Wednesday, 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 wonde…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2018
"We either repeat mistakes or don't update our own sense on what love is for," Kathleen Akerley, artistic director at Longacre Lea, said in our recent interview about her upcoming debut p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
The Trans-Atlantic Time Traveling Company, Holly Bass’ latest work, conceptualizes one of the most urgent ideas of our time: what it means to be free and how we can all move towards…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AM[SHARE]Musicals based on movies are all the rage these days with titles like Mean Girls, Pretty Woman, Bronx Tale and King Kong dominating Broadway marquees and the ads in Times Square. Arena Stage…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2018
Last January, Synetic Theater’s performance space (1800 S. Bell Street in Arlington) experienced somewhat of a theatrical disaster when a sprinkler system situated above the theater, p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Ephraim Sykes can't seem to leave the '60s. He played Otis Williams in the Broadway show Motown the Musical, was a critical darling as Seaweed in NBC's Hairspray Live, and now can be seen in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2018
When two-time Helen Hayes winner Rick Hammerly woke up recently, a "morning" after taking the stage as fiercely funny drag queen Miss Tracy Mills in Round House Theatre's The Legend o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2018
Director Nick Olcott was intrigued when he learned that playwright Patrick Flynn had a different take on the Peter Pan stories, a new play written from Tinker Bell's point of view. Michae…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
The Tony-winning director explains the special place D.C.’s Kennedy Center holds in his heart.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2018
Thanks to a 14-year run on Broadway and an even longer 19-year run in London's West End"which continues to this day"Mamma Mia! is one of the most beloved jukebox musicals ever. It's no wonde…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 5, 2018
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence became one of the first black artists to have his work shown in a New York City art gallery, with his powerful Migration Series on display, a sequence of 60 paintings…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2018
As William Shakespeare's only comedy set in the new world, The Tempest deals with a major act of betrayal, ill treatment, the development of magic arts and a revenge plot that other playwrig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2018
D.C. Playwright Bob Bartlett has always been curious about the ways humans respond to injured or distressed animals, and that theme seems to find its way into his writing again and again. In…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AM[SHARE]Monday, May 14, 2018
The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers who were accused of raping two white American women on a train near Alabama in 1931. The boys were falsely accus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 8, 2018
Cuba is flush with artistic richness but because of travel limitations over the years, few Americans have been able to experience the abundance of great painters and performing artists that …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2018
Writer Octavia Butler is that rare African American woman who found success in the normally male-dominated science fiction literature genre; her work is beloved by fans of all ages and races…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 25, 2018
"This season is our 25th anniversary and when I was planning it, I was really committed to representing what I thought was true to the history of the type of work that Rep Stage has produced…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2018
In 1991, singer/songwriter Matthew Sweet became something of a radio staple after the release of his third album, "Girlfriend," which was hailed by critics and fans alike, and established th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 12, 2018
Cirque du Soleil's Luzia is opening tonight and here through June 17, performing under its familiar big top in Tysons II, McLean, VA.  And just like every Cirque show, this one prom…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Brittany Alyse Willis used to commute to work by riding the Red Line from Maryland into Metro Center to work at one of the shops at the Natural History Museum, and although she didn't know i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 22, 2018
When Studio Theatre decided to stage Irish master Brian Friel's Translations this season, the timing seemed like a perfect fit for Studio's Belfast-born associate artistic director Matt Torn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, March 12, 2018
Christopher Michael Richardson is "easing on down the road," nightly as the Lion in Ford Theatre's imaginative production of the Tony-winning, The Wiz, which runs through May 12. "The Lion a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:47PM[SHARE]Friday, March 9, 2018
After Avant Bard’s successful Helen Hayes Award-nominated production of The Gospel at Colonus last season (the original cast was nominated for "Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical " …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AM[SHARE]Friday, February 23, 2018
Although Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi might not be a name people recognize, many know his story and the historic Supreme Court case which bears his name" Hirabayashi v. United States. The son …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AM[SHARE]Monday, February 19, 2018
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a beloved '80s icon. The tiny, yet big-opinioned sex therapist was a fixture on late night talk shows and the radio throughout the decade, and even fronted several of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:49PM[SHARE]Friday, February 16, 2018
It was more than a dozen years ago that actor Heather Raffo, whose family is from Iraq, recognized a void of female Iraqi protagonists in American theater. That propelled her to write…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 15, 2018
Most theater performers don't get to spend Valentine's Day with their significant other, but that's not the case for Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis, who spent the night kissing, embracing and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 7, 2018
You can't judge a show by its title, and never was that more the case than with Something Rotten!, the musical farce now appearing at the National Theatre, which provides a rip-roaring, laug…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:25PM[SHARE]Friday, January 26, 2018
In 2007, Richard Henrich adapted the Ursula K. Le Guin book, The Lathe of Heaven, for a production at Spooky Action Theater, which he directed. But the show didn't completely fulfill his vis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 18, 2018
Put a group of high school junior girls together and the conversations could range from anything from boys to movies to selfies, but when those girls are part of a win-now, demanding soccer …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 16, 2018
From Ramin Karimloo and Ruthie Ann Miles at the Kennedy Center to new works by Tony winner Robert Schenkkan and Heather Raffo, here’s what to see in the Capitol city.
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