Sunday, 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 10:12AMWednesday, May 16, 2018
An American banker abducted by jihadists in Pakistan must earn his $10 million ransom by making a killing on the market. And as he introduces concepts of high finance to his kidnappers ̵…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PMMonday, April 23, 2018
Powerhouse director Allison Stockman and her powerhouse resident designer A.J. Guban have created yet another minor miracle of transformation at the Source. As the 14th/U neighborhood around…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
When I last encountered Landless — full disclosure, I performed with the group in a 2006 production — they seemed to delight in being charmingly slapdash and a bit ramshackle in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AMThursday, April 5, 2018
Take a tip from me. If your jones for hard-nosed detectives, shady nighttime dealings on foggy piers, dive bars serving bathtub gin, torch songs, sassy dames and the like can’t be satiated…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:29PMWednesday, March 21, 2018
The earliest recorded reference to The Winter’s Tale is a 1611 performance at the Globe. Letting my romanticism momentarily override my scholasticism, I find so many elements of the play …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:34PMTuesday, February 20, 2018
It may seem an odd choice at first for Quotidian to revive a century-old comedy of manners in an era of #metoo. Happily, though he’s no George Bernard Shaw (that’s OK, I’m no Ben Brant…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:15AMThursday, December 14, 2017
I feel a bit like Tevye looking to the heavens for assistance. I just saw a very earnest but uneven production of Fiddler on the Roof over in Annapolis, and I could use a little guidance fro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMTuesday, December 5, 2017
Imagine a world without Macbeth, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew or Julius Caesar. Before the publishing of Shakespeare’s anthologized plays in Folio format in 1623, these …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:36PMTuesday, November 21, 2017
I emerged Saturday night from the Dance Loft on 14th certain of several things. Firstly, that one of the most dangerous things in the world is a young, isolated, ideology-obsessed male. Seco…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PMFriday, November 3, 2017
My sit-down with DC actor Sara Barker was delayed slightly as I had to field a call from my financial planner about some issue with retirement accounts. As I finally sat down to our late aft…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMThursday, October 19, 2017
Prior to seeing Folger’s production of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, I spoke with director Robert Richmond and set designer Tony Cisek about the dramatic transformation of the thea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:42PMTuesday, October 17, 2017
Folger Theatre is transformed dramatically for their production of Antony and Cleopatra, and that dramatic transformation also applies to the play itself. Thus is one of Shakespeare’s dens…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMTuesday, October 10, 2017
It took Olney Theatre, surprisingly, 80 seasons to get around to Thornton Wilder’s iconic Our Town, and with acclaimed director Aaron Posner at the helm, they tackle the challenge of what …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMonday, December 10, 2012
[Ed Note: This post originally ran on Tales of a Squishy Morph] We have two Equity theatre companies in the Boston area in devoted primarily to Shakespeare. Commonwealth Shakespea…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 10:00AM 
