Hurricane Sandy caused a rare 2 day shutdown for Broadway theatres starting Monday, Oct 29. Despite a massive blackout, and the closure of mass transit and tunnels, actors, stagehands and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:40AMSometimes a play leaves you with so sweet an ache it lingers for days – so searing is the truth and beauty of it. Such is Tom Murphy’s Famine as I experienced it on opening night. Mind y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:25PMA Whistle in the Dark by Tom Murphy, bears all the marks of a work of that club, dubbed “angry young men,” who penned gritty, primal works that rocked audiences and revolutionized Britis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:46PMThe only thing more prevalent than the full-bodied beer in Druid‘s marvelous play at the Kennedy Center is the feel of the lonely wind coming off Galway Bay and pushing at the backs of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:53AMMirenka Cechová, one of the leading proponents of physical theatre in the world, hails from the Czech Republic. Last year, Washington audiences were privileged to see her work when she ap…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMIf you are asking, starry droogs, “What’s it going to be then, eh?” and you’re up for viddying malchickies tolchoking others in the guluva, the odd in-out-in-out, you know, a malen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:29AMSometimes a theatrical experience can be a stumbling in the dark, searching for a light, rolling on a night’s restless sea, grabbing onto inchoate mumblings to become moored. Such is the w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AMIf there is an unequivocal argument for continuing to produce big classical opera as part of Washington National Opera’s mission, then this production of Don Giovanni makes the case. Wei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49AMIf you want to hear one great operatic voice make your soul vibrate, go hear Sondra Radvanovsky in Anna Bolena. Washington National Opera opened its season Saturday night giving Washington…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMIt is open season on political candidates, and Urban Arias may have just bought the license to shoot them all. Their latest opera, Photo-Op, makes good on the company’s promise to sing tou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMTo see and hear Kathleen Turner channel the words and wit of Molly Ivins is to be reminded that theatre can be like church. You need to go to get nudged into living more truthfully and stay …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:21AMCirque du Soleil has done it again with its particular brand of entertainment magic. Conceived in 2010, TOTEM has kept the company’s commitment to delivering a “no animals circus” by…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:05PM- Susan Galbraith reports on the 25th anniversary year of the prestigious Glimmerglass Festival summer opera festival in Cooperstown, New York. - Click images for more reviews from Glimmergl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AM- Susan Galbraith reports on the four productions of Glimmerglass Festival, in Cooperstown, NY, now celebrating its 25th anniversary season. -Lost in the Stars, directed by the very talented…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AMThe prestigious Glimmerglass Festival leads off its 2012 season with an original and stunning production of Aida, without one elephant sighted except for a giant be-twigged mother-and-baby t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AM“I want to hit the audience with the power of tap dance, to elevate this form and take the audience to a whole other level. And I work on everything as if it’s a Broadway opening. &…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMCarmen, the second opera of Castleton Festival’s 2012 season, aired after Friday’s storm left performers, staff, and crew with a cancelled scheduled opening and, for many, 72 hours …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:46PMNow in its fourth season, Castleton has blossomed into an artistically first rate festival and conservatory program that stands proudly beside stalwart organizations like Glimmerglass, Tangl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMUntil now, from my limited vantage, I would have charged that stagehands make up a group distinguished primarily by their prodigious consumption of doughnuts and coffee and their nocturnal h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:20AMFirst You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb has sailed into the Kennedy Center like a great queen of Tall Ships into a deep water port. The show is elegant and quietly stunning in its ol…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AM- Michael Russotto and Eric Sutton are sharing the stage in Steve Dietz’ Lonely Planet at MetroStage. Both actors surprised and delighted me with their thoughtfulness and insights into…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:41AMWerther, the final production of Washington National Opera’s 2011-2012 season, features some wonderful music in Jules Massenet’s lyrical score. It is beautifully supported by the strong …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12AMWho says you can’t make The Shrew work? I did. And I’ll eat my hat. The last time I had seen a truly stunning production of The Taming of the Shrew was in New York’s Central Park, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMVerdi’s first major operatic hit, Nabucco, opened this weekend at the Kennedy Center in a sumptuous new Washington National Opera production by American director and designer Thaddeus Stra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:26AMSpace is both an inspiration and one that provides parameters to force/collision, a collective of multi-disciplinary artists. The found space of The Yards Park Canal creates a fitting backdr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16AMGod of Carnage feels like a Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf for the 21st century. The characters are better dressed, finer housed, super toned, and a whole lot funnier. But playwright Yas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMA comprehensive and stunning celebration of composer Dominick Argento’s work is being presented at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, and it simply should not be missed. Composer Do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:41AMContemporary opera is supposed to be a rare and endangered species. Robert Wood, Artistic Director of UrbanArias, says otherwise and believes fervently that it’s a cause worth pursuing. Hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMUrbanArias has not only landed once more in our midst, but opened its second season and first commissioned opera Sunday night to a full house. This world premiere of Positions 1956 with musi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:29AMWhen Synetic cooks up Shakespeare, know that under Paata Tsikurishvili’s fired-up direction, the team will tackle something bold and often delicious. However, is it any wonder that in Syne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:43AMAs a great “temple” to American history, Ford’s Theatre is a perfect venue for 1776, a revival of Sherman Edwards’ and Peter Stone’s musical about the Second Continental Congress a…
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