Normally, 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 “…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AMNever thought I could welcome or anticipate meeting a character more than Aunt Ester Tyler, the 285-year-old matriarch and soul-cleanser of 1839 Wiley Avenue whose touchstone presence filled…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMore than 30 years after Sid Vicious snarled “My Way,” punk is busting out all over once again. There is a punk couture show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spikes adorn clothes and b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:43AMMichael Hollinger’s Ghost-Writer may have been inspired by the relationship between Henry James and his secretary Theodora Bosanquet, but there is something delectably Jane Austen-y about …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMThe relationship between home, history and hatred is potently explored in Bruce Norris’ edgy living room comedy Clybourne Park, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning play now housed at CenterSta…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AM“What ever happened to class?” laments lethal flapper Velma Kelly and prison matron Mama Morton in the song “Class” from the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago. You won’t find evidence…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMWhoever said that travel is broadening never met a modern-day flight attendant. The three women of Marisa Wegrzyn’s world premiere, world-wearily funny play Mud Blue Sky, are drudges at 50…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMIt’s hard to watch something you love suffer. In this case, it is the 2006 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Spring Awakening, featuring a sumptuous indie-rock score from Duncan Sheik an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMA gorgeous new space deserves an equally stunning production. Everyman Theatre has pulled off this challenging feat with its sparkling renovation of the old Town Theater movie palace and i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:19AMAs any fan of Fifty Shades of Grey will tell you, chicks dig guys in black masks. Before Christian Grey, the Dark Knight and other masked morsels, there was Zorro, who also had a way with a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:56AMSing, Goddess, of the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, the accursed rage that brought great suffering to the Achaeans. These cold winter nights are made for storytelling, for gathering …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:29AMEven my culture-savvy bestie from Albuquerque was a little dim on The Pajama Men, the New Mexico improvisational duo of Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez currently showing off their sleepwear—…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMSome seasons back, CenterStage did a delightful job with William Inge’s Picnic, directed with poignancy and joy by then-artistic director Irene Lewis, so a new production of his 1955 play …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:09PMThe current Broadway play Peter and the Starcatcher is a captivating prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan that speaks of the effect of lost mothers on little boys and even unloved, scalawag …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMOnce upon a Sunday dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Will this latest Poe play rate high or very poor? Will I nod, nearly napping, or will my synapses be a-snapping As I watch Poe’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AMThe Wicked Witch of the West was more than just green skin and cackle. Similarly, there’s more to Glinda the Good Witch than a simpering smile and a twinkly wand. The backstories of these …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMYou know a dysfunctional family drama is working when you think to yourself “My family is crackers, but they are nothing compared to this brood.” That’s what happens during the second …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AMRajiv Joseph’s 2010 play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, is one of the most inventive meditations on war you’re likely to encounter. Set in 2003 in Iraq, the play depicts the ravages o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AMSome things just can’t be put in a frame. Intimacy, for example, or the messiness of normal life. After a devastating bomb injury in Iraq, war photographer Sarah Goodwin (Beth Hylton) is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMGood ole boys and good time gals are a match made in chicken-fried heaven in Signature Theatre’s racy and randy revival of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the 1978 musical that combin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54AMHe’s the dude on the $20 bill, had the nickname “Old Hickory” (which referred to his orneriness, not, as the musical insinuates, his male organ) and helped create what is now known as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:57AMThere’s a moose on the loose in Glen Echo and he’s mad for muffins. No need to call animal control, just make your way to Adventure Theatre and prepare to be bowled over by the funniest,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMPlaywright Lisa Kron knows what it’s like to live in a sick house. Growing up with a chronically ill mother, Miss Kron endured the endless bad days and the rare good days, the tip-toeing a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:56AMYou think your family’s crazy? Compared to the purposefully pixilated Sycamore-Vanderhof clan — the characters, and I mean characters, populating George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart’s exub…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:25AMWhat do you do when the black eyeliner fades, the safety pins tarnish, and everyone—not just Johnny Rotten—is pretty vacant? That’s the dilemma for Jamie (Deborah Randall), a former pu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58AMEverybody in the pool! It’s a pool party of a sublimely archetypal sort in Constellation Theatre’s entrancing staging of Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses, directed with flair and a fanci…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:39PMTrue story: My mother took my sister and my seven year-old self to see “Mary Poppins” in 1964 at a downtown Baltimore movie palace—who knows, it could have been the Hippodrome.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:52AMNew Center Stage artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah gets off to an astonishing start with his directorial debut production of Matthew Lopez’s mesmerizing play The Whipping Man. Atmospheric…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:36AMLike Willow Smith, Rapunzel (Felicia Curry) loves her hair. And why shouldn’t she? It is her crowning glory, her plaything, a transportation system, and until Prince Brian (Jonathan Atkins…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:55AMPinocchio may have wished to be a real boy, but Basil Twist’s puppets have the best of both worlds. They are all too human, with souls that burn bright as jewels. But they are also impossi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:50AMCherry blossoms and the perfumed air of a new spring pale in comparison to the enchantments awaiting indoors at CenterStage, home of a beautiful and liltingly fiendish production of the Sond…
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