Monday, August 17, 2020
The Black Artist Coalition (BAC), a collective of DC-area performers, designers, administrators and arts supporters, announced its purpose and plans today. The BAC was formed in response to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMThursday, July 30, 2020
“Without the arts, without music, without dance, without drama, without photography, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.” – John Lewis The Honorable Jo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54PMFriday, June 26, 2020
My name is Pamela Jafari. I am a Washingtonian senior who is Black, lesbian, a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother. I have a 26 y/o grandson, and 3 y/o great-grandson, who …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMMonday, April 20, 2020
It began with sawdust, clowns, and the high wire. It began with walking excitedly across muddy English fields to a gaudy big top. It began with spectacle and a world elsewhere. Then, on my n…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:32PMThursday, April 16, 2020
I can’t remember a time when I was NOT hooked on performing. My Mama played ‘Let’s pretend’ with my sister and me in the kitchen back when I was four and five years old and I loved…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMWednesday, April 8, 2020
I grew up in a small town in the middle of Amish Country in Pennsylvania. There wasn’t much to do other than ride your bike, go to the pool or count cows. So we had a first grade teacher…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:32PMSaturday, November 23, 2019
Dear Friends, We were saddened to learn this week that Tia Shearer Bassett, a valued member of the DC theater community and a bright shining light of a human, has recently been diagnosed wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMMonday, September 16, 2019
What is it like for leaders of Color to work in White theatres? This Howlround Theatre Commons interview is between two well-known Washington area leaders: Michael J. Bobbitt, former Artis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMFriday, July 19, 2019
This review by Jennifer Georgia was first published by DC Metro Theater Arts on July 15, 2019. We are unable to attend the performance and are very grateful to DCMTA for permission to reprin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
It was a windy spring day, and I was taking a moment to zone out during rugby practice. As I looked up, noticing a plane flying above me, my mind wandered, as minds often do. “I wonder wha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PMFriday, July 12, 2019
As I write this, I have now seen Mike Daisey do 8 of the 18 consecutive chapters in his A People’s History. I’ve written a dispatch about each (which you can read here), and I’ll be …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Twanna A. Hines, a sexual and reproductive health educator and creative entrepreneur, answers our questions about her Capital Fringe show at Arena Stage. Where did the idea for your show com…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24PMWe listened as Allison Malcomstogle sat down with Robert Kittredge, the uthor of 33 1/3 Chorus Girls, to talk about the upcoming festival. Some of what we heard was barely believable. Malcom…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24PMMary Myers is about to embark to the Edinburgh Fringe festival to play Karl Marx in Mark in Soho. Before leaving, she’s given us these words as she prepares for her last show in the Stat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMonday, July 8, 2019
So, I was reading “Norwegian Wood” by Haruki Murakami (yes, I also roll my eyes when someone casually mentions they were reading Murakami) and there is this beautiful line: “Life is h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06PMThis play is the second in a trilogy of plays, all with a theme of domestic violence and its horrible multi-generational scourge on one family. The first play, Sobriety of Fear, was a one-pe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06PMAfter answering ice-breaker questions, three strangers mysteriously end up on a deserted island, premised on the classic “would you rather” scenario. Now all their answers are coming to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06PMFor Capital Fringe this year, I have adapted The Bacchae by Euripides. I am true to the source material, except for a surprise in the beginning and the end, where I bring in the work of ano…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06PMI was, am and always will be a mama’s boy. Not in a creepy, Norman Bates, refer to her as “mother” with dead eyes way, but just for the simple fact that my mom and I shared a beautiful…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PM One evening, in September of 1922, legendary horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft, visited an old Brooklyn graveyard and took home a small souvenir: a chip from a tombstone dated 1747. Later, h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMSaturday, July 6, 2019
What do people do when they are forced to wait? What if they are forced to wait in a room with no door? What happens when, in these strange circumstances, people begin to disappear? You know…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMFriday, July 5, 2019
In August of 2015, at the tender age of 23, I decided to pack up my car and drive across the country from New York to Oregon for an acting apprenticeship opportunity with a small theater com…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AMQuick chat with Capital Fringe artist Miranda Jonte, on the how and why of her play, good & kissed. Tickets for good & kissed Take your broken heart and turn it into art. Miranda …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AMWednesday, July 3, 2019
Passing had an unusually long gestation period. The idea for a play about the Holocaust first came to me in 2010. But, as is often the case, the story in my head did not translate well to th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMA History of Laughter is my stand-up comedy walking tour of Pennsylvania Avenue. Already sounds amazing, right? Why are you doing this? I started performing stand-up in DC several years ag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMTuesday, July 2, 2019
Mike Daisey’s shows are unique experiences. From past observations, tell us how you view him as a performer or what you’re expecting to see. I’ve seen so many of Daisey’s past monolo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMThe Heist is a dramatic improvised show about a 1970’s bank robbery gone wrong and I wrote it because I wanted more drama in my life. Pretty literally. I have been doing improvisational co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMMonday, July 1, 2019
Intimate Dinner offers a comic look at fine dining. The solo show written and performed by Lauren French explores our unique and absurd experiences with food. The play takes place at a Pop …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMSunday, June 30, 2019
Lies? Truth? It’s all up for grabs in A Gentleman & A Liar. Brian Curry and I have been performing our show, “The Magic Duel,” at The Mayflower Hotel for over five years. Durin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMSaturday, June 29, 2019
Dreamer/Seeker was written by a good friend and classmate of mine from Virginia Tech, Devan Andrews. He is a fellow actor and drew loosely from his experience playing Bottom in A Midsummer …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMFriday, June 28, 2019
I never wanted Daddy Poo, my Catholic, conservative, Republican father down in Texas, to know about the priest, or the dwarf or the crack addict. But when you write a memoir about your alcoh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PM 
