Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Normally, you're drawn to Company, Stephen Sondheim's 1970 Broadway musical about the ecstasies and aggravations of marriage, because of its cynical tang. From the bar fly bravado of "The La…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AM[SHARE]Friday, May 17, 2013
Never thought I could welcome or anticipate meeting a character more than Aunt Ester Tyler, the 285-year-old matriarch and soul-cleanser of 1839 Wiley Avenue whose touchstone presence filled…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 9, 2013
More than 30 years after Sid Vicious snarled "My Way," punk is busting out all over once again. There is a punk couture show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spikes adorn clothes and bags …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Michael Hollinger's Ghost-Writer may have been inspired by the relationship between Henry James and his secretary Theodora Bosanquet, but there is something delectably Jane Austen-y about th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AM[SHARE]Monday, April 22, 2013
The relationship between home, history and hatred is potently explored in Bruce Norris' edgy living room comedy Clybourne Park, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning play now housed at CenterStage…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 19, 2013
"What ever happened to class?" laments lethal flapper Velma Kelly and prison matron Mama Morton in the song "Class" from the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago. You won't find evidence of anythi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AM[SHARE]Friday, March 15, 2013
Whoever said that travel is broadening never met a modern-day flight attendant. The three women of Marisa Wegrzyn's world premiere, world-wearily funny play Mud Blue Sky, are drudges at 50,0…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2013
It's hard to watch something you love suffer. In this case, it is the 2006 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening, featuring a sumptuous indie-rock score from Duncan Sheik and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 23, 2013
A gorgeous new space deserves an equally stunning production. Everyman Theatre has pulled off this challenging feat with its sparkling renovation of the old Town Theater movie palace and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:19AM[SHARE]As any fan of Fifty Shades of Grey will tell you, chicks dig guys in black masks. Before Christian Grey, the Dark Knight and other masked morsels, there was Zorro, who also had a way with a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:56AM[SHARE]Monday, December 31, 2012
 Sing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, the accursed rage that brought great suffering to the Achaeans. These cold winter nights are made for storytelling, for gatherin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:29AM[SHARE]Friday, December 14, 2012
Even my culture-savvy bestie from Albuquerque was a little dim on The Pajama Men, the New Mexico improvisational duo of Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez currently showing off their sleepwear"an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Some seasons back, CenterStage did a delightful job with William Inge's Picnic, directed with poignancy and joy by then-artistic director Irene Lewis, so a new production of his 1955 play Bu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The current Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher is a captivating prequel to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan that speaks of the effect of lost mothers on little boys and even unloved, scalawag pi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Once upon a Sunday dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Will this latest Poe play rate high or very poor? Will I nod, nearly napping, or will my synapses be a-snapping As I watch Poe's t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AM[SHARE]Monday, October 8, 2012
The Wicked Witch of the West was more than just green skin and cackle. Similarly, there's more to Glinda the Good Witch than a simpering smile and a twinkly wand. The backstories of these tw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 25, 2012
You know a dysfunctional family drama is working when you think to yourself "My family is crackers, but they are nothing compared to this brood." That's what happens during the second act of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Rajiv Joseph's 2010 play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, is one of the most inventive meditations on war you're likely to encounter. Set in 2003 in Iraq, the play depicts the ravages of wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Some things just can't be put in a frame. Intimacy, for example, or the messiness of normal life. After a devastating bomb injury in Iraq, war photographer Sarah Goodwin (Beth Hylton) is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Good ole boys and good time gals are a match made in chicken-fried heaven in Signature Theatre's racy and randy revival of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the 1978 musical that combines…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
He's the dude on the $20 bill, had the nickname "Old Hickory" (which referred to his orneriness, not, as the musical insinuates, his male organ) and helped create what is now known as the De…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 10, 2012
There's a moose on the loose in Glen Echo and he's mad for muffins. No need to call animal control, just make your way to Adventure Theatre and prepare to be bowled over by the funniest, mos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 7, 2012
Playwright Lisa Kron knows what it's like to live in a sick house. Growing up with a chronically ill mother, Miss Kron endured the endless bad days and the rare good days, the tip-toeing aro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:56AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 22, 2012
You think your family's crazy? Compared to the purposefully pixilated Sycamore-Vanderhof clan " the characters, and I mean characters, populating George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's exuberant …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 10, 2012
What do you do when the black eyeliner fades, the safety pins tarnish, and everyone"not just Johnny Rotten"is pretty vacant? That's the dilemma for Jamie (Deborah Randall), a former punk roc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58AM[SHARE]Monday, May 7, 2012
Everybody in the pool! It's a pool party of a sublimely archetypal sort in Constellation Theatre's entrancing staging of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, directed with flair and a fanciful ai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:39PM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
True story: My mother took my sister and my seven year-old self to see “Mary Poppins” in 1964 at a downtown Baltimore movie palace"who knows, it could have been the Hippodrome. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:52AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 21, 2012
New Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah gets off to an astonishing start with his directorial debut production of Matthew Lopez's mesmerizing play The Whipping Man. Atmospheric a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Like Willow Smith, Rapunzel (Felicia Curry) loves her hair. And why shouldn't she? It is her crowning glory, her plaything, a transportation system, and until Prince Brian (Jonathan Atkinson…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Pinocchio may have wished to be a real boy, but Basil Twist's puppets have the best of both worlds. They are all too human, with souls that burn bright as jewels. But they are also impossibl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:50AM[SHARE]Monday, March 19, 2012
Cherry blossoms and the perfumed air of a new spring pale in comparison to the enchantments awaiting indoors at CenterStage, home of a beautiful and liltingly fiendish production of the Sond…
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