Theater is at its best when it teaches us something. When it makes us think, and reconsider our stance on an issue, or when it carries us away into another land and time, where characters, f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMYou’ve got to hand it to Pointless Theatre- the above title alone is just about perfect for 2020, even if it started out as a simple twist on the company’s clever name. As we are all in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMOne would think that a show about joy would have little to do with theater- or much else, for that matter- these days. Yet Synetic Theater, that chameleon of invention, brings us little glim…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMThe hefty tome of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, a nondescript table, two chairs and a turquoise feather boa is apparently all one needs to stage all of the Bard’s output: if you skip …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMThere’s a saying among actors: “There’s no such thing as a perfect show.” Anyone lucky enough to see Theater J’s production of The Wanderers will have to politely disagree: top to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMTo children, the world is often a large and overbearing place. Think of how difficult it would be if each chair you sat in was three feet tall, the table even higher, and the doorknob imposs…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMFor those of you who have been living under a rock or putting up moose jerky with the Doomsday Preppers these last few years, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is that ages-old, ever-young cult …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMWhat do you do when nobody’s buying what you’re selling? Change what you’re selling. The long-running Broadway production of Kinky Boots closed last spring, but Toby’s brings back th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMSome music gets inside your head and stays there. Think “Sherry”, “Big Girls Don’t Cry”, “My Eyes Adored You”. It’s pretty much a guarantee you can at least hum at least one …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMThe Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is the quintessential coming-of-age story: Mowgli, abandoned as an infant in the jungles of India, is raised by a pack of wolves and other creatures, who t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PMChesapeake Shakespeare’s production of Dracula is just what’s needed for this season of dying leaves and chills down the spine. Playwright Steven Dietz has taken the original Bram Stoker…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMBest Medicine Rep stands out among our newer small theatre companies for location (a store space on the upper level of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg) and for mission: they will only presen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18PMThe decade known as The Sixties contained so may different mini-eras it’s a wonder that those of us who lived through it didn’t all become split personalities. At times näive, hedonisti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12PMPlastic, leather, and love all reign supreme with Up In Your Face’s production of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens. Not familiar with the show? In 1995, this wildly campy space musical/murd…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMWith its clever script by playwright Iris Dauteman, Hatpin Panic weaves a terrific Mobius strip of a largely unknown scrap of history from America’s turn of the century women’s suffrage …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMTo celebrate their 10th year anniversary in Annapolis, MD, Infinity Theatre Company, has restaged their first show and created a new take on The Fantasticks for 21st century audiences. While…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:03PMImagination Stage tells the tale of China’s legendary warrior, Mu Lan, (Hua Mulan,) with humor and energy and introduces audiences to a delightful version of the performance style known as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48PMAre you aware that most of the Greek and Roman gods can be found working in Brooklyn? It’s not much of a stretch: whether driving the Chariot of the Sun, ferrying the dead, or guarding the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PMIt’s rare that, after finishing a review, I’m ready to see the show again. But then, The Tarot Reading changes with every performance, so it will never be the same. Two years ago, my fir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:03PMA farce, a farce! My kingdom for a farce! Fortunately, you won’t have to pay such a high price for this one- though, it’s worth it. Ken Ludwig, acclaimed author of Lend Me A Tenor, revis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:36PMYou might call Scena’s Pinter Rep director Robert McNamara’s arranged marriage of sorts – four short plays by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, the British playwright of such full leng…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:14PMYiddish theatre in New York around the turn of the century was vibrant: in the small Bowery theaters, Jews of all nationalities and branches of Judaism came to watch shows full of emotion an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:47AMA nonlinear remembrance of family and self, Fun Home was lauded as a groundbreaking piece when it opened on Broadway in 2015, winning the Tony for Best Musical that year. Based on Alison Bec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMThere’s one spot in DC where the glories of U Street’s “Black Broadway” are alive and well as The In Series performs From U Street to the Cotton Club at Source Thea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMSince its inception in 1917, 99 plays have received the penultimate Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The category includes musicals and only a few comedies. But the judges were taken with Lanford W…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThis holiday season, leave snowy Dickensian London behind and, instead, swim in the warm, musical waters at Toby’s Dinner Theatre. You’ll still get in a holiday mood, particular…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMThe National Harbor is quickly becoming the holiday’s destination of choice for families these days. For several years now, their Ice! extravaganza, with ice carvings done by talented …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMCinderella swordfighting! What a wonderful expression of empowerment for little girls (and little boys). In this updated and very funny version of Cinderella, Imagination Stage takes us to a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMWe Happy Few specializes in bringing classical plays to life- and what better classic to choose this Halloween season than Mary Shelley’s Gothic horror story, Frankenstein? WHF’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMVenus in Fur is a complex play within an even more complex play. The story begins simply: director Thomas Novachek (Joe Mucciolo) has adapted nineteenth century writer Leopold von Sacher-Mas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PMTwo unconventional beauties take us on a wild ride through sex, politics, and the politics of sex. As the title implies, Chlamydia dell’Arte is a sort-of burlesque, with a sort-of ske…
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