Monday, May 22, 2017
“If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that,” playwright Tom Stoppard once said. “But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMTuesday, May 2, 2017
“Sometimes, a greater truth is revealed when the facts are fuzzy,” says Rebecca Holiday (Natalie Cutcher) in the second act of Rorschach Theatre’s production of Randy Baker’s new pla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AMMonday, March 13, 2017
“Is there anything more outrageous than an honest critic?” asks Karl Marx (Mary Myers) at one point during Nu Sass Productions’ presentation of Howard Zinn’s 1999 one-person show, Ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PMFriday, February 24, 2017
Science is real—and really dramatic—at the Edlavitch DCJCC, the home to Theater J’s latest production, The How and the Why. Written by acclaimed writer and producer Sarah Treem, whose …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMMonday, February 20, 2017
History, they say, is written by the victors, which may be one reason why Euripides’s The Trojan Women is such a striking piece. By focusing on the women of Troy in the time between the fa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMMonday, January 16, 2017
If you’ve never seen—or even heard of—Shakespeare’s Cymbeline, you’re in good company. One of the Bard’s least-produced works, the synopsis of the play’s plot would take up at …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMFriday, July 15, 2016
Full disclosure: The synopsis for Cats Onstage!’s debut show, SpookyMsgPlsFWD!, mentioned unicorns, so I was already highly predisposed to liking it. Unfortunately, not even the presence o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:00PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
If you’re the kind of person who rolls your eyes when you hear about an author in his or her mid-twenties receiving a lofty sum to write a memoir, you may initially be suspicious of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Four dancers, a cellist, and a pianist walk into the Sprenger Theater at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. What’s the punch line? Probably not what you’d expect. Or at least not what I w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:13PM “Remember the nurses.” That’s a sentence from the last paragraph—more like a footnote, really—from a Baltimore Sun article written in 1917 about the first group of American …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07AMSaturday, July 9, 2016
Heat indexes and the sheer quantity of shows aside, the numbers associated with Capital Fringe are generally kept deliberately small: budgets, cast sizes, tech hours, etc. So, it’s a fitti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:00PMMonday, December 8, 2014
Within its purple and yellow beanbag-strewn office overlooking Meridian Hill Park, the small but energetic staff of Young Playwrights’ Theater (YPT) has been finalizing plans for its bigge…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:15PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Angst. Jealousy. Introspection. Betrayal. These are all emotions that could potentially arise when two cohabitating best friends interview for the same job and only one gets it. Unfortunatel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AMTuesday, July 15, 2014
As you enter Redrum at Fort Fringe to see 1UP Theatre’s Saving Private Poo—a violent smashing-together of the film Saving Private Ryan and A.A. Milne’s classic Winnie-the-Pooh characte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:47PMSunday, July 13, 2014
To be honest, I’m a little bit scared to review Fringe veteran John Feffer’s new play, Interrogation. For one, he makes it very clear that he has access to my name, email address, and em…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:23PMIt’s fitting that there’s a joke about Tumblr early on in Field Trip Theatre’s production of Giant Box of Porn, because the feeling I had when I first read about the show&#…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMSunday, July 21, 2013
Travel should take you places—so says the tagline of a major hotel chain (and the Brooklyn-based indie band The Kickdrums). In his one-man show, The Chronic Single’s Handbook, Boston-bas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:04AMMonday, July 15, 2013
It’s happened to us all: You enter a warm, dark room on a Sunday afternoon, take a seat, and before too long you’re being serenaded by a grown man lying in bed, singing songs about gay s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:17AMSunday, July 14, 2013
Any veteran Fringe fan knows that one-man shows can be, at best, hit or miss. Lee Kaplan’s nationally touring show, Bully, a boxing-themed look back at childhood traumas past, pulls off th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
Rosemary is a prickly herb that makes it presence known, announcing itself boldly wherever it shows up. Ginger, in a similar way, is another assertive flavor that’s impossible to ignore. A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:11PMFriday, July 12, 2013
Though its source material—Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous short story, and one of its core conventions, the idea that two people may become linked via organ donation or blood transfusion�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
One of the nautically themed songs playing before the opening of Rolling By is “Message in a Bottle” by The Police. Unfortunately, the metaphor of a bottle adrift at sea is an ap…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:11PMMonday, July 16, 2012
As I entered the Goethe Institut for the opening performance of Airswimming (Abridged), the sky over the District had become a solid mass of gray clouds. Because all I of knew of the play wa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:31AMSunday, July 15, 2012
As I walked into Mount Vernon United Methodist Church to see The Goddess Diaries, I had high hopes that I’d undergo a religious experience. Unfortunately, while the 75-minute series of mon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:27PMSaturday, July 14, 2012
The fact that the blog Regretsy has an entire section of its website entitled “That’s Not Speampunk” is a sign that while it may be having a “moment,” there’s also a wide swath o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:09PMWhile its title may suggest a rawness that’s of the anything-but-emotional variety, exploring intimacy – physical, artistic, and romantic – is the goal of Bob Bartlett’s latest tatto…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:09AM 
