Friday, March 18, 2016
In 2004, Green Day was an amiable, if declining, punk rock band who’s most recent hit had been a sentimental ballad called “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”. Their breakthrough album…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMMonday, March 7, 2016
Listening to Benjamin Scheuer strum his acoustic guitar and recount his incredibly stirring life during his one-man show, The Lion, I could think of one word and one word only. Beautiful. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50AMWednesday, February 17, 2016
The Flying V—always balls-to-the-wall and full of fun (pun intended, you’ll read why in a few minutes)—has brought back its 2014 Capital Fringe award winning musical, You, or Whatever …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:01PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
In a match that’s Man versus Monster, how do you think humanity would fare? In Collaborators, the 2011 award winning play by John Hodge (a dramatist and screenwriter known for the films Tr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMTuesday, February 9, 2016
The inspirations that ignited Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s mind are alive and perfectly shady in this world premiere musical. Where to begin when so much of this show begs for praise? Its…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMThursday, January 14, 2016
The problem with Women From Mars’ Silent Reflections: A Clown-Noir Cabaret is that its two night run deprived many Washingtonians the joy of unleashing the veiled, inner feminist who long…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMTuesday, November 24, 2015
Adventure Theatre’s holiday offering, A Lump of Coal for Christmas, is as sweet as it is warm and will leave you feeling merry and bright. Rufus (Kevin Grieco) is marooned at home with onl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24PMMonday, November 16, 2015
The mystical village of Brigadoon is a blessed place, appearing out of the Scottish Highlands’ mists once every hundred years with its 18th Century innocence and delightfullness intact. Lu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:14PMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Raw milk is liquid gold. Or so Eliza (Allison Turkel), the human matriarch of Red Robin Farm, believes. It’s nutritious and pure, and she thinks it will save her derelict, multi-generation…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMMonday, October 19, 2015
Luce and Addie. Addie and Luce. Fierce friends from high school who have traveled somewhat separate, but interweaving, paths to find themselves at a final crossroads in their tiny, small-min…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:00AMMonday, October 12, 2015
Berlin, East Germany is a place of the past schoolchildren today probably don’t know existed. Yet, in Lady Lay, it is alive in 1989 and abounding with belief that all can, and will, change…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMMonday, July 20, 2015
One of the best gifts for parents with children this year is the newly formed National Children’s Theatre, a collaboration between Imagination Stage and The National Theatre, which bri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:50PMMonday, July 13, 2015
Fear, o’ friends, the far side of the mirror. Where Beasties roam, Woks stalk, great guardians made of stone spear the wicked, and a great witch punishes the vain, the thieving, the cruel …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07PMEddie can weave a fantastic yarn. He’s a born storyteller blessed with imagination. Or, rather, is he really a man with a past that includes saving distressed damsels, leaping tall buildin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:49PMSunday, July 12, 2015
Breaking Character starts like the best of the best of teen films: with the popular and not-so-popular squaring off. Who’s right and who’s wrong is clear. The drama is undeserved, but oh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50PMBrandon O’Donnell is dead and he’s left a hot mess in his wake. His family, grief-stricken, struggles through mourning in unhealthy ways, causing a truth to come to light that conceals f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:34PMMonday, June 22, 2015
Cats and chaos. That about sums up Garfield: The Musical with Cattitude. And, it’s a splendid combination. Full disclosure: As a child, my brother owned about 100 Garfield replicas—fig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:21PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
The Good Counselor is a brilliant play that probes uncomfortably around the chambers of the human heart. It’s a masterfully written and directed treatise on where a woman’s respo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
dry bones rising is a dystopian think piece with dreamy undertones. It’s a peek into how a child makes believe to survive hate and find hope. To make everything right. Venus Artistic Direc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:01AMWednesday, May 20, 2015
The Price is a slow-burn, a meticulous unwrapping of truth and consequences that erupts when past and present collide. The result is a magnificent look into family—the drama, the dynamics,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMFriday, May 15, 2015
It’s worth the trip to Falls Church, VA to see how Creative Cauldron has managed to fit Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty’s beloved Once on This Island into the tiny ArtsSpace. On…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:50AMMonday, April 20, 2015
Tyger, an original interactive and immersive production, starts at the door: “Do you know Gabby?” All are asked. None do. You are invited in for dinner but, instead, stay to watch a grou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMWednesday, April 15, 2015
Greater Tuna, one of the trio of comedies by Ed Howard, Jaston Williams, and Joe Sears, may as well be a national treasure. Premiering in 1981, it’s a beloved show well regarded enough to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Let me sum this up for you right away: if you love a good laugh, go see The Typographer’s Dream. Now, onto the more serious business of detailing why—witful, wisdom soaked, full of story…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMMonday, March 30, 2015
Art manifests when dark matter is shaken, stirred, and flipped into a brilliant light, which is what playwright Doc Andersen-Bloomfield and Director Deborah Randall have achieved with God Do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:15AMThursday, March 12, 2015
Photo journalist Sarah Goodwin (Aly B. Ettman) has spent her life in places touched by disaster to document the worst of disease, defeat, and death. This is her existence until she is thrown…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AMMonday, March 2, 2015
Before the lights fall and the audience settles, on stage, Mike (Adi Stein) endures a slapstick shampooing and hair cut by madcap stylist Tony (Michael Litchfield), the flamboyantly gay owne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:07AMMonday, February 16, 2015
Using a bit of bluegrass, and evoking the best of Americana, the Nashville Children’s Theatre brings the old Appalachian (and originally Scot-Irish-English) folk hero, Jack, to life—merr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:23AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
It ends as it begins. In silence. An unnerving calm as a lone woman ponders the remnants of a house long ago locked and draped in the cozy white of sheets that say life no longer bustles her…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:45PMTuesday, February 3, 2015
Regina—a sassy and, somewhat trashy small town mess—gets wasted, crashes her truck, and awakes on the “other side.” Well, kinda. Instead of fully crossing into the afterlife, she’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
A middle-aged man, decked out in modern-day armor—jacket, tie, suspenders, and shined shoes— sips a pale ale. He is achingly alone. Melancholy seems to be his most present friend. Regre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AM 
