Monday, March 21, 2016
Niamh Lynch (Emily Landham) has been calling her mother, Teresa, (Dearbhla Molloy) all morning. Unable to reach her and fearing the worst, she rushes to her mother’s house. Upon arrivin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
Theatre, at its best, has the ability to be a powerful tool for political and social change. That means, right now in particular, #blacktheatrematters. Word Becomes Flesh is a shining exampl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AM Ntozake Shange’s iconic for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf was groundbreaking when it was first produced in 1975 and, for better or for worse, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:19AMMonday, February 15, 2016
Carmen: An Afro Cuban Jazz Musical, co-produced by Olney Theatre Center and Tectonic Theater Project, takes the tragic heroine of Bizet’s 1875 opera and transports her to Cuba in 1958, whe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:52PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
In the summer of 1991, the three Rosensweig sisters, Sara (Kimberly Scraf), Gorgeous (Susan Rome) and Pfeni(Susan Lynskey), reunite in Sara’s London home to mark the occasion of the eldest…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Martin Dysart (Michael Kramer) is a child psychiatrist going through the motions of what he calls “career menopause,” when his good friend Hesther Salomon, (Kathleen Akerley), a court m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMMonday, November 30, 2015
In a none-too-fashionable London neighborhood in the early 1960s, middle-aged Kath (Claire Schoonover) invites the young Mr. Sloane (Mathew Aldwin McGee) to rent a room in the home she share…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMMonday, November 16, 2015
I am usually a strict adherent to the “No Christmas till after Thanksgiving” edict, but I am happy I broke my own rule and started my holiday season a little early with Washington Stage …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:46AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh takes place in the isolated Aran Islands, off the coast of Ireland, in 1934. The familiar rhythms of life on the island of Inishmaan are disrupt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
Mosaic Theater Company does not, it appears, intend to tread lightly. Its inaugural season opened with the new play by Jay O. Sanders, Unexplored Interior (This Is Rwanda: The Beginning and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:45PMMonday, October 26, 2015
In Jami Brandli’s Technicolor Life, Maxine Hunter (Isa Guitan) is a precocious ninth grader with a passion for SAT words and troublemaking friends, but she has more on her plate than the t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMFriday, October 23, 2015
Erma Bombeck: At Wit’s End is full of the wit and wisdom of the woman herself; written by journalist/sister duo Allison and Margaret Engel, the play allows Erma (Barbara Chisholm) to tell …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMMonday, September 28, 2015
Princess Margaret, by Patricia Connelly, is an emotionally charged journey into the life of a poor young girl in the late 1960s. Eleven-year-old Margaret (Allison Frisch) is caught stealing …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AMWednesday, September 23, 2015
Queens Girl in the World is a story of change, discovery, and self-acceptance set against the tumultuous backdrop of Civil Rights-era New York City. Playwright Caleen Sinette Jennings tells …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:45PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
The best plays are those that ask more questions than they answer: Night Falls on the Blue Planet is one of those plays. Renee (Jeanne Dillion-Williams) might not have hit rock bottom yet, b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:46PMMonday, August 17, 2015
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival began with two very different plays by two very different playwrights: How We Died of Disease-Related Illness by Miranda Rose Hall and Bones in Whispers…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMMonday, July 13, 2015
Dust to Dust, presented by the Class Act Players, follows mid-western farmer’s son Toby (Preston Kemp) on his journey from his Depression-ravaged family farm to New York City, where he hop…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AMSunday, July 12, 2015
Do you trust me? Really, do you trust me? Because if you do, stop reading this review right now and go see Blind Pug Arts Collective Presents: The Theatre of Self-Loathing Presents: Who’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:31PMAdded Tweedledee, “you like poetry” “Yes, pretty well- SOME poetry” Alice said doubtfully – Lewis Carroll Using events from Lewis Carroll’s Alice books (Alice’s Adventures in W…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:21PMDon’t come expecting a history lesson. I know no more about the biographical details of Stokely Carmichael’s life than I did when I entered the theatre. Instead, what I got was a lesson …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:22PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
This show has a fire eater. An honest to God, lights the torch aflame and sticks into his mouth fire eater. If that isn’t enough to get you here then, dear reader, read on… Leila Blaze…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:30PMSaturday, July 23, 2011
Young Playwright’s Theater was founded in 1995 by playwright Karen Zacarías in order, through interactive in-school and after-school programs, to teach DC metro area students to “promot…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25PMMonday, July 18, 2011
In the director’s notes, director/writer/performer Michael Oliver quotes Archibald MacLeish: “A poem should not mean/but be.” I would add, “Or be performed”. Embodying Poe falls so…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:10AMMonday, July 11, 2011
Derek Evans is a professional Teddy Roosevelt. His show, called The Man in the Arena for the purposes of Fringe, is usually known simply as The TR! Show and is performed at school assemblie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:15AMA lot of people love Romeo and Juliet. Some of these people are women, and many of those women love the play because of the character of Juliet. I acknowledge and accept this. Charlene V. S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:00AMTom Tiding’s one-man show is about when life’s perfect moments go awry, and how this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. His stories about friends, family, love and long-haul trucking are b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:47AMThis was either the worst show I have ever seen, or the best. Professor VindleVoss (who grew up in a failing circus) has captured, tamed, and adopted a Zombie named Edvard. But in order for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30AMSunday, July 10, 2011
“Some of those people on Match Game were drunk. With power” – Kenneth, 30 Rock The 1970s were a crazy decade with a lot of even crazier game shows, but Match Game was their king. �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMHigh-concept resettings of Shakespeare’s plays are often done and rarely done well, but the idea of a biker King Lear is so wonderfully outlandish, it just had to work. Mixrun Productions�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMSaturday, July 9, 2011
Augustine is a fuzzy blue lobster. Stolen from his home and plunged into the strange, musical, underwater world of Pascal’s Aquarium, Augustine has a lot on his plate. Squealing shrimp, a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PM 
