Third time still charms with Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s game-changing, blood-drumming 2015 musical about Alexander Hamilton, whom he describes in his syncopated, ear-worm lyrics as a �…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThe door slam heard around the world. Has there ever been a more memorable exit than Nora Helmer banging the door closed on her life, marriage and children in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s Hou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMA medical emergency. If that’s not song and dance material, I don’t know what is. But under composer William Finn’s tunefully neurotic steerage, serious brain trauma becomes a bright, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMHow many me’s can you fit in one teenage body? Jacqueline Marie Butler (Erika Rose) ponders this question and endeavors to find her place in the world in Queens Girl in Africa, D.C. playwr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PM2933 Ericson Street may prove to be as potent and prescient as August Wilson’s 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, the setting for many of his epic plays and the place where…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMIt seems somehow written in the stars that Michael Kahn would choose the world premiere of Ellen McLaughlin’s The Oresteia as the final show of his towering tenure as Artistic Director a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMIf there was ever a time for old-fashioned spoofy fun, it’s now. Your chance to goof off comes courtesy of Rep Stage’s joy-buzzery production of The 39 Steps, directed by Joseph W. Ritsc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMIf someone told you to run down to the Lansburgh Theater to see a three-hour play about back-channel diplomatic negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Army (PLO), you’d p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:33PMLike my mama used to say, just because somebody asks for something doesn’t mean you have to give it. In the case of the Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s exemplary Black Pearl Sings!, it�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMToby’s Dinner Theatre has been transformed into a cathedral for its towering production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, including some of the most powerful and moving choral work you are l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:17PMFull disclosure: As a mere slip of a girl I used to read Bullfinch’s Mythology and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology for fun and enlightenment and when I couldn’t sleep I would populate the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMIf breakups were only confined to the couple in question, life would be easier. Throw friends, children, potential new partners into the mix and it really takes a village to visit Splitsvill…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AM“This play changed my life,” proclaims shtetl tailor-turned-stage-manager Lemml (Ben Cherry) in Paula Vogel’s incandescent Indecent, and as you look up in wonder at the candle and stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:33PMHow can one play make you low in spirit but high on life? In less than two hours, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 takes you on a whip-smart ride between sadness that race and class issues remain…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:57AMIf there was ever a time for a bit of cheek, it’s now. We could all use some impudent humor, especially of the female variety. And there’s no better place than the august Folger Theatre,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMWe quickly learn that Everything Is Wonderful is Amish shorthand for “Shut your pie hole, I beg you.” But you wouldn’t want to miss a single plainspoken word of this magnificent, whole…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMLa Vie Boheme is not mort. On the contrary, it is shiny and perky as all get out. That could be a problem for those who consider Rent, the late Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking 1996 rock m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMFurloughed? Sick of snow? Cheer up. You could be a member of the People’s Temple. The Reverend Jim Jones (Lance Bankerd) and his tragically devoted followers are back from the jungles …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04AM“Laugh or cry; it’s up to you,” my mother used to say. At Baltimore Center Stage’s stirring production of acclaimed playwright Marcus Gardley’s play A Wonder In…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12AMBright as a boutonniere, Everyman’s production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is a strutting peacock of a show that portrays the mores of Victorian society with…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12PMWant to replicate the experience of seeing the pre-Broadway tryout of the musical version of Beetlejuice in the comfort of your home? Just pound down 19 espressos with a pound of candy chase…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMThe white-hot rage and caustic bitterness against de-industrialization, unemployment, minorities, and immigrants, not to mention races and religions other than white and Christian, may have …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMRacy photographs stoke the mayhem and comedy of local playwright D.W. Gregory’s world premiere play, Dirty Pictures, but its true catalyst lies in finding beauty in the ordinary and overlo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMHold onto summer heat and humid emotions just a little while longer with Baltimore Center Stage’s juicy production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The lies we tell ourselves so we can sleep and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMDancing at Lughnasa casts a spell before the actors utter a word. Irish music peppily plays as you enter the theater and drink in Yu-Hsuan Chen’s painterly set–with sinuously twi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMThe last place you’d think to go for a little peace and quiet is the theater. But that’s what happens in Round House Theatre’s production of Bess Wohl’s 2015 off-Broadway hit, Small …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMDave is a musical for our times. A snapshot of our current political climate swathed in red, white and blue, the world premiere musical with music by Tom Kitt (Next to Normal), a book by the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMBreak out the Bedazzler and falsies and shimmy into your Spanx. It’s high season for drag in downtown Bethesda, thanks to the fierce and funny The Legend of Georgia McBride, playwright Mat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM“Butter. Sugar. Flour.” These three words are sprinkled like incantations throughout the 2016 musical Waitress, a tasty, buttermilk tart and bright woman-powered show that features Sara …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PM“We’ll wait and see.” Normally, words of prudence and patience. In the context of Karen Hartman’s intense epistolary play, The Book of Joseph, the words are a chilling death senten…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMTheater is traditionally thought to be a place of communion, a meeting of like-minded souls who crave a good story. Playwright Annie Baker turns that expectation on its head, along with so m…
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