As an actor, Caroline Stefanie Clay seeks out opportunities to tackle challenging roles in complex plays and she found a big one playing Corryn Fell. In Gidion’s Knot, now onstage at Nex…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:01AMBWW salutes Broadway talent who are EMMY nominated for 2014. Today, we look at Sarah Paulson, nominated for her work in the FX series AMERICAN HORROR STORY COVEN.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 02:35PMThe dog days of summer might have some people down but not Martin Blank. The DC-based playwright and Artistic Director of the American Ensemble Theater is seeing one of his plays produced Of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMWriter and solo performer Kate Robards may have felt like a fish out of water during her stay in China, but she can boast two homes. One is the small town of Orange, Texas, where she was rai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:13PMThe beauty of the language and the brutality of this Duchess of Malfi lingered in my mind’s eye for days after the cast took their final bows. Rhymed couplets curled through the air as an …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AMSize Doesn’t Matter does what it sets out to do by providing a showcase for eager actors. Some of the parts outshine others, diminishing the work as a whole. Fully Charged Productions, a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18PMFor a guy who is not into mixed martial arts or kung-fu movies, I sure did love The Tournament. Bold and ballsy and featuring a kick-ass story and even kick-assier action, this show is great…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMThe mythology of ancient Egypt and a police procedural might make strange bedfellows but the fine folks at Guillotine Theatre make the combination work in a delightful way with Isis and Vesc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMOh to be at Hogwarts now that summer is here! This is most definitely not Hogwarts. This is not even a side street off of Diagon Alley. This is the Lab II at the Atlas Performing Arts Center…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AMIn Self-Portrait of a Sinner, playwright/performer Veronique MacRae seeks to show how the sinner destroys other people as well as herself. Admirable in flashes, the solo piece is impaired by…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33PMSexy, visceral, and physical, Flying V’s original ensemble piece Flying V Fights: Love is a Battlefield packs a wallop. From love taps to sucker punches and even gladiatorial contest, Flyi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMThe circumstances of World War II and Hitler’s legacy of conquest and persecution plunged many ordinary men and women into a crucible that tested and destroyed lives. Extraordinary events …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMFrank Anthony Polito’s new play, being given its world premiere at Compass Rose Theater, owes a debt of gratitude to Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, both being quiet plays about ordinary day…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMAs an unemployed actor six decades ago, Hal Holbrook starting digging through Mark Twain’s written words in order to fashion a staged interview in which the “father of American literatur…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:26PMOh, Dad. Oh, brother! A comic bird, heavy on the dark meat, Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad gives us a little family that makes the Addams broo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AM“We decided to go out with a bang.” Nan Muntzing explained Annie was always on Potomac Theatre Company’s wish list of musicals it wanted to produce. The family appeal and the celebrate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMFlower power is in full bloom at the Keegan Theatre and it’s pretty damn groovy. Keegan Theatre on Church Street NW has been transformed into a hippie’s paradise, like a found loft in th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMDirector Jerry Whiddon and actor Marty Lodge are back at Round House continuing a long friendship and professional collaboration. Jerry Whiddon was co-founder and producing Artistic Direct…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMJulia Cho’s The Piano Teacher is a tightly constructed chiller of a play that leads you down dark paths only to reveal unexpected recesses where the truth is darker still. The Rep Stage pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMIf music is a universal language, why not add comedy and the use of household objects to the mix? That is pretty much what Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas did in the early 1990s when the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:14PMAs perhaps the pinnacle of high comedy in the English language, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest should never lose its place among classic dramatic literature. Each carefully …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AMHall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan once said, “One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, rea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMBell rings with truth, a fitting tribute The tribute to the life-loving and life-changing inventor Alexander Graham Bell would be welcome on any stage but feels very much at home in the Gros…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:49PMBell by Jim Lehrer, starring Rick Foucheux, runs through September 21 When we caught up with Rick Foucheux, he had just begun rehearsals for Bell, the new solo play written by veteran TV jou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:17PMPotted Potter flies into DC weaving a comic spell Potted Potter, the unauthorized Harry Potter parody experience, succeeds in combining a love for J.K. Rowling’s magical universe, and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:56AMFor Part 2 of our interviews with members of the “line,” Jeff Walker spoke with local performers Parker Drown and Carl Randolph. The cast of A Chorus Line. (Photo: Stan Barouh) (l-r) Par…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AMRorschach Theatre had two reasons to celebrate last night. On August 19, they debuted Neverwhere at Atlas Performing Arts Center and ended a successful fundraising effort. Not unusual for no…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMTake away the nearly unseen director, the memorable songs, the dazzling dance numbers, and the high-kicking finale in A Chorus Line and what’s left are the stories of dancers desperate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AMWhat could be better than one Alan Bennett? How about two? The British playwright (The History Boys, Talking Heads) often injects pieces of his personal life into his work. In The Lady in th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:44AMYou have to hand it to Jack Marshall. While his company, American Century Theater, values works from the past, Marshall has dusted off a charming musical about traditional marriage from th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMI had a dream the other night in which I was transported to a quaint European city where the sounds of gypsy violins pervaded the air and romance was just around the corner. Actually, this w…
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