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…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AMTuesday, November 18, 2014
In 1989, a certain Disney film swore to every attentive child that “life is the bubbles under the sea.” Now, 25 years later, Olney Theatre Center’s The Little Mermaid confirms that it�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
For college professors Bernard and Ellen, nothing brings sexy back quite like the poems of William Blake. Unfortunately for them, they’ve been caught demonstrating the romantic nature of t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
Like one of the phantoms in Folger Theatre’s production, Julius Caesar revisits us to impart its message time and time again. And while Shakespeare’s tragedy is a familiar experience for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AMThursday, October 23, 2014
Travel is a magnifying lens. Our personalities expand, our behaviors exaggerate. We do things we wouldn’t consider at home. We confide in strangers, we make risky and terrible decisions in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:47AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
To say that Unexpected Stage’s production of Danny Boy comes up short would be a cruel pun, if an apt one. Not to be confused with Dani Girl which Unexpected Stage produced this past sum…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:03AMTuesday, October 7, 2014
Not to eat flesh. Not to chase other men. Not to claw the barks of trees. That is the law. The dictums that guide Dr. Moreau’s island will stay in your head long after you see Synetic’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:44AMMonday, September 22, 2014
We all do things that bend the rules. Sometimes we break them, sometimes we ceremoniously throw them out the window. In Arena Stage’s season opener, the world premiere of Morris Panych’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMThursday, September 11, 2014
For those among us who remember reading Choose Your Own Adventure books as children, Venus Theatre’s latest production will be a welcome treat. We Are Samurai, a promenade-style play by Da…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:15AMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Nearly every generation and geographical region interprets the plight of the outsider in its own way. The end result is a literary canon of outliers and misfits, counting in their ranks Hold…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AMThe theatre knows its wars. From King Lear to Black Watch, the tradition of soldier on a stage has a long, rich, and male-dominated history. Less often told—or staged—are the tales of wo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMWednesday, September 3, 2014
Science is a creative enterprise. Let’s start there. If you survey the unassuming objects of your daily life—hair dryer, stapler, scissors, fridge—you can see the moments in time that …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMMonday, August 25, 2014
“Exit, pursued by a bear.” If there’s anything about The Winter’s Tale that audiences might know in advance, this–arguably the best stage direction ever penned–will be it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AMMonday, August 4, 2014
When asked about his play The Seagull, Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov described it as “a great deal of conversation about literature, little action, tons of love.” For Aaron Posner’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMSaturday, July 19, 2014
If SNL and Girls had a one-night-stand after meeting at the hipster bar, their bastard kid would be Relationsh!t. (If you know exactly what this means, go see the show. Now. You don’t need…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
A glimpse at the Peter’s Alley Theatre website suggests that small, emotionally-loaded relationship plays are the company’s specialty: To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, Proof… incidenta…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AMSunday, July 13, 2014
I’ll refrain from using phrases like “monkey business” and “going bananas” in the opening of this review, but that’s not for any disdain for bad puns. It’s simply because the s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:20PMFrance has given the world many important contributions to arts and culture. Literature. Fashion. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Superior cheeses and wines. Voltaire. Cezanne. Pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:10AMSaturday, July 12, 2014
Ballet has traded its tutus for hashtags, projections, and rock music in #albatross. Through three short works, MOVEIUS Contemporary Ballet presents us with a program which redefines ballet …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:22PM 
