Olney 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AMWhenever theatregoers see Jackie Hoffman on stage, they know laughs are coming. Whether it’s in her three scene-stealing roles on Broadway—Prudy Pingleton in Hairspray, Calliope, Aphrodi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:52PMWhen Jennifer Frankel takes the stage as courtesan Gymnasia in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, she’s following in her moth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMThere’s never a shortage of productions of A Christmas Carol this time of year, but for those looking for something a little different, MetroStage continues its popular holiday tradition o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:20PMThe summer’s Capital Fringe Festival is always an exciting time for theater lovers, but thankfully, you don’t need to wait 12 months for another peek at some of the most original and tho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMUnlike productions aimed at adults, where a myriad of biases and opinions tend to create arguments over what worked and what didn’t in a new play, I have always found the easiest way to ju…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMCan humor be found in the somewhat-deranged threats of a 79-year-old woman peppering her home with bottles of flammable photography liquid in an attempt to keep her family from taking her to…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:14PMIt was eight years ago when Rachael Bail, president of the McLean Drama Company, came up with a unique contest idea for local playwrights to pen a 10-minute play, with the winning entries be…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:13PMVáclav Havel is well known for having been a political dissident, but he was also a well-regarded playwright in his time. His writings were banned by the Communists in the ’70s and he bec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14AMA confession: As a twenty-something living in Manhattan in the early '90s, I second-acted Miss Saigon on Broadway nearly a dozen times. What a shame it would have been for someone to have tr…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:15PMIt was back in the summer of 2000 when Arena Stage held a conference entitled, "Who Needs New Plays," designed to get the theater community talking about the importance of new works. It was …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:12PMA conversation with playwright Martin Blank and director Elise Thoron There’s plenty to be excited about in the upcoming Page-to-Stage Festival at the Kennedy Center, but one play thatR…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMCapital Fringe has become a major force in DC and the Source Festival has been surging of late, so the appetite for new work in the theatre community is increasing every year. It’s no surp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:05PMAs the father of two daughters, ages 7 and 16, I have seen an endless amount of live children’s programing over the last decade and a half, and the tally includes approximately 50 puppet s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:29AMA collection of 25 new works will be performed as part of Washington D.C.’s Sixth Annual Source Festival, scheduled for June 7-30, and producer Jenny McConnell Frederick compares the three…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AMIn the opening scene of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, playing at the Studio Theatre until June 30, the audience is given an uncomfortable glimpse into the lives of a London-based couple who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:28PMWhen plans were being made for the 25th season of The Studio Theatre’s 2ndStage, those in charge wanted to do something special to commemorate its silver anniversary. The initial idea …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMMore than 800 established and emerging DC artists, offering the best of the area’s music, dance, theater and spoken word, will converge at the Atlas Theatre over the next three weekends as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMThe Kennedy Center has long been known for producing renowned international celebrations by curating traditional and contemporary expressions of the performing arts. In recent years, the ven…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:10AMThe bar is high for any revival of the 1997 Broadway cult-musical Jekyll and Hyde. At least for its hardcore fans – myself included. (We are known as "Jekkies.) Without question, the origi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:02PMArena Stage artistic director Molly Smith has long taken a non-traditional approach to American musical classics, so it's not surprising that for her new production of My Fair Lady, Lerner a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00PMWhile most of America knows Phylicia Rashad for her television work – from playing Clair Huxtable opposite Bill Cosby's Cliff on the long-running NBC hit show, The Cosby Show, to her recen…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AMWhen Mary Bridget Davies first takes the stage as the title character in One Night with Janis Joplin at Arena Stage, the audience is almost immediately transported back to the 1960s and pres…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:00AMThis year alone, more than a dozen productions on the Great White Way have had the creative hand of make-up artist extraordinaire Angelina Avallone to thank for their look. Right now, audien…
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