Friday, August 23, 2019
With 32 shows rehearsing for September openings, the 2019-2020 season is about to start in earnest and there are some awesome free celebrations going on. Round House Theatre Bethesda, MD Aug…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMMonday, August 12, 2019
Just posted – the DC Theatre Scene Guide to Theatre Season 2019-2020. Perfect for planning your year of theatre going, the sortable guide lets you sort by companies, titles, dates and genr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12PMFriday, July 19, 2019
Washington DC faces near record breaking heat and humidity this weekend, with temperatures in the upper 90s and higher and a heat index of 110 to 115. Capital Fringe reports that all shows a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMWednesday, July 3, 2019
In his farewell letter yesterday, Michael J. Bobbitt, exiting Artistic Director of Adventure Theatre MTC, teased today’s announcement, saying his replacement is a long-time friend. The com…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMTuesday, July 2, 2019
Former Special Council Robert Mueller is scheduled to give public testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on July 17 regarding the contents of The Mueller Report. Ar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMFriday, June 21, 2019
I guess I was “nervous in the service.” But who wasn’t in those fretful days after September 11, 2001? So when the telephone rang just after the Presidential Mobilization Order came …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMMonday, June 17, 2019
As tickets go on sale today for the 2019 Capital Fringe Festival, festival goers are realizing that a record-setting 82 Fringe shows of the 89 show festival will open in the first week of th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMThursday, June 13, 2019
He’s reported from above the Arctic Circle. He’s reported from Air Force One. He’s reported from wars in Iraq, Ukraine, and Israel. He covered the Justice Department for National Publi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMMonday, June 10, 2019
While viewers in past years might have retired early from the 3 hour Tony Awards show, 2019’s host James Corden gave them plenty of reasons to stay tuned through to the final awards in ton…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48AMFriday, June 7, 2019
Theater Alliance has appointed Jennifer Clements as the company’s Managing Director. She joins Raymond O. Caldwell, who became the company’s Producing Artistic Director in January, 2019.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMMonday, June 3, 2019
New York-based Infinity Theatre Company will offer a two-show season this summer in Annapolis. The season will feature Rodgers and Hammerstein’s A Grand Night for Singing in collaboratio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Rainbow Theatre Project presents Stonewall: 50, a staged reading of new short plays that celebrates the legacy and worldwide changes that started from the Stonewall riots in June 1969. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:18PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Ryan Maxwell captures this year’s fabulous Helen Hayes Awards at The Anthem. Recognize anyone? Leave a caption in the comments below and we’ll add it. Feel free to share. We ask that you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMThe following artists and production companies were honored for their contributions of excellence to what, we learned last night, is now the fastest growing professional theatre community in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
When tickets go on sale May 9 for Hamilton at the Hippodrome ( June 25 – July 21) expect the usual crush for tickets. (Remember how Hamilton‘s first visit to our area crashed the box off…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMMonday, April 29, 2019
House lights remain at half when a red curtain parts just enough to show a curled hand, then another, then two more. Fingers tentatively explore, then walk, then intertwine in what will be o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
The Pulitzer Committee announced yesterday that the recipient for this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama is Brooklyn-based playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury for Fairview, which debuted at Off…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AMFriday, April 5, 2019
The 20th anniversary of the mass school shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, will be on closing night for columbinus at 1st Stage. The play was written…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:10PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Joy Zinoman’s Studio Acting Conservatory, which must vacate Studio Theatre this summer, will be safe to continue on, Zinoman announced on Kojo Nnamdi’s show today. The City of Washington…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:54PMTuesday, February 19, 2019
The Washington theatre community is in shock today as news is spreading that Kevin Laughon, performer and multi-talented theatre technician, left a message on Facebook early this morning e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:32PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Last night, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Theatre’s Helen Hayes Gallery for theatreWashington’s announcement of the nominees for t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMSaturday, January 26, 2019
The Fox Network will broadcast a live production of Jonathan Larson’s musical Rent this Sunday, January 27, from 8 to 11 PM EST (8 to 11 on tape delay for those in the Pacific Time Zon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMSunday, January 13, 2019
Before heading out to see a show this afternoon or evening, be sure to check with the theatre. To date, we see notices that American Moor at Anacostia Playhouse and Kleptocracy at Arena Stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMSaturday, January 12, 2019
The National Theatre is joining other theatres and businesses in offering discounts to furloughed federal employees with discounted tickets to the Broadway smash, School or Rock – The …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMFriday, January 4, 2019
Our forecast feature allows us to comfortably predict, even before the year’s first show opens, that 2019 will be an exciting one for Washington area audiences as companies open newly …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMMonday, December 31, 2018
If we didn’t have the Holiday Season, Virginia, we’d have nothing but dark days and bad weather right now. Leafless trees. Bitter winds. And shutdowns. We’d have government…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMThursday, December 27, 2018
Perhaps the toughest assignment of the year is to pick out the favorite productions of the year from among the 464 plays seen in our area. We’d love to know which shows emerge as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMAs reported by Prince of Petworth: “Today, December 26th, the day after Christmas, our friends at the Anacostia Playhouse came to work and discovered they had been robbed. Thieves b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMWednesday, December 26, 2018
We thought back on all the 464 plays seen in our area to find our favorite scenes of the year as part of our series of 2018 Wraps. We asked: what moments still linger with you and receive…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMMonday, December 24, 2018
Most theatres are closed on Christmas Day, but we have found two performances for that evening. The National Theatre is open for the December 25 performance of Beautiful: The Carole King Mus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMFriday, December 21, 2018
This holiday season is a time of celebration. It celebrates the possibility of hope, it celebrates redemption, it celebrates generosity of spirit, it celebrates the triumph of light over dar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PM 
