Sometimes critics can shed light on the darkness. It’s our duty and our pleasure to clue in the public to an unknown piece of theatre when we can, holding the front door open for others to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:22PMWhen a show about death starts with video clips from Mork and Mindy, Woody Allen, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, you can safely assume it’ll have a comic bent. And it’s clear from the fi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:30PMSome people join the Occupy movement to rise up against a corrupt system. Tommy Nugent showed up with his picket sign to try and get the word “asshole” on national TV. But we often end u…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:15PMDC Theatre Scene launches a new series today called Tent Talk, a special month-long celebration of the friendships, conversations, and brief encounters that happen at the 2012 Capital Fringe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:43PMA big, fresh wave of new people and plays hits DC next Saturday, with the kickoff of the third annual DC Black Theatre Festival. From June 23 to July 1, the festival will showcase a massive …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:53AMAlthough many will remember David Schramm as the cantankerous airline owner Roy Biggins from the nineties NBC sitcom “Wings,” the Kentucky-born actor has been a man of the stage …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:45AMFor one brief moment halfway through Cuchullain, Aaron stops and smells the roses. Walking along a quiet Belfast street in the middle of the night with two friends, he pauses, bends down, an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AMDissecting an episode of The Simpsons used to fall to those bored on the couch or small-talking at a friend’s party. That was before the grid went down, the cities caught fire, and the Ame…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AM“Every writing project is driven by something personal,” says Andrew Hinderaker. “You have an impulse to tell a story. Then you get into it, and you realize… Oh, man. This is a c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09AMFor every two or three hats most people wear in the theatre world, Joe Banno wears four or five. Over the last 25 years he has directed over 100 theatre productions, many of them operas and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:15AMRight around grade school we’re reminded that kids are intelligent in different ways. Some will grow up to be great mathematicians, others great diplomats or chefs. And the few hanging out…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:53PM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:11PM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:28PM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AM- It seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMIt seems no production opens without longtime arts buff David Tannous sitting front row center. As the recipient of DC Theatre Scene’s 2011 Gary Lee Maker Award for Outstanding Audience Me…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AM- George Fulginiti-Shakar received his first Helen Hayes Award in 1994 for Sound Design. He has since had 8 nominations for Musical Direction, and received 2 Awards; in 2007 for Cabaret an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:41PMHoward Shalwitz is Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Since 1987, he has been nominated 8 times for direction, and received the Award in 2011 for Clybourne Park.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:51PM- James Kronzer is a multiple Helen Hayes Award recipient, with, by our count, 20 nominations since 1990, and taking home 7. - I am in theatre because of the importance of storytelling. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AMAs someone who defines myself as a director, an adapter/deviser, a playwright, a developer of new work, and more, I feel so blessed to toil in this community where so many of us — arti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:09PM- Award winning DC playwright Karen Zacarias received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play (The Sins of Sor Juana). Her works have been produced at The Kennedy Center, Arena Stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PMWhat I love most about this city, and what I don’t see much anywhere else, is a love for tapping into the extraordinary. So much of the work I see in DC is so true, with a spine intact and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:49PM- Matthew Gardiner, Associate Artistic Director of Signature Theatre, was nominated in 2008 for the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Choreography and, in that same year, won Outstanding Dir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PM- Since 1985, actor Floyd King has been nominated for 16 Helen Hayes Awards and has received 5 Awards. - When you’re young, I think you go to the theatre to find out that you’re not alon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PM- Matthew M. Nielson has been nominated for five Helen Hayes Awards, and is the recipient of two. He now commutes to DC from Asheville, N.C. where he has his own studio, Sound Lab Studio. -…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07AM- Joshua Morgan is an actor and Co-Artistic Director of No Rules Theatre Company, which received the 2011 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Emerging Theatre Company. - No Rules produces in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AMA Spider-Man musical must not have seemed like the nosedive off a skyscraper it turned out to be back on that first day, when Broadway producers gave Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark the green …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMI was a part of the first Helen Hayes Awards in 1985. That day, I discovered that behind some iconic images were some of the greatest people I have ever met. Reggie Ray (Photo: Tony Powell) …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:29AM- Will Gartshore has been nominated seven times for a Helen Hayes Award and received two awards, each for musical theatre performances. - If someone has just told you that they don’t go …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50AMBeginning 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…
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