They 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:23PMCozying up in the Terrace Theatre for Penumbra Theatre Company’s reverent musical portrait of Nat King Cole is like taking a nice, long, lukewarm bath. The unvarying pace lulls you into a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:13AMColleen Delany as Zara and Kerry Waters as Old Aliide (Photo: Don Summers, Jr.) When Aliide looks out her window, across her silent stretch of rural Estonian farmland, she sees a country sen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:42AMShakespeare Theatre Company shifts the tone of their season this spring with Harold Pinter’s Old Times, directed by Artistic Director Michael Kahn. Pinter’s play, first produced in 1971,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMIf you’ve never felt goosebumps rise on your arms in 80 degree weather, you have a week left to seek out the experience. The powerfully haunting spectacle that is Swampoodle — hatche…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:46AMIn 2008, Danielle Drakes founded TheHegira as a commitment to showcasing the stories of women of color. Now, after two years of mentorship at the Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, her theatre …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:23AMSam Forman is back in town, and, for a 34-year-old playwright who has spent much of his life writing stories of nervous, young men whose ambitions crash up against their daily insecurities…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMSummarizing what typically happens at the Fighting Improv Smackdown Tournament is like trying to write a travel article on a city after talking with a few crazy people in a back alley. Who k…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:49AMWhat does it mean, this big, bold painting hanging right in the middle of Art? You can try to read between the lines for some hidden message, but you’ll draw a blank. The painting has no l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMThe play’s the thing… eventually. But the tumultuous process of getting cast — whether into a play, or out onto the street — consumes our actors’ daily energies more th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:27AMAs paper-thin and disposable as a one-sentence fortune and about as filling as the cookie it came in, Mark Brown and Paul Mirkovitch’s musical pseudo-homage to China is getting a silly, sp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMFew things make theatre audiences more tense than dead bodies. Well, make that dead bodies played by live bodies, since it’s rare to see a fake dead body pass muster on stage. Why bother, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMMichael John Garcés is the Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles, where he has both written and directed productions that explore diversity, community, and shared …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:46PMAmerican theatre celebrates a milestone this year: on the 26th of March, the late, great playwright Tennessee Williams turns 100 years old. Schools, theaters, and arts companies around the w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:10PMThe DC-based sketch comedy troupe Brick Penguin celebrates their one year anniversary by doing their first full evening show this coming Saturday, March 5th, at the H St Playhouse. DC The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:40AMINTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival, now in its second year Artists know full well that when a new project debuts, it’s not always clear who’s going to show up to see it. Given th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMSome days we’re faced with a hundred questions. With rare exception, most of them aren’t that interesting. But one of those exceptions came in mid-November for Akiva Fox, most recently t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMWe can never seem to outrun our fate, but the exercise does us good. The quest of Oedipus is a futile one — to steer clear of the prophecy decreeing he will one day kill his father and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMNothing’s cozy like the cosmos. One would think that such a never-ending freezing expanse would snuff out the flames of life, but more often than not it brings us closer together, huddled …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:21PMMost artistic directors aren’t running around onstage with an owl puppet minutes after giving the opening curtain speech. But that’s Marcus Kyd for you, an actor-manager whose ef…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:41AMThe past and present don’t collide in Harrison, Texas so much as they come to an uneasy truce. In the early years of Reconstruction, when townsfolk feared and distrusted the southern migra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMWhat dreams may come for young Naomi is a matter of which pills, vitamins, sleeping aids and supplements she’s taking that night. With no parents around, and faced with a wave of existenti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:10AMMaybe I just have brain-freeze lately, but I could swear that as the days start to get longer again, so do the ten-minute plays. Is it a trick of the light? A side-effect of the winter Solst…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMThe terrible consequences of war never make for short summary, but the ongoing loss of our children is surely the most egregious crime on the list. In some families, the smallest and most in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:57AMSomething about diligently recording your thoughts in a notepad seems profoundly absurd when there’s a grossly overweight man-demon wandering around nearby, provoking people at random with…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:24AMKavita (Lynette Rathnam) hasn’t given up on reality entirely. She’s just decided to bookmark it for a while. And why not, when there’s another story to live, a warm, rich world lying b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMThe newborn theatre group Flying V is already coming of age. Their first production Become What You Are – a world premiere by local playwright Augie Praley – tackles the questions we all…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:55AMAs the doors were shut in her face again and again, the virgin Mary searched desperately for a warm place to bring her beloved child into the world. A blackbox theater is darker and quieter …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:55AMTonight, you will be visited by three spirits. Watch for when the clock strikes one… then two… then three. You won’t believe what emerges from the dark shadows. Well, Scrooge won’t b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AMWe know it’s best to stay true to who we are. But we also know that it’s worth fighting a passionate fight to steer the course of who we become. On the thin line between these tw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:53AMNot all life-savers are made of sugar. Some are just tart little words. Here’s a classic example, from everyone’s childhood: Don’t take the candy! A life-saving mantra to b…
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