Friday, December 6, 2013
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 11:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 5, 2013
Whenever 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, Aphrodite i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:52PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 3, 2013
When 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 mother's…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PM[SHARE]Monday, December 2, 2013
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
There'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 of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:20PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
The 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 thought…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Unlike 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 judg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Monday, September 23, 2013
Can 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 12:14PM[SHARE]Friday, September 20, 2013
It 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 05:13PM[SHARE]Václav 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 11:14AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 8, 2013
A 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 01:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 28, 2013
It 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 05:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 27, 2013
A 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 that’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Capital 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 surpri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:05PM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2013
As 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 sho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
A 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-w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
In 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 12:28PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 23, 2013
When 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 07:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 21, 2013
More 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 p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 14, 2013
The 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 10:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2012
The 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 origina…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:02PM[SHARE]Friday, November 16, 2012
Arena 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 08:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 17, 2012
While 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 recent …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
When 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 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 19, 2012
This 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…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:00AM[SHARE] 
