Wednesday, 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 02:54PMFriday, January 22, 2016
“If you didn’t witness it in person, it’s difficult to grasp what it really was. That’s something I’m trying to wrestle with in this piece.” I was speaking to Ed Dixon, who wrote…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:09PMFriday, January 15, 2016
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder begins with a disclaimer, in the form of a song called “A Warning to the Audience.” The ensemble, posed in an Edward Gorey-esque tableau, let�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:22AMThursday, December 31, 2015
Shortly after my twins (now three and a half) were born, I approached DCTS about writing for the site. Since I had been so closely associated with WSC Avant Bard and a few other local compan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
“Running a theatre company is always challenging. That aspect never goes away, and it doesn’t get easier with time.” In October, while in New York City, I sat down with Joshua Morgan a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMThursday, November 19, 2015
“It’s like Kevin Bacon,” Jay O. Sanders said to me. You see, it seemed as if any name that came up during my conversation with the actor-turned-playwright could be traced by Sa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:09PMMonday, November 2, 2015
“Made in Brooklyn…Bound for Broadway” is the cabaret performance by Randy Graff that played Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater as the most recent entry in its Barbara Cook Spotlight se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:57AMFriday, October 30, 2015
Mosaic’s Triple Launch: New Company, New Playwright Jay O. Sanders, and New Play, Unexplored Interior Jay O. Sanders is an actor. After a long, varied, and busy career on stage, on TV, and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:58PMFriday, October 23, 2015
Juliette Binoche, the movie star who won an Oscar in the 90s for The English Patient, plays the title role in the new production of the Greek tragedy Antigone, which began a short (through O…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMTuesday, October 20, 2015
You might not expect a highlight of a cabaret concert to include the singer passing off her mic to the piano player, revealing a row of variously filled Makers Mark bottles, pulling out a pa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:51PMFriday, October 16, 2015
Local theatre-goers heading up to New York City and checking out the Tony Award-winning Best Play of 2015 might do a double-take after looking at the program, wondering whether or not they h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:38AMFriday, October 9, 2015
“I just finished a week of playing Thénardier on Broadway to 1,300 people a night, and it was so beautiful. I feel like my whole persona and world has shifted. I’m in a place of re-disc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PMFriday, October 2, 2015
It was sad to wake this morning to the news that the wonderful playwright Brian Friel has died. Tributes have been quick, effusive, and plentiful, and ranging from the Michael D Higgins, Pre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:38PMTuesday, September 29, 2015
“This project has changed me completely,” Laura Kaminsky told me, “as an artist and as a composer. It’s been an amazing experience so far. For months, I was taking Hannah’s spirit …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PMThursday, September 24, 2015
“I still can’t wear shoes,” Kate Eastwood Norris said to me as she indicated her flip-flops during our elevator trip up to one of the higher floors at Studio Theatre, where she is rehe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMWednesday, September 9, 2015
“You have to ‘Coward’ it,” Valerie Leonard said to me, as she considered the fine art of acting in the very distinctive plays of Noël Coward. I had begun our conversation by asking …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:20PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
“This is not a political play in its aim. It’s an examination of a family and of a tragedy that involves hot-button political issues, but it is crafted in a way that the politics is kind…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMFriday, August 14, 2015
I walked into the tent, and Peter and Wendy were already flying. The Peter Pan in the Threesixty Theatre folks had invited some press types for a backstage tour. I’d been thinking about …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09AMMonday, August 10, 2015
Friends and colleagues of the director Gabriele Jakobi were shocked and deeply saddened to learn that she suffered a massive stroke in June. A GoFundMe campaign has been set up with the goal…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:07PMTuesday, August 4, 2015
The American Century Theater (TACT) opened its doors in 1995 with a production of Twelve Angry Men. That’s the teleplay from the golden age of live TV that, like many of the best of those …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:16PMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Une Soirée au Cabaret is a pleasant evening of dance and music. I wouldn’t have gone far out of my way to catch it, but I found it an entertaining and distracting change of pace from …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMFriday, July 17, 2015
Dishwasher proudly proclaims itself as a unique Fringe experience. It is the first show in Fringe history that 1) doesn’t have a fixed venue; 2) occurs at the home of the ticket-buyer;…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMWednesday, July 15, 2015
War and Peas is a charming and delightful treat for young audiences, for the friends and family of young audiences, and for more general audiences who will enjoy and appreciate low-tech, yet…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMTuesday, July 14, 2015
Stuff is a play about objects and their accumulation, but it is not about hoarding, strictly speaking. It’s about why we keep things and what the things we keep can inform us about oursel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PMMonday, July 13, 2015
You only have one more chance to experience one of the best things you will see this year at Fringe: Tammy Faye’s Final Audition. It’s difficult for me to imagine that you could …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMTuesday, June 16, 2015
If you are at all like me, as you are watching the new play (a love story) at this year’s Source Festival, memories of the most intense of feelings will mingle with thoughts of small momen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:15PMFriday, June 5, 2015
At this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, Flying V Theatre was awarded the John Aniello Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. Beginning on June 11th, the troupe will unveil its first pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMFriday, May 22, 2015
The Call by Tanya Barfield is one of those rare plays that puts the most intimate of situations into a compelling global context. It’s the story of a white couple in the U.S. who decide to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMFriday, May 15, 2015
“People are going to see a full drag transformation on stage. No smoke and mirrors.” Alex Mills considered this for a second, and then qualified: “Well, there will be mirrors.” He wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMTuesday, May 12, 2015
After a performance of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that my family attended, my daughter walked into the lobby where the actors were waiting to greet the audience. She walked up to one of them…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PMWednesday, May 6, 2015
It was an unusual invitation that I received from a colleague and friend about the final four chances to see her current performance: “Please read the description and warnings about the sh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AM 
