Monday, July 23, 2012
The Faustian bargain, or “Deal with the Devil”, is often used to explain virtuoso musical talent, and none looms larger in American lore than the fabled deal struck between Satan and leg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:17PM“Known fabulist” or not, Mike Daisey is an incredible storyteller. Despite the still simmering controversy over fact manipulation and hyperbole discovered in previous incarnations of his…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
The Marquis de Sade may have been many things, but “modest” certainly wasn’t one of them. Like the infamous French libertine and playwright whom they evoke, the cast and crew of In The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37AMThursday, July 19, 2012
The story of Hitler’s youth often gets overshadowed by his bloody WWII legacy, but the following is known: he began adulthood as a struggling, academically rejected artist in Vienna who wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:30PMTuesday, July 17, 2012
The Outcasts of Poker Flat may be the best Wild West opera you’ll ever see. It may also be the only one you’ll ever see, but that only underscores this rollicking, emotional production a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:31PMSunday, July 15, 2012
The disjointed Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a literary maelstrom of political intrigue, murder, incest, shipwrecks, mistaken identities, and pirate attacks spanning six Mediterranean cities. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08PMThursday, June 21, 2012
Throughout his extensive catalog of works, Shakespeare has proved over and over again that deception always catches up to us in the end, often in hilarious or tragic fashion. Shakespeare The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
While Mozart’s three comic operas (“opera buffa”) Don Giovanni, La Nozze de Figaro, and Cosi Fan Tutti may loom largest among his operatic legacy, his serious operas (“opera seria”…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:58AMThursday, May 24, 2012
In the well-known Greek creation myth, the Titan Cronus desperately seeks to prevent the prophecy that one of his offspring will overthrow him, as he did to his own father, Uranus. Cronus’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:00AMThursday, April 26, 2012
When faced with the choice between the safety of a familiar life and the potential of an unwritten future, which would you choose? In Quotidian Theatre’s poignant production of Brian Friel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:16AMMonday, April 23, 2012
When was the last time you saw a musical about regular working stiffs? In Keegan Theatre’s breezy new production of Working, an assortment of blue and white-collar Americans offer a ti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMThursday, March 15, 2012
“Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam…” so sang the gallant Knights of the Round Table, once upon a time. This little slice of historical lunacy is par for the course in Monty Pyth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:34AMFriday, February 3, 2012
“I consumed massive amounts of opiates religiously.” “Having waited my entire life to get an award for something … anything … I now get awards all the time for being mental…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMFriday, January 13, 2012
Faith can bind people together under the banner of common belief, or it can create deep rifts, irreconcilable by way of reason or shared history. In Theater J’s lovingly crafted production…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:15AMSunday, December 11, 2011
In a season of well-worn holiday traditions, nothing brings a more welcome blast of fresh good will than the image of Baby Jesus being lovingly serenaded by powerful gospel music and surroun…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMThursday, December 8, 2011
If anyone can find the dark side of the happiest time of the year, it’s David Sedaris. The master of sardonic storytelling has found a talented vessel in Joe Brack, who has concocted a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:11AMThursday, December 1, 2011
At its core, romance is the same at any age: an exciting, gut-wrenching roller coaster of blessed highs and crushing lows. The only thing that changes as the years go by is the volume of emo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:47AMWednesday, November 23, 2011
The earlier and earlier onset of the holiday season, marked by 24-7 Christmas radio and Santa greeting you at CVS in early November, is enough to drive a sane person underground until Decemb…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:15AMThursday, November 10, 2011
It started with just a simple toothache…and then everything went wrong. Studio Theatre’s tense, darkly comic production of Roland Schimmelpfennig’s The Golden Dragon foll…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:17AMThursday, October 6, 2011
A web of betrayal, scandal, and murder is brewing deep in the heart of Columbia, MD. In their crowd-pleasing production of Chicago, Toby’s Dinner Theatre puts their own stamp on the sordid…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMMonday, October 3, 2011
In Eugene O’Neill’s classic drama A Moon for the Misbegotten, two lost souls reach out to each other across a blighted stretch of earth, riding waves of hope and heartbreak in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:28PMSaturday, August 6, 2011
It’s a bold move for a new theater company to tackle a well known Shakespearean work in their first outing; it’s another thing entirely to take on a show that is the very definit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:23AMWednesday, July 20, 2011
If aliens came to visit Earth, would we be proud of our world? James Levy’s joyful sci-fi rock opera puts humanity under the microscope as we observe first contact between a fading rock st…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:28AMSaturday, July 16, 2011
With a devilish smile and nose for storytelling, Kevin J. Thornton could be the life of any party. In his one man show, I Love You, (We’re F*cked), he brings the audience on an uproari…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:40AMThursday, July 14, 2011
Faced with the sad decline of the American soap opera, where can a hungry populace turn for their daily fix of melodrama and overblown romance? It’s Opera Alterna to the rescue, offering u…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:58PMKen Johnson wants to teach you the secrets to his success. Unfortunately, he just isn’t that successful. This is the premise of Laura Zam’s play An Hour With Ken Johnson, which, just…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:43PMTuesday, July 12, 2011
So an Orioles fan, a fireworks salesman, a theater critic, and a “Polar Bear” walk into a theater. Those trying to decipher this curious lineup won’t find a punch line, but rather an a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:01PMMonday, July 11, 2011
In a post-apocalyptic America, two men compete over the last woman and that last bag of barbecue Fritos. Zero Hour Theatre’s amusing Apocalypse Story explores the tension that boils ov…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AMSunday, July 10, 2011
Summertime is a perennial black hole for mainstream sports in the United States, with only baseball, golf, tennis, and the occasional Olympics or World Cup to distract from the doldrums of d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMWednesday, June 1, 2011
The United States is at a crossroads. Terrorists lurk around every corner, a shadow government pulls the country’s strings in secret, and the Church has been invaded by sleazy smut ped…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AMThursday, May 19, 2011
Family reunions and vacations often provide rich material for stage and screen. In Theater J’s world premiere of The Moscows of Nantucket, simmering tensions, clashing personalities, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:21AM 
