What if our personal lives were up for discussion between meddling neighbors? What if two opposing facts could be true at the same time? What if “truth” were whatever we wanted it to be,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AM“This is the end for me,” said Gloria (Temple Fortson) recounting her maturing daughter ignoring her after the school play, “Soon I’ll be the enemy.” Desire Moments is a play about…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMA murder mystery dance show? As the curtain rose, I’d already made one critique: murder mysteries are too detail-oriented to work as dance. (There’s a reason why ballet plots are usually…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:23PMTour de Farce is proof that playwriting is no easy task. Its lack of craft, cohesion, and contrast make it seem like a self indulgent, tedious conversation among close friends who aren’t i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:21AMPoor Bob. Interactive theatre doesn’t bode well for the shy. Improv artists Rodrigo Pool and Carrie Helton Parsons, acting brilliantly as vicious, coked up radio anchors, selected an audie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37PMMy notes from opening night: “Funny lime slicing.” “Pretty awkward. Is it supposed to be this way?” “Why do gay men like country music?” “Okay, they are officially screwing wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMIt’s delightful sitting in the audience knowing you’re about to write a rave. You relax knowing you have plenty to write. Words will come easily. And in the case of this weekend’s Urba…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AMUnlike most twenty-somethings, I like a side of stellar theatre with my shots. Nameless Theater’s production of A’Leighsha C. Butler’s play Last Call opened in Adams Morgan last week t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27AMtick, tick…BOOM! is a bold choice for an inaugural production, but it says a lot about the kind of theatre company Alexandria, VA-based QuackenSteele Theatre Company aspires to be. tick, t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AMTaffety Punk Theatre Company’s “Rulebreaker Rep” — directed with a clear vision by Lise Bruneau — focuses on rebellious and freethinking writers throughout history. It questions th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AM“Change the rules!” the audience of parents and young children shouts. Cinderella proclaims, “I do this in the spirit of woman and girl power.” Cinderella: The Remix at Imagination S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:11PMIn the maze of D.C. political and activist organizations, the mission of Young Playwrights’ Theater is clear: Teaching students to create art has less to do with art and more to do with ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AMThe DC chapter of the national non-profit Opera on Tap launched last week at the Black Fox Lounge in Dupont Circle. Titled Love is in the Air, Opera on Tap DC’s first performance (co-prese…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AMIn times of pain, needless violence, and gunshots, glimpses of circus-like brilliance and pathos carry us to different (and more whimsical) dimensions. Impossible! A Happenstance Circus perf…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMMeena’s Dream closed two weeks ago at Forum Theatre at Round House Theatre in Silver Spring, Maryland, but the artistic team and D.C. audiences want the dream to live on. The Meena’s Dre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AMMark Vanhoenacker of Slate declared classical music dead last week, but DC divas aren’t going down without a fight. The new DC metro chapter of Opera on Tap, a non-profit organization devo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:47AMLa Vie en Rose, a collaboration between the In Series and the Washington Ballet Studio Company, is an intriguing production: ballet dancers interpret famous French songs in subdued black and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMDaniel Beaty’s original play The Tallest Tree in the Forest at Arena Stage follows controversial performer and activist Paul Robeson, initially renowned for his singing, but later labe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AM“Your imagination can pierce reality,” says Hindu God Lord Krishna to nine-year-old Meena in the world premiere of Meena’s Dream at Forum Theatre. I left one-part inspired and one-part…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMThe Lion, The Unicorn, and Me, a new opera based on Jeanette Winterson’s acclaimed children’s novel, premiered in the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater on Saturday night. Washington Nationa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:31PMGuess Who’s Coming to Dinner is the story of unexpected and uncomfortable reactions to love between a black man and a white woman. It brings up the issue of racism from all fronts: the Afr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMTurning a beloved film into a musical isn’t easy – certain themes are hard to translate into song, and people notice when lines and entire scenes are cut to make room for these songs. Mi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMFew operas require the soprano to sing in between bites of baked goods. Contemporary opera often goes one of two ways: avant-garde and over our heads, or separate from the grand and often in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMTheatre is a form of therapy and horror is a form of release – taking us to the outer unexplored edges of our minds. Terror and theatre can unleash internal beasts we’d like to ignore. B…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:11AMThe thing I hate about cabaret singers is that you can’t critique them. Cabaret is communicating your humanity – good cabaret singers make you care about them and disarm critics. They si…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:52AMThe beginning of Washington National Opera’s production of The Force of Destiny is more like an indie movie than a 19th century opera. A seemingly normal family sits at a table in silence …
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