I don’t often think about blasphemy. Neither do most of you, I’d hazard to guess. But if you see the production of Molière’s Tartuffe now playing at the Shakespeare Theatre Company, y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PMFrom the first moment that Mary Bacon steps onstage, you know this will be a bravura performance. That the stage is the haunted and venerable Ford’s Theatre, and that she is playing Mary T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMWhen King Hedley II opens at Arena Stage on February 6, it will feature Jessica Frances Dukes in the role of Tonya. It’s a special moment in time for the native Washingtonian: her six-…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AMhookups is about as naked as it can get at Fringe. A quintet of engaging actors make use of an air mattress and the barest essentials to create a series of vignettes covering every imaginabl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMThere is no pie in A Piece of Pi. I feel it’s necessary to point this out, because after all, there are clowns. So one might expect some pie-throwing with a show title like that. Or so…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08AMTrue experimental theater breaks down the divide of expectations between performer and audience. Extroverts usually love this. Introverts, not so much. No surprise then that the long-form im…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:34PMEvery heartbreaker eventually gets their heart broken. Cosmic justice, karma, the wheel of fortune – whatever you call it, the seesaw of relationships will always go from up to down an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:23PMCan you ever truly detach from the world? From emotions, like heartache, greed, love? From the mundane, the pettiness of every day existence? Is this truly liberation, or is renunciation of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:23PMFor a crash course on what to expect from Fringe, you can’t do better than banished? productions’ mad avant-garde experience, Tactile Dinner Car. It’s a crazy sociological…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:10PMThough there’s definitely an element of raunchy radicalism about Fringe, it’s important to remember that there are performances suitable for all. If you have a small child in you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:50PMThe haunting themes of King Lear touch on nature’s cruelty, Fate’s arbitrary hand, and man’s inevitable decline – and their truth strikes everyone differently depending on where one …
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