Tuesday, September 19, 2017
The chemistry between the characters of long-time husband and wife Willy and Linda Loman in Ford’s Theatre’s Death of a Salesman may seem stronger than most other productions of Arth…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PMThursday, September 14, 2017
Dreamgirls is Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen’s loose interpretation of the rise of Diana Ross and the Supremes, the challenges they had and the breakthrough of R&B groups to the mainst…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
“I was at a dinner party and someone brought up a fight they were having with their neighbors and someone else brought up a fight their parents were having with their neighbors, and we all…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMFriday, September 8, 2017
The summer is winding down and families are seeing their schedules filling up with soccer games, school events and other commitments, but theatreWashington has planned a day that allows peop…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:33PMFriday, August 11, 2017
When Will Gartshore had the opportunity to be in Signature Theatre’s upcoming production of A Little Night Music, there wasn’t much need to think about it. “You just say ‘yes’ to a…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
The National Tour of the Lincoln Center Theater Production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The King and I is currently wowing audiences at the Kennedy Center, and many of its cast will be …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
As the first African-American to sit on the Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall is one of the most important judges in U.S. history. He remained on the Court from 1967 until 1991. His leadershi…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 04:12PMTuesday, August 1, 2017
It was in the spring of 2007 when the Signature Theatre decided to hold its first-ever Open House event, a chance to introduce itself to those in the community who weren’t familiar with th…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
“Any story about a world leader who realizes the only way to protect the country is not by extending walls but extending a hand of friendship to a foreigner—I find that very profound,”…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMFriday, June 30, 2017
For their inaugural Logan Festival of Solo Performance, 1st Stage will welcome acclaimed artists from San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, and New York for two-weeks of performances and communi…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMFriday, June 23, 2017
Before opening to wide acclaim on Broadway in 1982, and before Donny Osmond began a decade-long run as the title character in film and on stage, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMThursday, June 15, 2017
On January 25, 1996, a new musical by an unknown writer who had tragically died the night before, opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop, and the landscape of theater changed f…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMMonday, May 8, 2017
Audiences for Václav Havel’s Protest will be seeing it underground less than a mile from the White House in a performance space virtually unknown to theatregoers until this week. They wil…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:36PMWednesday, May 3, 2017
Creative Cauldron is presenting the world premiere of Kaleidoscope, a new musical by Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith, that examines Alzheimer’s disease through the eyes of a …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThursday, April 27, 2017
Rorschach Theatre’s co-artistic director Randy Baker has penned some intriguing plays over the years—memorable shows such as Dream Sailors and After the Flood. His latest, Forgotten Kin…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington by James Ijames, will have its DC premiere as the first-ever production for the Ally Theatre Company. “I had the privilege…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMTuesday, March 28, 2017
The world premiere of Midwestern Gothic is being staged at Signature Theatre’s intimate ARK Theatre marries music, lyrics and orchestrations by Josh Schmidt and book and lyrics by Royce Va…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMMonday, March 27, 2017
When Audrey Bertaux takes the stage as Lisa Kron at the beginning of Well, being staged at 1st Stage, her character will explain to the audience that the play is not “about my mother and …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMWednesday, March 22, 2017
When Audrey Bertaux takes the stage as Lisa Kron at the beginning of Well, being staged at 1st Stage, her character will explain to the audience that the play is not “about my moth…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Over the course of the next two months, the Kennedy Center will showcase the work of five of the theater’s preeminent directors from across the globe: Robert Lepage, Carlos Diaz, Sulayman …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 05:12PMThursday, March 9, 2017
With St. Patrick’s Day only a week away, and “Danny Boy” heard in many a pub, Solas Nua, the DC based company dedicated to Irish arts, is presenting the American premiere of…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:48PMFor Road Trip, the Congressional Chorus’ 11th annual cabaret, 80 singers, a 20-member specialty dance troupe, and a rockin’ seven-piece band will travel the nation and feature songs that…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMFriday, February 24, 2017
For eight years, the Intersections Festival has been bringing some of DC’s best performance artists to the H Street venue, Atlas Performing Arts Center, and this year’s nine jam-pack…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMThursday, February 23, 2017
“…puppetry, projections, dance and live music, will capture the imagination of the audience.” That was Michael Ross, Managing Director of Baltimore Center Stage, talking with DCTS …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMSince its founding in 1963, Center Stage has grown into an important cultural resource, touching the lives of thousands of people in the Baltimore area each year. The popular theater has r…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMFriday, February 10, 2017
When director Kathryn Chase Bryer saw Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway five years ago, she was blown away by how it created stage images in such a minimalistic way. Now her version, i…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMTuesday, January 24, 2017
Last year, Keegan Theatre’s new Theatre for Young Audiences program called PAY-RAH-KA staged a reading of How to Catch a Leprechaun. The program’s first full-scale prod…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMWednesday, January 18, 2017
Chris Stezin cut his teeth professionally as an actor doing Shakespeare for about six years all over the country, which instilled in him a deep reverence for the work. “I started performin…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMSunday, January 15, 2017
When Christopher Paul Curtis wrote the children’s book, Bud, Not Buddy, in 1999 it quickly became a darling among book critics and beloved by families everywhere. The cherished book won tw…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThursday, January 12, 2017
Although Roe v. Wade is considered one of the Supreme Court’s most landmark cases, and there’s probably been as much written and debated about the case as any other in history, aside fro…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMThursday, December 8, 2016
Since its beginning in 2001, Synetic Theater has included, among its unforgettable visceral offerings, shows targeted for younger audiences including the much ballyhooed Alice in Wonderlan…
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