Thursday, February 1, 2018
Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. Pic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45PMSunday, January 14, 2018
John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner’s “Haircut” and “Uncle Fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PMTuesday, January 9, 2018
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical Once, first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable te…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30PMSunday, January 7, 2018
“If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?” Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre piec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:06PMThursday, December 28, 2017
There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMSunday, December 17, 2017
Four years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare’s Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36PMFriday, December 15, 2017
Fiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who’ve never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMFriday, December 8, 2017
Reverting to his early-career wackiness, Steve Martin enlists four phenomenal performers, including Amy Schumer making her Broadway debut, for a joke-filled, overlong, trickster comedy ske…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMWednesday, December 6, 2017
Uma Thurman and Josh Lucas neither kill a dog nor bed an FBI agent in The Parisian Woman, a tame, tidy, talky and only superficially timely play about a D.C. power couple engaged in politica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PMWednesday, November 22, 2017
The holiday show tradition in New York ranges way beyond Radio City Music Hall and family entertainment, to include shows that are offbeat and others that are decidedly not for children. Let…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMWednesday, November 15, 2017
The ushers are wearing “Ghetto Scholar” sweatshirts in Studio 54, where for his sixth solo show John Leguizamo stands in front of a blackboard and lectures on the history, politics, cu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PMThursday, November 9, 2017
What happens when a lovely, low-key musical based on an offbeat Israeli film moves from Off-Broadway to a Broadway theater five times its size? You get the same widely acclaimed show – wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMMonday, October 30, 2017
Before Hamilton, A Chorus Line, Hair, before Joseph Papp built the Public Theater into an institution, he was faced with a fight for survival of his newfound free Shakespeare in Central Park…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:05PMMonday, October 23, 2017
Two killers in adjoining prison cages face off about God in this killer revival of one of the earliest plays by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the streetwise New York playwright of such acclaimed rec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMThursday, October 19, 2017
“It’s crazy”, says Michael Urie as Arnold, that “after all these years I’m still trying to justify my life.” Arnold means his life as a gay man, and though he is talking …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:04PMMonday, October 16, 2017
The Siege, a play dramatizing the 2002 siege by armed Palestinians of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, is in several ways the exact opposite of Oslo, the last drama about the Palesti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:33AMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Max Posner’s play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12PMMonday, September 25, 2017
Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess’ 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42PMFriday, September 22, 2017
KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12PMSaturday, August 26, 2017
In his new memoir Sense of Occasion, Hal Prince explains that Prince of Broadway, the new Broadway revue celebrating and sampling Prince’s extraordinary 70-year career in the theater, “w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48PMThursday, August 10, 2017
“The only hope until we kick him out of office is to discombobulate him,” Michael Moore says near the beginning of his playful, pointed and partisan one-man show, as he stands in front o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Here are my preferences – not predictions – for the 2017 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I’ve been maintaining for a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We’ll lea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PMCurrent and past winners of the Theatre World Awards, given to exceptional performers making their Broadway or New York stage debuts, offer their take on the season just past, sometimes in a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMSaturday, May 20, 2017
Zainab Jah, who made an impressive Broadway debut as a sex slave turned soldier in Eclipsed, is back on a New York stage with another vivid portrayal of an exploited but strong African woman…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMSaturday, May 13, 2017
“Another happy day,” Dianne Wiest exclaims as Winnie in Samuel Beckett’s bleak, comic and compassionate play, written decades before Groundhog Day, but similarly focused on somebody wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMThursday, April 27, 2017
Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen’s play A Doll’s House who slams the door on her husband and three chi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31PMTuesday, April 25, 2017
Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn’t want to turn the experience…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31PMMonday, April 24, 2017
Pity Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, charged with fashioning the book of a Broadway musical out of a 1997 cartoon, which turned the Russian Revolution into a fairytale, grinding a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02PMWednesday, April 5, 2017
After a decade’s absence from Broadway, Kevin Kline returns as the aging matinee idol in Present Laughter. Kline, the swashbuckler of Pirates of Penzance and the hunk of On The Twentieth…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48PMSunday, April 2, 2017
Before the play-within-the-play begins, its director apologizes for “the box office mix-up,” expressing hope that “the 617 of you affected will enjoy our little murder mystery just as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48PMThursday, March 23, 2017
The first Broadway revival of Miss Saigon is being marketed as the return of a classic. But, if the show has become an undeniable fan favorite, the production’s impressive visual spectacle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54PM 
