Saturday, January 23, 2016
Let Snowzilla 2016 do its worst. We've got sunshine right here in Charm City, where the pure magic of director Wendy C. Goldberg's production of As You Like It stirs the summer of love insid…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 23, 2015
10. Macbeth Not a stage production per se but a movie adaptation of Shakespeare's brutal tragedy directed by Justin Kurzel whose extraordinary clarity of vision brings this tale of cruelty a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Feeling droopy, as if you need to dip your candy canes in Prozac? Copious cheer (of the non-holiday variety) greets you at Everyman Theatre via the lovely, loving production of Outside Mulli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AM[SHARE]Half a Matilda is better than none, one decides. The challenge of fitting this Broadway show into the wide and deep Opera House stage compromises the exuberance and dark energy of Matilda…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AM[SHARE]Monday, November 23, 2015
Full disclosure: Â I am a theater-loving football fan. It is in my blood. I was almost born at a Baltimore Colts game. I wasn't supposed to be born until January so my Mom toddled off to a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Remember when Election Day actually meant something? In my family, the adults ran to the polling place first thing and at night my grandfather threw a results party with shucked oysters and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2015
Many women of a certain age can recall when their mothers pulled down a volume of The Secret Garden, usually illustrated, from the book shelf and said "Here, I think you will like this. I kn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Sometimes you just get in your own way. Dragging my heels on Fences at Everyman due to a horrible cold and my dogged belief it is not my favorite August Wilson play"Pulitzer Prize and love f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
Full disclosure. Back in the day as a features reporter, I covered not one, but two Pillsbury Bake-Offs"including the one in San Diego where teenagers kidnapped the life-size Pillsbury Dough…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Want to get inside a woman's brain? The world premiere Animal, by British playwright Clare Lizzimore, part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, allows you to do just that. Staged in close…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
When Molly Drexler (Holly Twyford) pleads to her wife Abby (Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan) "Protect me from those people downstairs," she isn't just blowing smoke. The Drexlers are one whoo-whee, ba…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:00PM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
With a silken flow and a keen eye for the realities of 18th century women, Center Stage's production of Pride and Prejudice is froth with substance. Jane Austen fans may demurely balk at the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
The Women’s Voices Theater Festival continues to smash our perceptions of “lady theater” with the full-throated Ironbound by Martyna Majok, which amounts to 90 minutes o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:46PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
There's a fall-ish chill in the air and a delectable thrill inside Everyman Theatre, where they are opening their 25th season with a slam-bang, conscience-prickling production of that old ch…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
Hold on to the lightness and vivacity of summer for just a little while longer with Olney Theatre Center's spirited, spun-sugar confection production of Nöel Coward's Hay Fever. Director El…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:09PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Was my face red. Watching Keith Hamilton Cobb's mighty American Moor, I flushed scarlet with the knowledge of the accidental racism of my asking African American actors through the years "Do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2015
Stray from the path to Columbia and get thankfully lost in Toby's enchanting, enjoyable production of Into the Woods. Unlike the recent movie version, which was dark and decidedly adult, Tob…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 14, 2015
The saying goes, all you need to become a punk rock band is three chords and the truth. Russian performance artists and feminist activists Pussy Riot couldn't play three chords but their tru…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20PM[SHARE]Playwright Johnna Adams (Gideon's Knot) makes a strong case for unfettered imagination in the quirky, intense World Builders, a world premiere rom-com at the 25th anniversary of the Contempo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20PM[SHARE]Who better than a feckless linguist with commitment issues to be a live-in counselor for a nice couple from Missouri having marriage problems? That's the situation in Michael Weller's (Moonc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22PM[SHARE]Fashion is pain, beauty is suffering and thin is in in the chic black comedy Everything You Touch, playwright Sheila Callaghan's faboo-looking treatise on body shaming, art and finding your …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 16, 2015
As any horror movie will tell you: don't go into the basement. You never know what you'll find there. In the case of Occupied Territories, a visceral and stunning new work from Theater Allia…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Sign of a good time had by all? Patrons of Everyman Theatre's Blithe Spirit in the parking garage elevator making plans to return for another performance. Grandchildren, reluctant spouses, N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:45PM[SHARE]Monday, May 25, 2015
Too bad you can't smoke in theaters anymore. After a few hours witnessing the climactic goings-on in Woolly Mammoth's superb production of Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room or the vibrator play,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM[SHARE]With his elegant diction and carriage and talent for genteel mimicry, Philip Goodwin makes a fine Kenneth Tynan. He shows the man as rather a ruin — in the throes of emphysema, his fin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2015
The Kit Kat Club roars to life with trashy, Weimar-era decadent splendor in Signature Theatre's smashing production of Cabaret, directed and choreographed by Matthew Gardiner. Based on Chris…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:16PM[SHARE]Friday, May 15, 2015
The world premiere musical Marley, based on the reggae giant Bob Marley, is jamming with righteous rhythms, spiritual power and a potent message about love, justice and revolution. With Balt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PM[SHARE]Monday, April 27, 2015
When was the last time theater was a white-knuckle experience? Seventy-five minutes of heart-pounding, cold sweat, and conscience-prickling tension are yours for the taking at Factory 449's …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:47PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 21, 2015
The 70th anniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel finds the musical in radiant fettle, thanks to a vital and deeply moving production at Olney Theatre Center under the direction of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 14, 2015
To grandmother's house we go in the subtly affecting 4000 Miles, the second half of Center Stage's Amy Herzog Festival. The first play, After the Revolution, set in 1999, delves into a proud…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:34PM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
Family politics are prickly enough, but throw in a proudly political left-wing clan and you've got the makings of some proletariat pyrotechnics. Amy Herzog's play After the Revolution is bas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AM[SHARE] 
