezas), or whatever he called himself, made his living durin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMTuesday, December 18, 2012
CenterStage Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah was last week named an Officer in the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, one of the highest honors the British monarchy can bestow upo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
A DC Superior Court Judge has issued a preliminary injunction against Lansburgh Theatre Inc. and its principals, preventing LTI from tossing the Shakespeare Theatre Company out of its 7th St…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:50AMSunday, December 9, 2012
Marc Acito, whose Helen Hayes Award-winning tale of bird love, Birds of a Feather, graced the Hub Theatre stage last year, now returns to do a magic act. That is to say, his one-actor play H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44PMSaturday, December 8, 2012
Vpstart Crow, the Manassas-based theater troupe which had combined Shakespearean productions with modern classics, is no more. “This company has been a huge part of our family for many yea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:40PMSaturday, December 1, 2012
Christmas? Bah, humbug! A Christmas Carol? Humbug-a-lumba, boom bang boom! All of you who object to the sickeningly sweet moral superiority of the Charles Dickens story, not to mention the h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:37PMMonday, November 19, 2012
The playwright looks down at the half-completed page in his battered Smith-Corona, tears it out, starts again. A man (Brian Hemmmingsen), urbane and slightly gross, marries a woman (Nanna …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:15AMAtheist’s Paradise is, at bottom, an extended memorial service for Henry Daniel “Doc” Johnson, philosopher, pilot and football coach for Midvale United Methodist University. Regrettabl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:51AMFriday, November 16, 2012
Jean-Paul Sartre said that Hell was other people. He didn’t know the half of it. For what Hell could be fresher than a pub full of academics with the teensy-weensy specialty of Scottish bo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Rorschach Theatre will be conjuring one classic and one modern myth in its 2012-2013 season, the company announced last Monday. The modern myth will be Robert Kauzleric’s Neverwhere, an ad…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMMonday, November 5, 2012
One man’s success in Arlington has caused changes in the Holiday Season for Washington’s Theater Alliance, the company announced Friday. Because Stephawn Stevens, Black Nativity’s long…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:45AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
On December 6, 1885, Miriam Hooper “Clover” Adams, clever, accomplished and rich, took a vial of potassium cyanide to her lips and quaffed it down. She was dead before the vial hit the f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMMonday, October 22, 2012
Compass Rose is a theater and a training institution, and so has selected a play which can serve as training to all of us. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1935, in the deep South, and on its…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMWednesday, October 10, 2012
In this brief, dense hour of misery and mystery, Kelly (Rachel Zampelli) salts herself in grief over the death of her husband Craig (Thomas Keegan) while Craig’s identical twin brother Pet…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AMIt is 1950 in South Africa, and the rain is pouring over the roof of St. Georges Park Tea Room (it really does, too, thanks to Ken Sheats’ terrific set). You are a seventeen-year-old boy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
On April 30, 1951, the day playwright Craig Lucas was born, his mother took him to a gas station in Atlanta, Georgia and put him in the back seat of a car. She pinned a note to his outfit. I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMSunday, October 7, 2012
The Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, said it most succinctly: Democracy is the theory that the people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. In An Enemy of the People, now…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:09AMFriday, October 5, 2012
We are at The Fillmore, and the night is full of sex and danger (set and fabulous lighting by Justin Townsend). The great Aretha Franklin (the magnificent Sabrina Elayne Carten) has just tak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PMThursday, September 27, 2012
Michael Kahn, the 25-plus-year Artistic Director of Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, has been named to the Theater Hall of Fame, the American Theater Critics Association announced…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:10PMWednesday, September 26, 2012
I understand your dilemma: you’re about to make an appearance before traffic court, and you have nothing to wear. It’s your third time up in the last six months, and this time it might b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:28AMAll right, let’s start with this. The Government Inspector is a five-alarm fire of a play, a bell-ringing, jitterbugging dance through a swamp of hypocrisy which is both ancient and mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:36AMFriday, September 21, 2012
Synetic Theater, a company which has never shied away from showing squirmy evil in all its wormy liveliness, here produces a ninety-minute symphony of depravity, and I mean that in a good wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22AMMonday, September 17, 2012
theatreWashington, the umbrella organization to promote area theater which sponsors the annual Helen Hayes Awards, has issued a call to the general public seeking potential judges for those …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AMFriday, September 14, 2012
Dr. Jaylee Montague Mead, an astronomer who opened up the universe of theater in this City through acts of shrewd and profound generosity, passed away from congestive heart failure this morn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:59PMMonday, September 10, 2012
Whaddya think? If some cataclysmic event wiped out humanity except for a man and a woman, unrelated and of reproductive age, locked in a bomb shelter with a tank full of fish, would we be ab…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09AMFriday, August 24, 2012
On September 29, our beloved Washington Nationals will be in Miami, carrying the hearts of every true Washingtonian with them as they nail down the Eastern Division title. For the rest of ou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07AMThursday, August 23, 2012
Keegan’s Spring Awakening sweeps the musical categories ; three Arena Stage productions receive top awards Click to go to our Audience Choice page Keegan Theatre was the first local th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Finalists just announced for the Audience Choice Awards Aug 15, 2012 — After an initial round of balloting which ended last night, Audience Choice voters selected six shows and perform…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:38AM 
