Cherry 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AMNothing wishy-washy about Olney Theatre Center’s exuberant, child-sized production of the musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Here, the Peanuts gang is rendered with such bright, b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:11PMThere is nothing more thrilling than watching paint dry in Red, the riveting bio-drama by John Logan about the cerebral abstract expressionist Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and his determined youn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:15PM“When Jane Goodall Goes Bad!” could be the banner headline for The Gallerist, a delectably lurid tale about demonic possession and soul survival by playwright Fengar Gael that is staged …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01PMA night off. No kids, no responsibilities. Just a husband and wife, Chinese takeout, and a bottle of wine. This rare “just the two of us” evening proves to be a dark night of the soul in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:55PMThe Apollonian and the Dionysian co-exist more or less peaceably in the body of 26-year-old Chicago actor Patrick Andrews, who plays the pliant assistant Ken to Washington favorite Ed Gero…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31AM– This is an encore review, originally posted Nov 3, 2011, of the touring production at the Hippodrome in Baltimore – You’d kill for those shoes. And those legs. That’s you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMIf you think sex conversations in relationships are cringeworthy, try throwing religion into the mix. Talk about awkward. Renee Calarco Washington playwright Renee Calarco delves into the i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:16AMWho better than the Prince of Puke to put you in the Christmas spirit? Forget that weenie Michael Buble or heartwarming holiday pageants. The true spirit of the season is embodied by filmmak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:41AMIt takes a tough man to be a tender drag queen. And local television and radio personality Robert Aubry Davis does Edna Turnblad’s cha-cha heels and bazooka-sized bra proud in Signature Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMFloyd and Ted’s Excellent Adventure with the Bard Actors Floyd King and Ted van Griethuysen are mad about the Bard. They have nothing but good things to say about Shakespeare and not j…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMColin Firth is—and will always be—Mr. Darcy. But one does have to move beyond the 1995 BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, albeit reluctantly. Michael Brusasco as Mr. Darcy and Kate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AM“Here. Feel these. I don’t know how women do it,” says Robert Aubry Davis, offering me a squeeze of his size 54 EEE breasts—each one roughly the pendulous shape and heft of a Hubbard…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19PMNo worries about writer’s block or evoking the muse for Washington author Ken Ludwig. In addition to penning ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, a world premiere holiday children’s show …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58AMLike the character Amanda Prynne’s (Deborah Hazlett) heart, Private Lives is jagged with sophistication. Noel Coward’s oft-produced 1930 play—which he starred in with his great friend …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMA son’s bedtime wish was the creative spark for Stay A bottle of wine can lead to many things, but for playwright Heather McDonald and choreographer Susan Shields, it led to an artist…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53AMTurning 30. A time to look back, take stock, grow up. Or reinvent a theater. When Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company hit the big 3-0 two years ago, artistic director Howard Shalwitz viewed the o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:39AMYou’d kill for those shoes. And those legs. That’s your initial impression of the touring production of the Tony Award winning 2010 Broadway revival of La Cage Aux Folles, which lands in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:43AMHappenstance Theater has found a winsome way to keep Halloween in our hearts all year long—the chills, the thrills, the frights, the things that go bump in the night. The troupe’s Cabare…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50AMGiddy-up Armageddon! could be the rallying cry for evangelical misfit Will (Michael Russotto), the sad-sack hero of Samuel D. Hunter’s A Bright New Boise, a divinely inspired heartland com…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:47PMThanks for the mammaries. Breast wishes. Tits a Wonderful Life. You can cry over breast cancer—or you can laugh. Composer, lyricist and playwright Joan Cushing does both—as well as pens …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:30PMCancer is the great equalizer. You can be smart, dim-witted, a marshmallow or a field marshal—its ruthless, endlessly propagating cells ravage everyone the same. This is a tough lesson for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMActor Emery Battis passed away September 20th at the age of 96. Like many theatergoers, I grew up watching him onstage and came to think of him as a production’s good luck charm.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:29AMNow that the western sun has set on Arena Stage’s Oklahoma!, Washington is in danger of being bereft of glorious singing voices and exemplary choral work. That void will be filled by Ford …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:44AMBaltimore has many advantages over its sister city to the South—better food, nicer people, filmmaker John Waters, and the citizenry got to see Alice Childress’ funny, furious come-to-Jes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:39AMA Raisin in the Sun was groundbreaking in 1959 and is heartbreaking in 2011. Lorraine Hansberry’s play about a working class black family in Chicago chasing middle class dreams is vivid, v…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AMMonkey butt jokes, Bollywood-style dance sequences, parables about how to be the ideal husband and wife, delectable world music and actors who make virtue and duty seem kinda sexy intermingl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:47AMAfter a particularly unfortunate week, what a pleasure it was to wallow in the misery of others. Especially when that misery was as lustrous as that portrayed by the Sydney Theatre Company i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMSometimes, you are in one of those Peggy Lee “Is That All There Is?” states of mind and then you see a play that reminds you why you still go to the theater. John Ottavino as Byron and A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMYou gotta wonder what women did to David Mamet to deserve such misogynist treatment in the play Oleanna and now with Race. Playwright Edward Albee has addressed his thorny relationship with …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AMHow does an enviably perfect, fortunate family cope with senseless tragedy? The Nash clan takes a rather curious route — song. Barrington Walters, Jr. as Eli (Photo: Ron Blunt) In T…
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