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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:23PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Two plays with links to Washington theater " a family drama which was seen in 2010's Source Festival and a tragicomedy about Superman which will run during Theater J's 2011-2012 sea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:52PM[SHARE]Monday, February 28, 2011
We will remember 2010 as the year in which Arena Stage received three Helen Hayes nominations for outstanding resident musical and no one else " not even the venerable musicmeisters at Signa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26PM[SHARE]If Angels in America, given magnificent voice by Forum Theatre last year, showed us what love in the age of plague was like, Naomi Wallace's One Flea Spare shows us plague spread out on a lo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 24, 2011
Round House Theatre will continue its traditional attention to classic literature during its 2011-2012 season, the Company has announced, producing adaptations of much-revered novels by Jane…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Gary Lee Maker, who once organized a little theater for the English-speaking community in Italy and later became one of the most loving supporters of professional theater in the DC theater c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AM[SHARE]To understand Juno and the Paycock, and the masterful production it's getting from the Washington Shakespeare Company, imagine Laurel and Hardy in Beirut. Imagine Ralph Kramden meeting Moamm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31AM[SHARE]Monday, February 21, 2011
Benched is three sharply-defined characters in search of a story; half a hundred or so clever or insightful lines looking for a constructive purpose. You know the people you will see in this…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 17, 2011
Like Water for Chocolate, a musical adaption of the best-selling Laura Esquivel novel by In the Heights author Quiara Alegria Hudes, in what is being billed as the pre-Broadway run, will lea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Bruce (Graham Pilato) meets Prudence (Mundy Spears) at a restaurant. It is their first date, and they are both nervous. They shake hands. Bruce gestures her to her seat, and sits down across…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 9, 2011
This is a meditation on the romance of the tragic drunk; the Yeats-quoting dipsomaniac who so feels the world's pain that it is necessary for him to polish off three-quarters of a bottle of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 30, 2011
Leave aside your opinions, your analyses, and your political positions, and come join the Black Watch as they go to the sweltering deserts of Iraq, and look war in the face. It is an experie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:21PM[SHARE]Friday, January 28, 2011
WASHINGTON SHAKESPEARE TO REPRISE THE BARD IN KLINGON FOR BBC TaH latlh heglu'meH. That is the question. In Klingon! And to answer it, acclaimed British actor Stephen Fry (“Wilde“…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:11PM[SHARE]Friday, January 21, 2011
Mary Zimmerman's The Arabian Nights, now being given sweet and vigorous voice at Arena Stage, could be with perhaps more justice called How the Mad King Shahryar Recovered his Humanity, so a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 9, 2011
To the earliest humans, everything was magic, from the rising and setting of the Sun to the way that flint could change a pile of dry sticks and leaves into a fire. That is to say, the every…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:19PM[SHARE]The The Theatre Lab School of the Dramatic Arts is offering a musical theater training program for novices with a twist " at the end of the program, you're in a show. The musical will be Rag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:41PM[SHARE]Saturday, January 8, 2011
Who is this man, this beast, this Red Bastard? He is not " to reassure readers of a certain age " Joe Stalin, back from the dead. Nor is he Christopher Hitchens, who some consider a well-rea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 19, 2010
Since the fine dramatic actor Helen Pafumi has written the Hub Theatre's current offering, Merry, Happy…What? you may be fooled into thinking it is a heavy drama, full of Christmasy angst.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 18, 2010
All right, so you've just stepped out of Arena's jaw-dropping Oklahoma!, or the fabulous Mary Zimmerman Candide at the Shakespeare Theatre, or some equally astonishing Washington production …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:59PM[SHARE]Monday, December 13, 2010
Well. I wouldn't exactly use these guys as Washington political consultants, since they apparently believe that Adrian Fenty is Italian " more on that later " but the latest Second City visi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:08PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 11, 2010
Although it is not immediately apparent from a survey of his accomplishments, Doug Wright is a sort of poet of artistic privation. He tells his most famous story, I Am My Own Wife, with thir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 5, 2010
It is the season of good cheer, and perforce time for a party. Jake (Tony Greenberg) inspects the signage on the wall of his living room. "Deck the halls with your balls," it says in cheery …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, December 4, 2010
The Synetic Family Theater will be moving its production of The Nutcracker from its intimate Shirlington digs to the company's main theater space in Crystal City, VA. The move is designed so…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:29PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 1, 2010
In these cash strapped times, how do you mount a blockbuster production of a Depression era musical featuring the work of two Tony Award winning artists? Olney Theatre Company was able t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, November 15, 2010
No man is a donut, but it is possible to be as inert and insubstantial as a day-old cruller, and it is roughly this state that Arthur Przybyszewski (Richard Cotovsky), the owner of the epony…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 13, 2010
Westboro Baptist Church, which has won notoriety for picketing the funerals of American soldiers killed overseas, will picket the Richard Montgomery High School production of The Laramie Pro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03AM[SHARE]Friday, November 12, 2010
Maybe there's something in the water in Ireland. Not only are they writing new plays by the boxcar, they're writing new types of plays, using approaches which never occurred to Aristotle. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 10, 2010
At the beautiful new Cultural Arts Center at Silver Spring, all concrete and lucid glass, there is a room full of junk encased in a cage of twine. On the dust-encrusted floor the scattered r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 9, 2010
The lyrics are no more than serviceable, the story moves in random fits and starts, some of the acting is not of the greatest, and the dialogue is occluded with cliché ("time moves…like m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 23, 2010
Richard Washer to be First Draft’s first Resident Playwright October 21,2010 – First Draft, the play-and audience-development branch of Charter Theatre, has named Richard Washer …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AM[SHARE]Monday, October 18, 2010
I have delayed my review of Bay Theatre's production of this Terrence McNally play for nearly a week, for two reasons. The first is that, despite my great admiration for McNally's work, I di…
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