Friday, 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 10:54AMWednesday, March 29, 2017
“It’s like rehearsals are on fire.” Say “Joy” to anyone at all involved with theatre in DC — as practitioner or as audience — and that person will know immediately that you …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMFriday, March 24, 2017
The idea seemed promising: take a classic, well-loved, mega-popular animated Disney film and remake it as a live-action movie; hire an accomplished, imaginative director; cast it with good a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMFriday, March 17, 2017
A charming Continental vibe pervades Paper Dreams, the latest offering at Imagination Stage in its series (called “My First Imagination Stage”) that is specifically designed for very you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMWednesday, March 1, 2017
Three hours and ten minutes breeze by in The Select, Elevator Repair Service’s delightfully inventive riff on Ernest Hemingway’s classic novel The Sun Also Rises. I thoroughly enjoyed it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMWednesday, February 15, 2017
“This role — and this play — lifts off the Earth. It flies in a certain way. It’s such a great role and a great play.” Robert Joy, who has had a remarkable career in theatre, film,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMMonday, February 6, 2017
“When I leave here, I will try not to talk for the rest of the day.” It was 9:30am when I met Holly Twyford for a chat about the rigors of playing Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMFriday, January 13, 2017
The last of many plays I worked on with Steve Wilhite was Richard II at WSC Avant Bard (then called Washington Shakespeare Company). I played the title role; Steve played Thomas Mowbray, Duk…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMMonday, January 9, 2017
Through her work as an actor, as a yoga instructor, as an urban gardener, and as a nutritionist/herbalist, Tricia McCauley had a large network of colleagues and friends. On the day after Chr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMFriday, January 6, 2017
A great film version of a great play is a rare thing. More often than not, the alchemy that results in success on stage resists translation to the screen, and film history is replete with …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:33PMThursday, December 1, 2016
Last week, we posted Part One of my talk with three local theatre-makers who have engaged Shakespeare’s troublesome early comedy The Taming of the Shrew. Jonelle Walker’s TAME. runs thro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMFriday, November 25, 2016
So many of the benchmarks from my almost forty years working in the small professional theatre scene in Washington, DC were shared with my dear friend Richard Mancini. Opening the original S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:31PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge was an experiment. Miller wanted to take the elements of Greek tragedy and focus them on a protagonist who is not a ruler or a great warrior, but ins…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48PMWSC Avant Bard is presenting a world premiere and critics have lavished praise on its playwright. “Jonelle Walker’s vivid, artfully unnerving TAME. is a retort to Shakespeare’s The Tam…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42PMThursday, October 6, 2016
“You have to get to a place where you can just get out of your own way to play this guy.” “This guy” is the infamous Roy Cohn, who is the real-life antagonist in Tony Kushner’s epi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
The legendary, indispensable (and greatly lamented by me) Circle Theatre was a movie house famous for its double features. The program changed every two or three days. As an adolescent, I sp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:00PMThursday, August 25, 2016
To tell the truth, The Truth is a thoroughly delightful evening. The play is hilarious, clever, and insightful. That said, I think I would have admired it much more if it wasn’t also so de…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMWednesday, August 24, 2016
The Deep Blue Sea is a wonderful play by Terence Rattigan, with a wonderful lead role for a woman. Helen McCrory is a wonderful actor who takes full advantage of the opportunities the part …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:44AMFriday, August 12, 2016
The story of Florence Foster Jenkins is true; it’s strange; it brings up a lot of interesting questions about the intersection of money and the arts; and it is now a movie. In fact, it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMFriday, August 5, 2016
Since the death of Zelda Fichandler on July 29th, there have been numerous tributes to the woman, her accomplishments, and her great and important legacy. All are well-earned and thoroughly …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMThursday, July 28, 2016
Shakespeare’s Globe has brought a wonderful The Merchant of Venice to The Kennedy Center for an unfortunately too-brief stay. Jonathan Munby’s production is powerful, smart, handsome, me…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:46PMFriday, June 17, 2016
On Monday next, June 20th at 7 pm, a memorial will be held at Source Theatre. 1835 14th St., NW. for Keith Parker. The long-time Literary Manager at Source Theatre Company, Keith becam…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:49PMWednesday, June 15, 2016
Sunday morning, most of us woke up to the dreadful news about the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. Sunday is a day off, of course, for a lot of people. For others, it’s a wo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09AMWednesday, June 1, 2016
“This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen,” speaks the Fool in King Lear. The action of The Dresser takes place over one night before, during, and after a performance of that…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:01AMFriday, May 27, 2016
“I have a long history with the show,” Brent Barrett told me. The extremely busy musical theatre actor, with an impressive (and international) resumé, begins previews next week playing …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
What’s it going to be like this year? That was a question in the minds of many in the theatre community as last night’s Helen Hayes Awards ceremony approached. For nearly 30 years, the t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:29PMFriday, May 20, 2016
Pan Pan Theatre’s stage production of Samuel Beckett’s radio play All That Fall, playing four more times in the Terrace Gallery as part of The Kennedy Center’s Ireland 100 festival, i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:49AMThursday, May 19, 2016
It is one hundred years almost to the month since the Easter Rising, the insurrection that began the armed struggle of Irish Nationalists against British occupation. It is ninety years almos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:37PMWednesday, May 11, 2016
“It just all sort of fell in place. The perfect storm.” Fletcher McTaggart was telling me how he landed the title role in Martin Luther on Trial. Fellowship for Performing Arts (FPA), th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:15PMTuesday, February 16, 2016
“This is my first role in a Tennessee Williams play, but it’s true that I’ve been told that I should play Blanche since I was thirteen. God knows what that means. But, having played hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMWednesday, February 10, 2016
“That play and that experience — what’s that lovely word? Seminal.” Actor Kryztov Lindquist was talking about Equus. Thirty-three years ago, at Source Theatre Company on 14th Str…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PM 
