Wednesday, July 13, 2011
How does an enviably perfect, fortunate family cope with senseless tragedy? The Nash clan takes a rather curious route " song. Barrington Walters, Jr. as Eli (Photo: Ron Blunt) In Tra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37AM[SHARE]Friday, June 24, 2011
There's nothing new under the sun, or in fact, under the Hollywood sign. The movie biz's penchant for endlessly recycling itself is parodied in the Reduced Shakespeare Company's show Complet…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:43PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 8, 2011
It's 1605 and Spain needs a noble knight. The retired country squire, Don Quixote, stuffed to the gills with chivalric novels, decides he is the man to bring gentility back. Donning a helmet…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Talk about destiny. Tell your kid his penis is called "bootycandy" and you are not setting him  up for a career as, say, a civil engineer. Something a tad more dramatic and outlandish is …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Is there anything more delicious than Harold Pinter done well? When the show's funny and weird and a polite sense of dread hangs over everything like a sinister odor? The Shakespeare Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:11AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2011
It's not the air-conditioning causing goose bumps at the Eisenhower Theater. Instead, chills of pleasure are induced by director Eric Schaeffer's deluxe, star-packed production of Follies, S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:21PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 22, 2011
In the midst of a rainy spring, the real sunshine can be found indoors, courtesy of Everyman Theatre's fresh-as-a-daisy production of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, directed with wit and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Even in this age of iPads, mobile apps and handheld computer games, show-and-tell still holds an irresistible allure for grade-schoolers. The Day John Henry Came to School, a world-premiere …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Ever had the hankering to stop being a seat warmer and jump up onstage to join the action? Careening out of your comfort zone and inadvertently breaking the fourth wall are two of the themes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Multiply Miss Havisham by three, add Irish accents and a peculiarly compelling sense of the macabre and you have Enda Walsh's The New Electric Ballroom, the female-driven companion piece to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AM[SHARE]Monday, April 4, 2011
No need to finagle an invite to the LeVay family's handsomely appointed summer home on Martha's Vineyard. Just get a ticket to Everyman Theatre's deliciously enjoyable production of Lydia R.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2011
St. Patrick's Day madness has safely passed, but Baltimore remains the scene for green, as Shrek The Musical brings the lovable, lime-skinned ogre to the Hippodrome Theatre for a two-week st…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:03AM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2011
We go to live theater for fireworks, but in the case of Theater J's fine staging of The Chosen, transplanted to Arena Stage for a brief run, often the production's pleasures are revealed in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2011
Nearly 50 years old and not a speck of flab or complacency. How often can you say that about anything, much less a play? Edward Albee's 1962 majestic three-act matrimonial grudge match, Who'…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:17PM[SHARE]Friday, February 11, 2011
Writer Joan Didion insists on having the last word. This insistence comes back to haunt her after she has one of those years"you know, the kind where catastrophes become the warp and woof of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Before Tom Stoppard got all metaphysical and mathematical on us, he wrote fluff. The Stoppardian word gymnastics and clever silliness are very much evident in On the Razzle, but it has ab…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PM[SHARE]Saturday, February 5, 2011
Centerstage Artistic Director Irene Lewis goes out with a bang with a wickedly scabrous production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, the final show directed by Miss Lewis after a 20-year st…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Sex and theater criticism are not synonymous. Although the majority of ink-stained wretches clean up well, it is a rare occurrence for theatergoers to whistle appreciatively under their coll…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55PM[SHARE]Monday, January 10, 2011
Anna Deavere Smith glides in and out of personas with the ease of just-cut hair slipping to the barber's floor. Her quicksilver qualities and keen listening skills are beautifully utilized i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07AM[SHARE]Friday, January 7, 2011
Hey Hon. Don't go downy Ocean. You'll freeze your garbanzos off and not even a couple of Natty Bohs will warm you up. Â Fortify yourself with a nice crab cake and head on over to Center St…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Seasonal schmaltz making you farklempt? Â Tarnish that tinsel with a refreshing nip of filth in The Kinsey Sick's raunchy holiday roundelay Oy Vey in a Manger. The Aaron and Cecile Goldman…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 15, 2010
The holidays have descended upon first-grade Room One and Junie B. Jones (Casie Platt) is of two minds. On the one hand, she is giddier than Scrooge on Christmas morning with the prospect of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AM[SHARE]Monday, November 22, 2010
Arena Stage inaugurates its Kogod Cradle theater, an incubator for new plays, with an invigorating production of Marcus Gardley's Every Tongue Confess, a sprawling tale about hate crimes and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:43PM[SHARE] 
