I was intrigued by Museum 2040, an alternate future immersive production that combines a museum exhibit and a theatricalized dedication ceremony, from the moment I interviewed its playwright…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PMThe Shark, my desultory 3 year old, was hopping from place to place in Glen Echo Park in anticipation of seeing The Snowy Day and Other Stories, a musical adaptation of one of the most popul…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMAs my toddler stuffed fistfuls of frosting in her mouth, I couldn’t help think of Zomo the Rabbit, the deliciously fun Theater for Young Audiences play that we saw earlier. Not just becaus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06PMIt was a type of morning that many parents of small children are familiar with: a morning full of questions. The Shark (my ever-moving, ever-hunting, and ever-curious almost-3 year old) was …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMThe best and worst part of toddlers is their Big Feelings. Just the morning of me writing this piece, my toddler (who we call The Shark) has displayed righteous indignation at not being allo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PMThere’s a pall of delicious irony lingering over Constellation’s Little Shop of Horrors, the now-classic musical tale of a weirdo named Seymour from Skid Row who finds an extra-terrestri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:36PMYou may not recognize the name Eric Carle, but you’ll probably recognize his distinctive collage art. He hand paints sheet after sheet of tissue paper with bold acrylics. He cuts them in s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PMI’ll admit, I was a bit terrified to attend Elephant and Piggie’s “We are in a Play!” Mostly because my toddler, lovingly called the Shark, had lived up to her animal Patronus and di…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMThe best theater reveals moments of high emotion built on the intersection of intense preparation and the chaos of live performance. By that measure, the best theater experience in DC is Taf…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PM“It’s the plot that you knew/ with a small twist or two/ but the changes we made were slight,” croons Major Attaway as the Genie in the finale of Aladdin national tour, now at the Kenn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMTwo or three weeks ago, my daughter was finally patient enough to get all the way through Dr. Seuss’s book, The Cat in the Hat. A feat of patience and wit, to be sure, for someone who is t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12PMTruth be told, I’ve never been to Iceland. But I somehow doubt that Steve Yockey and Rorschach Theatre’s horror-strewn and homo-centric vignettes in the rolling world premiere Reykjavík…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMHow to Catch A Star adaptor, director, and tech wizard Jared Mezzocchi leads this debut that serves up truly jaw-dropping visuals for a full hour of exploratory theater, guaranteed to amaze…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMWashington DC has quite a rich tradition in political satire, from local legends The Capitol Steps to one-off play commissions at local theaters like Signature to niche private functions onl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMAfter napping on a long drive to Glen Echo Park on a rainy day, it was time to wake up the Shark. The Shark is my 20 month old daughter who, like her namesake, seems to need constant movemen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMWalking into Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) I knew, as you may, that there was a best-selling Spanish language movie of its time, and an equally popular novel/cookbook …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMIris is an astronaut. She travels through space. Iris is also a chrononaut. She travels through time. And that’s where her troubles begin as the protagonist of The Interstellar Ghost Hour…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMTheater programming usually doesn’t get any more conservative than Gilbert & Sullivan, late 19th century purveyors of light opera and bad puns. But Chicago’s avant-garde company The …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AM50 Ways…, a new Fringe show from the mind of Mahayana Landowne, promises to fit 50 scenes into just 70 minutes of runtime. How can he do that? When you see it, the answer will become hilar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:36PMCoronado is a play in disguise. If you read the blurbs or see the black and white promo photo of a couple of White dudes at a bar table with cigarettes hanging from their mouths, you might t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMTitus Andronicus is well-known as several things: as Shakespeare’s first true tragedy, as a foreshadow of the brutal Jacobean revenge dramas that would dominate the first quarter of the 17…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMTheater critics, at least good ones, should be grizzled theatergoing veterans and yet be centered and sensitive enough to relive the experience of the newcomer every time they see a show. To…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMThere are few topics more horrifying and less funny than one’s parents’ sexuality. But Qui Nguyen, one of the hottest American playwrights of the moment, has embraced the embarrassment o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMIf you’re looking for the cutting edge of DC theater, look for the groups who are interrogating the boundaries of what it means to even be a theater. From Forum’s actor-less The State to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:38AMBeing stuck in the world of 410[GONE] might seem like Hell for most people. After all, it is a trippy video game afterlife full of maddening puzzles based on Dance Dance Revolution and manic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMYou would have to be quite the hermit to be missing the current cultural moment of the horrifying and sometimes violent interactions between bodies, sex, and power. With news full of the emp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMIn today’s information age, where significant cultural moments flutter in and out weekly, topical theater may not age well. But sometimes, art speaks to fundamental fault lines in a cultur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMMemory is a home we can’t help but live in. Wandering from room to partitioned room, we reflexively replay the moments that define us in our search of what they mean for who we are. Deb Si…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMThere is still dictatorship in Europe. Protestors are beaten in the streets. Artists and activists are tortured in prison. An iron-fisted strong man rigs elections and crushes all opposition…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33AMIn the wake of an historically deadly mass shooting and a historically unpopular president comes a musical comedy of sorts about guns, presidents, and their tragic interplay from Lincoln to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMImagine the worst dinner party you could attend. Not the worst for company (everyone here is erudite and cosmopolitan), nor the worst for purpose (a celebration of achievement), nor the wors…
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