Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Is The Veil firstly a ghost story? Hard to say, but it is appareled in those trappings, and some fine creepy moments are conjured, too. Is it historical metaphor? One may be led to believe s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:53AMMonday, May 12, 2014
Arlington’s Synetic Theater, showered with superlatives for its moody goth fantasias and wordless “Silent Shakespeare” series, is tentatively emerging from its comfort zone in concludi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:23AMMonday, March 31, 2014
Unsettled is the residual impression after viewing 1st Stage’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, although, and surely because, the experience delivers on the promise of enfant terrible playwright …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:11PMFriday, December 27, 2013
“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” Those familiar with Porgy and Bess’s story of unlikely love, drug addiction and brutality amidst the slums of Charleston, S.C., know life for the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:59AMThursday, November 14, 2013
Yael Farber’s Mies Julie, an unflinching adaptation of the Victorian shocker Miss Julie, clenches you tightly and doesn’t let go during its 90-minutes of fever-dream performance art stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:23AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
First-time director Michael Avolio has done something extraordinary. How’s that, you ask? Not only did he have the chutzpah to stage Eugene O’Neill’s rarely-produced, large-ensemble gr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:20AMFriday, July 5, 2013
Grieving the sudden death of a cherished person is a most personal process, not bound to an expiration date or applied formula. The passage from shock to acceptance is a campaign for control…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Jon Robin Baitz’ fitful exposé of a coiffured, political-celebrity family in extremis, Other Desert Cities, the hit of the 2011-12 Broadway season, is a cool, captivating examination of t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:57AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
For all the imposing bang of Thomas Stearns Eliot’s blasts of modern poetry (The Wasteland, Four Quartets), his “drawing-room” plays, while also flush with important, complex ideas, te…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
The joint Signature Theatre/Ford’s Theatre mini-version of the classic tart of a musical Hello Dolly! is charming and delightful, if a bit lackluster. Here, director Eric Schaeffer attempt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AMMonday, February 11, 2013
Discerning theatergoers, are you looking for a contemporary play that you can relate to, that makes you laugh and think about the world? Are you in need of a delightful and gripping entertai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMSunday, December 23, 2012
Despite theater’s origins in religious ritual, dramatists for the most part these days present religion as a foil for criticism or mockery .. That’s especially true in regards to Christi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41PMTuesday, November 27, 2012
Scottish playwright Anthony Neilson is known across the pond as a visceral force in contemporary theater, from the vanguard of the brash “in-yer-face” genre, and creator of challenging w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AMThursday, November 1, 2012
For those who have come to know the irascible George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion chiefly from the Cinderella romances of subsequent iterations, there are many recognizable commonalities to fe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Playwright Gregory Burke’s intense and electrifying Black Watch manages to capture the valorous romance, raw humanity and transcendent camaraderie of soldiers in combat while simultaneousl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
To clip characters helpless from the bounds of their classic works and conjure up the residue of their stories requires bravery in vision, deftness in execution, and a wholehearted love for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Audiences for playwright Larry Kramer’s landmark 1985 agitprop drama The Normal Heart, will undoubtedly include those old enough to have been aware of and remember the baffling and fearful…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
The account of young American Jews who created some of the most popular and enduring superheroes of the golden age of comic books — invincible heroes who stood for truth and justice — wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
The first big production number from Flora the Red Menace, “One Good Break,” a paean to young seekers everywhere, couldn’t be more apt as the theme behind the show’s creation. For mu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMSunday, April 22, 2012
It’s got Sinatra’s dulcet cool and Tharp’s kinetic heat baked in but still this puddin’ can’t rise. Come Fly Away, a remixed version of the 2010 Broadway dance revue now at The Ken…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26PMMonday, March 19, 2012
Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! plays a welcome trick on you. While enjoying a lighthearted situational comedy of stock family shenanigans, set in a time and place out of extant memory …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Renaissance woman Natsu Onoda Power is generating a reputation for original, highly inventive performance pieces. Writer, director, designer, theater prof at Georgetown University, Onoda Pow…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
I was on my way to the basement of a church in NW Washington to see a play I had never heard of, a minor work from a major voice in theater, one of my favorites, in fact. I was directed arou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:34AMThursday, December 8, 2011
Get thee down to Penn Quarter’s Sidney Harman Hall to behold Shakespeare in the tropics, under the palms, smoldering in the Caribbean sun: it’s the one about the guy who secretly loves t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:48AMTuesday, November 15, 2011
Unfinished business is at the heart of Conor McPherson’s ghost story of a play, Shining City, an often potent and truthful accounting of the way we live. Currently onstage at Quotidia…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:44AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Synetic Theater’s distinctive take on the Bard endures with the company’s Speak No More Silent Shakespeare Festival’s second offering: Othello. Synetic stamps its signature on one of S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMMonday, October 3, 2011
The odyssey of the redemptive thief turned champion of the innocent and the good, the story of the lodestar Jean Valjean and “the miserables” triumphantly returns to the Kennedy Center r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
Who is that boogeyman scaring the gullible and accommodating? Is it the headless Hessian wreaking terror on the residents of Sleepy Hollow, immortalized in Washington Irving’s classic 1820…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMWho would’ve bet that a musical, by turns wacky and heartfelt, guided by a suicidal narrator struggling with his sanity—himself a metafictional send-up of anachronistic boys’ detective…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:35AMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Steve LaRocque shines in Quotidian’s No-Frills Cherry Orchard The peasant-born millionaire Yermolay Alexeyevich Lopakhin often commands center stage in Quotidian Theatre Company’s earnes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AM 
