Monday, September 30, 2013
Do you know who wrote “Blue Suede Shoes”? I’ll give you a hint: it wasn’t Elvis Presley. No, that honor belongs to Carl Perkins. (known to all as Mr. Phillips), the founder and own…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMSunday, July 28, 2013
Fringe closes tonight. And, along with it, our Twitter Fringe contest, sponsored by Signature Theatre. We had some great entries, and we want to thank everyone who followed us on Twitter, wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00PMSaturday, July 27, 2013
The results of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman case were fresh as the crew of The Deadly Seven took the stage. Fresh enough to make its way into The Deadly Seven, a show about prejudice …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:28PMTuesday, July 23, 2013
It’s not too late to enter our contest for the wittiest Tweet to win 2 tickets to any performance of Miss Saigon at Signature Theatre! All you have to do is Tweet @DCTheatre_Scene with a r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14PMFriday, July 19, 2013
In Costa Rica, there exists a wasp that paralyzes spiders. It then lays an egg on the spider’s abdomen. When the egg hatches, the emerging larva lives off the spider’s blood then essenti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:11AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Joshua Morgan is the Artistic Director of No Rules Theatre Company. Fittingly, he’s the host of The No Rules Show, a variety show in the mind of The Late Show, in which Morgan plays piano,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Before last night, the most I could have told you about the Panama Canal is that it exists, that it was a big deal when the United States built it and that the French had tried and failed to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:17PMA race for the vice-presidency of Capital Fringe. Poetry. A totally historically accurate depiction of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, replete with dance-fighting and k…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:57PMSunday, July 14, 2013
Peter Peters is back. Sort of. Our favorite Fringe pundit has returned in an extended version of last year’s The Pundit. The first act follows Peter Peters (totally embodied by Sean Coe), …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMEver try to describe a dream to someone? Maybe you just had the most fascinating, exhilarating, deliriously fun dream that took you places you never knew existed (because they don’t), and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMFriday, July 12, 2013
“I’m Mike, and I like my shit.” These are the first words out of the mouth of Steve Isaac, who portrays Apple visionary Steve Jobs and Apple consumer Mike (Daisey, presumably) in The A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:46PMWe’re excited to announce our First Annual Capital Fringe Fan Twitter Contest. (We’re still working on the name.) Click for more information about Miss Saigon. But the concept is easy! J…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMTuesday, July 9, 2013
Marriage has undergone a few changes since the 1960s. Most notably, who can engage in it. While these changes are amazing in a civil rights sense, they can create some brambles when it comes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
In some strange way, hip-hop aficionados will admit that the dog days of summer go hand-in-hand with classic hip-hop. It’s not like this is explicitly stated anywhere, but memories of bump…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:00AMFriday, June 28, 2013
– Can a man follow two passions at the same time? A familiar DC actor supports his theatre company by launching a new career - Alex Cook seems a little like every one of us who harbo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
- As One Night with Janis Joplin opens its return summer engagement Friday, June 21st at Arena Stage, we were treated to an interview with Janis’ brother and sister – Forty-thr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Robert Johnson was arguably the greatest blues guitarist to ever roam the South or anywhere on this good earth. In fact, most folks don’t argue that he’s the best. Rather they argue abou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Family. F-A-M-I-L-Y. It can be difficult no matter how easily you can spell it, no matter how eccentric you choose to be in order to escape it, no matter how far you run from it. Which is ex…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37AMFriday, March 22, 2013
A gray brick wall interrupted by two black velvet curtains, and a bare stage offers the setting for an other-worldly place, between Heaven and Hell, somewhere on Earth. A man bursts through …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55AMThursday, March 7, 2013
Most anyone who has ever left his home has longed to be back in it. There exists an unmistakably powerful pull to the familiarity that has been burned into our brains by the repetition of li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Rarely, if ever, would you match up the pop song “Hey Jealousy” by The Gin Blossoms with William Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona. But Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s productio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AMSaturday, February 23, 2013
John Fredriksen seems like an odd center for a play revolving around a teenage HIV-positive prostitute, a multi-media artist who is grieving for her recently deceased son and a cuckolding bu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:31AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Marriage is difficult, and Barefoot in the Park doesn’t try to make it seem like anything but. Penned by Neil Simon of Biloxi Blues fame, the three-act play follows a newlywed couple t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Religion is a touchy subject among people of different religions. It can become an even touchier subject among people of the same religion. At least people with different beliefs can leave i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PMFriday, December 7, 2012
The easiest way to shatter your notions of a person is to actually meet him. Sometimes, this is a positive thing: someone who you presumed to be a jerk turns out to be friendly. Sometimes, i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:42PMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Doctor Suess, or Theodor Geisel as he was know to his kin, was a rebellious soul. He fought, tooth and nail, for civil rights and social justice. He was a progressive who understood that adu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Joy comes from a number of places. Nostalgia, while not joyful in and of itself, can bring a certain quiet excitement. Especially for a time long removed, a time before cell phones, before c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMMonday, August 6, 2012
I’m not a set designer or a director, but if forced to guess, I’d say there’s nothing easy about putting on a solid staging of Little Shop of Horrors. When one of the main …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Can art be made about artists? It can be done, but it has to be done cleverly and creatively. It has to show the artist in a new light: either by humanizing him or finding some other way to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AMThursday, July 19, 2012
As a general rule, literally translating symbolism and colloquialisms isn’t a great thing to do on stage or a screen or really ever. Yet, that’s exactly what Christian Beltran an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:49PMOne of the five main characters of A Night In (Or the Night My Wife Left) is a bong named “High.” This fact stands out a great deal, for some reason. It’s not funny, though…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:11AM 
