Monday, December 19, 2011
The touring production of Billy Elliot, the Musical, now ensconsed at the Kennedy Center Opera House, is a driving, energetic, and oddly appropriate holiday feast for thoughtful theatergo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AMTuesday, December 13, 2011
When the call is for a smart, elegant, sophisticated woman who knows how to slip in a punch line, the answer is Holland Taylor. The star of stage, film and television found her match in the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08AMFriday, December 9, 2011
You know things are going to be a little weird when you enter a theater and receive—in lieu of a program—a confidential psychiatric patient file clipped into an official-looking manila f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AMMonday, December 5, 2011
Politically and economically speaking, 2011 has been a pretty depressing year. That’s making it pretty tough for many folks to really get into the holiday spirit this Christmas season. But…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AMSaturday, November 19, 2011
Now playing in the capacious Verizon Center, Quidam is the current iteration of the Montréal-based Cirque du Soleil, the amazing French-Canadian entertainment combine that has, in many ways…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:01PMTuesday, November 15, 2011
The latest traveling road-show version of Jersey Boys, now playing in a limited engagement at the National Theatre, is loaded with energy and as stuffed with fab Four Seasons classics as any…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
With earsplitting audio effects rivaling those of the latest “Transformers” movie sequel, the Folger Theatre’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Othello is geared toward attrac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:22PMWednesday, October 19, 2011
“the best one-person show we’ve seen in many a year.” The Theater of the First Amendment’s latest offering—Can’t Scare Me: The Story of Mother Jones—is a virtual blast …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThursday, September 29, 2011
It’s tremendous! It’s stupendous! It’s packed with thrills, chills, and magical fun for boys and girls of all ages! It’s none other than The Big Apple Circus, now camped out on mirac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26AMTuesday, September 20, 2011
Looking to stretch your family entertainment dollar during yet another period of economic uncertainty? Well, here’s some good news. The Washington National Opera is coming to your rescue w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36AMFriday, August 12, 2011
DC area fans of Broadway’s golden age musicals have had a heck of a 2010-2011 season. Arena Stage re-launched itself last fall with a mega-boffo new production of Oklahoma!. (It’s back t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMTuesday, August 2, 2011
Grease is one of those Broadway musicals that’s been grown, shrunk, and re-shaped over time so that each version you see can be rather different from the last. The Olney Theatre’s sprig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:26PMWednesday, June 22, 2011
David Cale’s one-man show, The History of Kisses — now in its world premiere run at the Studio Theatre — is a dish best served slow. Set in and around a forlorn lifeguard chair perched…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:15PMWednesday, June 8, 2011
The Washington Savoyards wrap up their season this month with a snazzy, kinetic, hot and hilarious must-see revival of Murray Horwitz’ and Richard Maltby Jr.’s 1978 hit Broadway revue, A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMThursday, May 26, 2011
Arena Stage’s world premiere production of Rupert Holmes’ A Time to Kill is, in turn, funny, shocking, witty, and sly. It’s based on John Grisham’s breakthrough law-and-order novel a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:27AMThursday, May 19, 2011
From its sleekly stunning set to its phenomenally talented cast, Round House Theatre’s new production of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus is first-class all the way. It’s a visceral, enthrallin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:17PMThursday, May 12, 2011
Profits and pleasure. Both words accurately describe the happy circumstances of Signature Theatre’s current revival of Side by Side by Sondheim. Profits aplenty for Signature as a legion o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMWednesday, May 4, 2011
Beau Willimon’s Farragut North is the kind of “built in Washington” drama that DC theater aficionados clearly will enjoy. In addition, for die-hard political junkies, Farragut North, c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:05PMThursday, April 14, 2011
The American Century Theater’s (TACT’s) current production of Stage Door at Arlington’s Gunston Theatre Two is a bit of a mess. Or at least it was last Saturday evening. That said, it�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMFriday, March 18, 2011
Take one part Beckett non-sequiturs. Add equal parts patented Ionesco loneliness and absurdity. Add a measure of Greek mythology, a heavy dollop of Irish wit, and a piquant dash of Hiberno-E…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:29AMThursday, March 17, 2011
Born in Dublin in 1967, playwright Enda Walsh has established an impressive reputation in his native Ireland as well as Great Britain. Currently a resident of London, he’s authored over a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:52PMHe is a young, dashing, impossibly handsome politician, a rapidly rising star in his party, which prizes him for his integrity, forthrightness and brilliant oratorical skills. She is his wif…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AMWednesday, February 23, 2011
Here and gone in the twinkling of an eye, Round Two of Solas Nua’sProject Brand New” opened and closed at Flashpoint’s Mead Theatre Lab in one weekend with a quartet of works-in-progre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMThursday, February 17, 2011
The Keegan Theatre’s new production of The Weir grabs you from the start, almost before you know it. Bright yet dark, simple yet complex, emotional yet cerebral, Irish playwright Conor McP…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMThursday, February 10, 2011
Morning, noon, and night, gigantic waves from the windswept Atlantic crash against the craggy cliffs of three forlorn rocky outcrops at the mouth of Galway Bay. These are Ireland’s legenda…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:20PMWednesday, February 2, 2011
Dial the Wayback Machine to the year 2004. The Folger Theatre is mounting Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, directed and re-imagined by veteran DC director Joe Banno. He’s transported …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMThursday, January 27, 2011
Cymbeline‘s disparate themes and credulity-stretching plot have always posed serious challenges to any director willing to take it on. That’s one of the reasons it’s not often stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26AMMonday, December 20, 2010
Sunset Boulevard is not the best musical that Andrew Lloyd Webber ever composed. While its primary storyline—the decline and fall of an aging silent film diva–is oddly compelling, it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AMTuesday, December 14, 2010
It’s hard to avoid running into The Nutcracker during America’s year-end holiday festivities. From amateur productions featuring tiny, budding ballerinas and piped-in music to the kind o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:51AMMonday, December 13, 2010
The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s new production of Leonard Bernstein’s time-traveling satirical operetta Candide is a thumping-good evening of intellectual musical theater. Generally fa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:37AMTuesday, November 23, 2010
Leapin’ lizards! Annie’s back in town! Charles Strouse’s and Martin Charnin’s Tony Award-winning 1977 hit Broadway musical,currently playing at the Olney Theatre Center in suburban…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07AM 
