Friday, August 15, 2014
In 1991, Shakespeare Theatre Company presented The Merry Wives of Windsor as its first ever Free For All production, allowing all audience members to get a taste of Shakespeare at no cost. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07AM[SHARE]Monday, August 11, 2014
It's not often you get some of the biggest names in the DC theater community together in one room"and even less often that most of them are up on stage performing on one night, but that's ex…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM[SHARE]DC theater lovers are no strangers to the work of Donna Migliaccio. With a dozen Helen Hayes nominations to her credit, including two wins, and her leadership in helping Signature Theatre be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
When it premiered on Broadway in 1988, Carrie: The Musical lasted just 16 previews and five performances, earning a dubious place in theater history as one of the Great White Way's biggest f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 26, 2014
The Capital Fringe Festival has been a welcome sign of summer for DC's theater community, as for three weeks each July, it connects exploratory artists with adventurous audiences with a mult…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AM[SHARE]Independence Day will offer more than fireworks for theater lovers, as a screening of Center Stage's acclaimed digital theater project My America will stream at Fandor.com on the Fourth of J…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 25, 2014
It was back in 2009 when the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences teamed with Shakespeare Theatre Company to present a staged reading of Inherit the Wind, as a way to showca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AM[SHARE]Monday, June 23, 2014
Disney has long been known for creating a magical experience in just about everything they do, so it's probably not too surprising that its touring production of the smash Broadway hit The L…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PM[SHARE]Friday, June 20, 2014
The 2013-14 DC theater season has been something of a whirlwind for Erin Driscoll. Theatergoers have been treated to one amazing performance after the next from the beautiful and talented ac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:38AM[SHARE]In one of the most shocking and controversial Tony results ever, Avenue Q took home best musical in 2003, defeating the much flashier, more star-studded and much larger-scale production of W…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 12, 2014
When he was first asked to take on the role of the unscrupulous title character in Tracy Letts' Killer Joe, in the SeeNoSun production at DCAC, Sun King Davis was both intrigued and excited.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:58PM[SHARE]Six plays offering life-changing journeys intertwining the political, the personal, the poignant and the provocative will comprise Theater J's upcoming 2014-15 season of Epic Expressions. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:51AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Back in high school, Ed Dixon penned three entire musicals"we're talking book, music and lyrics!"and almost four decades later, the playwright is as busy as ever. Over the years he's written…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
One of my earliest memories of listening to music as a child was playing the West Side Story movie soundtrack over and over on a small, red plastic record player in my basement. Over the cou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PM[SHARE]Monday, June 2, 2014
People handle grief in different ways"some lash out, some hide from their emotions, some break down"but no one can say for certain which is truly the most cathartic. This is the basis behind…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 27, 2014
It's not surprising to say folks were skeptical when British comedian Ben Elton conceived the idea of a rock musical surrounding the hits of Queen back in 2000, but the result was an hilario…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:29PM[SHARE]Friday, May 23, 2014
If there's one thing that Bat Boy: The Musical director Steven Royal wants to make clear about the latest 1st Stage production is that people shouldn't be expecting a story similar to Damn Y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AM[SHARE]Monday, May 19, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
The Blue Man Group has been entertaining audiences since 1987 and has regular homes in New York, Chicago, Boston, Las Vegas and other cities around the world. Thanks to a new tour, DC audien…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 6, 2014
It may seem odd that a musical about a journey through the woods is set in a library, but thanks to an imaginative set by scenic designer Steven Royal and creative directing by Evan Hoffmann…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:38PM[SHARE]Some may know Václav Havel for having been a political dissident, some recognize the name for his years serving the Czech government; but theater lovers associate the man as being one of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AM[SHARE]Friday, May 2, 2014
"No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down." This famous Jack Lemon quote is a favorite of actor Kevin Spacey and one of the reasons behind the new film, NOW: In t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:10AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 30, 2014
In keeping with its mantra of staging intimate passionate performances in uncommon uses of environment, the Rorschach Theatre will take over Washington DC's magnificent Intown Uptown Inn fro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:33PM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
A big-screen adaption of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine Broadway classic Into the Woods is scheduled to be released this Christmas, but that had little to do with NextStop Theatre Company…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 16, 2014
There's a moment in Shrek the Musical when the featured green ogre tells his faithful sidekick Donkey that ogres, like onions, have many layers. That's also true of Toby's Dinner Theatre's s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AM[SHARE]Monday, April 14, 2014
Some phone calls you never forget. For Alan Muraoka, it was a call he took this winter from Olney Theatre's artistic director Jason Loewith, who was interviewing him for the chance to direct…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 10, 2014
Have you noticed the creative promotions for theatreWeek in Metro stations around the area or in your newspaper this week and wondered what it was? Well, it's nothing short of one of the big…
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