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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 b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:25PMAt the age of 7, Richard Thomas made his Broadway debut playing the son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Sunrise at Campobello. Now, 56 years later, the veteran actor will be starring as a PO…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMOver the past five years, winning words at the National Spelling Bee have been knaidel, guetapens, cymotrichous, stromuhr and Laodicean. Keep those in mind when Ford’s Theatre presents the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMDon’t let the name fool you. As part of its tradition of bringing the best Grand Guignol (an almost forgotten genre of French theater horror) to the stage, the Molotov Theatre Group is pre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMWith more than 2,000 performances scheduled for the John F. Kennedy Center’s 2014-15 season, which runs from Aug. 30 to Aug. 16, 2015, there’s a little something for everyone, as new wor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:52AMAn exciting 12 months await opera lovers as Washington National Opera released its 2014-15 season, which includes an acclaimed new-to-Washington staging of Rossini’s Cinderella. Led by art…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:59AMCelebrating its fifth anniversary this year, the Atlas Intersections Festival will bring together hundreds of D.C.-based performers and thousands of theater fans over three weekends to join …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMIt’s safe to say that Virginia Woolf’s gender-bending classic novel “Orlando: A Biography” was ahead of its time when originally published in 1928, telling the story of a young 17th-…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:41AMDirector Rebecca Holderness describes The Wedding Dress as a psychological thriller and the audience is tasked with trying to figure out what really happened, in the vein of a film noir murd…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMThere has been a rise in the number of female heroes as the focus of children’s entertainment in recent years—be it the passionate and fiery Merida in Pixar’s Brave or the smart and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32PMFor more than 20 years, Holly Twyford has distinguished herself as a go-to actress for directors in the D.C. area, as the stage vet has piled up a list of Helen Hayes nominations and awards …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMUnless you’ve been following the DC theatre scene for more than a decade, Stan Kang may not be an actor you’re familiar with. Although he starred in numerous productions around town at p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:04AMThe first time I saw STOMP was back in New York City’s Orpheum’s Theatre in 1995, when people all around Manhattan were buzzing about the unique production that combined percussion-minde…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AMComing up as a young actor in Chicago’s theater scene, John Sanders played his share of bad guys and villains in original productions, but none that prepared him for playing one of the mos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AMSince graduating from Oakton High School in 1998, Erin Driscoll has made quite the name for herself in theater circles around the DC area. She won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMIn an effort to keep Washington D.C.’s theatre talent remaining in the area, theatreWashington, in tandem with Washington area theatre casting directors, has launched theatreWork.org, an o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMWhen Donald L. Coburn’s two-character play Gin Game first appeared on Broadway in 1977, married couple Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy took on the roles of seniors Weller Martin and Fonsia …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMThere are plenty of ways to celebrate New Year’s Eve; you could watch the ball drop on TV with family, you could be packed in a bar drinking champagne with strangers or you could be partyi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMI promised myself before seeing the Kennedy Center’s current production of Flashdance: The Musical that I would stay away from any obvious “What a Feeling” puns with the review, but th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:00AMIt seems every December, theaters are packed with plays and stagings of the Nativity story, but The Anacostia Playhouse is putting on a version like no other with Raquis Da’Juan Petree’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMOlney Theatre Center has just announced an extended run for its holiday production of The King and I. Keith Loria talks with two of the reasons why audiences have so embraced this musical: P…
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