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Friday, July 7, 2017

HOWL: In the Time of Trump (Capital Fringe review) by Dante Atkins

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix. But enough about how my…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AM
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Doubt: A Parable review by Dante Atkins

We may be some years removed from the height of the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church and gave Spotlight its turn on the Academy stage. But even if those events are no lon…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AM
Monday, March 13, 2017

Arena Stage’s Intelligence takes a look at the Valerie Plame affair (review) by Dante Atkins

Intelligence takes us back to a simpler time in American politics, when outing a CIA agent to punish her husband for revealing that the administration started a war based on alternative fact…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06AM
Friday, January 20, 2017

A groundbreaking Roe at Arena Stage (review) by Dante Atkins

The opening night of Lisa Loomer’s Roe was the evening of January 18—a mere two days before the inauguration of a President who now unifies the federal government under a party that plac…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM
Monday, December 12, 2016

Fiasco Theater’s Into the Woods: A delightful, inventive re-imagining (review) by Dante Atkins

Stephen Sondheim’s musical Into the Woods has been the subject of numerous stage productions since its debut in 1986 and even a critically acclaimed film. As a result, the discerning thea…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PM
Monday, November 14, 2016

Daughter of the Regiment at Washington National Opera (review) by Dante Atkins

Whenever I attend an opera, I always try to ask myself, “if this were the first opera I were seeing, would I enjoy this performance?” After a quarter-century of seeing them, sometimes t…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AM
Monday, October 24, 2016

dog & pony dc’s BEERTOWN in DC (review) by Dante Atkins

I’ve seen my fair share of interactive theater. I’ve even seen the occasional “immersive show” or two. But I’ve never quite been to something like Beertown, and you owe yourself th…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Fringe POP Private (review) by Dante Atkins

It’s delightful that Capital Fringe has its own dedicated, permanent theater spaces these days—because it’s the perfect place to take in an innovative, avant-garde arthouse-style show …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:10PM
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Love’s LaBeers Lost from LiveArtDC (review) by Dante Atkins

  If you’re contemplating seeing Love’s LaBEERS Lost, and I hope you are, you might be thinking, “hey, it’s Shakespeare in a bar! We can get a drink and watch a comedy in an int…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:56PM
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Theresa Rebeck’s What We’re Up Against at Keegan (review) by Dante Atkins

The daily challenges faced by women in the workplace have increasingly become a cultural touchstone. In addition to traditional discussions of glass ceilings and equal pay, there is now an e…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:46PM
Monday, August 8, 2016

Simon Helberg. Odd man out in Florence Foster Jenkins? Hardly. by Dante Atkins

One should probably not use the phrase “steals the show” to describe the performance of an actor in a movie featuring Meryl Streep as the leading lady, for such a thing is almost certain…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:46PM
Friday, July 22, 2016

Underneath the Lintel, Capital Fringe (review) by Dante Atkins

Part Monty Python, part Da Vinci Code, part Fiddler on the Roof, and part Albert Camus having an existential crisis, Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel is an engrossing one-man detective …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PM
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Concrete Devotion (review) by Dante Atkins

I’ll be honest: I’m not usually a fan of interpretive dance. Most of the time, it’s nearly impossible for me to tell what’s being interpreted without having read it in the guide, whi…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:50PM
Monday, July 11, 2016

12 Steps (review) by Dante Atkins

Solo shows in small venues are a high-stakes venture for both the performer and the audience. If it’s bad, sitting through it up close and personal can be inescapably awkward. But if it�…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AM
Saturday, July 9, 2016

Macbeth in the Basement (review) by Dante Atkins

  If there’s an award for best promotional materials at Fringe, Macbeth in the Basement would win hands down: their paper crowns are a hot commodity. But in attempting to adapt the wo…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PM
Friday, July 8, 2016

The Real World: Kabul (review) by Dante Atkins

The Real World: Kabul tells the story of three American writers in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul rushing to get a soap opera script written for Afghani television under a very tight deadl…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38PM

All that Chat

2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic