The corporation isn’t so much in the business of robot-building as it is in “the manufacture of artificial people,” explains Harry (played by Mike Rudden), the manager of Rossum’s Un…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:28PMStephanie Svec was seeking a new normal for years until she realized that normal is whatever she makes it. So, what’s yours? Finding your own normal, and investigating how years of fear an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:05PMJimmy Grzelak knows not to shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre, but he gets pretty close. Clad in Eagle Scout uniform (an outfit that, unlike most theatrical costumes, this actor earned ov…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:51PMJuly 11, 2013 — Fringe gets the party started. Thursday night brought the summer’s eighth annual Capital Fringe Festival roaring to life, with over 30 productions opening on Thur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:34PMCapital Fringe #8 is Hot Out Of The Gate. The summer of 2013, announces Capital Fringe, will mark “the year we spin cardboard into gold.” And while the success of each of the sum…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMIt’s tempting to make Dada art out of this review of Allyson Currin’s new play. What fun is structure and sequence when there’s a big illogical world out there to celebrate? Sandwiches…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AMIf a night of good theatre is a main course unto itself, then the Mashup Festival at Landless is more like a pizza delivered after everyone else has gone to bed. The fun is in the shrugging …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AMLocal playwright Jacqueline Lawton has spent over a year and a half researching and writing The Hampton Years — a play now brought to life in her first regional production. This week, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18AMIt’s been a whirlwind few decades for Rocco Landesman. Since January, he’s been resting up after many busy years as a Broadway producer, theatre administrator, and national spokesperson …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMIf you want to start fresh, visit Illyria. The setting of Twelfth Night is, like happiness itself, more a state of mind than solid ground, rife with opportunity for reinvention. The reality …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:33PMInterview with Arena Stage’s Chad Bauman, bound for Milwaukee Rep “Go west, young man,” they say, and Chad Bauman is heeding the call. Currently the Associate Executive Director at Are…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:01AMIt’s great to say an actor is self-possessed, but a little extra so when describing Daniel Flint’s mind-warping, shape-shifting performance in his one-man adaptation of “The Golem,” …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:13PMIn which Spooky Action Theater’s production of OPTIMISM! and its bow to the great Voltaire inspires Hunter Styles to let loose his inner poet. —————R…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:44AMMichael Stebbins was making his name mainly as an actor when he took the reins at Rep Stage almost eight years ago as the new Artistic Director. But his go-get-’em spirit and his brigh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMTheater J Artistic Director Ari Roth’s new play, Andy and the Shadows, isn’t entirely autobiographical. But when you’ve been working on a script for twenty-six years, it’s probably i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:27AMEvery creative work is at least a little autobiographical, and rarely more so than in Round House Theatre’s newest production. The thread that playwright Bill Cain uses to weave together h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMTaffety Punk likes to say that its ensemble members belong to a “theatre band,” searching for new ways to fuse music and text onstage. This fun-loving, fidgety company has repeat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:58PMThe annual Helen Hayes Awards show makes good fun out of the business of recognizing Washington-area theatre artists for their creative achievements over the past year. But the awards ceremo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMHow do they do it? We talk with Jerry Whiddon, Renee Calarco and Linda Levy Grossman Every year, the Helen Hayes Awards show prompts some musing on tradition. Why is it that on this night ab…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55AMTurning a man into myth isn’t complicated — it happens easily, even naturally, over time. But finding the man at the root of the the myth can be trickier, and unfolding his page out …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:11PMMike Daisey’s colorful reputation precedes him. He has spent many years becoming one of America’s most unusual, outspoken, and admired solo performers (he would say, more accurately, a �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMThere are some things money can’t buy; for everything else there’s the White House credit card. Mary Todd Lincoln had no qualms about spending major First Lady funds on clothing. But her…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:25AMTheatre gives us, among other things, the power to find great stories in surprising places. And it’s hard to find a better example this month than over at 1st Stage, where audiences will e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:13AMBack in 2007, theatre folks had a good chuckle over this satirical headline in The Onion: Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended The joke, of cours…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:49AMAt the dimly light, lightly enchanting dinner party thrown for Hans Christian Andersen at the Kennedy Center this past weekend, all of the guests — each one a character from the Danish…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:08AMSpend one minute with this sweat-browed clan of real estate agents, racing at full gallop through this most wickedly entertaining of David Mamet’s dark comedies, and you’ll see r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMMichael John Garcés has always had an eye for engaging people through the power of their own stories. He has turned his ambition into well-recognized programming as Artistic Director of the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AMWhen describing a Taffety Punk production of a Shakespeare show, I find it best to start with the strangest parts. Not sure you want to see another Twelfth Night? Just wait! You’ll groove …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:52AMBig things usually start small, so let me begin with an understatement: FELA! is no ordinary Broadway musical. Yes, it’s bigger, brighter, and louder than almost everything else in town. B…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:22AMI brought a pen and notepad to Henry V on Sunday. Rookie mistake. I should have brought my sword and armor to director Robert Richmond’s muscular and immensely entertaining new production …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AMLast night, the staff of theatreWashington gathered an excitable sample of area theatre artists, arts leaders, and members of the press into the National Theatre’s Helen Hayes Gallery to a…
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