Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Aaron Posner is everywhere this season. With productions of Stupid Fucking Bird popping up in theatres all across America, and a few Helen Hayes and Barrymore Awards in both writing and dire…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 17, 2015
Forget the pastoral images of Arden, or the shepherds and royalty you might expect from this play. Synetic's dance-theatre rendition of As You Like It has all the dark twists and haunted ima…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 15, 2015
The Hub's black box theatre offers an intimate experience, magnified in Wish List's vanishing of a fourth wall. The three performers – Rose McConnell, Katie Jeffries, and Sasha Olinick…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2015
The cast of Pericles, now onstage at the Folger Theatre, will have lived through countless famines, shipwrecks, and tournaments by the time they complete the play's three-venue run. Beginnin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Welcome to the neighborhood, here's a pie. So begins our entry into the Alabama neighborhood of Maytag Virgin, or, more specifically, the shared grounds between two houses (one intricately d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:25PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
One of the gifts of Carroll's Wonderland is that its world of illogical situations and creatures both provides the structure of a narrative while allowing plenty of space to imagine and inte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Children of the '90s, climb on board. The Oregon Trail, modeled after the primitive computer game of the same name, is Flying V's contribution to the Women's Voices Theater Festival. Written…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:19PM[SHARE]Monday, August 3, 2015
Our city has a long history of conflating people with their chosen profession. Of course, being Washington, there are large subsets of our residents who can't disclose what they do for a liv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:20PM[SHARE]Friday, July 3, 2015
"There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity." This one line offers up the theme of Tennessee William's renowned Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in ten simple words. But, as evidenced…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, June 15, 2015
Framed in a certain way, The Madwoman of Chaillot nearly reads like a news headline. Whether the media outlet is CNN or The Onion depends entirely on what you focus on " because this French …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 11, 2015
Sometimes it doesn't take an assassination, an earthquake, or a war to make headlines. Sometimes a production stocked with dazzling dance moves, a gifted cast, and catchy melodies is enough …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 4, 2015
Something is amiss in a converted church on 20th Street, which the trenchcoated guards by the door " members of the cast – make plain. This is the world of The Trap, Ambassador Theater…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Zombie: The American is a marketing department's dream"touching on political commentary with cheeky humor and more than a splash of the undead, it looks and sounds like a show that would bri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:45PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Ninety-two coins spun consecutively have come down heads ninety-two consecutive times, all confirming that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, now onstage at the Folger Theatre, is one to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:33PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 23, 2015
With several Vanyas to choose from this spring, Round House Theatre is celebrating its take on the Chekhov classic as one of the more authentic — a version of Uncle Vanya that would ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PM[SHARE]Friday, April 10, 2015
Via theatreWashington: Washington, DC – theatreWashington President & CEO Linda Levy announced today that she is retiring after serving the organization and Washington's theatre co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
This year's Helen Hayes Awards didn't seek to dazzle. It was enough to attempt the daunting — if not altogether impossible"task of presenting awards for both Helens and Hayeses in a ce…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AM[SHARE]Monday, March 30, 2015
Everything about Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play is ambitious. Clocking in at just under four hours (yes, you read that right), the three-play cycle chronicles the staging of Passion plays across …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 26, 2015
Michael John Garcés is no stranger to Washington, DC. Washington audiences will remember the 2013 production of The Convert, and before that, Oedipus El Rey. He directed both for Woolly Mam…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
The world is ending at Signature Theatre. Not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a song. In Soon, a world premiere musical from writer/composer Nick Blaemire, we are faced with the th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 18, 2015
In roughly two hours, Cherokee packs in a man's disappearance, sex in a tent, two slaughtered bunnies, a Native American wilderness guide, a midlife crisis, a pregnancy, bigamy, an improv th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:37PM[SHARE]Friday, February 13, 2015
Shakespeare Theatre brings back David Ives to instill some archaic French literature into our lives. From the adaptor of The Liar and Venus in Furs comes The Metromaniacs–this one̵…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
As if Washington's current climate isn't frigid enough for our liking, Bryony Lavery's controversial play Frozen has arrived to further chill the air. The Tony-nominated drama, which centers…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:32PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
The latest in our area's world premiere productions takes us back to a literary classic. The Turn of the Screw, now onstage at ArtSpace Falls Church, is the inaugural production in Creative …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
It is a risky thing to make this claim in the first month of the year. But if you see one show at Studio Theatre in 2015, let it be Choir Boy. Tarrell Alvin McCraney, the wunderkind playwrig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:25PM[SHARE]Monday, December 29, 2014
On Friday, December 26, a mystery donor presented Washington theatre with a gift. It wasn't the usual holiday card or end-of-year donation. Instead, an anonymous theatre patron developed the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AM[SHARE]Monday, December 15, 2014
Spoiler alert: The whale dies. Edward Grue who dressed as a deer dies. The squattish bald man in his business tie dies. In Famous Puppet Death Scenes, produced by the Old Trout Puppet Worksh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 11, 2014
The moment you lay eyes on the magnificent set, you know: This is no ordinary youth production. A far, and far more professional, cry from what most of us recall of elementary school recital…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Certainly there are elements of the much-beloved Mary Poppins tale that could, in the retelling, seem sinister. She flies in on the wind with an umbrella"not much of a departure from the bla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AM[SHARE]Monday, December 8, 2014
Nothing spreads holiday cheer quite like the unearthly wolf grunts and throaty insistent howls of the Klingon species. In advance of WSC Avant Bard's one-night-only staged reading of A Kling…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
When Round House Theatre's Ryan Rilette approached Joe Calarco about directing The Nutcracker, visions of sugar plum fairies and toys come to life initially gave Joe pause. "I thought it was…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AM[SHARE] 
