Friday, January 25, 2013
If most teenage girls described their brother as a beast, we would chalk it up to youthful exaggeration. In Ariadne’s case it is literally true since her half-brother is The Minotaur, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Mark Twain reputedly called golf “a good walk spoiled” but the four men who make up The Foursome at Bay Theatre Company are spoiling for more than a good walk. They are fellow graduates …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Add Rodman Philbrick’s Homer P. Figg to the list of literature’s charming boyish rogues like Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He’s a clever lad who is not above stretc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:08AMSunday, November 4, 2012
Audience members at the late Saturday night performance of The Rocky Horror Show were stunned to witness a cast accident that brought the show to a halt and sent the audience home prematurel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
The newest up-and-coming sports star headed for greatness with proper handling is not RGIII, but DD6. That’s Devil Dog Six, the name of a young thoroughbred horse, and he needs the under…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:30PMWednesday, September 19, 2012
As the weather turns to the cooler days of autumn, 1st Stage invites you to take a trip to the warm weather of Palm Beach in Michael McKeever’s frothy farce Suite Surrender. Your vacatio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:56AMTuesday, September 4, 2012
Hollywood has made billions cashing in on our fantasies of having special powers like the comic book superheroes. Yet some people actually turn the dream into reality by dressing in costum…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
It’s time once again for my annual tribute to new plays and playwrights . These are the relatively recent original plays which made their area debut in the DC area during the 2011-2012 t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Source Festival’s Rites of Passage theme involves “moments that define who we are.” These pivotal moments help define our character and provide a solid basis for a number of diff…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMFriday, June 15, 2012
Visitors come to a beautiful island seeking to fulfill their hopes and are greeted by an enigmatic host with a foreign accent and his short assistant. A description of the old ABC show Fan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:45PMTheo Turner thought he had escaped his parents and life in a double-wide trailer for an academic life exploring the formation of the universe. Unfortunately, he finds that he and his wife …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:34PMThursday, June 14, 2012
The Rites of Passage, the second of the three 10-minute play events which opened the Source Festival, involves those pivotal moments that help define our character and provide a solid basis …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AMSource Festival, DC’s longest-running festival of new works, will be presenting 25 new works from artists around the country over the next few weeks. For those who like quick takes, So…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:16AMTuesday, June 5, 2012
David Mamet’s one act paired with Zachary Fernebok’s Navigating Turbulence One of the characteristics of a good play, or a good piece of music, is that it can receive different…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:52AMThursday, May 17, 2012
Many plays dealing with the dawn heart of the AIDS crisis feature justifiable anger and fury. Yet Steven Dietz’s 1994 play Lonely Planet demonstrates that a gentle approach can be just as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Life’s not easy if you’re young prince Telemachus. You miss the dad you barely remember, people think you are too young to take over for a king and demigod like Odysseus, your moth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMTuesday, April 3, 2012
We have all had the experience of passing an attractive person on the street. While you or I might let the memory go after a minute or two, for Joe, she was the girl of his dreams and he b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:38AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
While “two losers in love” is popular with modern playwrights, Blackbird may be the bleakest example of the genre around. The Barrelhouse Theatre production of Adam Rapp’s play offer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMThursday, February 16, 2012
Dael Orlandersmith’s Yellowman is a story of black-on-black bigotry, parental abuse, internalized self-loathing, and alcoholism. In other words, just another fun night at the theatre. Ke…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMThursday, February 2, 2012
In a new prologue written by David Grimm for Susanna Centlivre’s The Gaming Table, Tonya Beckman Ross promises verbal virtuosity and laughs. It is a promise that is kept in spades by Fol…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMFriday, December 9, 2011
Matthew J. Keenan’s new play, A Christmas Carol just opened at Keegan Theatre, has a gritty realism that is unmatched among the holiday fare now playing in the DC area; it’s as braci…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Imagination Stage’s new musical production of Dr. Dolittle combines two stories, the traditional Dr. Dolittle tale and the story of its origins in letters written home by Hugh Lofting whil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:44AMTuesday, November 15, 2011
As an experiment in audience participatory theatre, dog & pony dc’s Beertown is an interesting and memorable adventure. As part of the civic adventure, audience members are encourage…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49AMWednesday, November 9, 2011
David Ives’ Venus in Fur, which had an acclaimed and multi-extended run at Studio Theatre earlier this year, opened on Broadway last night to strongly favorable critical response. Mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:00PMWednesday, November 2, 2011
A central question for any two character play is whether the playwright can keep the audience interested. Sarah Treem’s The How and the Why succeeds through an intelligent blend of perso…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:47AMWednesday, October 19, 2011
If family theatre ratings, like Olympic diving, included a degree of difficulty factor, the Kennedy Center premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and her Dog! would earn a ver…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMThursday, September 15, 2011
Once in a while all of the stars align to create a magical theatre event like MetroStage’s production of John Patrick Shanley’s Savage in Limbo. The script, the cast, the direction, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:28PMTuesday, September 13, 2011
If you are looking for a crowd pleaser to open your theatre’s season, a fine farce like Don’t Dress for Dinner is an excellent choice. 1st Stage launches its new year with an enjoyable…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMMonday, August 15, 2011
With the Audience Choice Awards nominations being announced soon, it is a good time to consider and honor my favorite contemporary plays which debuted in the Washington area during the 2010-…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22AMFriday, July 15, 2011
Abbott & Costello. Martin & Lewis. Now, add to the list of great comedy teams “Darwin and Squirrel.” That’s Darwin as in Charles Darwin, the nineteenth century father of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:56PMTuesday, July 12, 2011
Very few people have led lives interesting enough to describe in detail to others (as proven by the experience of countless cocktail parties). Fortunately for Fringegoers, Geraldine Buckle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AM 
