Monday, October 10, 2016
Unlike most of us lazy mortals, Christopher sees everything. And in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, now playing at the Kennedy Center, we see the world through his unique …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMThursday, August 4, 2016
“He’s very good at what he does.” Despite 100 minutes of blistering and savagely funny assaults on the mogul-turned-pitchman-turned-megalomaniac, monologist Mike Daisey still pays Dona…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMThursday, July 28, 2016
As we hurl toward an unpredictable and increasingly surreal election in November, Donald Trump’s persona is hard to avoid. Endlessly looped on news broadcasts and grabbing headlines each…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:46PMSunday, June 19, 2016
Love theater, but have a limited attention span when the summer weather is calling? You might want to swing by the ninth annual CulturalDC Source Festival running through July 3rd. This y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:56AMFriday, May 20, 2016
Americans increasingly seem to have a love-hate relationship with “stuff”. Visitors from abroad find themselves amazed at the vast array of artisanal cheese available at any grocery stor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMMonday, March 7, 2016
The mark of master storytellers is that they can make a given narrative hold resonance and power beyond the narrow context of the original time and place. By this standard, much art will u…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a more than fitting venue for Letters to Jack, the latest chapter in renowned performance artist, filmmaker, and composer Laurie Anders…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
On Monday night, we learned that Stephen Gregory Smith and Matt Conner and the cast of The Turn of the Screw received Helen Hayes director’s nominations for the Creative Cauldron p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:58AMSunday, January 31, 2016
Palestinian-Israeli actor Gassan Abbas carries I Shall Note Hate, here for a limited engagement at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, alone on his shoulders. The one-man play, told in Hebr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:38PMThursday, January 21, 2016
We tend to think of genius as fully formed. We see the end results of a truly sublime or original masterpiece – be it a play, a painting, or a theorem – and chalk it up to divine …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45AMMonday, January 18, 2016
“Why was I born, if it wasn’t forever?” It’s a lament many of us find ourselves asking on dark nights of the soul when we are forced to dwell on our mortality. Few of us pose the que…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMThursday, January 14, 2016
Steven A. Butler’s Chocolate Covered Ants offers audiences unique insight into the minds of African American men in the age of Ferguson, Baltimore, and the subsequent news stories of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMTuesday, December 1, 2015
DC theater veterans Kerri Rambow and Fiona Blackshaw headline George is Dead, written by comedic icon Elaine May (Heaven Can Wait, The Birdcage). The one-hour play, opening December 3rd, wil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AMFriday, October 16, 2015
Bill Largess is a founding member and Artistic Director at Washington Stage Guild. A graduate of Catholic University, he has been extensively involved as an actor and director in the region …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMFriday, October 9, 2015
“You have to consider that top singers and celebrities have a lot of impact on our lives. Just look at someone like Michael Jackson and how the music of artists becomes the soundtrack of y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AMSunday, October 4, 2015
“It’s not where you start – it’s where you finish.” So goes the opening number to Just Between Us: a piano, a mic, and a memory, a delightful one-woman cabaret performance featurin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57PMMonday, September 28, 2015
Nancy Reagan famously referred to her husband’s lengthy bout with Alzheimer’s disease at “the long goodbye” – a prolonged and painful process of shedding the various levels of one�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:38AMTuesday, September 22, 2015
For many of us, museums can be a relatively rare pleasure – even if we live in a cultural hub like Washington. They are an escape from reality and mundanity – a chance to reflect deeply …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27AMFriday, September 11, 2015
“The great thing about kids is that they will tell you in real time how your show is when they see it during previews,” said David Kilpatrick, manager of the John F. Kennedy Center’s T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMWednesday, August 5, 2015
“It picks you rather than you picking it.” That is how Claire Schoonover describes acting. DC theater lovers are certainly finding Schoonover and her craft a perfect fit. The Brit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
What if you could have a heart-to-heart with yourself thirty earlier younger? Thirty years older? What if you could finally ask the younger you just what the hell you were thinking on the ve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:08AMMonday, July 13, 2015
What if Adolph Hitler had been a better artist? It’s one of history’s great riddles. Perhaps if the Führer had shown more promise in his original career choice as a painter, the tr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07PMIt’s easy to grow jaded about the magic of Washington after a few years on a lease. Over time, lofty ideals and Sorkin-esque monologues have a way of being superseded by rent worries and M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMSaturday, July 11, 2015
“You should use this in your act.” There are few phrases more dreaded by comedians, according to Adam Ruben. A molecular biologist by day, Ruben has been moonlighting as a comedian and s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:07AMFriday, July 10, 2015
“Everyone is invited to work. Everyone is invited to play.” Everyone is also invited – strongly invited – to participate at AWoL Productions’ Ten Principles )'(, an enthusiastic gl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM 
