Wednesday, September 3, 2014
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 08:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 24, 2014
BWW 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 02:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 7, 2014
The 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 08:33AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 20, 2014
Writer 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 07:13PM[SHARE]Friday, July 18, 2014
The 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 as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Size 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 09:18PM[SHARE]For 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 10:22AM[SHARE]The 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 08:31AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Oh 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 08:02AM[SHARE]Monday, July 14, 2014
In 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 09:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Sexy, 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, Flying…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 4, 2014
The 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 se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 15, 2014
Frank 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 days an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 7, 2014
As 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 literature" (…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:26PM[SHARE]Monday, March 24, 2014
Oh, 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 brood look…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AM[SHARE]Friday, March 21, 2014
"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 celebrated scor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 20, 2014
Flower 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 the Ea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Director 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 Dire…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Julia 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 prod…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 5, 2014
If 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 12:14PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2014
As 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 pl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Hall 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, reach…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AM[SHARE]Monday, September 16, 2013
Bell 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 05:49PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Bell 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 12:17PM[SHARE]Monday, September 9, 2013
Potted 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 08:56AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 4, 2013
For 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) Parker …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Rorschach 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 10:01AM[SHARE]Monday, August 12, 2013
Take 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 09:59AM[SHARE]Friday, July 26, 2013
What 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 11:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 25, 2013
You 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 …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2013
I 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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