Wednesday, 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 09:45AMMonday, June 11, 2012
Brothers and sisters, we understand nothing. Not the first breath of life, when we emerge, wet and bloody, from the womb; nor the last breath, when our defeated and desiccated bodies give up…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00AMThursday, June 7, 2012
Ryan Rilette, Producing Director of California’s Marin Theatre Company, will be the new Producing Artistic Director of Round House Theatre, the company announced yesterday. Ryan Rilette Ri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMFriday, May 25, 2012
For those for whom Shakespeare is not enough, there is always Lumina. The Silver Spring-based not-just-for-kids troupe just finished celebrating its one hundredth production in fifteen years…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PMYou can tell, in the occasional serendipitous gesture, the brilliant telling smile, why this oddball musical, this syncopated torrent of Americana, was chosen over West Side Story by the Ton…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:50PMBethesda’s Imagination Stage takes dead aim at the 4 to 12 set in a six-production season which will feature a world premiere of a Roald Dahl play, the company announced yesterday. Dahl’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:53PMMonday, May 21, 2012
“It was a brave man,” Jonathan Swift once observed, “who first et an oyster.” Douglas Carter Beane is a brave man, and for much the same reason. He took Xanadu, a 1980’s flop-o mov…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:05AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
What would a religion which celebrated lust, music, dancing, and the drinking of wine be like? Hah! Need I even ask! The party would last until we were asked to leave the Eurozone, I suppose…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:21AMMonday, May 14, 2012
The return of Joy Zinoman directing a production of the Broadway hit 4,000 Miles will highlight a monster 12-production 2012-2013 season for Studio Theatre, the company announced this weeken…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
Howard County’s Rep Stage will celebrate its 20th year by exploring the 20th century, manipulating time through a four-play season which takes us from somber ghost story to high-octane far…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Messina High Bench Knocks Out Alimony Award, but Returns Dowry; Declares Subpoena “Much Ado About Nothing” The Supreme Court of Messina rarely hears a domestic relations case, but when i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51AMThis poor show was treated badly by most of the New York critics, and the Tony committee favored it with only one nomination — but that was for Best Musical! Now how can you be conside…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
Washington’s Shakespeare Theatre Company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, got some extra sparklers when The Tony Awards selected it to receive the 2012 Regional Theatre Aw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:47AMThe Big Meal is the big deal: the moments in life that really matter – birth, love, and death – chopped up into digestible bits and soaked in a vinegar-ish marinade for eighty minutes or…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30AMMonday, April 30, 2012
I am going to give you a summary of this astounding tour de farce, now playing at the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab of the Olney Center for the Arts, and then recommend that you forget it imme…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMThursday, April 26, 2012
Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre has announced a 2012-2013 season which will close down its 1727 North Charles Street venue with the memory of war, and then inaugurate its tenure at its new do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:38AMFriday, April 20, 2012
Forum Theatre’s 2012-2013 season will consist of four plays so fresh that none of them were performed before 2010 and the world premiere which will open the season – Kara Lee Corthron’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Occasionally the great theater critics from the major New York cultural organs – the Times, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal – will come to Washington to review important producti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AMAdventure Theatre, the Glen Echo-based children’s theater company is getting used to big announcements. It has been nominated for 12 Helen Hayes Awards this year; has developed such new …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMThe April 19 production of the Shakespeare Theatre’s Strange Interlude at Harman Hall will begin with the usual injunctions: turn off your cell phone, your Blackberry, your I-phone, your b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:15AMMonday, April 16, 2012
Imagination Stage has seized on the idea of a ball for the 4-12 set to be held in its Bethesda location. Titled “Just Imagine…The Inaugural Children’s Ball”, the event takes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:20PMWe call it love, but deep down inside we know it’s something darker and more complicated. We love our pets, we love our comfortable lives, and we may love our children, but with our life p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:35AMFriday, April 13, 2012
- Eugene O’Neill’s first play, produced only once before in 1912, before it disappeared for nearly a hundred years, had its second staging at Arena last month. Was that a good id…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:00PMMonday, April 9, 2012
Holdridge, Vreeke, Goldman and Serotsky scheduled to direct; Lawton play to have its world premiere Two acclaimed dramas from Israel will highlight Theater J’s 2012-2013 season. The compan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:34AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
They lie who say that Ah, Wilderness! was Eugene O’Neill’s only comedy. Strange Interlude is funnier and more savagely incisive. Where Ah, Wilderness! was a sepia-tinted journey to O’N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:05AMMonday, April 2, 2012
On Saturday, March 31st, three playwrights received awards and checks totaling $40,000 at the 36th Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky. Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Monologist Mike Daisey, who has admitted that his play The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs contained significant inaccuracies, apologized to Woolly Mammoth audiences at the theater last nig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMBrothers of the Dust, a Darren Canady drama, set in 1958, about an African-American man who runs a hardscrabble farm in Arkansas, has won the M. Elizabeth Osborn Award as best new play by an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMFriday, March 23, 2012
Quest Visual Theatre, the Maryland-based company which specializes in bringing unusual forms of theatrical expression to families, will be presenting QuestFest 2012 to Washington-area audien…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:29AMThursday, March 22, 2012
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, which staged a production of Mike Daisey’s monologue The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs last March and has rescheduled it for this summer, yesterday issued…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMMonday, March 19, 2012
Spelling is a mere convention which school systems use to bludgeon us into compliance. The spelling bee is a tribal rite, and unfair, at that, since American English is spelled differently t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:58PM 
