Beginning today, look to DC Theatre Scene for a new series of articles all about this past season’s shows, featuring many of DC’s most well-loved theatre artists. The series, cal…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMHow sad, and stirring, to observe the author counting the coins of his childhood. I am sure some playwrights wonder, as they tally up days gone by, whether a crisis is costly enough to pay o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:41AMLast April, for one night only, Monologue Madness gave a packed house of spectators 54 first impressions of a wide array of local and regional actors. But that night also provided a larger f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:11AM- For Washington Improv Theater, the Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament is the biggest event of the year. With 58 teams vying for the comedy crown this year — that’s a record-setti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AMSome shows leave audiences humming a tune on their way out of the theatre. The hum you feel as the lights fall on New Jerusalem is a deeper vibration: the mental buzz that lingers after a wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31AMMichael Bobbitt’s big dream is a small audience. Not a scarce one, mind you — no arts organization wants that — but an audience made up of our smallest citizens, young enough t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:22PMAn impressive array of veteran artists and rookie contenders share the nominees’ list for this year’s Helen Hayes Awards, now in its 28th year celebrating achievement in Washingt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06AMBig dreams start small. Just think of that dollhouse you had growing up. Inside that diminutive frame is a multiverse of stories. In a child’s hands, a new version of reality is brought to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AMBrimming with energy, Paige Hernandez brings a joyful creativity wherever she goes. As a teaching artist, actor, dancer and choreographer, and a self-professed hip-hop advocate, Hernandez ha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:15AMMaybe I’m over-analyzing things. But after a thorough review of the evidence, plus an extensive background check, I’m just not convinced that the Kinsey Sicks are actually running for pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:13AM– Shirley Serotsky has been directing theatre in DC for ten years, at the helm of projects with Theater J, Keegan Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, The Hub Theatre, and others. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PMJennifer L. Nelson is the Director of Special Programming at Ford’s Theatre, and the director of their most recent production, Necessary Sacrifices. This new drama — the fourth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMThink back to that oddball uncle who always showed up at your birthday party with a trick up his sleeve. You remember him. Loud blazer, toothy grin, something not quite right about his hair.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:11AMActor Ray Ficca has been well-known and well-loved in DC for many years. After an extended hiatus from our stages, he’s back in the limelight as hotheaded TV personality Max Prince in Keeg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMLet’s raise a glass to any theatre company foolish enough to slot Romeo and Juliet into their season in this day and age. It’s not that the star-crossed lovers turned to dust cen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMWe’ve all had our days of anxiety, waiting for the proverbial gun to go off. It’s on such days that we most enjoy taking a night out at the theatre, to clear our minds and – go figure …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:46AMA few times every season, assertions mount that there seem to be no more original story ideas out there. With Hollywood beginning production on the sixth Fast and Furious movie, it’s tempt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24AM“God has cared for these trees,” said naturalist John Muir on one of his Western expeditions a century ago. “He has saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:26AMFor many young men in our favorite dramas, self-discovery means finding a way out from under the shadow of the father. But when strong, silent Dad shifts from the shadows to center stage, we…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:19AMIf your last name is an adjective, people are bound to have some fun on your behalf. For Thornton Wilder, at least, the puns are well-earned. Two of his best known plays — the quiet co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMSome memories waft into view from a lazy distance. Others brew slowly in the back of the mind. No such luck for Quentin, whose trip down memory lane isn’t so much a stroll as a triathlon, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMCollect all the polluted epithets that people hurl at each other on the street and you’d have quite a heavy volume, not the least of which would concern people’s mothers. The streets of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMHeaded for a career in opera, Kevin McAllister is giving three breakout performances in the musical Parade at Ford’s Theatre If the 1913 criminal trial of Leo Frank – and the lynchi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:29AMOverlooked by the powerful, and eager for a chance to prove himself, Aladdin hungers for some sign of magic to pick him up out of life’s daily routine. The same can be said of the target a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:39AMA boy finds himself in a strange new garden on that day when, suddenly, his sexuality starts to blossom. The assumptions he’s made about who he is — and the assumptions that others h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMIn these troubled modern times, one has to find things to be thankful about. I, for one, am thankful that Artistic Director Michael Kahn has dug up another dusty old script from the bottom o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:38PMWho can predict what will happen the moment after a first kiss? Those tender, uncertain seconds can reveal worlds about the heart you’ve just touched. But they can also reveal the secret h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:57AMGreek playwright Zoe Mavroudi entrusts the world premiere of her new play to Venus Theatre Two strangers sharing a private room over drinks might not typically turn to talk of ”Crime …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMIf, at times, theatre-going makes you painfully aware of the hours you spend sitting immobile in one spot, you start to have a teeny tiny inkling of how Winnie feels. The high-spirited heroi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:48AMWorking in the theatre, you quickly learn that you can’t please everyone all the time. Sometimes audiences steer clear of a show because it looks too dark or upsetting. Maybe the content i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:02AMThey can take away your home, but they can’t take your spirit. Sara Josephine James knows this better than any of us — she’s responsible not only for her own spirit but for numerou…
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