As 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:34AMThere is something mesmerizing about hand puppets for young audiences. The real world is shrunk, made manageable, and essentially emptied out of grown ups. These puppets’ soft, squidgy f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AMPlaying Molnár, the Hungarian playwright born in Budapest, is a little like snowboarding. You have to ride the dialogue well forward and stay dangerously fast and loose to get plenty of air…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMCosì fan tutte is one of Mozart’s less popular works and is revered more amongst the cognoscenti than general audiences. Despite its beautiful music, the story has always seemed thin to m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:08AMRecently I sat down with Aisha de Haas, jazz chanteuse, Broadway singer, and repertory actress. I had just watched her performance in Metro Stage’s Josephine Tonight! where she’d knocked…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:34PMThree shadowy figures stand on a scaffold high above the stage, looking down on a tangle of eight foot strings and contorting themselves in and around each other to bring inanimate blocks of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:47PMWhat do you get when you cross three bears, reportedly kicked out on their hinies from the Kennedy Center, with an Animal Control cop from Fairfax County, whose dream is to feature his golde…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07AMWe knew when we walked into the Kennedy Center Family Theater space, this was not going to be an ordinary play. And when the central character, Ikarus, appeared, we just knew this was no…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMOpera Lafayette will be playing the Palace. Having had one performance at the Kennedy Center, Opera Lafayette next moves its production of this 18th century opera to NYC and then to the pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:47AMOnce more Producing Artistic Director Carla Hubner and her In Series have taken on a double-bill of “pocket opera”. And, as she has in the past, Hubner refuses to be either defined or li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMThis simply presented production exemplifies the astonishing power of theatre to unexpectedly grab your heart and carry you off into an adventure of the soul. It was an unexpectedly warm da…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AM‘Tis the season, and programming holiday fare for adults can either overload us on Sugarplum gooiness or, ignoring the holiday, risk appearing downright Scrooge-like. But Carla Hubner and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:21PMAt the opening of the third production in Synetic Theater Company’s Silent Shakespeare Theater Festival ‘Sleep No More’ I thought to myself, how can they top the muscular, driving ambi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AMStay is a story in performance featuring theatre, dance, music and SLAM multimedia. The premiere production of this collaboration, conceived by Playwright/Director Heather McDonald and Chore…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:43PMLucia di Lammermoor, which opened last night at Washington National Opera, is not your daddy’s Lucia. If you had come to pay homage to Donizetti’s original impulse and bask in its early …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:05PMUsually, I am not one for concert opera or musicals, but the concert-style staging this weekend of Boys from Syracuse by Rogers and Hart at the Shakespeare Theatre Company is a delight. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:35AMBlanca Ziska, Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre is this year’s recipient of the Zelda Fichandlert Award, presented by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:33PMGeorge Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man was first produced in 1894, yet his attack on his country’s romanticizing of war, misplaced heroism, and overzealous patriotism strikes a timely ch…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:13AMIt must be Matt Month. How else can you explain not one but two musical productions in the area featuring the music of composer Matt Connor? Creative Cauldron, celebrating the company’s lo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMWhy Shakespeare without words? And can it be done well? People are still asking that. But Synetic Theater, now in its tenth season, with no less than seven of its signature wordless Shak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMOpening night of the Washington National Opera celebrated both a new leader at the helm and a new partnership with The Kennedy Center. Like a marriage ceremony, there is now a commitment on …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMSince its inception in 1975, the Glimmerglass Festival has grown from a small summer stock opera in rented digs in a local high school auditorium to a state-of-the-art theatre on beautiful …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30AMThere is a special feel when you take in performances at a festival. You get the excitement of discovery, a pilgrimage, and celebration all at once. It has as much to do with the juxtaposi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27AMEvery generation has its musical, and all lovers of musicals remember that first big show that knocked their socks off and whose songs they were singing months afterwards. Judging by the app…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMIn Peter Marks’ article in the Washington Post this weekend, Molly Smith, Artistic Director of Arena Stage, was quoted as saying that in theater today to survive is to thrive. Down alo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:45AMMost theatre companies line up as either devotees of drama or musicals. Keegan Theatre stakes its reputation on embracing and producing both. The company’s work is often strong and compell…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:53PMWashington boasts so much music-theatre these days that it’s not surprising the conversation has returned about what is opera, what is a musical, and what is music-theatre. People bring th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMEnda Walsh, the featured playwright of The New Ireland Festival at Studio Theatre, defies easy classification. But one thing is sure: whether he grabs part of the myth of Odysseus and resets…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMAs many in the music-theatre world will tell you, three main genres of musicals are being produced today. There’s your “classic” fare from the golden days of 30’s and 40′s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AMSignature Theatre and The Shen Family Foundation have made a commitment to develop new works representing the American Musical Theatre through its groundbreaking American Musical Voice Proje…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:13AMI first saw Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in 1973 in London before it moved to the west end. It still had some of the enthusiasm and roughness of a school production, which in…
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