Thursday, June 16, 2011
As 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 himself to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:41PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2011
Michael Hollinger, who is enjoying a well-deserved revival here (he co-adapted Folger's Cyrano with Aaron Posner, and his Red Herring had a recent run at Washington Stage Guild), was a violi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AM[SHARE]Monday, June 6, 2011
You are in the lobby of Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, in America, waiting to get into Forum's bobrauschenbergamerica. The problem is that you don't know whether you've actu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AM[SHARE]Friday, June 3, 2011
Richard Henrich finds his own measure for happiness There's something about the laws of physics that freaked Albert Einstein out. Certain particles can be related " "entangled" is the term p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2011
"I always think a playwright's job is to let actors do their stuff," playwright David Ives asserts. "I think what we're supposed to do is write wonderful things for actors, who are much more…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:15AM[SHARE]Monday, May 30, 2011
How light is the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Alan Ayckbourn musical now playing at 1st Stage? Imagine a chiffon pie, covered with whipped cream and meringue. It is lighter than that. Imagine a field…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 26, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011 – The D.C. City Council yesterday passed a 2011-2012 budget for the City " without the 6% tax on live arts performances that Mayor Vincent Gray had proposed. The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2011
At Lumina Studio, the Next Generation invokes a story set twenty generations ago The young prince Edward (Aidan Close) kneels down to be knighted by his father, King Henry VI (Emma Bergman).…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
Arthur Laurents, whose fabled Broadway career as a writer and director began with two short lived productions but who eventually wrote the book for such monumental successes as Gypsy and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AM[SHARE]Washington Mayor Vincent Gray has unveiled a 2012 budget which would subject tickets to DC theatres to the City's 6% sales tax. The tax, Gray predicts, would generate $2,303,000 in FY 2012 a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2011
In this earnest, ambitious piece, Synetic alumnus John Milosich attempts to confront racism using song, video, movement, myth, and self-examination. Does he succeed? Well, no, not entirely. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2011
J. Fred Shiffman, whose droll theatrical wit informed a fantastically versatile talent for over three decades, will end his storied stage career and become a full-time agent for Capital Tale…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2011
The compromise budget which kept the Federal Government operating this year will have a "devastating" effect on small arts organizations, including small theaters, according to the Washingto…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:29PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Speech & Debate is about silence and lies, and about the sort of secrets that adults keep from teenagers and teenagers keep from each other. Another way to say this is that it is about s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:38AM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
If you want to see a play about friendship, go see Art at Signature. But if you want to see a play about art, you should see Lee Blessing's Chesapeake, now playing at the Bay Theatre in Anna…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2011
Sidney Harman, businessman, author, philanthropist, has dies Sidney Harman, an extraordinarily successful businessman whose generosity contributed to the performing arts in Washington, died …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Oyez, oyez, oyez, all you girlz and boyez! Last night, rhe Honorable the Supreme Court of the United States (supplemented by Judges from the Honorable the Less Supreme Courts) let the extort…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AM[SHARE]Friday, April 8, 2011
9 Circles, a play about a tortured young soldier's climb through an Iraqi inferno, has won the $25,000 Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award as the best new play arising out of regional theater in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2011
The impending shutdown of the Federal Government would also close Ford Theatre's performances of Liberty Smith, the Ford Theatre Society announced last night. The announcement reverses a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:02AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Some say the world will end in fire, the poet Robert Frost observed, and some say in ice, but at Woolly Mammoth next season the world will end with a rampage of feral pigs, a hip-hop Thomas …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:22AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 5, 2011
The Resurrectionist King, now being given active voice by Active Cultures, tells a pretty good story. Regrettably, it tells that story in the second Act, after the passage of forty-five tedi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2011
In the Southern Chinese Province of Guangdong there is a City called Shenzhen. A generation ago it had seven hundred inhabitants, most of whom were fishermen. Now it has fourteen million. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2011
The Golden Dragon, Roland Schimmelphennig's Mülheim Award-winning play which begins with four cooks pulling the tooth of a co-worker in an Asian restaurant and morphs into forty-eight vigne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2011
In the vast, soaring reaches of that old dowager, the Warner theatre, there is a conspiracy of chaos in progress. The agents of chaos are three silent bald men, wrapped in skins of cobalt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Anyone can see the effect of oppression upon the oppressed, but what effect does it have on the oppressor? The gift that Athol Fugard gives us in “MASTER HAROLD”…and the boys, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08AM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2011
No Rules Theatre Company, this year’s Aniello Award co-recipient which is bi-located in D.C. and Winston-Salem, NC, will be presenting a 2011-2012 DC season which features three …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The ghosts of American history will join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Be in Ford Theatre's 2011-2012 season which the Company announced yesterday. Ford's will open the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2011
The Kennedy Center announced yesterday that its fifteen-production 2011-2012 mainstage season will include the award-winning Rodgers and Hart musical Pal Joey with a new book by Terrence McN…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:40AM[SHARE]Billy (Charles Johnson) is just like you. You have a J.D., an M.D. or a PhD in Political Science; Billy has a PhD in Horribleness. You hunger for a position with those powerful K Street lobb…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2011
We have the culprit, officer, in Washington Stage Guild's production of Michael Hollinger's faux-noir gumshoe dramady, Red Herring. Really, it's obvious " I figured it out in the first few m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 6, 2011
This is the story of how Peter (Jeff Allin) learned that he was an animal. It took Edward Albee, now generally considered the world's greatest living playwright, about a month to write the s…
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