Sunday, July 15, 2018
With Why is Eartha Kitt Trying to Kill Me?, UrbanArias has given us an operatic gem, and the talents assembled for the production have encased this most entertaining work in pure gold. What…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMTuesday, July 10, 2018
For parents pondering how they might introduce their children to opera and which might be most appropriate, look no further than The Cunning Little Vixen. This curious and fanciful little op…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMWith a big nod to the continued centennial celebration of “Lennie” (Leonard Bernstein) that this opening of Glimmerglass 2018 season represents, one cannot overestimate the importance of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
From the theater that prodded, poked, and provoked for nigh on forty years rose the unlikeliest of DC’s hallowed institutions and its leader – Howard Shalwitz. Many from the Woolly Mammo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMMonday, June 4, 2018
A bright young team of theater professionals brings Homer’s epic to Washington for a fresh look at An Iliad, and the production packs a powerful punch. It may be just in time. Or maybe n…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMFriday, June 1, 2018
Signature Theatre and its own “Scottsboro boys” have given us a musical for our times. Smart. Searing. Dangerous. Funny. Provocative. And – as it continues to expose and engage us in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMThursday, May 31, 2018
Some of the best of Spoleto comes happenstance and often spills out onto the streets. So don’t let the size of your wallet dictate whether you can take part in the joyful exuberance of t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
To judge the relative importance of a performing arts festival, one must ask the questions: “How are the arts furthered?” and “How are the artists being pushed?” Challenges come in a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AMMonday, May 28, 2018
Charleston ravishes the senses. The unique aromas of this town hit you on your first step onto its streets. Confederate jasmine and magnolia mix with the smell of salty pluff mud at low tide…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PMTuesday, May 22, 2018
I do not know. I do not remember. These are the words of a man looking back on his life: a young man haunted by shame and the pain of losing a part of himself as he lost his family. They bec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMMonday, May 7, 2018
Candide is one of those hybrids (opera/Broadway show) that seemed so radical and ungainly a child when it first appeared in 1953 that it shocked and raised the critical ire of many. No one w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMFriday, May 4, 2018
Washington, especially the State Department it seems, wants to get back its swagger (sic.) No need to look further than taking a cue from the newly landed stellar body in our midst, baritone…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMThursday, April 26, 2018
The accidental Samuel Beckett festival now going on in Washington (Scena Theatre’s three one-acts, Arcturus Theatre’s two one-acts) has been made internationally lustrous by acc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMTuesday, April 24, 2018
April appears to be the month of celebrating locally not only cherry blossoms but playwright Samuel Beckett. There are three notable productions in town. Scena Theatre has just presented The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMFriday, April 20, 2018
The partnership between Washington National Opera and The Kennedy Center continues to dominate the opera scene in Washington. But Deborah Rutter, at the helm of the entire arts complex, cont…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMThursday, April 19, 2018
Deborah Rutter, President of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts announced the Citizen Artists Initiative in 2016, and she has been bringing together a group of talented young artists ea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
What does radical empathy look like? Look no further than the plays of Athol Fugard. He has made his life’s work giving voice to the Black Africans of South Africa who were not allowed…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMMonday, April 16, 2018
In the darkness, a disembodied voice tells us we are embarking on a journey and instructs us to ready ourselves for take off and to put our cell phones to airplane mode. Then so many thousan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMFriday, April 13, 2018
This past week brought a powerful confluence of “wake up” energy to Washington, DC. Sunday, people gathered at Washington’s National Cathedral to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMMonday, April 9, 2018
With Florida, the world premiere of an opera by composer Randall Eng and librettist Donna Di Novelli, Urban Arias just got bigger. It’s not just that the piece of ninety-five minutes didn�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMThursday, March 15, 2018
Susan Galbraith speaks with director Aaron Posner and actor Katie deBuys during rehearsals for The Winter’s Tale which opens at Folger Theatre this week. ————&#…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:37PMMonday, March 5, 2018
The icy blast that whipped through Washington this past week blew in a work rarely seen to the Kennedy Center’s Opera House Saturday night that both tested one’s brain stamina and also b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:20PMThursday, February 1, 2018
Watching a Baroque opera delivered by Ryan Brown and Opera Lafayette can feel like a refreshing “re-set” time-travel from warp-speed to the pace of a gently-moving skiff down a lazy rive…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Opera has a promising future, judging by this past weekend’s plethora of riches delivered in the newly renovated Terrace Theatre at The Kennedy Center. As part of the American Opera Init…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
In a world where facts are malleable, the working government gets shut down, good people are without protection of the law, bureaucrats are colluding with the powerful and mad, and officials…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:40AMMonday, January 22, 2018
This weekend a new opera, Proving Up, proved itself indeed – a chamber opera worthy for the 21st century. Born out of a spirit of inquiry, Proving Up is mysterious, mesmerizing, startling …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
This coming weekend Washington National Opera will showcase its most vital work: insuring the future of the form by developing young creative talent through its American Opera Initiative (AO…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:16AMMonday, January 15, 2018
Stillpointe Theatre, a Baltimore-based company known for its sharp takes on the American musical, has just entered the field of opera and became one of the first out of the gate this year to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AMMonday, December 18, 2017
The Little Prince returned to earth this past weekend, filling the newly renovated Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center with a veritable feast of sound and sights. “Amazing!” pronounced…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
Christmas traditions can pull you back into memories of your favorite childhood outings, gooey or punchy. MetroStage has delivered a seasonal British music hall with more punch than goo. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMWednesday, November 8, 2017
Old things may become new. Handel’s opera, Alcina, which premiered in 1735 has done just that – quite magically so. Washington National Opera has dared to take on the classic sorceress f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24PM 
