It was an unusual invitation that I received from a colleague and friend about the final four chances to see her current performance: “Please read the description and warnings about the sh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AM“You couldn’t write that,” said the guy in the seat next to me at Tuesday night’s opening of Dame Edna’s Glorious Goodbye: The Farewell Tour, in town for a week (closing April 26th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:19PM“There’s no justification, none of that, but it’s an incredibly interesting story. I don’t know that it’s ever been told before, and certainly not in this fashion,” Matty Griffit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07AMWar stories and insights from Hemmingsen, Ingvarsson, and McNamara — doing it together for decades Robert McNamara is Artistic Director of SCENA Theatre and Director of The Norwegians, the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AM“We were trying to figure it out the other day,” Nanna Ingvarsson said after I asked her how many times she and her husband Brian Hemmingsen have worked together. I was talking to them i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMLast night’s thirty-first annual Helen Hayes Award ceremony was also the first annual Helen Awards ceremony. With so many more companies, so many more productions, so much more theatre in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AM“I went into it expecting to be terrified. Hanging up after talking to the agency, I thought to myself, ‘Oh, I’ve just guaranteed myself two weeks of total stress.’ But it hasn’t b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMI can’t recommend Blossom’s Rainbow highly enough. This wonderfully magical new play for very young audiences just opened at The Athenaeum in Alexandria, and moves to Atlas in DC in Apri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMIt’s been six years since Angela Lansbury won her fifth Tony for playing Madame Arcati in a Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit. It’s been nearly sixty years since she made her stage debut…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMSome readers may remember Nehal Joshi from his years as an actor in D.C. Others may know him from the roles he’s played when he’s come back to town, most recently Swiss Cheese in Mother …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMOutstanding production of 'Blue,' the new small stage experience for early childhood audiences from Imagination Stage The post Blue, a new treat for the wee ones from Imagination Stage appea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMTo the strains of “Ride of the Valkyries,” the new President of the Kennedy Center, Deborah F. Rutter, took the stage of its Family Theatre on Tuesday morning to announce the Center’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMI remember reading a biography of one of the great British actors — Laurence Olivier, I think it was. He had been doing a tour of this country. He took back to England something that wasn�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AMA funny thing happened on the way to the Folger. Outside the front door, I saw a poster for its production of Mary Stuart. I was there to interview the actors playing Mary, Queen of Scots, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:20PMThe question of the year for theatre wonks has been answered: Does the sequel hold up to the original? We’ve waited a long time for this particular answer — for more than four hundred ye…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMThe remarkably gifted George Gershwin was astoundingly prolific. He left behind an amazing musical legacy that is still wildly popular and familiar 75 years after his death at the shockingly…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMAh, the annual Helen Hayes Awards announcement ceremony. A room full of hope and tension; the hush as the names are read, broken by the occasional gasp or cheer; the surprising results mixed…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:55PMI wade into the compensation debate with some reluctance. The discourse has become startlingly heated. People care about the issues, which is a good thing. But unfortunate, incendiary, even …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:49PM“This isn’t your Grandmother’s Chekhov. If you are looking for the samovar…” John Lescault was describing the new play, Life Sucks (Or the Present Ridiculous) by Aaron Posner, curr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:00AM“It has been an autumn of change, I would say. A lot of transition.” Jessica Hansen is Executive Artistic Director/Co-Founder of Lean & Hungry Theater, the company in town that produ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:44AM“It’s a hard thing to walk away from work,” Jennifer L. Nelson said during our recent phone conversation. We were talking about her decision, in light of the firing by the DC Jewish Co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AM“Yes, it’s an unusual part,” Michael Russotto said about his lead role in Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale, beginning January 14 at Rep Stage in Columbia. “You don’t often have c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMEdward Gero is in his sixth consecutive year of playing Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre. If you want to do the math, he’s played the part upwards of 300 times. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:05AMIt’s strange to say, about the components of a project called The Great Divorce, that they are a team that is returning. But they are — they’re back, they being C.S. Lewis, Fellowship …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AM“My goal is that they [the audience] will never look at the story the same way again. This is not your Mama’s Christmas Carol.” In what has become an annual event, Paul Morella is brin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:51AM“He wanted to do something strange and melancholic, but also very joyful.” Zoë Waites was speaking about Michael Attenborough and his choice of As You Like It, which he directed at Shak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:15AMOne of the unexpected joys of parenting, for me, has been experiencing those moments when you see your child interact with the world in a new or more engaged way and you feel a sudden wave o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:39PMMichael Avolio, director of Quotidian Theatre Company’s currently running production of Hedda Gabler, spoke with DCTS’s Christopher Henley recently by e-mail about the production and its…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AMIt’s funny that, as influential and as storied as the experimental theatre of the 1950s and 1960s is, it remains, for the most part, lore — something you read about, think about, but don…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:17AM“I took the play and read it on Memorial Day in Arlington Cemetery. It was a very significant read, that day. I thought, this was the cost. We are continuing to cycle through the same prob…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:53AMCaleen Sinnette Jennings was describing what had inspired her latest play. One of the things she mentioned was a white college-age son of her friend telling her, “If a hip hop candidate …
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