Sunday, April 24, 2016
Most people have that friend. You know, that friend.The one you’re so close to that it makes other people uncomfortable or makes them question your sexuality or makes them say “I wish th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:17PMTuesday, April 19, 2016
Looking for Roberto Clemente, a remounted musical from Imagination Stage, mixes pushed nostalgia and classic sports formulae to bridge generations and make an adorable musical. The story is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMMonday, April 11, 2016
A hip bash held Saturday night at the storied Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville, Kentucky celebrated the newly announced winner of the 2016 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/Ame…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AMFriday, April 1, 2016
In the wake of recent news of the renaming of George Mason University’s Law School after controversial conservative political figure Antonin Scalia, DC Theatre Scene has confirmed a ne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:27PMI have yet to come across a theater artist who dreams bigger than Annalisa Dias. She has facilitated and studied theater on several continents. She has produced, directed, dramaturged, devi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:09PMThursday, March 31, 2016
The last time Playwright Motti Lerner, Director Sinai Peter, and Producing Artistic Director Ari Roth got together for a production, they created the controversial play The Admission, which …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMWednesday, March 23, 2016
The Pillowman from Martin McDonagh has been a hot play for more than a decade, catapulting its author to major film writing gigs and international stardom. A local version from Forum Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMWednesday, March 16, 2016
1984, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s newest visiting international production, combines cutting-edge technology with a very old technique for making political plays for this new adaptation …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:25AMTuesday, March 1, 2016
As a critic, I’m sometimes in the business of prediction: who is going to win what award, what production is going to sell well, what company is going to have the best season coming up. An…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMThursday, February 25, 2016
There are some historical characters that cry out for animation on the stage. Stephen Sondheim has fixated on a pair of them in his meandering travelogue Road Show, a historical biographical…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMWednesday, February 10, 2016
When the Rain Stops Falling, the startlingly complex multi-generational family drama now getting its regional premiere at 1st Stage Tysons, shows the inextricable ties between even estranged…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMFriday, February 5, 2016
Plays about extreme Beauty always seem to contain extreme ugliness. Woolly Mammoth’s newest offering, the off-Broadway smash and award-winning straight play Guards at the Taj, is no except…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:57AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
Can you think of anything as emotionally dramatic or hilariously rambunctious as a party at a haunted drunken lesbian coke house? Me neither. Fortunately, you’ve got an invitation to the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03PMTuesday, February 2, 2016
1. This Chihuahua Who Found Out That There Was No Live Stream of the Nomination Announcements, But Then Remembered That Twitter is a Thing. Notice that she is still real disappointed. I’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:28PMSunday, January 31, 2016
There’s a certain irony in watching Sweat, a play about the annihilation of the American working class, in corporate-sponsored palatial theater charging $80+ a pop for full-price seats, no…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:56PMWednesday, January 13, 2016
The glorious and painful truth about heroes is that they never die. Glorious because their moments of triumph and wonder can live on moment after moment, memory after memory, into the infini…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:38PMTuesday, December 22, 2015
1. Most Emotionally Devastating Deaths by Inanimate Objects in A Play – Famous Puppet Death Scenes – Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Feel free to kick yourself if you missed thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMFriday, December 11, 2015
When the leading gent in Round House’s regional premiere of Stage Kiss goes on a mid-Act I rant, he declares that audiences only put up with theatrical smooching because kisses provide a s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:58PMThursday, December 10, 2015
The DC playwriters’ collective The Welders is taking a new direction with their latest offering, Our National Museum of the Unforeseen Tragedy. While their previous productions have be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:29AMMonday, December 7, 2015
Motown the Musical has thundered into the National Theatre here in DC for a holiday run. The Detroit label that gave starts to artists like Michael Jackson and Marvin Gaye, graces the stage …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AMFriday, December 4, 2015
One of the most ambitious shows being put on in DC this winter is the oversized blockbuster musical West Side Story produced by Signature Theatre. Just how does Signature plan to fit this bi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:27PMWednesday, November 25, 2015
Perhaps you’ve noticed that the onstage language used to portray “real life situations” (think plays anywhere from Ibsen to Neil Simon to recent Tony winner All the Way) bears litt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:08AMFriday, November 13, 2015
“Contemporary’ may not be the first word when one thinks of classic 1968 Broadway musical Oliver!, but that’s exactly what Arena Stage has delivered in their update of the Dick…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMWednesday, November 11, 2015
There’s a question plaguing Hollywood today when it comes to wildly successful and praised new works: should we make a sequel and can it possibly be as good as the original? And while many…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:10AMThursday, November 5, 2015
It would have been easy for Johnna Adams, whose World Builders at Forum Theatre focuses on two drug trials participants being treated for Schizoid Personality Disorder (SPD), to write a play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
One of the hardest things about producing a Shakespeare play is making it feel up to date. Paraphrasing Jack Crew when contemplating playing Hamlet in Slings and Arrows, “Every time th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
I haven’t seen a show so polarize an audience since Studio Theatre staged Annie Baker’s The Aliens, where I witnessed multiple patrons demanding their money back at intermission and a pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:04PMFriday, October 23, 2015
One of the most surprising offerings in this DC theater season comes from Constellation Theatre, who are deviating from their usual epic fare with blockbuster Tony Award-winning show Avenue …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMThursday, October 22, 2015
Farce gets a bad wrap as a genre. Pundits will call a sporting event or a political campaign a farce when they want to denigrate it, but in the theater, sometimes there’s nothing more enjo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:13PMFriday, October 9, 2015
Good Kids, a play by Naomi Iizuka, will be read October 12, 2015 at The Kennedy Center as part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. A prolific playwright, many her recognitions is t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:08AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
There’s a not-so-secret code in Theater for Young Audiences (TYA) productions. Whether you’re a parent/guardian or just someone interested in theater, you might read the synopsis of a TY…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PM 
