Wednesday, 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 09:38AMFriday, August 10, 2012
The Shakespeare Theatre Company announced today that it is adding three additional productions, including the National Theatre of Scotland’s well-received Black Watch, to the 2012 portion …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMThursday, August 9, 2012
Forget all that you may have heard about August: Osage County. It is not a dark comedy where an Estelle Parson-ish virago grandmother skewers her pampered children with her acid tongue. It i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMTuesday, August 7, 2012
In 2011-2012, we got theater that money couldn’t buy. In this provocative article, my erstwhile colleague Chad Bauman lamented the fact that our Helen Hayes Awards – like the Tonys and m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:23AMSome of the most renowned names in American letters will find their way onto the American Century Theater’s stage in 2012-2013. Among the strangest and most powerful: Orson Wells’ Voodoo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:33AMMonday, July 30, 2012
Arlington’s Signature Theatre, a Tony-award winning company which specializes in musicals, will be awash in harmony for its August 4th open house. The noon-to-10pm celebration will feature…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:39AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
Catherine Asaro is a person of formidable accomplishment. A physicist with a PhD from Harvard, she has written twenty novels in her “Saga of the Skolian Empire” science fiction series as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:55PMFriday, July 20, 2012
The clever and provocative premise of Washington-area playwright AP Carroll’s new play is that the Roman occupation of the land of Israel, the appearance of Jesus Christ (Kofi Owusu) and t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMThursday, July 19, 2012
The rube Wade (Mark Pagan) wanders onto the stage. In a pitch-perfect South Dakota accent – straight out of “Fargo” – he explains that normally he volunteers for his Church of the Na…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Quotidian, located in Bethesda’s Writer’s Center, will offer plays based on three great stories for its fifteen anniversary season in 2012-2013. The Company will open with James Joyce’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AMIt is September 11, 2001. The United States is under attack. Huge commercial jets have slammed into New York’s Twin Towers. In Washington, a third commercial jet has slammed into the Penta…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:11AMLet’s make some things clear at the outset. In All-Nude College-Girl Revue, nobody is nude. Nobody is in college. Nor is it a revue. It is instead the life story, more or less, of Lisa Fai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMTuesday, July 17, 2012
Once upon a time, a very bad thing happened to Kaballah (Kathleen Alvania), and so as she grew older she turned into a raptor – a carnivorous bird, with razor-sharp claws and a beak capabl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:18PMMonday, July 16, 2012
We walk into the darkened Bedroom of Fort Fringe. There, in the shadowy corner of the stage, is a mannequin, with snow-white face above black clothes. The mannequin stares at us. Her eyes be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMWe do not go in for burlesque much in Washington, but to our northern neighbors in Charm City, it is a big deal. Burlesque is so much in the fiber of Baltimore that its chief sage and poet, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AMSunday, July 15, 2012
So have you seen this in a Fringe show? The protagonist, a gay man (you know this because the opening song is “Everyone I Know is Gay”), after the obligatory “Men are Pigs” song (pre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, like the great play which gave rise to it, is a puzzle box yielding different treasures every time you open it up. I’m delighted to report that Infin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMThis show is brief and funny. So this review will be brief. Click for tickets to Why So Serious Why So Serious is twenty-five minutes or so with the comedian Trevor Joyner. He is a funny guy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMSaturday, July 14, 2012
The title of this fun show recalls the Sex Pistols’ smashing album, “Nevermind the Bullocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols“, and Patrick and Maxwell Denney, the ambitious co-creator…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AMIn Church, we go to church. That is to say, we sit in darkness on folding chairs, bathed in religious music, grand and engaging, and beautifully sung by an unseen and uncredited choir. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Bless me, father, for I have sinned. It has been thirty-five years since my last confession, but that one didn’t count because they hadn’t given me my Miranda warning.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMHow do I put this delicately? It takes a helluva man to enjoy a clown. A clown may appeal to the inner child, but the outer adult craves a searing Mamet play or somesuch, followed by a dry m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMMonday, July 9, 2012
“This is the saddest play I’ve ever seen in my life,” a friend opined in the lobby of the Shepherd University’s Frank Center. He is a theater professional, and has seen a lot of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMThis year’s Contemporary American Theater Festival features two terrific world premieres, and when you go, you should make a point of sinking your teeth into each of them. Let us sink out …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AMSunday, July 8, 2012
The problem with history plays is one of time. In theatrical time, the greatest of problems are resolved in a hundred and fifty minutes or less. Across that tiny stretch of time we have conf…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMAttention, all ye parents of young children now pouring sweatily over your five-year-old child’s application to the day care center which will most help her get into the private school whi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AMSaturday, July 7, 2012
In a forest dark and deep, lightning sunders nature’s sleep. The cabin lights flicker, and then go out – “why, it’s about us!” the audience doth shout. Could playwright Neil LaBute…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
Keegan Theatre will be keeping its focus firmly on its Celtic roots during its 2012-2013 season, with supplemental emphasis on searing American drama and on musicals with a little lilt and l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMMonday, June 25, 2012
Glen Echo’s Adventure Theatre – Musical Theater Center will present some adventures in size for its young audiences next season, exploring from both ends of the spectrum. Adventure w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AMMonday, June 18, 2012
New Olney Theatre Centre Artistic Director Martin Platt has wasted no time in putting his stamp on the company’s 75-year history, announcing the 9 productions for Olney’s 2013 season…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
It is playwright David Bar Katz’s singular insight that Superman, like the other extraordinary men and women of the comics – Batman, Spiderman and the like – were primarily the creatio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AM 
