Thursday, March 7, 2019
Five theatre companies and famous venues to explore, whether you live in the nation’s capital or are simply visiting.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:30PMThursday, February 7, 2019
On Valentine’s Day this year, Arena Stage will open The Heiress, adapted from the 1880 Henry James novel Washington Square by playwrights Ruth and Augustus Goetz. While the play may seem…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
In 2013, Olivier-winning playwright Jessica Swale wrote a play about the life of actress Nell Gwynn, one of the first women to trod the English stage, and who became a celebrated actress dur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Stories from the rehearsal room, tips to prevent getting tongue-tied in “(Ya Got) Trouble,” and Lewis’ Broadway goals.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
The High School Musical and Gigi star says she’s been finding her own version of the role made famous by Idina Menzel.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00PMWednesday, January 16, 2019
When playwright Josh Harmon’s Bad Jews played Studio Theatre in 2014, the production set box office records and multiple extensions. A remounting of the show the following year saw similar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMMonday, January 14, 2019
“About four years ago, I did my first production of this show at Pasadena Playhouse and what prompted it was some serious and robust conversations about race that were going on in our coun…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMFriday, December 14, 2018
Growing up in Alexandra, Va., playwright Sarah Burgess saw first-hand the influence that lawmakers and lobbyists possess in fueling how Washington, D.C., is run. So, it’s no surprise that …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Round House Theatre’s staging of Gem of the Ocean presents the August Wilson classic in powerful, ambitious fashion. Under the direction of Timothy Douglas, the production has been enthu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMTuesday, November 20, 2018
It’s been more than 25 years since Stephen Daldry’s production of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls made its London debut. Thanks to Ian MacNeil’s astonishing set that paints…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMMonday, November 19, 2018
Olney Theatre Center’s successful Annie-inspired pajama drive last year resulted in more than 800 pairs of new pajamas for the Rockville, Md.-based Comfort Cases which, in turn, went to ch…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMFriday, November 16, 2018
Keegan audiences will notice a big transformation of the theater for the area debut of Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery’s musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Co-direct…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMWednesday, November 14, 2018
The former High School Musical and In The Heights star finds a sweet spot in nostalgia stories like Arena Stage’s Anything Goes and Broadway’s Kiss Me, Kate.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:27AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
“I’ve always loved laundromats.” This declaration by DC playwright Bob Bartlett explains why he set his newest work, The Accident Bear, in The Avenue Laundromat in historic Downtown A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:36PMFriday, November 2, 2018
Before becoming a prominent director in D.C., Matthew Gardiner, Signature Theatre’s associate artistic director, was a promising ballet dancer. Gardiner studied at The Washington Ballet st…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMFriday, October 26, 2018
While John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath have historically been on high school reading lists for decades, one of the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winner’s more ambitiou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMThe 2018 Charm City Fringe Festival returns to the Bromo Arts District with 23 productions and more than 80 performances taking place between November 1 and November 11. Baltimore talent for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMMonday, October 22, 2018
Lee Wilkof looks back at the 1982 production and the upcoming special revival at Washington, D.C.,’s Kennedy Center.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Reading the description of Anna Ziegler’s thought-provoking play, Actually, it’s easy to think the story was ripped right from today’s headlines. After all, the plot follows two freshm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMThursday, October 18, 2018
The rolling world premiere of Blight, a new play by playwright and DC Theatre Scene writer John Bavoso, is being produced by Pinky Swear Productions at the Anacostia Playhouse. “Silvia is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMMonday, October 15, 2018
William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or What You Will has been probably adapted into more styles, settings than any of the Bard’s plays. Whether it’s Play On, a Broadway jukebox music…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMWednesday, October 10, 2018
With Halloween only weeks away, it seems fitting that the National Theatre will debut the world premiere musical Beetlejuice, based on Tim Burton’s wildly fun, demented 1988 movie, which h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMWednesday, October 3, 2018
When Hamilton made the transition to London, some naysayers thought that the musical wouldn’t play as well on the other side of the pond because of its U.S.-centric political story and its…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMTuesday, September 4, 2018
As Edwin Lee Gibson prepares for opening night September 6th of Arena Stage’s production of Turn Me Loose, a look into the life of comedian Dick Gregory, his dressing room is full of photo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMFriday, August 31, 2018
One of DC theatergoers’ favorite times of year is back, as theatreWashington presents the popular Theatre Week, Sept. 12 through Oct. 7, with 26 productions being staged throughout the reg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMThursday, August 30, 2018
Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel scored a huge hit in 1989 with the release of her debut novel, which became a New York Times best seller, Like Water for Chocolate (Como agua para chocolate),…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMSunday, August 26, 2018
In celebration of the 17th annual Page-to-Stage Festival, more than 60 theater companies—both new and established—will ascend to The Kennedy Center this coming weekend (Sept. 1-3) to off…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMThursday, August 16, 2018
Natascia Diaz has wowed DC audiences for a decade, but when Signature Theatre offered her the lead role of Fosca in Stephen Sondheim’s Passion, she hesitated. The popular actress has e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMTuesday, August 7, 2018
“This is a good time for this piece to be in this city,”director Kurt Boehm says of The Bridges of Madison County, now onstage at Keegan Theatre. No matter what side of the political…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMThursday, August 2, 2018
NextStop Theatre is celebrating its 30th year, a history that took root as the Elden Street Players in 1988, when the newly-formed community theatre took over a Herndon-based warehouse and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMWednesday, August 1, 2018
N’Jameh Camara is playing Nettie in The Color Purple, now concluding its national tour at The Kennedy Center. “Nettie is the younger sister of Celie and looks at her environment and won…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AM 
