Thursday, March 24, 2016
Among the pivotal works of modern literature, novels like “Infinite Jest” and “Finnegan’s Wake” have proven so dense, so abstract, so impenetrable as to be nearly …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:15AMMonday, February 22, 2016
As the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe continues to spiral, Mosaic Theater Company of DC goes beyond the headlines to diagram hopeful refugees caught in a web of chaos, bureauc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:49PMSaturday, January 9, 2016
“I am large. I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman’s words in “Song of Myself” aptly describe Aaron Davidman’s chameleonic turn in Wrestling Jerusalem, a whirlwind solo tour throug…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMMonday, November 2, 2015
“What happens to a dream deferred?…Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?” wondered poet Langston Hughes in his 1951 work “Harlem”. Over sixty years l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:56PMMonday, September 21, 2015
For years, psychologists have marveled at the power of music to rebuild memory, aid recovery from brain injury, and even fight Alzheimer’s disease. In The Requiem, talented young playwrig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:34PMFriday, July 17, 2015
Shakespeare is great as straight drama or as total parody; indeed both Royal Shakespeare Company and Reduced Shakespeare Co coexist happily next door to each other. The goofy, frequently puz…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Barenaked Comedy brings together the “bar arts” of burlesque and standup comedy for an endlessly entertaining evening. This bawdy, adult showcase has a truly random assortment of talente…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:33PMThe “play within a play” device is a tough trick to pull off, even for the likes of Shakespeare. XY Players’ Experimental offers up a trippy tale about actors trapped in a murderou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:55PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
With DC ramping up for yet another presidential tilt, it’s a great time to sit back and laugh at the whole circus. To Err is Falstaff!! inventively blends Aaron Sorkin-esque humor and paci…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:20PMMonday, July 13, 2015
Sometimes the world inside our heads is a lot brighter than the real world outside. In Jennifer Faletto’s affecting Domestic Animals, a young woman tries to embrace her fractured new life,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMSunday, July 12, 2015
The tumultuous personal lives and demons of Hemingway, Mailer, and many of our greatest writers can sometimes overshadow their indelible literary achievements. In American Lit, playwright Ja…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:22PMMonday, June 15, 2015
… a thrilling physical showcase with heart and laughs to spare. Cirque du Soleil plus Superheroes. That’s the easiest way to quickly describe the wildly inventive Flying V Fights: He…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:09PMSaturday, June 13, 2015
A razor-sharp critique of media and justice in post 9-11 America In this age of 24/7 media witch hunts and instant mass outrage, any national security issue can morph into World War III ov…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMTuesday, June 9, 2015
Love and Botany sprouts six unique tales of plants, romance, and unlikely connections. CulturalDC has married some unlikely theatrical bedfellows for its ongoing Source Festival, and none mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:45PMMonday, June 8, 2015
The 6 short plays grouped into “Mistakes & Media” take on 24-7 Internet & media culture with wit, weirdness. Our modern culture of ubiquitous screens, 24-7 information, and infin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AMThursday, June 4, 2015
Ripped from the pages of Maxim and Cosmopolitan, Round House Theatre’s rollicking satire “NSFW” offers a timely, raunchy, and deeply affecting look at the media’s objectification of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMFriday, May 29, 2015
Forum Theater’s affecting rendition of Young Jean Lee’s polemical The Shipment doesn’t dance around the truth, but opts instead to rip the Band-Aid off the raw, tragic, funny, and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AMThursday, April 16, 2015
In the jarring very still & hard to see, playwright Steve Yockey injects dark Japanese folklore into Stephen King’s mold of creeping horror, set far too close to home. Rorschach Theatr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:15AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
Ghost stories need a few key elements to truly scare: constantly building tension, atmospheric lighting and music, a cast that knows when to get out of the way, and just enough backstory to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:39AMFriday, March 27, 2015
What if you bought a one-of-a-kind Picasso, and then a friend revealed it wasn’t really one-of-a-kind? Would you accept the truth – or cling to ignorance like a warm blanket? In Thea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMMonday, March 23, 2015
The “seafaring life” has taken many forms over time: fearless explorers, bloodthirsty pirates, hopeful pilgrims, grizzled Hemingway-esque mariners, and modern sailors endlessly plying va…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:55PMTuesday, January 20, 2015
Understanding loss can be a tricky business for children, and especially so for those with disabilities. The Kennedy Center’s poignant production of Mockingbird explores an autistic girl�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Can children ever escape the sins of their fathers and mothers? In their electric, incisive premiere of playwright Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Not Enuf Lifetimes, The Welders wade into the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AMThursday, September 18, 2014
Have you ever watched an Apple, IBM, or Google commercial and wondered ”Why couldn’t I do that?” dog & pony DC asks would-be innovators to flex their mental muscles in Toas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMonday, September 15, 2014
Between consumption, poison, madness, exposure, stabbing, and suffocation, the divas of classic opera never really had much of a chance. Carmen, Mimi, Desdemona, and others finally get the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:41AMWednesday, June 25, 2014
“Full of sound and fury, signifying [a crazy night of theater]”. That’s the quick summary of Taffety Punk Theatre Company’s world premiere of Enter Ophelia, distracted, Kimberly Gilb…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMWednesday, May 28, 2014
Sometimes, we could all use a little love and understanding – even, perhaps, the man who betrayed Jesus Christ. In Forum Theatre’s crackling production of The Last Days of Judas Isca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:35AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
The words “puppet show” and “groundbreaking” don’t often share the same sentence, but DC’s Pointless Theatre Group is out to change that, one performance at a time. Point…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMFriday, March 28, 2014
Are children doomed to repeat the sins of their parents, or can they escape the cycle of negativity and start fresh? Theater J’s workshop presentation of Motti Lerner’s powerful play The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMTuesday, March 25, 2014
The newly-christened Welders playwright collective has burst confidently onto the DC theater landscape with its daring debut of The Carolina Layaway Grail. In a cozy side room of the Atlas P…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:01PMTuesday, February 18, 2014
Winston Churchill said, “History is written by the victors.” Nowhere is this more true than with colonial history, where the conquerors’ truth often dominates and the subjugated vi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM 
