Thursday, May 17, 2018
Let’s begin with Fernando Hechavarría, who plays Petra in the Teatro El Público production of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which opened last night, the first of a mere two perform…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMFriday, May 4, 2018
The RSC (Royal Shakespeare Company) has breezed into town (for a few days only) with its fresh, strikingly handsome, and wonderfully creative production of Hamlet. Simon Godwin, the play’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMFriday, April 20, 2018
Kennedy Center’s “Bergman 100 Celebration” continues with (through Sunday only!) a Toneelgroep Amsterdam production: stage versions of two screenplays by the great man whose centenary …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMMonday, April 2, 2018
If this was the concert version, what on earth will they add to a fully-staged version? Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert was the latest in the string of musicals being broadcast live o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
Everybody loves a day at the beach, especially kids. In these DC days of a snowy Spring, Kennedy Center is providing an opportunity for seashore fun (no airfare needed) by hosting, in its Fa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:50PMFriday, March 9, 2018
Elaine May’s play Adult Education, currently in previews in a production by The Klunch, “is pretty delightful. It’s kind of a porno Pygmalion sort of play, in terms of porn stars sudde…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMThursday, March 8, 2018
It was a divinely beautiful sequence. Down the aisles of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater strode the Bowie State University Pep Band. They spread out in front of and on the stage an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMThursday, February 1, 2018
You have until February 11th to see The Way of the World at Folger Theatre. Playwright Theresa Rebeck has rewritten the Restoration classic and directs a cast led by Kristine Nielsen. In par…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMWednesday, January 24, 2018
Theresa Rebeck, Kristine Nielsen, and The Way of the World “Are you twins? Sisters?” Theresa Rebeck and Kristine Nielsen were heading past a guard’s desk at Folger Shakespeare Library …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:47PMFriday, January 19, 2018
“Are you kidding? I’d dance in a parking lot to do this play!” Pamela Reed was explaining to me her reaction to the offer of the role of Deirdre in The Humans. The 2016 Tony winner for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:34PMFriday, January 12, 2018
“Do you have long knees?” The question came to me from the gentleman of a certain age who had the seat in front of mine at On Your Feet! The Emilio & Gloria Estefan Broadway Musical…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:39AMWednesday, December 27, 2017
’Tis the season when many a pair of tiny eyes are concentrated northward, preoccupied with the denizens of the arctic and their yearly trek. Ears listen to that London-based tale that is t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:33PMThursday, December 7, 2017
As part of the Bergman 100 Celebration, an event marking the centenary of the iconic Swedish filmmaker and stage director Ingmar Bergman, The Kennedy Center is presenting a stage version of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMWednesday, November 22, 2017
One of the most poignant moments I’ve recently seen at the theatre occurs (no spoiler alert needed!) at the end of Me…Jane: The Dreams & Adventures of Young Jane Goodall, which opene…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMTuesday, November 21, 2017
One of the most beloved classics of children’s literature is Charlotte’s Web. E.B. White’s 1952 novel has seen stage and film adaptations over the years. I can’t imagine (pun intende…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMFriday, October 27, 2017
“It’s almost as much a political event as an artistic one,” Al Jirikowic (my companion at Thursday night’s performance of Burning Doors from Belarus Free Theatre) said to me. He al…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:18PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
Another top-notch offering for young audiences began this past weekend: Blancaflor, the latest in the GALita series of theatre for children. GAlita is the arm of GALA Hispanic Theatre that c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMWednesday, September 27, 2017
We were in the closing moments of my talk with Michael Kahn, then in the midst of directing two Pinter one acts. Given his recent announcement that he will leave Shakespeare Theatre Company …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PM“We aren’t playing it for comedy, but you don’t actually play comedy for comedy anyway.” Michael Kahn (who is, as most readers will know, Artistic Director of Shakespeare Theatre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
There came a point toward the end of How I Became a Pirate (which opened this weekend at Adventure Theatre MTC) when, during an ensemble musical number, my eyes were darting from one part of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMAdventurous DC theatre-goers, act now. You have but two more opportunities to see something unique and artistically gratifying: The National Theatre of Ghana performing its version of Tennes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMThursday, September 14, 2017
It’s always satisfying to discover something you weren’t very aware of beforehand. Last weekend, my kids and I had a great time at The Legend of Pufferfish Pat, the latest offering from …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMTuesday, August 8, 2017
The Greatest Show on Strings! This is how our Ringmaster describes Circus! at The Puppet Co. after he has entered the stage’s single ring. What follows is thirty-five minutes of engaging b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMThursday, July 20, 2017
I’ve just spent a most unexpectedly engaging evening at the theatre, seeing the “dragapella beautyshop quartet” known as The Kinsey Sicks in their return to Theater J, whereat they’v…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMThursday, May 18, 2017
Awards shows are their own animal. Each iteration has its distinctive aspects, but, no matter how much they try to fight the basic formula, it’s hard to avoid similarities: acceptance spee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AMLaura Giannarelli has been to each Helen Hayes Awards ceremony since the inception of the awards. As this is the 33rd annual, she’s heard “and the award goes to” many, many times. As i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AMFriday, May 12, 2017
“Thirteen wonderful years.” As this theatre season comes to its end, an era will come to an end as Naomi Robin leaves her job at Theater J as its long-time Casting Director. Naomi is a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMFriday, April 21, 2017
About halfway through Fun Home, which opened Wednesday night at the National Theatre, ten year-old Alison is in a coffee shoppe with her Dad. It’s the second time during the show that fath…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMTuesday, April 18, 2017
Dorian’s Closet is a musical about the life of the drag performer Dorian Corey, mainstay of the Harlem ball scene and “Mother” of the House of Corey. She died in 1993, just a few years…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMFriday, April 14, 2017
“Since it was my decision and my timing and my will, it was easy, on that level,” Joy Zinoman said when I asked her if it had been easy to stop leading The Studio Theatre, the compan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:31PMFriday, March 31, 2017
“A King and No King has never been professionally staged in the DC metropolitan area before, and it’s our fifth play from the early modern era that we can say that about, in just six yea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AM 
