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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Theater Profile: The American Repertory Theater by Robert Duffley

Learn more about theaters around the country through our Theater Profile Series! The post Theater Profile: The American Repertory Theater appeared first on Breaking Character.

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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Report from Moscow2: a new generation of Russian artists under political pressure by Robert Duffley

As reported here yesterday, Monday morning, Woolly Mammoth Theater announced the cancellation of their upcoming festival of work from Russia. The withdrawal of Moscow municipal funds crucia…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:17AM
Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Report from Moscow: Russian tensions ice Woolly’s Festival of New Radical Theatre by Robert Duffley

DCTS writer Robert Duffly is presently studying in Moscow, under a program from Harvard University The Russians are not coming. Monday morning, Woolly Mammoth Theatre announced the cancellat…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AM
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Arena Stage featured in An Ideal Theater by Robert Duffley

Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists, has compiled a family Bible for the modern American theater. In the letters, speeches, and reflections collected in An Ideal Theater: Foundi…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:56AM
Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Gilgamesh by Robert Duffley

The mythmakers at Constellation Theatre Company, who previously produced The Ramayana, The Green Bird, and Metamorphoses, have now gone after the world’s oldest story. Gilgamesh, the a…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:58AM
Friday, April 12, 2013

Coriolanus by Robert Duffley

Performed with Wallenstein as part of STC’s Hero/Traitor Repertory, Shakespeare’s less-performed Roman tragedy roars to life at the STC. Director David Muse sheaths the tragedy&#…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AM

Monty Python’s Spamalot by Robert Duffley

Monty Python’s Spamalot now at The National Theatre for its brief and final visit to DC, is a musical romp through a favorite film that shouldn’t be missed. A delight we’r…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AM
Monday, April 8, 2013

James and the Giant Peach by Robert Duffley

Like Dahl’s famous peach, this larger-than-life production teems with fun. A bit of genre anxiety robs the story of some of the stage magic it deserves, but there’s still plenty …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:35PM
Monday, March 18, 2013

Capitol Steps . the latest on Francis I by Robert Duffley

Pennsylvania Avenue meets Broadway in Capitol Steps‘ farcical revue of contemporary politics. Comprising an ensemble of multi-talented former Hill staffers, Capitol Steps offers a musi…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AM
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Dante’s Inferno by Robert Duffley

Hell hath no water break for Bill Largess, whose one-man Dante’s Inferno sears through Dante’s underworld in 90 minutes. Exercising a mnemonic hat would impress Homer, Largess e…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AM
Monday, October 29, 2012

The Conference of the Birds by Robert Duffley

“Nothing in the world is as amazing as something that is neither clear nor unclear,” marvels a member of director Aaron Posner’s dervish ensemble in The Conference of the Birds, no…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:30PM
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Holly Down in Heaven by Robert Duffley

Holly is a precocious 15-year-old. She knows the fine points of quantum physics, and she’s in her school’s gifted and talented program. She is also pregnant, and a recent convert…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:28AM
Monday, August 13, 2012

[missed connections] by Robert Duffley

The end of days strikes close to home in Impossible Theater Company’s new devised piece, [missed connections] at The Fridge, a snug but supercool gallery space near Eastern Market. The…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:45PM

Hamlet at the Dupont Circle fountain by Robert Duffley

Groundlings gathered in Dupont Circle Saturday night to watch Empty Chair Theatre Company juggle skulls and, eventually, die all over the fountain’s north steps in a swashbuckling and …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AM
Sunday, July 15, 2012

We Tiresias by Robert Duffley

Stephen Spotswood’s new play We Tiresias is not so much a retelling of the blind seer myth as it is a total refiguring. Using three actors to portray different phases in the prophetic …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27PM
Saturday, July 14, 2012

No Exit by Robert Duffley

At least until the end of the Capital Fringe Festival, philosophically inclined theatergoers can find hell in a church basement. One Universal Race Theater’s production of Sartre’…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AM

Dreams in the Arms of the Binding Lady by Robert Duffley

Izumi Ashizawa’s Dreams in the Arms of the Binding Lady  is a nightmare in all the right ways. In turns seductive and ghastly, this dream sequence drawn from Japanese myth is an entra…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:21AM
Friday, July 13, 2012

The Nita and Zita Show by Robert Duffley

The Nita and Zita Show lovingly re-imagines the 1920′s vaudeville scene, whisking audiences to the Folies Bergère era with sparkling dance numbers and Hungarian gypsy tunes. Inspired …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:19AM
Friday, June 29, 2012

Richard III by Robert Duffley

Brave Spirits Theatre plays dress-up in this jaunty production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, staged minimally with a cast of ten in the Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Lab Theater…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:45PM
Monday, June 18, 2012

Source: The Pressure Cooker by Robert Duffley

It’s taco night in the Source rehearsal studio. As three strangers sit down to dinner, their similar anxieties bring them into a shared space that starts to feel like home. With its ri…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:43PM

Shadow-Matter: Exam Log X by Robert Duffley

Over a series of experiments, a scientist is drawn ever closer to his subject in this elegant, gymnastic dance of opposites. One of the Source Festival’s three Artistic Blind Dates, th…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AM

Source: The Pressure Cooker by Robert Duffley

It’s taco night in the Source rehearsal studio. As three strangers sit down to dinner, their similar anxieties bring them into a shared space that starts to feel like home. With its ri…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:35AM

Source: Filter by Robert Duffley

When the man in the fedora leads the audience onto 14th Street and promises they’re about to see something that “has never before existed in the history of this evening,” he’…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:01AM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards