How 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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37AMThere’s nothing new under the sun, or in fact, under the Hollywood sign. The movie biz’s penchant for endlessly recycling itself is parodied in the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s show C…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:43PMIt’s 1605 and Spain needs a noble knight. The retired country squire, Don Quixote, stuffed to the gills with chivalric novels, decides he is the man to bring gentility back. Donning a helm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08AMTalk about destiny. Tell your kid his penis is called “bootycandy” and you are not setting him up for a career as, say, a civil engineer. Something a tad more dramatic and outlandish i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMIs there anything more delicious than Harold Pinter done well? When the show’s funny and weird and a polite sense of dread hangs over everything like a sinister odor? The Shakespeare Theat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:11AMIt’s not the air-conditioning causing goose bumps at the Eisenhower Theater. Instead, chills of pleasure are induced by director Eric Schaeffer’s deluxe, star-packed production of Follie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:21PMIn the midst of a rainy spring, the real sunshine can be found indoors, courtesy of Everyman Theatre’s fresh-as-a-daisy production of Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, directed with wit a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMEven in this age of iPads, mobile apps and handheld computer games, show-and-tell still holds an irresistible allure for grade-schoolers. The Day John Henry Came to School, a world-premiere …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AMEver had the hankering to stop being a seat warmer and jump up onstage to join the action? Careening out of your comfort zone and inadvertently breaking the fourth wall are two of the themes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33AMMultiply Miss Havisham by three, add Irish accents and a peculiarly compelling sense of the macabre and you have Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom, the female-driven companion piece t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMNo need to finagle an invite to the LeVay family’s handsomely appointed summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. Just get a ticket to Everyman Theatre’s deliciously enjoyable production of Ly…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:50AMSt. Patrick’s Day madness has safely passed, but Baltimore remains the scene for green, as Shrek The Musical brings the lovable, lime-skinned ogre to the Hippodrome Theatre for a two-week …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:03AMWe go to live theater for fireworks, but in the case of Theater J’s fine staging of The Chosen, transplanted to Arena Stage for a brief run, often the production’s pleasures are revealed…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMNearly 50 years old and not a speck of flab or complacency. How often can you say that about anything, much less a play? Edward Albee’s 1962 majestic three-act matrimonial grudge match, Wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:17PMWriter Joan Didion insists on having the last word. This insistence comes back to haunt her after she has one of those years—you know, the kind where catastrophes become the warp and woof …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AMBefore Tom Stoppard got all metaphysical and mathematical on us, he wrote fluff. The Stoppardian word gymnastics and clever silliness are very much evident in On the Razzle, but it has abou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMCenterstage Artistic Director Irene Lewis goes out with a bang with a wickedly scabrous production of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, the final show directed by Miss Lewis after a 20-year …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44AMSex and theater criticism are not synonymous. Although the majority of ink-stained wretches clean up well, it is a rare occurrence for theatergoers to whistle appreciatively under their coll…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55PMAnna Deavere Smith glides in and out of personas with the ease of just-cut hair slipping to the barber’s floor. Her quicksilver qualities and keen listening skills are beautifully utilized…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07AMHey Hon. Don’t go downy Ocean. You’ll freeze your garbanzos off and not even a couple of Natty Bohs will warm you up. Fortify yourself with a nice crab cake and head on over to Center …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMSeasonal schmaltz making you farklempt? Tarnish that tinsel with a refreshing nip of filth in The Kinsey Sick’s raunchy holiday roundelay Oy Vey in a Manger. The Aaron and Cecile Goldman…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AMThe holidays have descended upon first-grade Room One and Junie B. Jones (Casie Platt) is of two minds. On the one hand, she is giddier than Scrooge on Christmas morning with the prospect of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AMArena Stage inaugurates its Kogod Cradle theater, an incubator for new plays, with an invigorating production of Marcus Gardley’s Every Tongue Confess, a sprawling tale about hate crimes a…
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