Friday, June 7, 2019
Grease is still “the” word, judging from the packed house and enthusiastic response to the 50’s-style Broadway score most people can easily sing along with. The stage show has been a p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Steeped in history and echoing with divine harmony, Jubilee is an event you won’t want to miss. A cast of thirteen singing actors – each a strong performer in their own right – work se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMTuesday, April 16, 2019
“Sisters, Sisters, There were never such devoted sisters,” warbled Rosemary Clooney and Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas. (Yes, Clooney was the stand-in singing voice for Vera-Ellen f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:17PMThursday, April 11, 2019
I admit, Michael Hollinger’s tight, 90-minute Ghost-Writer, now being presented by Quotidian Theatre Company, snuck up on me. It may seem to tip its hat pretty early, as titles go, but you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00AMFriday, March 15, 2019
When two highly engaging performers are saddled with less than dynamic material, you can at least revel in their onstage chemistry and delightful voices. Even the design work attempts to ele…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:25PMThursday, February 14, 2019
Confession time: When I fell in love with theatre, I really fell for Cyrano, Roxanne, Christian and their heady love triangle. And the swashbuckling. And the language. Edmond Rostand’s her…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMAdventure Theatre MTC in Glen Echo Park has put runaways Huck and Jim back on a raft down the mighty Missisippi in a revamped version of the musical Big River, itself based on Mark TwainR…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMFriday, January 25, 2019
For Washington Stage Guild patrons, the downtown theatre company’s current production offers a bit of closure. After introducing DC audiences to a complicated young couple in Last Train to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMFriday, October 26, 2018
I’ll bet my mutant Venus fly trap you know this show. Little Shop of Horrors took off-Broadway by storm in the 1980s, the talented team of book writer and lyricist Howard Ashman and compo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:36PMMonday, October 8, 2018
How fitting that Creative Cauldron has chosen to revive an early success that fits perfectly with the darker aspects of the Halloween season. That brooding poet and spinner of fantastic tal…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMThursday, October 4, 2018
A comedy that mingles romance with politics and it’s not about porn stars and reality show moguls? Please let it be a breath of fresh air, I plea to the theatre gods, as I take my seat for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMMonday, September 24, 2018
Toby’s Dinner Theatre is THE place and its joint is jumping thanks to the infectious melodies of the late, great Mr. Thomas Waller, a.k.a Fats Waller. The show is Ain’t Misbehavin’, on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:18PMThursday, September 13, 2018
The lean, black box staging of Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Joseph W. Ritsch packs a more muted wallop than other versions I have seen but is highlighted by a cast of e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMMonday, August 6, 2018
Trimmed up and in glorious voice on all accounts, the national tour of The Color Purple has moved into the Eisenhower Theatre at the Kennedy Center. And Hamilton, packing them in next door i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMPerhaps you have never heard of Amour, the musical with a score by the prolific French composer Michel Legrand. Perhaps it was champagne when the masses wanted beer back in 2002 when it open…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMThursday, July 26, 2018
Under the title Hawaii Nei, author Paul Handy has crafted two plays, both set in the picturesque Pacific islands of Hawaii. One is a revival of sorts; the other is a new companion piece. The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AMAre steam rooms still a ‘thing?’ I ask because I have only encountered them in movies, television shows, and a very interesting production of Verdi’s Rigoletto many years ago. As anyon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AMThursday, July 19, 2018
Three times the charm for solo performer Kate Robards, back for another outing at Capital Fringe, using her life as the very funny inspiration for her third solo show. After 2014’s amusing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMAfter a decade on Broadway and a prolonged national tour, Mamma Mia! has come to Toby’s Dinner Theatre of Columbia for what promises to continue the winning streak for this feel-good and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
Imaginative, kinetic, engaging, and bold – those are just a few words to describe The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Synetic Theater. For the young and young at heart, this fanciful and fa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMMonday, July 2, 2018
Many citizens have been welcome at community pools and swim clubs their entire lives. This is not true of African-Americans. Here we have the story of the African American Bowlding family …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMThursday, June 7, 2018
Shakespeare’s brave new world – a desolate island miles aways from Europe – is the fantastical setting where The Tempest offers up a blend of danger, romance, intrigue, family …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMWednesday, June 6, 2018
Personal, funny, poetic, rough around the edges – Bob Bartlett’s Swimming with Whales is well worth checking out while it’s at 1st Stage as I predict it will have life beyond …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMFriday, April 6, 2018
Wit and intelligence are under attack in today. So is faith. And the idea of intelligence working in tandem with religious convictions are often at odds with one another. The argument could …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:43PMThursday, March 15, 2018
“Razzle dazzle ‘em!” Silver-tongue shyster lawyer Billy Flynn melodically opines that if you do that, you’ll have an audience eating out of your hand. If you can snag a ticket to th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:43PMThe ancient Greeks took to the stage with joyous dancing and choral singing thousands of years ago, even before they created the timeless tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles. So why not a b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMTo a world of Instagram, YouTube, reality television, and other forms of hyped up, electrified media for the short attention span-addled populace, MetroStage offers something different. Cath…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:35AMSunday, February 18, 2018
Chess at the Kennedy Center is a checkmate. In other words, this formerly troubled musical with a beloved score, is taking the Eisenhower Theatre stage by storm in a staged, semi-concert for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:59PMTuesday, February 13, 2018
Heartache, pain, regrets, joys, and a fair share of personal demons might fell a weaker person. But not even time in prison could stop the musical force of nature known to fans as Lady Day. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMMonday, February 5, 2018
Playing like variations on the theme of the ancient Greek play The Trojan Woman, Brave Spirits’ The Trojan Women Project faces head-on a number of issues ripped from the headlines a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14AMMonday, November 20, 2017
Welcome to the jungle! No not the Serengeti plains where both wildebeest and ostrich have reason to fear the predatory lion. This is Chicago’s fictional North Shore High School where the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PM 
