The X-Men and other morphers have nothing on Nanna Ingvarsson, the local actress fluidly shape-shifting into seven characters that form a community united by tragedy in the one-woman show Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMLet’s face it. This winter sucked the very marrow out of our bones. These days, we’re feeling as hollow as a chocolate bunny left over from Easter. If you’re wondering where your whoop…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMOnce you meet Vera Stark you can’t forget her. The title character of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage’s 2009 masterwork By the Way, Meet Vera Stark has been lost to the ag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMTalk about your surreal moments. At the world premiere Thursday night of Lawrence Wright’s Camp David, a dramatization of the 13-day contretemps in 1978 between President Jimmy Carter, Egy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:51AM“I’m here!” Elaine Stritch proclaims in Chiemi Karasawa’s 2013 documentary ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME and she isn’t just whistling Sondheim. She takes a stand against the notion that…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:56PMAddiction binds and tears apart the characters in Quiara Alegria Hudes’ potent and poetic play Water by the Spoonful, currently casting a pensive spell over Studio Theatre. Under KJ Sanche…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:55PMA blockheaded wooden puppet is hero of Pinocchio, a cautionary tale for children about the importance of obedience winsomely staged in a co-production between the Faction of Fools and NextSt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AMDonny and Marie would not approve. But South Park lovers and fans of filth will no doubt herniate themselves chortling at The Book of Mormon, the shibboleth-shattering Tony and multi-awar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:22PMWhen something terrible happens, we go to another planet. Time warps and stops. Pain presses against the glass, begging, demanding to be let in. In Steve Yockey’s lovely, unsettling play, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMThe Hollywood dream factory proves both a boon and a bane for the residents of a small Irish town in Marie Jones’ Stones in His Pockets, a play that gives us a laugh as well as moments of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:57AMEverybody needs a sister. Whether by blood or a sister from another mister, we need someone who drives us crazy, who knows us better than we know ourselves, who criticizes us but will cut th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:23AMThe dinner table is rarely just a place to plop your plate and in the case of the bourgeois English family depicted in Nina Raine’s engrossing Tribes, it is an intellectual battlefield. Sl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:01AMResistance is futile. Not succumbing to the cheeky charms of Gypsy at Signature Theatre is like planting a raspberry on the pugnacious puss of Mama Rose herself. Not a good idea if you val…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:25PM“Just because I yell, doesn’t mean I don’t love you,” my mother used to say. If that maxim holds true, then the Lyons must be the most loving—and hoarse–family in exi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:39PMWith A Civil War Christmas, playwright Paula Vogel affectingly achieves her ambitious goal to create an American, non-Anglo worshipping Christmas Carol. There are no figgy puddings, Cratchit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AMIn a time where kvetching over the Kardashians passes for civil discourse, it is bracing to watch a play like Red that depicts genuine intellectual arguments and two men passionately arguing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMFangs you very much, Matthew Bourne, for reimagining the classic story ballet Sleeping Beauty as a gorgeous, gothic, vampire-filled romance that substitutes brimstone for the treacle. Not mu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMDon’t let the Roman columns and Magritte-green manicured lawns fool you. Those posh McMansion suburban communities have problems of trailer-trash magnitude, according to playwright Paul Do…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:11AMMemory can be a devious thing. It can snake around you like tendrils of cigar smoke and cloud your reason or it can keep you company so snugly you feel no need to seek other amity. Oscar Cli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMTease and gel your hair into a heavy metal mullet, slap some glitter on those cheeks and traipse on down in your platform shoes to the Hippodrome in Baltimore to catch the North American pre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:03AMThe government’s shut down. But the Health Care Insurance Exchanges are open and that means all you uninsured theater artists and professionals can sign up for health insurance. And we�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:41PMPut Lulu on the list of indelible child characters who are loud, proud and unbowed. Lulu joins grumpy and much put-upon Alexander in author Judith Viorst’s pantheon of kids who act like st…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMDismay for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer. The show he’s in’s a snorer. Dismay, dismay, dismay! Poor Captain Spaulding (Bruce Randolph Nelson)—a role immortalized by the origi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMThe street names in Lisa D’Amour’s play Detroit sound sunny and full of promise, but the reality is dark and scary for the inhabitants of this first-ring Motor City suburb. The once hous…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMJust when you think you don’t have it in you to see a classic play for the bazillionth time and you clump to your seat thinking that it is too dang nice out to sit in the dark for nearly t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AMRorschach Theatre’s production of Neverwhere illustrates what it is like to be a middle-aged woman—completely invisible. We should all be so lucky that crone-dom were as creative, atmosp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:35PMTerrorism. Not typically the topic that makes you want to have a little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. However, terrorists are the subject of Jon Kern’s horribly f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMHeartless, in many ways, is vintage Sam Shepard—a surreal, cubist kind of family drama with enigmatic characters, nods to iconic imagery and dialogue studded with non sequiturs that take t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:19AMRestoration comedy or a leg of lamb jammed up my nose? Tough choice. With that personal disclosure out of the way, in spite of my bias, Everyman’s production of The Beaux’ Stratagem …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMIt’s been a while since we’ve seen a bonafide femme fatale onstage—the hard-boiled yet pliable dames who dupe guys and dolls alike without messing up their manicures. That’s why Gina…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:08AMNormally, you’re drawn to Company, Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 Broadway musical about the ecstasies and aggravations of marriage, because of its cynical tang. From the bar fly bravado of “…
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