Tuesday, April 4, 2023
The heightened emotions and tragic catharses of Arthur Miller’s script come quite credibly to life.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 10:43AMMonday, October 17, 2022
The well-structured murder mystery delivers an intriguing night out.
SOURCE: dctheaterarts.org at 04:03PMFriday, May 13, 2022
The intriguing tale ably told by Washington Stage Guild warns how history repeats.
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 11:57AMMonday, May 10, 2021
During this year-plus away from live theater, many artists and creators took the opportunity to look deep into their processes and methodologies. The goal was not to get “back to normal,�…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 09:28PMWednesday, February 10, 2021
Jon, a filmmaker just starting to make a name for himself, comes home for the premiere of his latest film at the Lansing Film Festival. His old high school friend Vince, now a small-time dru…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 03:44PMTuesday, April 7, 2020
“The transformative power of live theatre” has arguably become a cliché, co-opted by the marketing and development departments of large regional theatres to convince the locals of their…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMWednesday, March 18, 2020
Brave Spirits opened Henry the Fifth this past weekend, and then closed it due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the hope to return in a few weeks. A shame, for a multitude of reasons not limite…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMThursday, March 12, 2020
I’ve spent nearly three decades working in nominally professional theatre. That is to say non-Equity but (usually) paid, albeit below a living wage, but with enough EMC points to join. Two…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:54PMWednesday, February 19, 2020
Brave Spirits’ two-year repertory of Shakespeare’s history cycle continues with an impressively lively production of one of the Bard’s more challenging plays, Henry the Fourth, Part 2.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:18PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
(First off: my sincere apologies to the company for my constant coughing through the performance.) Henry Bolingbroke, having snatched the English crown with boist’rous hands, must now stru…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMTuesday, January 7, 2020
Brave Spirits – oh brave indeed! – have kicked off their ambitious plan to perform the entirety of Shakespeare’s double-tetralogy of history plays covering one of the most tumultuous p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
A grown daughter’s soon-to-be-published memoirs of a childhood family trauma rip open long-festering emotional scars over Christmas Eve at the Palm Beach manse of an aging Hollywood B-list…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:42PMFriday, November 8, 2019
To mark and honor the thirtieth anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, the Alliance for New Music-Theatre is presenting two one-act plays to honor the revolution’s leader, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMSaturday, September 21, 2019
Sometimes theatre amuses, sometimes it entertains, sometimes it moves. Oftentimes we get caught up in the protagonist’s journey, sometimes we are dazzled by technical brilliance. Then ther…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12AMTuesday, August 20, 2019
The second leg of 4615 Theatre Company’s “Summer of Scandal” repertory, Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, opened this past weekend at the Dance Loft on 14th. My review of the other play, Enr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PMThursday, August 15, 2019
Eighteen years ago, a Texas energy company’s deceptive accounting practices finally caught up with them, their inflated stock value plummeted, billions of dollars evaporated, employees’ …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMTuesday, June 25, 2019
I’ve been in Our Town five different times in my acting career, from college to community to summer stock to regional over a twenty year span. I have played or understudied nearly every ad…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Shakespeare’s most iconic schemer is the centerpiece of Synetic’s fourteenth (mostly) wordless re-interpretation of the Bard’s works. The world of 15th century England is updated to a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMFriday, May 17, 2019
One of the most fascinating political power struggles in history is being brought to life at Olney Theatre Center with a crackling and electric modernization of Schiller’s masterpiece by t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMSunday, May 12, 2019
The Faction of Fools are at it again. After a decade adapting titles that one wouldn’t typically expect of a Commedia troupe (Henry V, Our Town and The Cherry Orchard to name a few), Produ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMSaturday, April 13, 2019
I am pleased to report a rising company of young-ish actors doing first-rate work: a conceptually cohesive, intimate, spunky, charming staging of a pastoral Shakespeare comedy all too easy t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:33PMThursday, March 21, 2019
Baltimore’s Chesapeake Shakespeare Company is presenting Henry IV, parts One and Two in repertory. Part One (not reviewed by DCTC, we regret) opened February 15th, Part Two opened March 15…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
If every copy of August Strindberg’s Miss Julie spontaneously combusted, and from each pile of ashes emerged phoenix-like a copy of Hilary Bettis’s Queen of Basel in its place, I could b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Once upon a time, there was a woman named Jude who kicked a pram (a baby carriage). An empty one, don’t worry, but nonetheless Jude has to complete an anger management program to avoid cha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMWednesday, September 12, 2018
I’ve seen Macbeth performed in the round, outdoors, in the nude, multiple film and TV versions, various homages and parodies across multiple media, I saw a spirited production last month b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMMonday, July 30, 2018
If I walked into the Highwood to see the fledgling 4615 Theatre’s stab at the Scottish Play with lowered expectations, I hope my readers and colleagues can forgive me. There were numerous …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:32PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
If any play is a complete 180º polar opposite of the safe suburban outdoor Shakespeare I reviewed most recently, it is certainly B. Stanley and company’s inscrutable, frustrating, and nea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:54PMFriday, July 6, 2018
Ah, the quintessential play set in the magical woods… and performed there as well. Park in the town lot, walk up the hill (or if you or your theatre date wore heels, take the complementary…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMTuesday, June 19, 2018
Mona Mansour’s The Vagrant Trilogy, three one-acts that close Mosaic’s third season, is an engaging, troubling and eye-opening tale of displacement and dispossession on a scale that is b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMFriday, June 8, 2018
The Boston theatre community was rocked to its core this spring following a Facebook posting by a 26-year old actor. In this post, the young man recounts in vivid and unsettling detail how, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:54PMSunday, May 27, 2018
One block west of the main drag through Eastern Market, in the cozy Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, the aptly named troupe We Happy Few has an amusing, engaging winner of a show with their take …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AM 
