We’re truly blessed to have such sharp talents right here in D.C., who can take a comic strip and whip it up into a classy, pleasant children’s musical seemingly effortlessly. Wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07AMBaseball is the all-American blank slate, and Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out draws a dazzling array of ideas, jokes, poetry, meanings and tragedies large and small all over it. It cel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AM“At the core, this is about not just entering into someone else’s life, but entering into someone else’s fun.” So says fight choreographer Casey Kaleba, who, along wi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AMMore the idea of a show than a show itself, RagnaPOP! (or She’s Got the Bomb)is a concept album live on stage. Pete Wright, a longtime area musician and songwriter, has created a song …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:37PMRefresh is a kaleidoscope of dysfunction. Don’t look at any of the individual elements too closely – you’ll find they’re just simple, colored blobs – but put th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMThis is not one of those times where the typically short Fringe running time is a blessing. Leaving Sage of Blackwell, you wish you could spend another hour in this world, learning about the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:32AMEnter Ophelia, distracted opens June 20 at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop. The word ‘distracted’ did not originally have the meaning you’re familiar with. “We found these…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25AMIn this chamber version of Verdi’s classic opera, La Traviata, In Series dispenses with the pomp and melodrama to find the character study waiting underneath. Director Nick Olcott may …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMThere’s a bloody moment in the first act of Faction of Fools’ Titus Andronicus that goes way, way too far – and it is a mighty relief. We can almost believe up to that point, despite t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AMNow that the three-part Summit series at Arena Stage has concluded, the agenda is clear: this has been an investigation into the unbalanced social and financial economy of the American theat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PM“Shamelessly co-dependent is what we like to say.” So Patti Kalil, co-artistic director, describes Pointless Theatre. She is sitting beside a brightly painted backdrop before rehearsal…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:26AMA simple tale about how tales are often more than simple, Carol Wolf’s The Thousandth Night at MetroStage is an enjoyable little punch to the gut. The story has a number of characters, b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:38PMA less contentious affair than last month’s Summit , this second of three, “In-Depth Explorations of D.C. Theatre,” led by Washington Post critic Peter Marks and hosted by Arena St…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMA good laugh can lift up the harshest material, and Ann Randolph’s Loveland keeps afloat with constant humor despite dealing intimately with death. Ann Randolph, alone in Arena Stage’s K…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMAlthough controversy has swirled around the upcoming workshop presentation of The Admission at Theater J, artistic director Ari Roth is is looking beyond it. “The play’s the thing,” sa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:21AMWith a pair of plays by Caryl Churchill, Lumina Studio Theatre looks to tap into the spirit of our times. “Top Girls… is sort of women on top, and Fen is sort of women on the bottom,” …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AM“Already I feel like this is the coolest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” says Allyson Currin, local playwright. The Welders, the D.C-based, playwright-run collective previously profi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AMWith Washington Stage Guild’s gusty production of Back to Methuselah, less is more, and, also, more is more. Less is more: The set is appealingly minimal, the blocking clear and simple, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:01AMAbout a month ago, Washington Post critic Peter Marks announced “The Summit,” a special series of three panel discussions. Arena Stage’s artistic director, Molly Smith, had offered M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PM“While we may be trying to have all these lofty ideals, we still want people to have a good time.” H. Lee Gable, Producing Artistic Director for the Rainbow Theatre Project, knows that p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:35AM“I think the DC Theatre scene is a great place for a director to pick up small projects, I think there’s a lot of theatres in town that are very supportive,” says Jess Jung, sittin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:19PMThe Piano Teacher, next up at Rep Stage, may unsettle you, but mum’s the word about just what it’s going to unsettle you about. “You think the play is going to go one place,” says …
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