Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Round House Theatre’s staging of Gem of the Ocean presents the August Wilson classic in powerful, ambitious fashion. Under the direction of Timothy Douglas, the production has been enthu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMMonday, March 27, 2017
On March 9, 2017, John Patrick Shanley, the author of Doubt: A Parable, granted an exclusive interview to the Quotidian Theatre Company (QTC), where Doubt will be performed from April 7 …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMAgainst a backdrop of rising tribalism in the Western World, Theater J has selected a 2017-2018 season which explores the consequences of ascendant hate, particularly during the period of i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMFriday, March 24, 2017
The idea seemed promising: take a classic, well-loved, mega-popular animated Disney film and remake it as a live-action movie; hire an accomplished, imaginative director; cast it with good a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMThursday, March 23, 2017
The first Broadway revival of Miss Saigon is being marketed as the return of a classic. But, if the show has become an undeniable fan favorite, the production’s impressive visual spectacle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PMAbolish all government funding for the arts and humanities? Eliminate the NEA? Seems inconceivable, yet that is what President Trump proposed in his budget sent to Congress. Hopefully it wo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMThe imminent shutdown of the National Endowment for the Arts, promised in President Trump’s 2017-2018 budget, will result in fewer and smaller new plays, bring an end to cultural excha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMozart would have been grinning at this youthful production of his tried-and-true opera that reached out to a new younger and diverse audience Friday night, March 17th. Washington National O…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMWednesday, March 22, 2017
Gaetano Donizetti miraculously wrote seventy-five operas during his brief lifetime. But what makes Don Pasquale stand out as one of the funniest comic operas (opera buffa) ever written is th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PM When Audrey Bertaux takes the stage as Lisa Kron at the beginning of Well, being staged at 1st Stage, her character will explain to the audience that the play is not “about my moth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMHey theater geeks, you’ll want to pay attention to this one! Did you ever think it’d be cool to sit back with the characters you had just seen on stage and just shoot the shit for a whil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMThe women chant their lines over one another above a rising swirl of offstage clamor that reaches a crescendo pitch. Masha (Caroline Hewitt),—the most troubled of the three Prozorov sister…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMWhat Every Girl Should Know opens in pitch darkness with barely audible intermittent sounds of female pleasure, various tones and tonalities and an intermittent gasping groan. What in the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMDry Land, though set over 100 years later than its companion piece, What Every Girl Should Know, Forum Theatre’s #nastywomenrep, is an alarming reminder that young women continue to f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMTuesday, March 21, 2017
“It’s a really hard play to put into words. I think it’s an exploration and a dive into what we call home, where we come from, and how we connect with what that means both in a l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PM“Blessed is he who expects nothing,” Alexander Pope once wrote, “for he shall never be disappointed” but Pope was wrong, for you can have little and expect less, like…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMMonday, March 20, 2017
Actor Adrián Iglesias, who plays Séneca, the mouse who has lived in a library for the past ten years, ambles on stage, carrying a wicker basket, filled with large books and eating utensils…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PMSo we know the what of history — Truman over Dewey, say, or U.S. and England over Germany, Italy and Japan in World War II — but do we know what history smells like? Knowing the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMSeeing something unlike anything you’ve seen before can be curious, mystifying, and even jarring. That was my experience this weekend with Venus Theatre’s presentation of what was, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMSunday, March 19, 2017
See why the DC region is one of the busiest theatre hubs in the United States. Lots of seasons still to be announced. We’ll keep this page updated so that you can watch…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48PMSaturday, March 18, 2017
The best children’s shows for young audiences are often ones that are the most like silent movies: minimal talk, maximum action, and if you happen to miss any dialogue because of the r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PMFriday, March 17, 2017
Ford’s has given us a magnificent and deeply moving musical about where we’ve come from, featuring, as its main character, America. The superbly attuned ensemble announces with full emot…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMA charming Continental vibe pervades Paper Dreams, the latest offering at Imagination Stage in its series (called “My First Imagination Stage”) that is specifically designed for very you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMBethesda’s Round House Theatre has staked its claim as the area’s premiere space for new stuff in the 2017-2018 season. That season — Round House’s 40th — will …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AMThursday, March 16, 2017
Danny DeVito, making his Broadway debut, gets the best deal out of The Price. Arthur Miller is not a playwright known for comically colorful characters, yet here’s DeVito as Gregory Solomo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMOlney Theatre’s 2017-2018 season will include early works by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ayad Akhtar, co-productions with Round House and Everyman theaters, and a return of the Hypocrites i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMSynetic Theater, a DC area company known nationwide for its movement-based productions, will be taking a two-toned approach to its 2017-2018 season. The 2017 portion will be full of light-da…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32AMWednesday, March 15, 2017
“These people make me tense,” sings Leo Frank early in the dark musical Parade. “It’s like a foreign land.” If 1913 Atlanta feels alien to Frank, a transplanted New York Jew and th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:36PMWoolly Mammoth Theatre Company, already notable for the socially and politically outspoken theater it brings to the Washington Stage, is kicking it up a notch with a sextet of hot-button pla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Over the course of the next two months, the Kennedy Center will showcase the work of five of the theater’s preeminent directors from across the globe: Robert Lepage, Carlos Diaz, Sulayman …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12PM Once an accidental role, Kevin McAllister’s turn as raging pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr., in the expansive, Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre will be the third g…
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