Monday, 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 01:58PMSaturday, March 17, 2012
At 1pm today, WAMU 88.5 aired the results of This American Life’s investigation after airing ‘Mike Daisey goes to the Apple factory’ last January. Here’s what they un…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:04PMLike many of you, I looked forward to the work that Molotov Theatre Group – Washington’s Grand Guignol theater – would be doing on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar because of the exquisit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
The Actors’ Center, a 30-year-old non-profit membership organization, today announced that it will stage auditions exclusively for Actor’s Center members on April 9 and 10, between 1…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMFord’s Theatre will focus on classic stories during its 2012-2013 season, the company announced last night, but will also feature Fly, a Lincoln Legacy Project production about the Tuskege…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:35AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
Having nearly completed a season devoted to inquiries about the expiration of civilization, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has elected to invest its 2012-2013 season with new plays and the i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:14AMWednesday, March 7, 2012
The Kennedy Center today announced an ambitious sixteen-production schedule which will feature the return of Ireland’s Druid Theatre, a festival of new Nordic plays, and six touring produc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMDonizetti. Mozart. Humperdinck. Puccini. Bellini. And Kern. The Washington National Opera’s 2012 – 2013 season will certainly give due reverence to the great composers of the eighteenth …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMTuesday, March 6, 2012
It seems counterintuitive, given how grave a barrier “beyond a reasonable doubt” sounds, but nineteen out of twenty criminal jury trials end in conviction. Sometimes, of course, the fact…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AMMonday, March 5, 2012
What’s my name? What’s my name, sucker? In Houston, forty-five years ago last month, Muhammad Ali was carving up hapless, helpless Ernie Terrell, a heavyweight pretender who had insist…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PMThursday, March 1, 2012
The $25,000 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award will go to a play which portrays a modern American family coping with death, illness, addiction, abandonment or the challenges of beginning anew in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:52AMThe stunningly prolific musical theater genius Stephen Sondheim has something up his sleeve. But he’s not telling us what it is. Not exactly. Not just yet. Stephen Sondheim at Queens Colle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AMWednesday, February 22, 2012
Let me get to the bottom line about Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat), now playing at Woolly Mammoth. I like it a great deal, and I don’t know why. Civilization is one of thos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AMMonday, February 20, 2012
Emma (Katie Atkinson), an assistant in a laboratory dedicated to the preservation of dying languages, is trying to learn Esperanto. She is having heavy weather of it. Finally she blurts out …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:11PMFriday, February 17, 2012
Broadway Across America has announced its 2012/2013 Hippodrome Broadway Series, a seven-production 2012-2013 season which will include the return of two Broadway shows which were highly suc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMMonday, February 13, 2012
When a Washington-area playwright completes a work which is intellectually provocative, artistically satisfying, and powerfully authentic, it is a cause for celebration for those who love lo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:07PMMonday, February 6, 2012
PJ Paparelli, having been through a battle or two of his own, knows how to direct the conflict besetting the two gentlemen of Verona. A young man of promise, moving forth from a working-clas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AMThursday, February 2, 2012
Familiar hands to be at the tiller : Kahn, Muse, Posner, McSweeney, Lord and Taichman A brand new adaptation of Friedrich Schiller’s Wallenstein by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:27AMWednesday, February 1, 2012
There are companies which do epics, and then there is Lumina Studio. Having put together a sixty-character amalgamation of Henry VI Part 1, 2 and 3, in which no actor was above the age of 19…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMSaturday, January 28, 2012
First look at what lies in store for us in the 2012-2013 season comes from Vpstart Crow Manassas-based Vpstart Crow Productions yesterday announced that its 2012-2013 season would feature f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMFriday, January 27, 2012
The theatre community has lost another member. We are sad to report that Lance Hayden Kump, Marketing Manager for Studio Theatre and a gifted visual artist, died suddenly January 20, 2012. A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05AMThursday, January 26, 2012
Marcia Murdock Gardner, an actor, educator, dramaturg, casting director and literary manager most frequently associated with Signature Theatre, died January 20 at her Alexandria home after a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05AMTuesday, January 24, 2012
The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s hormone-drunk Two Gentlemen of Verona is a story of mad children at play in the house of their own hearts, adrift and rudderless in a storm of their passi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:17AMFriday, January 20, 2012
Ford Theatre adds five performance dates Local actor Craig Wallace will replace David Emerson Toney as Frederick Douglass in Richard Helleson’s three-actor Necessary Sacrifices,�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:11PMWednesday, January 18, 2012
Shakespeare in Klingon II: The Wrath of (Michael) Kahn “I’ve never worked with Klingons before and I figure, after all these years, it’s about time.” - STC Artistic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMThursday, January 12, 2012
At Washington Stage Guild, an extraordinary story about the foot soldiers of history. History is a tale written by the victors, Machiavelli tells us. But it is usually lived by the losers �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AMWednesday, January 11, 2012
A man walks on to the stage, accompanied by friends. It is night, and he is a decade older than he was that morning. He has buried his young daughter today – dead, suddenly and inexplicabl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMFriday, January 6, 2012
An apparent landlord-tenant dispute between Century and Associates, the owner of H Street Playhouse, and Adele Robey, the former owner who now leases the facility from Century and subleases …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PMWednesday, December 28, 2011
A portion of the American Voices New Play Institute transfers to Emerson David Dower, Arena Stage’s Associate Artistic Director, will be leaving the company to join Emerson College’s Off…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:44PMThursday, December 22, 2011
If, at some point before the lights in the Kennedy Center’s commodious Eisenhower Theater dim, you wonder why am I here you may be forgiven. Ann Richards was, after all, a one-term Governo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31AMWednesday, December 21, 2011
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” opens a 4 week run today DC Mayor Vincent Gray announced yesterday that the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities would take over management …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33AM 
