Wednesday, 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 06:33AMSunday, December 18, 2011
“May truth and love triumph over lies and hatred.” Celebrated playwright Vaclav Havel, whose 1985 play Temptation was produced to great acclaim three years ago by Constellation Theatre C…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:21PMFriday, December 9, 2011
Arena Stage will hold open-call auditions this weekend for four young person’s roles in its upcoming production of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, the company announced yesterda…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:35AMRebecca Ende, who served as Theater J’s Director of Marketing and Communications for three years before becoming President of the Board of Forum Theater, will return to her old company as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:28AMWednesday, December 7, 2011
Some plays are like the Emerald City of Oz. They are best enjoyed by skimming along the surface. Examine them too closely, and the greasepaint turns to grease. Becky’s New Car is one of th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:05AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
Telling the truth – then and now. An interview with the author of Equivocation Equivocation, opening next Monday at Arena Stage, is an unusual play and its author is an unusual playw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:08AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
It is 1938, and Europe is settling down to dream the worst nightmare in human history. Georg von Trapp (George Dvorsky), an Austrian hero of the Great War, has lost his wife, and is about to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMMonday, November 21, 2011
The problem with Ebenezer Scrooge is not that he’s selfish or wrong-headed – he’s right about Christmas, and you know it – it’s that he’s lonely. Scrooge is as miserly toward him…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMThursday, November 17, 2011
Cast from the national tour of Jersey Boys will stage a benefit concert on November 28th at D.C. Improv to support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS and the local charity Food & Friends.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
The Normal Heart will replace Like Water for Chocolate in season’s lineup; Mary T and Lizzie K is postponed The Tony Award winning Broadway production of The Normal Heart, Larry Kramer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:13AMTuesday, November 15, 2011
DCTS to include the Mary Goldwater Awards in its permanent archives For nineteen years, the Washington theater community honored its own in a unique way: for excellence, regardless of catego…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PMThursday, November 10, 2011
Arena Stage will be hosting a complimentary Thanksgiving dinner and an evening of theater for America’s veterans and their families on Friday, November 25th, the company announced yesterda…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
No hystery mere: writer/director Tom Mallan’s purpose is to take the most powerful story in royal English history – Henry of Monmouth’s growth from a frivolous delinquent into the grea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50AMMonday, November 7, 2011
If you’re like me, you find it easy to justify an eighty-mile trip to see a hot actor – one never seen on Washington stages – play a classic role in a great play. So for that…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:44AMFriday, November 4, 2011
“Anonymous” says ‘no’. Freud agrees. Who are we to believe? Court is in session and Tim Treanor argues his case. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let’s review the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45AMThursday, November 3, 2011
Jim Petosa, who has served Olney Theatre as its artistic director since 1993, will step down at the end of 2012, the company announced today. Jim Petosa (Photo: Kalman Zabarsky / Boston Un…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:51PMMonday, October 31, 2011
In Lissa Levin’s snorer of a play, Sex and Education, now being force-marched through its paces by Doorway Arts Ensemble and Arts Alive Theatre, Miss Edwards (Ellen Mansueto), an English t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16AMFriday, October 28, 2011
Blake Robison, who has served as Round House Theatre’s Producing Artistic Director for the past seven years, will leave at the end of the season, the theater announced yesterday. Robison w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:23AMMonday, October 24, 2011
In the bucolic Eastport Plaza, the Compass Rose Studio Theater is nestled comfortably between Ahh Coffee (whose products you are welcome to bring into the theater) and Eastport Liquors (not …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:34AMSaturday, October 22, 2011
There are no ghosts. You know this, and so do I, so let’s stop all the nonsense. Also, there are no zombies or vampires, no matter how much we would have it otherwise; and aliens do not wi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:11AMFriday, October 21, 2011
O, Mabou Mines, what hath though wrought? Or – overwrought? Anyone who saw how the brilliant Mabou Mines production of Peter & Wendy at Arena Stage four years ago explored the melancho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMThe Shakespeare Theatre Company today announced that noted stage and screen actor Kevin Kline will join Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn for a conversation in front of an audience at t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AMThursday, October 20, 2011
Rorschach Theatre Company, which is currently producing after the quake, a play based on two Haruki Murakami short stories, will make copies of the popular Japanese novelists newly released …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:58PMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Patti LuPone, who won a Tony, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award for her work as Rose in the Styne/Sondheim/Laurents musical Gypsy, is the recipient of Signa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:45PMDC’s Source Festival, which produces a dozen-and-a-half ten-minute plays each June to go along with full-length plays and productions from blended disciplines, seeks interested Source audi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:59AMThursday, October 13, 2011
Members of the cast of Les Miserables The National Tour cast of Les Misérables, currently onstage at the Kennedy Center, will step out on October 24 to present a concert to benefit Broadway…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:56PMForum Theatre will stage a reading of Larry Kramer’s Tony Award-winning The Normal Heart on Monday, November 7 at 7.30 as a fundraiser for the company. Kramer’s play, which won the 201…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:55AMTuesday, October 11, 2011
We have, by virtue of our earthquake last August, an inkling of what the people of Kobe, Japan suffered sixteen years ago. The deep inharmonious rumble – the incomprehensible undulation of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AMFriday, October 7, 2011
It is 2009, and we are in the midst of a recession. A bad one. Good small theaters – Catalyst, Firebelly, Didactic, Meat and Potatoes,– are gone, swept out in a blood tide of depressed t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMAyun Fedorcha, a Helen-Hayes nominated lighting designer who served as resident artist for two Washington companies, passed away after a long illness on September 28th. She was 53. Ayun Fedo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:25AMTuesday, October 4, 2011
More accustomed to sequins and spotlights, Natascia Diaz talks about her role as Denise Savage in John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo Some people go to theater for the glamour of it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:17AM 
