Monday, July 15, 2019
First it was just strange dreams. Then it was sinister voices. Now, the followers of Cthulu roam the streets in search of the servants and sacrifices that can bring the Old Ones – specific…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMIt’s been more than a day since I left Before the Fall, and I still don’t know for sure that I can say what I think about it. That’s a crummy thing for a theater critic to admit, but I…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMSaturday, July 13, 2019
“You should be honest with people, even when you’re doing magic, which is essentially lying.” That’s according to Penn Jillette, the loquacious half of the magic duo Penn and Teller …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24PMMonday, July 16, 2018
There are all sorts of weddings: Destination Weddings, backyard weddings, shotgun weddings, DIY weddings… the list goes on. They all, however, have a few things in common: At least one per…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMSaturday, July 14, 2018
There’s an old logic puzzle about a farmer trying to get a wolf, a chicken, and a pile of corn across the river, but the farmer can only take two at a time in his boat. Leaving the wrong c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMI am not equipped to write this review. That much was apparent from the moment I saw Daryl “Spook” Spokane (Meshaun Labrone) stoically reclining on the day of his execution in Spook, a p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMSaturday, July 8, 2017
It’s winter in Evanston, Illinois, and a woman has gone missing. Her name is Mitzi, and beyond that we know just a scant few details: she works as an Administrator, is unafraid of bumble b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMMonday, September 26, 2016
If you’re over twenty years old, chances are you remember the lost art the mix tape. And yes, it’s a lost art. Don’t tell me you can still make a Spotify mix and send it to someone on …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:25PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
I don’t know that I have the capacity to boil all of humanity down to a simple equation. Math was never my subject. And even if it were, I have to think the equation would look very…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMSunday, July 17, 2016
You hear it all the time: The thing that people most fear isn’t death. It’s public speaking. That may be true for most people, but if it applies to Dixie Lee Mills, the center of the one…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
I don’t know what your high school experience was like, but mine featured every archetype in the book. There were jocks and cheerleaders; popular kids and weirdos; band nerds and nerd …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:08PMMonday, April 18, 2016
Here’s a fun game: Stop someone on the street and ask them to name a play – any play. I’ll give you 10-1 odds that they name one of the works of Shakespeare. The reason? They’r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:13PMWednesday, April 6, 2016
I have to admit straight out of the gate that being asked to review “The Capitol Steps” was a bit befuddling. After more than 30 years delivering laughs in the nation’s capital, the co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07AMWednesday, September 16, 2015
It’s hard to open your laptop these days without stumbling across a news item about China. Naval maneuvers. Cyber warfare. Millions of manufacturing jobs relocated. And if that’s not eno…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:28PMMonday, July 20, 2015
Rick Santorum, the famous (infamous?) Senator turned Presidential-candidate turned whatever-he-is-now once said, “I’m living for donuts and venison, and that’s true. And specialty goph…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMMonday, July 13, 2015
If you’ve ever strolled down the children’s literature section at the bookstore, picked up a title that’s only ten or twenty pages long and thought “this doesn’t look so hard… I …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
How to Quit Your Day Job! delivers a delightful dose of generation “Me.” You’ve read the headlines. Millennials are the self-obsessed, self-medicating, selfie-taking self-seekers who m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:07AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Imagine visiting a quirky French cafe you’ve had your eye on for awhile. The tables are nicely set, a woman with a lovely voice is strumming on a guitar in the corner, and next to her a ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Ok theater-goers, here’s a question: What type of theater do you think is the toughest for actors and directors to get right? Ask anyone and I’m betting, dollars to doughnuts, they’ll …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMWednesday, October 29, 2014
There are some great pop-culture rivalries that can’t be resolved. Coke vs. Pepsi, Cowboys vs. Redskins, Apple vs. Samsung, Sega Genesis vs. Super Nintendo… the list goes on and on. But …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:57AMMonday, September 22, 2014
So, the great nation of France is saddled with crushing national debt. They’re battered from war, the people are starving, and a revolutionary ember crackles quietly beneath the surface of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMSunday, July 20, 2014
Sometimes out-of-town guests can really kill your routine. Your fridge is empty and the beer has gone missing. The guest-room is a hot mess, and darn it who borrowed my car and left it at th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:17PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
A crisp fedora, the sound of cards being shuffled, and a dark alley lit only by the end of a burning cigarette: Noir is one of those genres that’s hard to explain, but you know it when you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
Are you experiencing abdominal or pelvic cramping? Lower back pain? How about food cravings, headache or fatigue? If you have these or other symptoms, and it’s been roughly three and a hal…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:10AMSaturday, July 12, 2014
Ready for a little blood and guts? How about regicide, suicide, and…whatever it is you call it when you have a close friend murdered? At any rate, William Shakespeare has had you covered f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:57PMMonday, June 16, 2014
Everyone knows a couple like these two. They’re passionate and interesting, worldly and deeply into one another. They’re the couple that causes people to remark “I just love the two …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AMIt’s hard to believe, but air travel wasn’t always about long lines, uncomfortable seats and the opportunity to get poked and prodded by strangers. There weren’t always fees to check y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:26AMThursday, June 5, 2014
For a recent college grad, there’s a special feeling when stepping out into the world. Three parts excitement and one part nausea, there’s a sense that anything is possible, happiness is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AMTuesday, June 3, 2014
Don’t lie – you’ve probably thumbed through the pages of a supermarket tabloid more than once in your life. The line is slow, the cashier has run off, and you suddenly find yourself cu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:05AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
It isn’t hard to find live theater in Washington, DC. The nation’s capital is a theater town, after all – and if that’s news to you, then I might suggest a quick visit to the Interne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Here’s a tip for you: if you’re going to see a piece of children’s theater, bring a child with you. It seems obvious, but these things have a way of getting away from you. My 9 year …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:25PM 
