Tuesday, 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 11:17AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Witness for the Prosecution is a six-course meal of a play, a lip-smacking, eye-rolling, stomach-rumbling grand buffet of – wait for it – vintage fifties, English-style murder, complete …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMFriday, September 30, 2011
Ponka Nation Festival to Read Play Based on Seminal Civil Rights Case The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian will present a free staged reading of Waaxe’s Law, Mary…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AMThursday, September 29, 2011
Bay Theatre co-founder Lucinda Merry-Browne, who left that company to found an Annapolis theater school, today announced that the school has become a “teaching theater company” with a sl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMThe Picture of Dorian Gray – banned! A Farewell to Arms – banned in Boston! Twelfth Night – banned in New Hampshire! In the shadow of Round House Theatre’s production of Fahrenheit 4…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:01AMTuesday, September 27, 2011
Dec 22nd, 1989 was the end of a world in Romania. Everything its people had endured for two generations or more – privations which caused them to wait hours in line for a half-dozen eggs o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMThursday, September 22, 2011
Does this sound a little – what’s the word? – twee? A festival of European theater for the 2 to 12 set. October 14 – November 10, 2011 Cool Frogs, from the Netherlands Well, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:55PMTuesday, September 20, 2011
It is with great sadness that we report that the death of Gaurav Gopalan, an aerospace engineer who doubled as a director, dramaturge and production manager, has been ruled a homicide. Polic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMKuti’s Afrobeat was just the background to his workouts until 30 years later when he brought the musician’s story to Broadway Consider Fela Ankulapo Kuti. In his fifty-nine years…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AMFriday, September 16, 2011
Gaurav Gopalan, whose death rocked the DC theater community earlier this week, probably died of natural causes, his longtime partner told DCTS. Bob Shaeffer, who lived with Gopalan and their…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44AMThursday, September 15, 2011
Gaurav Gopalan, an aeronautical engineer who brought boundless energy, a vigorous intellect and startling insight to theater in the Washington area, was found dead in Columbia Heights on Sat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMWednesday, September 14, 2011
To begin with, The Habit of Art is not a play about an imagined encounter between W.H. Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, late in their lives. It is a play about a play about this fict…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMThursday, September 8, 2011
“Bernie, do you follow baseball?” asks gnomish, delightful Solomon Galkin (Mike Nussbaum). He is talking to Bernard Madoff (Rick Foucheux), the most notorious criminal of the twenty-firs…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:08AMTuesday, September 6, 2011
The pre-production version of Deborah Margolin’s Imagining Madoff was largely composed of dialogue between the notorious criminal named in the title and the famous writer, holocaust surviv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:29AMThursday, September 1, 2011
The 2011 DCTS Audience Choice Awards polls closed Wednesday night at midnight, and the results showed that, even though area residents weathered an earthquake and Hurricane Irene, they took …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AMWednesday, August 31, 2011
An Interview with Rick Foucheux The actor’s stock-in-trade is his ability to empathize with the character he plays, in order to make that character recognizably human, with clear motivatio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:19PMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Deadline for applications is Wednesday, September 6th. The Helen Hayes Awards is seeking an unspecified number of new judges for a three-year cycle of evaluating professional productions in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45AMFriday, August 19, 2011
Voting opened this morning for the fifth annual DCTS Audience Choice Awards in which the staff of DC Theatre Scene nominate the best productions and performances from the previous season, an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AMThursday, August 18, 2011
A musical is an odd beast, and one which does not occur in nature. When was the last time that you, while crowding into the Metro, or pouring coffee for your sweetie, or advising on the debt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AMWednesday, August 17, 2011
The newly re-named company announces casting for its Falstaff-centric comedy We all know this story…the one about Happy Hal, the Prince Who Stayed out Late. The heir to the English throne …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMTuesday, August 16, 2011
Something Past in Front of the Light is “The Exorcist” for grownups. Playwright Kathleen Akerley’s genius script recognizes, as “The Exorcist” did not, that Satan …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMThursday, August 11, 2011
World premiere youth version of Big, The Musical - Natascia Diaz joins DC cast Five or so years ago, when Adventure Theatre was an undersized children’s theater with a tiny budget and les…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:11AMWednesday, August 10, 2011
“What’s in a name?” the Bard of Avon once asked. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Perhaps. But it wouldn’t be as well described, and so after twenty-one years as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMThursday, August 4, 2011
If you hit the link at the bottom of this article, you will reach a machine designed to tell you how much fun you’ll have next season. For maximum effect, sort by date, and imagine yoursel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:01AMMonday, August 1, 2011
Tell me if this sounds familiar. There’s this thing in the middle of the room, and it’s growing. In fact, it’s consuming everything in sight. First it’s the size of a beaver, then of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMMonday, July 25, 2011
Bruce Norris won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this astonishing play not simply because of what he wrote, but for what he permits his actors to do. Most plays show characters utterin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMSaturday, July 23, 2011
Here is the story of six members of three exotic species of wildlife who have entertained New Yorkers for over two decades: (1) Silo (Dan Crane) and Roy (Matt Dewberry), two male chinstrap p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMMonday, June 27, 2011
It is Venice in the middle of the 16th century – or the mid-1920s, in New York’s Little Italy, as director Ethan McSweeny would have it; it doesn’t matter. Salerio (the excellent Andy …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:21PMTuesday, June 21, 2011
Brothers and sisters, before we begin our meditation on Gregory Hischak’s theatrical accomplishment, let us draw our context (as Hischak may have) from scripture: specifically, from Genesi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AMThursday, June 16, 2011
We have been telling each other stories through theater for twenty-seven hundred years, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do it better. Two hundred years ago, a proposal to sing songs in th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:05PMAs Spacebar opens, Kyle Sugarman’s dad (Brian Razzino, good in this) is dragging himself into Kyle’s room, carrying a neat whiskey for fortification. He looks like he is preparing himsel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:41PM 
