Monday, December 7, 2015
For those of you already stuffed to the gills with sugary-sweet Christmas extravaganzas, might I offer a little holiday antidote to the saccharine overload? David Sedaris’ memories of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:16AMWednesday, December 2, 2015
In the mood for a little supper club and music, circa 1935? Then put on your fur and pearls, and have the chauffeur drive you to The Source, where The In Series is currently performing its G…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:25PMMonday, November 30, 2015
Sometimes Christmas can seem like a rerun of itself: if you like ballet, you see The Nutcracker each year. Melodrama? Ah, that’s always Dickens’ Christmas Carol. If your taste ru…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Cole Porter is clearly one of the best lyricists in the history of musical theater, and Kiss Me Kate is by far one of his best works. The words jump and skip across the page and meet his mus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMMonday, November 23, 2015
In the theater, when something you love is done well, there’s a sense of euphoria as you leave: “thank goodness they didn’t mess it up.” That is indeed the case, I am…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
It was a Dark and Stormy Night. (insert sound of typewriter keys clacking here). Actually, the evening I saw Happenstance Theater’s Cabaret Noir in Baltimore, we had springlike tempera…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AMWednesday, October 28, 2015
All of us have shows we haven’t gotten around to seeing yet. We all have our lists- yes, yes, we’ll board a Bolt Bus to NYC soon, gotta get to that one, hear it’s good. Pro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:52AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
“Give the Public What It Wants”. This mantra of theatrical management goes back a long, long time, and long before he became the Elizabethan age’s Boy Wonder, William Shakespeare w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMFriday, October 16, 2015
Edgar Allan Poe. A creepy, dark cellar with low ceilings and candlelight. The ghosts of the past haunting a long-dead writer of the past. What’s not to like? Annapolis Shakespeare Comp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:38AMMonday, October 12, 2015
Broadway has it tough these days. It is so hideously expensive to mount a show- especially a musical- that to write an original show with all-original musical and lyrics, spend the years it …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:46PMMonday, October 5, 2015
Part Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, part Agatha Christie mystery (your pick), and part ‘Strangers at a Bus Stop’ actor’s warmup, Hootenanny by Monique LaForce is a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Before we begin, a question for the grownups: How many of you still have a treasured stuffed animal from our childhoods, still hidden away in a plastic bin in the closet or in a cardboard bo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMWednesday, September 23, 2015
You know something? Shakespeare is funny. This production is a delight, and I am going to recommend it – wait for it- most especially for people who hate Shakespeare. The more you hate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:45PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
If I Hold My Tongue is a new work by playwright Patricia Henley. Focusing on a group of women in a halfway house in Baltimore, it explores what it is to be a parent, a member of the communit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:28AMMonday, September 21, 2015
Sumptuous costumes that take your breath away. Glorious voices in soaring harmonies, accompanied by a live orchestra. Corseted ladies on swings, and a storyline that encompasses the sweep of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMIt’s a old wives’ tale that comics are at odds with the audience- the heckler at a comedy show these days is more far likely to be shouted down by the audience than by the comic.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:16AMMonday, September 14, 2015
Caps For Sale: The Musical is the first show of the 64th season- yep, folks, 64 years- of Adventure Theatre, a children’s theatre company based in Glen Echo Park, Md. Haven’t bee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:51PMWell, folks, I’m not sure I should bother to tell anyone to go see this, as without a doubt it will have sold out before I finish writing this sentence. Word of mouth being what it is …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMThursday, July 30, 2015
Playwright Ann V. Wixon sets before us the well-worn topic of a middle aged woman’s journey through divorce in this one character play. Eve is 45, newly divorced, and comes to a meetin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMSunday, July 19, 2015
J.M. Barrie, who penned “Peter Pan” over a century ago, meant his tale to be a simple one of a boy who doesn’t wish to grow up. RelEASE Physical Theatre Company has taken the chara…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
Ever been to a party where there’s a running joke but you arrived too late to hear the original joke? You feel a bit left out at first, but a couple of drinks later, the joke’s s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
43 people did not have a good time tonight at Journey of a Bombshell: The Ina Ray Hutton Story last night. That’s because the Anacostia Arts Center Black Box theater seats 60 and was l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27AMFriday, July 10, 2015
This is the entry in our Fringe Binge journal for 2015 Capital Fringe What’s a girl to do when she hits a piece of truck tire on 295 and misses the show she’s supposed to review?…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AM 
