Tuesday, July 12, 2016
If you like your house decorated with dysfunction, madness, incest, and heightened dialogue, come visit The House of Yes. Let’s start with the play. Wendy Macleod’s look at a destructive…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:37PMTuesday, July 5, 2016
Those folks at Disney do not have a lock on turning familiar fairy tales and children’s literature into charming and engaging entertainment fit for the entire family to enjoy. Take, for ex…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:58PMTuesday, June 14, 2016
La Cage aux Folles – being given a fierce, glittering new production at Signature Theatre – is très magnifique. Director and choreographer Matthew Gardiner does not reinvent t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Acclaimed playwright Athol Fugard knows only too well what was like to live in an oppressive police state, and has explored time and again the political struggles of black and white …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMTuesday, April 26, 2016
Those bad boys of abridgment, the Reduced Shakespeare Company, have struck again just in time for the big celebration of the Bard of Avon’s 400th anniversary celebration. This time thei…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMWednesday, April 13, 2016
Dial ‘M’ for Murder is not so much a “whodunit” as a “will-he-get-away-with it” thriller. But it kept audiences guessing in the early 1950s in London’s West End and later on Br…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PMThursday, March 24, 2016
Heroes come in all shapes and sizes. Take Malala Yousafzai who was already making waves at age 11 in her native Pakistan, speaking out against the Taliban for limiting education for females.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:15AMFriday, February 26, 2016
If the term up-and-coming actor needed a poster child, last year I would have said Eddie Redmayne would be a perfect match, owing to his Oscar win as Stephen Hawking in the acclaimed film TH…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 07:00AMThursday, February 25, 2016
The profile of Mark Rylance, veteran star of stage and screen, has risen this year due to a number of high profile projects. He is nominated for actor in a supporting role for his turn as Ru…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:21PMMonday, February 22, 2016
The critics are buzzing about Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2, and 3) at Round House Theatre. Deemed “challenging and beautiful” (Jonelle Walker, DCist), the play is “Verse…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMWednesday, February 17, 2016
“It’s really raw and really real.” That is the quick summation offered by Johanna Day, one of the actresses helping tell the story of what happened in Reading, Pennsylvania when the ec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMFriday, February 12, 2016
Some plays are like symphonies or pops concerts, with many players, working in sync to tell a grand story. Others are like chamber music, smaller affairs where the ensemble has to be even mo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMThursday, February 11, 2016
The City of Conversation fits Arena Stage like a glove. The play itself brims with intelligence, bristles with conflict, and presents the fine art of political discourse in a town where such…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMFriday, February 5, 2016
When considering the new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream now weaving a spell of enchantment and romance at the Folger Theatre, three words come to mind: fun, sexy and magica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:49AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Between Riverside and Crazy presents a world of shades, uncertainties, and complicated relationships. Between the exchanges of rapid fire, often profanity laden dialogue and sometimes scathi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45AMWednesday, December 30, 2015
Call me an old softy, but I get pretty sentimental during the holidays. As I look back on theatre for the year 2015, my cup runneth over with blessings – performers and productions that to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50AMMonday, December 21, 2015
Have you heard about the new musical now onstage at Signature Theatre? It’s name: West Side Story. West Side Story’s been around nearly 60 years, and everyone knows it was an updated…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:55PMThursday, December 17, 2015
An Irish Carol is a tale of Christmas redemption that tastes not of sugar cookies and eggnog, but salted peanuts and shots of Jameson. The spirits here are of the earthbound, liquid variety …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AMThursday, December 3, 2015
I have one complaint about A Broadway Christmas Carol at MetroStage. What took me so long to discover this hilariously festive show? Certainly it was no fault of the folks at MetroStage. Beg…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMRelive the Golden Age of Broadway and the magical moments from TV's past with Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Frank Sinatra, Julie Andrews,Carol Burnett and many more as we look at the history of…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:32AMMonday, November 9, 2015
Before donning Victorian garb once again as Ebenezer Scrooge for the annual “ghost story of Christmas,” A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre, Edward Gero has unfinished business in Dubl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMThursday, October 15, 2015
The sinewy vamp beckons your ears to step inside. What follows is a compact one act revue of infectious melodies, perfectly married to the song lyrics which could be about unbridled joy, a b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
“Forty is old to have a baby.” Those words rang in the ears and down to the depths of Ginna Hoben’s soul as a skinny, way too young nurse pronounced her sentence over the actress despe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
What do we have here? Raised hemlines, bobbed hair, bathtub gin, and women who take the bull by the horns. Clearly, we are bee’s knees deep in the Roaring Twenties. And it is a heady time …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:28AMFriday, September 18, 2015
Just give in already. With a charming hero, lechery and vice on parade, a cross-dressing femme fatale, and comic timing to beat the precision of any Swiss watch, One Man, Two Guvnors at Mary…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMWednesday, July 22, 2015
The short answers to my two biggest questions about Romeo and Juliet: Love Knows No Age are yes and yes. The questions themselves were as follows: Does the white hot, love at first sight rom…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:37PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Look what the stork dropped off: a nice bundle of joy all wrapped up in the musical Baby. It’s happily cooing away at Infinity Theatre Company in Annapolis. And this baby does not just cra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:55PMKristen LePine’s new play Leto Legend offers a feminine perspective on the male-dominated world of comic books and the heroes that populate them. With an emphasis on the comic, the play pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMTuesday, June 30, 2015
Among the many lines quoted from the films of Mel Brooks, one gem is the one the producer/director/actor himself uttered impersonating King Louis XIV while ogling a voluptuous lady of the co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:10PMFriday, June 19, 2015
Could a feeling send a jolt through the fabric of time and space and make the universe shiver? And is the material that weaves our past, present and future merely and illusion? Rebecca Bosse…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:28PMFriday, June 12, 2015
“I am the greatest loser of the world!” So claims Marjorie Taub in the twisted comedy The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife. But she is such a lovable loser. Boasting impeccable timing by i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:56AM 
