Monday, May 8, 2017
Audiences for Václav Havel’s Protest will be seeing it underground less than a mile from the White House in a performance space virtually unknown to theatregoers until this week. They wil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Creative Cauldron is presenting the world premiere of Kaleidoscope, a new musical by Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith, that examines Alzheimer’s disease through the eyes of a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThursday, April 27, 2017
Rorschach Theatre’s co-artistic director Randy Baker has penned some intriguing plays over the years—memorable shows such as Dream Sailors and After the Flood. His latest, Forgotten Kin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames, will have its DC premiere as the first-ever production for the Ally Theatre Company. “I had the privilege…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
The world premiere of Midwestern Gothic is being staged at Signature Theatre’s intimate ARK Theatre marries music, lyrics and orchestrations by Josh Schmidt and book and lyrics by Royce Va…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMMonday, March 27, 2017
When Audrey Bertaux takes the stage as Lisa Kron at the beginning of Well, being staged at 1st Stage, her character will explain to the audience that the play is not “about my mother and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
When Audrey Bertaux takes the stage as Lisa Kron at the beginning of Well, being staged at 1st Stage, her character will explain to the audience that the play is not “about my moth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Over the course of the next two months, the Kennedy Center will showcase the work of five of the theater’s preeminent directors from across the globe: Robert Lepage, Carlos Diaz, Sulayman …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12PMThursday, March 9, 2017
With St. Patrick’s Day only a week away, and “Danny Boy” heard in many a pub, Solas Nua, the DC based company dedicated to Irish arts, is presenting the American premiere of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PMFor Road Trip, the Congressional Chorus’ 11th annual cabaret, 80 singers, a 20-member specialty dance troupe, and a rockin’ seven-piece band will travel the nation and feature songs that…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMFriday, February 24, 2017
For eight years, the Intersections Festival has been bringing some of DC’s best performance artists to the H Street venue, Atlas Performing Arts Center, and this year’s nine jam-pack…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMThursday, February 23, 2017
“…puppetry, projections, dance and live music, will capture the imagination of the audience.” That was Michael Ross, Managing Director of Baltimore Center Stage, talking with DCTS …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMSince its founding in 1963, Center Stage has grown into an important cultural resource, touching the lives of thousands of people in the Baltimore area each year. The popular theater has r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMFriday, February 10, 2017
When director Kathryn Chase Bryer saw Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway five years ago, she was blown away by how it created stage images in such a minimalistic way. Now her version, i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Last year, Keegan Theatre’s new Theatre for Young Audiences program called PAY-RAH-KA staged a reading of How to Catch a Leprechaun. The program’s first full-scale prod…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Chris Stezin cut his teeth professionally as an actor doing Shakespeare for about six years all over the country, which instilled in him a deep reverence for the work. “I started performin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMSunday, January 15, 2017
When Christopher Paul Curtis wrote the children’s book, Bud, Not Buddy, in 1999 it quickly became a darling among book critics and beloved by families everywhere. The cherished book won tw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThursday, January 12, 2017
Although Roe v. Wade is considered one of the Supreme Court’s most landmark cases, and there’s probably been as much written and debated about the case as any other in history, aside fro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMThursday, December 8, 2016
Since its beginning in 2001, Synetic Theater has included, among its unforgettable visceral offerings, shows targeted for younger audiences including the much ballyhooed Alice in Wonderlan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMWednesday, December 7, 2016
When MetroStage’s artistic director Carolyn Griffin pursued staging Becky Mode’s comedy Fully Committed, a huge hit on Broadway this year with Jesse Tyler Ferguson playing a myria…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMFriday, December 2, 2016
A few years ago Helen Murray Pafumi, Artistic Director for the Hub Theatre, first started considering doing a stage version of O. Henry’s classic The Gift of the Magi. Then she cha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMThursday, November 17, 2016
In the annals of American literature, most agree that Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, written by Herman Melville in 1851, is one of the greatest masterpieces of all-time. The classic story follow…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:03PMWednesday, November 9, 2016
Little Thing, Big Thing, a dark comic crime thriller by Dublin playwright Donal O’Kelly follows a thief and a nun who are thrown into impossible circumstances with immense odds against th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMFriday, November 4, 2016
Where Words Once Were, commissioned by The Kennedy Center from Irish Australian playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer, tells the story of young Orhan, who lives in a world where words are both very…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMFriday, October 28, 2016
When Open Circle Theatre announced it was staging The Who’s Tommy, OCT’s artistic director Suzanne Richard also announced she had cast Broadway actor Russell Harvard in the title role o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMTuesday, October 25, 2016
While most people might hear the title “Mary Poppins” and instantly think it’s a kid’s musical, Olney director Jason King Jones doesn’t feel that way at all. “I think, fo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:15PMWednesday, September 28, 2016
When Adam Immerwahr was asked to make his D.C. directorial debut with The Last Schwartz as the new artistic director for Theater J, he knew the actor he wanted to cast as Gene, the youngest …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AMFriday, September 16, 2016
When Olney Theatre Center decided to stage Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett’s Tony-winning The Diary of Anne Frank this season, Derek Goldman seemed like the perfect choice to direct. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
When Urinetown first played the New York Fringe Festival in 2001, it became one of the most buzz-worthy musicals to hit the Big Apple in years. With an outrageous original story by G…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:28AMThursday, September 1, 2016
More than 50 theaters from the D.C. area will take part in the Kennedy Center’s 15th annual Page-to- Stage New Play Festival, Sept. 3 to Sept. 5, fulfilling the festival’s mission to pro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMTuesday, July 26, 2016
Full disclosure: I have seen Phantom of the Opera on Broadway four times, dating back to my formative theatergoing years during its inaugural season on Broadway in 1988. A decade later, and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PM 
