The facts behind the real life incidents captured in Kenneth Jones’s Alabama Story – the controversy over banning a children’s book – stands as a cautionary tale, one that ha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:21PMNat Turner in Jerusalem is a journey into the fervent religious belief behind the leader of a slave rebellion in Southampton County, VA, armed only with a sword and spirit. You may have seen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PMThe Texas Homecoming Revolution of 1995 has got to be one of the strangest titles that I’ve ever seen but the production is incredibly entertaining. The fast-moving script by Jennifer …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:17PMDr. Ruth. Nearly everybody knows her iconic look, sound and effervescent spirit. Little did we know, however, about the marriages that didn’t work, early professional hardships, experi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMIn The Veils by Hope Villanueva, Melody, a female Marine translator in Afghanistan, has completed her tour of duty and returned stateside trying desperate to pick up the pieces of her life.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:05PMMost of us have heard of Booker T. Washington as the counterpoint to W.E.B. DuBois, one espousing the “safe’ position of newly freed blacks to better themselves through industry and serv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AMSet in the time of the American Revolution, Jefferson’s Garden is the sweeping story of the immense struggle of our country’s founders, and the personal story of two people despe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AMIt’s always a treat to see what Pointless Theatre does with a story, and they rise to new levels with their take on one of Shakespeare’s rambling masterworks. The program notes that Sh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMIn the poster for Rabbit Summer, a woman wearing a glamorous dressing gown stands provocatively, hands seemingly on her hips. A closer look through the shadows reveals she’s actually hol…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMFaction of Fools’ usual abundance of silliness reaches new heights in Paul Reiser’s Foolish Fairytales. The puns, the double entendres, mixed messages and general tomfoolery are so…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMYoung new performers who you may not have heard about are finally getting their time in the ARK spotlight at Signature Theatre. Katie Mariko Mariko Murray, Ines Nassara and David Rowen hav…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMA Coffin in Egypt, one of Horton Foote’s lesser known scripts, has one of the most unengaging titles imaginable, (it’s actually derived from the last line in Genesis). Get past the tit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMNina Simon: Four Women at Arena Stage slams you from the moment you see the set depicting a blown-up church with pews flying in mid-air, windows shattered and still smoldering, dust settling…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMThe Ravens brings a whole new perspective to defining art. What’s Shakespeare’s text doing on the lips of a strip tease performer while she sliding down the pole in shimmery stilettos?…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24PMWhat is it about the idea of a mistress? Throughout history the “other woman” has been called all kind of names under the sun, shunned, cast-out, run out of town, off the land – or b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMA writer’s life is peculiarly isolated and the opening sequence of Are you now, or have you ever been… makes that abundantly clear. A typewriter sits on a table with a stack of papers …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMPerfectly timed since the region is still enthralled from the excitement of the near total solar eclipse, Aglaonike’s Tiger is a stylistic rendering of one of the earliest female astronome…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMDebbie Minter Jackson sends back this report from her visit to the Saturday, September 2, opening day of this year’s Page-to-Stage festival at the Kennedy Center and brings back some s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMThomas W. Jones II is older and grayer than when I saw his show 25 years ago but The Wizard of Hip is just as poignant and entertaining as he struts his stuff and delivers bucket loads of a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMTalking with Janet Langhart Cohen is like stepping back in time and talking to a time traveler –she’s been everywhere and knows everybody. A broadcast journalist and President and CEO …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMIt’s surprising how quickly a time period can be captured with a few props, boom box, land line phone and some huge Afro wigs. This world premiere by the talented Kara Lee Corthron is fi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMThe timelessly wonderful Wizard of Oz still shimmers brightly. The familiar story that’s over a century old delights with each well-remembered sight, sound and scene at Creative Cauldron…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMThe Tony Award-winning play Master Class, now at MetroStage, is a thrilling tribute to opera, love, passion and artistry. Playwright Terrence McNally includes the audience as part of an actu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMThe long awaited Smart People at Arena Stage tackles issues of race and gender stereotypes from the viewpoint of four distinctly different people, each serving as a kind of archetype of hist…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMFor this special fully staged production after ten years of radio dramas, Lean & Hungry Theater sure picked a doozy. Lear isn’t for the faint of heart. For one, the notorious a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMDry Land, though set over 100 years later than its companion piece, What Every Girl Should Know, Forum Theatre’s #nastywomenrep, is an alarming reminder that young women continue to f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMWhat Every Girl Should Know opens in pitch darkness with barely audible intermittent sounds of female pleasure, various tones and tonalities and an intermittent gasping groan. What in the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMPulitzer Prize winning playwright D. L. Coburn was intrigued by DC area reviews of his play, The Gin Game, at MetroStage, enough to make a special trip to see it. He wrote the play 40 yea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMIt’s a rare and unusual treat to dip into parts of history that have been cast aside, forgotten and ignored. There was a time when the circus coming to town was the most exciting thing a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMBeing obedient and doing as one is told are usually good traits instilled in the earliest ages and rewarded with parental approval and societal regard. When obedience is compelled without …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:42PMIn the right hands, a simple game of cards can uncover secrets, reveal hidden truths, and topple the best intentions of polite etiquette and civility. The Gin Game at MetroStage shows tha…
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