Right now, “the room where it happens” happens to be the Kennedy Center Theater Lab, where Richard Nelson’s achingly prescient and intimate trilogy of plays The Gabriels pays a differe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMA holiday comedy about a family matriarch’s failing brain—what could be merrier? In truth, Coleman Domingo’s Dot is an absolute delight no matter what time of year. Funny, pungent and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AMNow that we’re mired in Trump America, there’s unexpected profundity to the pop confection Hairspray Live!, the live TV version of the 2002 musical that aired Wednesday night on NBC. If…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:02PMIs there a roof left in Anacostia? Doubtful, now that Black Nativity is back in the community for a third time. A joyful noise is made—and then some—in Theater Alliance’s soulful, sou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMWhen you walk through a storm, hold your head up high./ And don’t be afraid of the dark. At the end of the storm, there’s a golden sky. And the sweet, silver song of a lark. Walk on …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMFast food, even with artisan bread, is a dead-end job for most people. Low hourly pay, part-time hours to exempt the “sandwich artists” from getting any benefits and brutal expectations�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMEnter your 50s and you become invisible. People look right through 50-something women as if you are not there; waiters ignore you and bartenders don’t flirt with you; store personnel stare…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMLet’s do the Time Warp again! Then again, let’s not. The much an-ti-cip-at-ed reboot of the 1975 cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show, despite its abundant glitz and glitter, is rath…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:21PM“Queenie was a blonde and her age stood still,/And she danced twice a day in vaudeville.” With those hardboiled, magical words, Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 Jazz Age poem “The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:39PMAre you an Elinor or a Marianne? We’d probably prefer to think of ourselves as Elinor (Maggie McDowell), gracious, restrained and noble in her suffering. But let’s face it, we probably m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:12PMListen up, guys and molls. Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher has pumped lead, film noir lead, see, into that chestnut Wait Until Dark and it’s a looker. Youse need to leg it to Everyman Theatre b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:07PMHow fitting in this season of remembrance to see a play about the nature of memory. Sharr White’s The Other Place, currently receiving a haunting, heartbreaking production under the intell…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AMSignature Theatre’s revival of the 1992 musical Jelly’s Last Jam is a rich slurry of jazz, blues and ragtime music, thunderous performances and some of the most extraordinary tap dancing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMSelf-hatred is the most lethal hatred of them all. It runs through your veins like hot lead, poisoning your thoughts and perspective, filling every cell with corrosive anger and clouding you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:45PMMeet the Riches. But don’t forget your body armor. An upper class couple living the late 1980s yuppie dream in suburban Minnesota, David (Dana Scott Galloway) and Carolyn (Adele Robey) Ric…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AMHow do you solve a problem like Medea? Long a figure of fascination and derision in Greek mythology, the sorceress Medea got revenge on her two-timing husband Jason by killing their children…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMTwo years ago at CATF, playwright Chisa Hutchinson caused a stir with her rich and raucous two-character dramedy Dead and Breathing, about the right to die and the haves versus the have nots…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:46PMIf Wendy Wasserstein were alive and well today, you’d imagine she would be writing such warm, witty and cannily perceptive plays as Susan Miller’s 20th Century Blues, a world premiere at…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:25PMA summer of fun kicks off with a musical bouncier and brighter than a beach ball—Hairspray, presented in all its teased, sprayed and teen-spirited glory at Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Colum…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:58PMYou’ve heard of feel-good theater. How about smell-good theater? A delectable aroma wafts through the Anacostia Playhouse during Going to a Place where you Already Are, the handiwork of Sc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMActor Holly Twyford is a tour de force as Vivienne, a force of nature with a soft Southern accent, mad baking skills, impeccable manners and oh yes, a mother with Alzheimer’s and dementia.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:22AMThe elite and what writer H.L. Mencken called “the booboisie” clash over what is a genuine masterpiece and the higher purpose of art in Stephen Sach’s uproarious and sneakily thoughtfu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:02PMOh, what a night in Baltimore Wednesday. One year after the Freddie Gray violence, there was a festive air downtown as people of all stripes thronged the streets, cafes and restaurants as th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:39PMA sunny April Sunday and distractions such as spring cleaning, the Orioles or neglected reading beckon. Instead, all of those things are cast aside for sitting quietly in the dark for nearly…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMAudio announcements and a note in the program request that audience members stay seated for all 90 minutes of Fur and not totter off to the restrooms since the actors need full backstage acc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMYou can’t trust anything these days, especially memories. Being human, we treat them like modeling clay—stretching, reshaping, pounding and molding our memories until they are the lumpen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMWhether ancient Greece or modern megalopolises, women get a raw deal. The classic Greek playwright Sophocles wrote about this human predicament enduringly in his Oedipus plays, which charted…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMTwo actors on an austere stage plus director John Vreeke equal nirvana in Woolly Mammoth’s revelatory production of Rajiv Joseph’s tough, funny, poetic play Guards at the Taj. This is on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMJack and the Beanstalk has been given a musical and psychological twist by Stephen Sondheim in Into the Woods and now the classic fairy tale becomes modernized and kid-powered in a world pre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMOrgan donation may not be something you automatically associate with comedy, but playwright Michael Hollinger attempts to find the zanier side of bum kidneys and dysfunctional family …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AMLet Snowzilla 2016 do its worst. We’ve got sunshine right here in Charm City, where the pure magic of director Wendy C. Goldberg’s production of As You Like It stirs the summer of love i…
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