Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Fringe is usually filled with scrappy fledging companies of artists banding together in the hopes of making some theatre magic on zero budget, a wing and a prayer. But, every once in while t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMMonday, July 16, 2018
Lindsey is in love with a rock. Yes, an actual rock. More specifically, a rock that’s made up of many other rocks encased in concrete. Yes, actually in love. As she says herself while gent…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMPrior to the start of MasterMimes: The Show, a man and a woman are sleeping on the floor. Every few minutes, an alarm clock goes off and the woman hits snooze with ever increasing annoyance.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
“Jewish Christmas trees don’t have stars!” Or at least they don’t according to Boo Levy, one of the matriarchs of the affluent southern Jewish Freitag-Levy household where the family…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:54PMSaturday, July 15, 2017
Full disclosure: I have spent most of the last decade as a teacher, immersed in the world of autobiographical storytellin . I work with my students to become less “literary” and more �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMMonday, July 10, 2017
What is truth? It’s a big question to explore in 50 minutes, but Agora Dance’s The Kind of Thing That Would Happen attempts to do exactly that. The result is a beautifully executed, if o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMSunday, July 9, 2017
An autobiographical one-man show about performing a different autobiographical one-man show? It sounds like the ultimate Fringe Festival cliché. But despite its conceit, David Kleinberg’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AMTuesday, May 23, 2017
How do you know the difference between a story and a lie? According to British spoken word artist Polarbear (aka Steven Camden), a lie is selfish, but a story is a gift. If that is the case,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMMonday, May 8, 2017
On November 6, 1963, 17-year-old Laura Welch (future First Lady Laura Bush) was driving down a dark road on her way to the movies when she failed to heed a stop sign, causing a car ac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMTuesday, April 11, 2017
You have likely encountered Doubt: A Parable before. Whether it be through the Tony Award-winning original Broadway production, the Pulitzer Prize-winning script, the Academy Award-nominate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
‘Tis the season to think about love, and whether you’ve got the “Dirty No-Gooder Blues,” are “Taking a Chance on Love” or you’re “Just a Lucky So-and-So” there’s a so…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMTuesday, December 6, 2016
In a season full of holiday spectacle, the rarely performed The Second Shepherds’ Play stands out for its sweet simplicity. With only a small three-piece band of expert musicians and modes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:02PMMonday, November 28, 2016
When a garden is neglected “you clear away the dead parts / so the tender buds can form,” sings the character Dickon at the beginning of Act 2 of The Secret Garden. That’s exactly wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMWednesday, October 26, 2016
Rameau’s Nephew is a stage adaption of enlightenment era philosopher Denis Diderot’s fictional dialogue between a moralistic philosopher (“I”) and his foil, the greedy and hedonistic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:39AMMonday, September 19, 2016
Washington, DC, 2:16 AM, a car bomb goes off in a supposed terrorist attack. The suspect is a Middle Eastern-looking man with a beard. Amor is a Washingtonian of Middle Eastern descent with …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMFriday, July 15, 2016
Duke Ellington said that jazz is “not an occupation or profession, it’s a compulsion.” In the biographical drama Paul Gonsalves on the Road, Gonsalves, legendary jazz saxophonist and l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:50AMThursday, July 14, 2016
When we meet Mary Toft at the beginning of How to Give Birth to a Rabbit, she sings “I’d give my blood” to rise above her life of poverty and indigence, and that’s exactly what she d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14AMWednesday, July 13, 2016
I was rooting for Krish Mohan. The odds were stacked against him at the Saturday afternoon performance of An Indian Comedian: How Not To Fit In. A block-long power outage rendered the upstai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:52PMMonday, July 11, 2016
Think Fringe isn’t family friendly? It is! Exhibit A: Barry Beaver’s Adventures in Happy Valley – LaGoDi Foundation for the Arts’ musical storybook romp. Geared towards…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20PMSunday, July 10, 2016
Near the beginning of Rain follows the Plow: A Dust Opera the matriarch of the Walker family describes the many hardships of life on the plains in the 1930’s. “But the sky, the impossibl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PM 
