Monday, April 10, 2017
You think you’ve got problems? Try being a too-smart-for-his-own-good Jewish kid in Brooklyn in 1937. Neil Simon’s largely autobiographical comedy follows his alter ego Eugene (C…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Lovers of the new, the weird and the wonderful, take note: everything you’re looking for is in Baltimore, at Submersive Productions’ fantastical new piece, H.T. Darling’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMSunday, April 2, 2017
At its heart, family is less about bloodlines than choice: who do you love, and most importantly, who loves you back? That’s the crux of Iron Crow Theatre’s production of A. Re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
The best children’s shows for young audiences are often ones that are the most like silent movies: minimal talk, maximum action, and if you happen to miss any dialogue because of the r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32PMTuesday, February 14, 2017
The part of King Richard in Richard III is a plum for any actor lucky enough to be cast in the role. Part stand-up comic, part perennial outsider, and part moustache-twirling villain, Richa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMTuesday, January 31, 2017
The legendary team of Oscar Hammerstein and Jerome Kern created some of the best music ever written for the American stage in Show Boat. And each song gets a stellar rendition by Toby’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMSaturday, December 10, 2016
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe stars two excessively talented actors, a marvelous script, inventive technical design and a clever director, all waiting for you at Adventure Theatre M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMMonday, December 5, 2016
This year, if you see just one Dickens’ Yuletide story, let it be Chesapeake Shakespeare’s fine set-in-Baltimore A Christmas Carol. It has it all and then some: a nicely scary …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMMonday, November 21, 2016
You know how sometimes you laugh til you hurt? Or when you’re hurt so much the only real response left is laughter. Those are the real underpinnings of good comedy: tell the truth, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMThursday, November 10, 2016
Sometimes nostalgia can be disappointing, but even so, it’s awfully nice to go home again. So it is with Olney Theatre Center’s Mary Poppins. The movie you remember has been re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMMonday, November 7, 2016
Still hanging on to those last few pieces of Halloween candy? Hesitant to fold your skeleton t-shirt into the Out Of Season box of clothes? Luckily for those who revel in the season of shive…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMWednesday, October 12, 2016
Zombie Prom, now playing at Unexpected Stage Company, has great provenance, with a book and lyrics by John Dempsey and music by Dana P. Rowe. Both went on to adapt The Fix and The Witches o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:07PMFriday, September 30, 2016
Everyone knows that an hour speeds by quickly when you’re having fun. In children’s theater, though, that isn’t always the case: what works for the teeny weenies often bore…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMTuesday, September 27, 2016
Othello is one of the crown jewels of Shakespearean plays. The tragedy of Othello, a black general in the ranks of the Venetian army, is one of an eminent outsider who falls in love and marr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:10PMThursday, September 22, 2016
There’s some serious jiving going on at Toby’s Dinner Theater. No need to dress up too much- just grab your rosary and hymnal, and head out the door to Sister Act. It’sR…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMThursday, July 14, 2016
Not everything made big is made better. And not everything on a large Broadway stage is improved by a cavernous space. Sometimes the best gifts are in tiny boxes. So it is with Studio Theat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:19PMMonday, July 11, 2016
Brownie and Lolli Go To Hollywood, a tale of two girls off to fame and fortune via burlesque, sounds like an amusing evening’s romp on paper, but up close, that paper’s pretty th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Set on a stoop in a Staten Island neighborhood, The Good Death covers a lot of ground: Alzheimer’s, caregiving, mental illness, the American Jewish experience, euthanasia, marriage e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:10AMFriday, July 8, 2016
We’ve all been there. That boozy party where someone tells a great story. The crowd is enraptured, laughs at all the right spots, and you’re with them, too- til you realize you j…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AMThursday, June 30, 2016
On December 4, 1956, two young musicians dropped in on a recording session at Sun Record Studio in Memphis, for what turned into an iconic night of jamming and jawing that changed the co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:49PMWednesday, June 22, 2016
Great Googly Moogly! Did you know there are monkeys loose in Glen Echo Park? Not only monkeys, but a giant snake, some rhinos, and some huge buzzy insecty things. It’s a veritable jung…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMSaturday, May 28, 2016
Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Taming of the Shrew is an extraordinary production, one of the most original and well thought out presentations of Shakespeare I’ve seen in years. D…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMThursday, May 19, 2016
Next Stop Theatre Company’s City of Angels is grand – a swan song to film noir and its backstage action, a gem of a show that won multiple Tony Awards in 1989 including Best Mu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMMonday, April 25, 2016
If everything means nothing, and art can be a smear on the wall – DADA speaking -what, then, defines and separates art from indecipherable noise? It’s a question Pointless Thea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:43PMFriday, March 18, 2016
There’s a saying: All roads eventually lead home. Though as Moses found out, that journey can sometimes take a few decades longer than expected. It all started innocently enough. Two …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AMTuesday, March 8, 2016
A large cast of eccentric characters and a convoluted plot involving mistaken identities, a traveling troupe of itinerant actors, sailors, a deserted wife, a lascivious pastor and a virtuous…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:19PMMonday, February 22, 2016
Alas, poor Shakespeare. As it turns out, you don’t really need language to tell the story of Romeo and Juliet. In Synetic’s electric retelling of the star-crossed lovers’ t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMMonday, February 8, 2016
Tennessee Williams, midway through his career, wrote the quintessential Southern family drama: filled with scheming relatives, family wealth, and an unspoken secret, it won the Pulitzer Priz…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
A friend of mine judges Asian restaurants solely on their sweet and sour soup: mess that up and not much else that follows will matter. But deliver a soup that evenly balances the swe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:21PMThursday, December 10, 2015
Imagination Stage’s A Year with Frog and Toad is exactly what the title implies: two friends have adventures during the four seasons of spring, summer, fall and winter- and a long slee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:51PMMonday, December 7, 2015
For those of you already stuffed to the gills with sugary-sweet Christmas extravaganzas, might I offer a little holiday antidote to the saccharine overload? David Sedaris’ memories of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:16AM 
