Tuesday, December 16, 2014
The first thing to know about Beauty and the Beast, Synetic’s newest fairy tale offering in Crystal City, is not what the production is, but what it isn’t. When buying your tickets, auto…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMMonday, December 15, 2014
There’s a certain pleasure to watching death-defying stunts, seeing frankly insane people take huge risks that put their physical well-being in danger. I often think of improv in the same …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Christmas isn’t only the season of giving, receiving and familial travel, it’s also the season of theatrical traditions. My family drives a number of hours to watch the complete 3 hour H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
When I first saw Theatre J’s season announcement, I knew I wanted to talk with John Vreeke, director of Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scrip…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PMMonday, November 17, 2014
It’s easy to become jaded in the theater. I see it all the time. Actors who have played the same part one too many times; critics who have seen the same productions of the same plays one h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMThursday, November 13, 2014
Since the DC area is filled with non-profits, charities, museums, and arts organizations, we have something of a specialized industry in one of the quirkiest event types: the Benefit. Known …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:00PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
From the seed of Robert Moses’ “ghettofication” of the Bronx via urban planning to the first time DJ Kool Herc spun tables on a makeshift sound system, the birth of hip-hop has been co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMThursday, October 30, 2014
What do you expect when you see a play called Rage? Yelling? Violence? Gunshots? Ambassador Theater’s US premiere of Rage by Canadian playwright Michele Riml definitely delivers there. But…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
“Doesn’t the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in an American theater make everything else that’s ever happened in an American theater before or since seem kinda trivial?” That’s on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
When I first found out about Our War at Arena Stage, I was fascinated. The production is massive in scale, a conglomeration of monologues about and reacting to the Civil War, spanning more t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:08PMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Fine dining has a principle that can be paraphrased like this: “If your restaurant serves a simple, homestyle meal with only a few elements on the plate, each of those elements has to be p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Last week, I had the wonderful opportunity to head down to Signature Theatre to have a chat with Charlie Pollock, who plays the title role in Elmer Gantry, (opening October 7th,) recently on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
What do you imagine when you think of “going to the Opera?” Vast theaters, draped entirely in tacky red velvet? Huge casts with elaborate sets in sprawling shows that go on for hours in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
These are things that break hearts: worn letters to and from a war, recalling memories with loved ones in your newly-sold childhood home, and a triangularly folded flag with a single dog tag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:25AMThursday, September 18, 2014
Kimberly Gilbert is starring in David Adjimi’s Marie Antoinette, running through October 12th at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Alan Katz had a chance to talk with her a few days before openi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
One of the things you have to know about Memphis: the Musical is that the hardest and hardest-working gig on the DC theatre scene has to be an actor/server at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. They h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:07PMFriday, September 5, 2014
Theater J’s Yentl has quite a bit to compare to, given the expectations set by the immensely popular movie starring (and written and directed and produced by) Barbra Streisand and the long…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
People do crazy things for charity. If you haven’t been living under a social media blackout, you’ve probably seen people dumping buckets of ice water on their heads for a charity fighti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:22AMFriday, August 8, 2014
Many people who attend the theater don’t know it, but theater is a race. The finish line is set months in advance and is cheekily called “Opening Night,” even though it is the closing …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PM 
