Tuesday, 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. AÂ decade later, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 19, 2016
When Ryan Shinji Murray was 10, he made the short trek from his home in Ashton, Maryland to Washington, D.C. with his family to see a performance of Cirque du Soleil. A decade later, he did …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2016
In 2005, activist and award-winning playwright Julia Steele Allen was volunteering in the Bay area for the California Coalition for Women Prisoners, when she met and befriended Sara (Maripos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 2, 2016
Director Nataki Garrett remembers studying the script of Dion Boucicault's 1859 antebellum melodrama The Octoroon in college. While working with playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Two dozen new works will be on display as part of Washington D.C.'s Ninth Annual Source Festival, running June 8 through July 3, and theater fans will surely be intrigued by what's bei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AM[SHARE]Friday, May 13, 2016
Escape rooms have been all the rage recently, and Spooky Action Theater is getting in on the trend with Happy Hour, a production created by German theater collective machina eX, which offers…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2016
Even though City of Angels was a Broadway smash in 1990, taking home Tony's for Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, and Best Original Score, here it is 26 years later and it's still yet to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
Rex Daugherty, the new Artistic Director of Solas Nua’s theatrical productions, wanted to plan something original for his first season. Not only did he come up with a play that's diffe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2016
DC native Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists in New York City, and over the last seven years, has seen her star rise with a Helen Hayes Award for the 2009 staging o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 6, 2016
In The Mystery of Love & Sex, currently playing Signature Theatre, it's quickly established that long-time friends Charlotte and Jonny share a love that's deep and special, but is it "lo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2016
Keith Hamilton Cobb's award-winning solo play, American Moor, was one of the most talked about plays last season when it was staged at The Anacostia Playhouse, fresh off a critically accl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The last time I saw a full production of Annie on stage, I was only 8 and Andrea McArdle was playing the titular redhead on the Great White Way. And it was my first-ever Broadway show and th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PM[SHARE]Friday, March 11, 2016
If you happen to notice a deeper than normal camaraderie between the characters of Tunny and Johnny in Keegan's upcoming production of American Idiot, it's no coincidence. While the chara…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:58PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2016
There's a line in the musical 110 in the Shade where the central character, Lizzie Curry, describes her perfect husband: "I want him to stand up straight"and I want to be able to stand up…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
As the 2016 Atlas Intersections Festival celebrates its sixth anniversary, two events will add to the excitement.  H Street’s newest restaurant will donate all of its we…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
When Josh Lamon and Noah Racey were at what would be director Gary Griffin’s final callback for Signature's upcoming performance of Road Show, both actors felt an immediate bond wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AM[SHARE]Friday, January 29, 2016
Despite being one of the area's go-to talents for mature-themed productions"netting her four Helen Hayes nominations in the process"Felicia Curry has always had a soft spot in her heart for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:20PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Aaron Davidman, whose Wrestling Jerusalem is onstage now at Mosaic Theater, is no stranger to the issues affecting Israel, having been a frequent visitor over the years, and it was always…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:39AM[SHARE]Friday, December 18, 2015
After opening weekend of Marcus Gardley's The Gospel of LovingKindness at the Mosaic Theater of DC, Deidra Lawan Starnes took a few days to reflect on the play and admitted it was even mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
In the spring of 2014, Theater J presented a concert reading of Stars of David: Story to Song, based on Abigail Pogrebin's best-selling book, for a benefit, and those involved saw somethi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2015
Glancing though director Suzanne Beal's notes of the Maryland Ensemble Theatre's script of The Gifts of the Magi, you'll see entries about her memories dating back to when she was a youngste…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2015
New York City playwright Greg Oliver Bodine remembers sitting in his living room as a child around Christmas time, watching the 1951 movie Scrooge starring Alastair Sim as the crotchety Vict…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PM[SHARE]As a devotee of Dr. Seuss for many years (I even did my college essay in Theodor Geisel's Dr. Seuss-ese!), I was looking forward to NextStop's interpretation of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flahe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Legendary singer Marvin Gaye is one of DC's most popular native sons, and his soulful sound helped to define Motown as it was coming to age in the early '60s. Gaye was responsible for such g…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2015
When Kyle Coffman sings "Consider Yourself" as the Artful Dodger in Oliver at Arena Stage, the words "part of the family" hits close to home. As a fourth-generation performer, Coffman grew u…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2015
It's sometimes hard to properly merge comedy with suspense on the stage, but at NextStop Theatre, Deathtrap is a diabolically clever thriller that combines acerbic wit, mysterious anticipati…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 15, 2015
Say the name "Carmen Miranda" and immediately images of a crazy lady with a fruit bucket on her head probably pop into your brain. But there was so much more to this iconic star than the fru…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:44PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
David S. Kessler remembers a time when he and his wife went to a church hall to see a play and there were more people on stage than in the audience. And that was Woolly Mammoth Theatre in th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
For 29 years, the Columbia Festival of the Arts has brought together dance, music and theater a couple of weekends each summer, hoping to bring attention to the Maryland city and its growing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:22AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
It was back in 1949 that the Pillsbury Company held its first annual Pillsbury Bake-Off competition, awarding $50,000 for the contest's best recipe, which in its first year was No-Knead Wate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:44PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
Chimerica has been something of a sensation in London since premiering in 2013, but until now, has never been performed in America. That all changes this week when Studio Theatre stages the …
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