Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Ephraim Sykes can’t seem to leave the ’60s. He played Otis Williams in the Broadway show Motown the Musical, was a critical darling as Seaweed in NBC’s Hairspray Live, and now can be s…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMFriday, June 22, 2018
When two-time Helen Hayes winner Rick Hammerly woke up recently, a “morning” after taking the stage as fiercely funny drag queen Miss Tracy Mills in Round House Theatre’s The Legend…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMThursday, June 21, 2018
Director Nick Olcott was intrigued when he learned that playwright Patrick Flynn had a different take on the Peter Pan stories, a new play written from Tinker Bell’s point of view. Michae…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMSaturday, June 16, 2018
The Tony-winning director explains the special place D.C.’s Kennedy Center holds in his heart.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, June 8, 2018
Thanks to a 14-year run on Broadway and an even longer 19-year run in London’s West End—which continues to this day—Mamma Mia! is one of the most beloved jukebox musicals ever. It’s …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence became one of the first black artists to have his work shown in a New York City art gallery, with his powerful Migration Series on display, a sequence of 60 paintings…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMThursday, May 31, 2018
As William Shakespeare’s only comedy set in the new world, The Tempest deals with a major act of betrayal, ill treatment, the development of magic arts and a revenge plot that other playwr…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMThursday, May 24, 2018
D.C. Playwright Bob Bartlett has always been curious about the ways humans respond to injured or distressed animals, and that theme seems to find its way into his writing again and again. In…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMMonday, May 14, 2018
The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers who were accused of raping two white American women on a train near Alabama in 1931. The boys were falsely accused of the crim…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PMTuesday, May 8, 2018
Cuba is flush with artistic richness but because of travel limitations over the years, few Americans have been able to experience the abundance of great painters and performing artists that …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThursday, April 26, 2018
Writer Octavia Butler is that rare African American woman who found success in the normally male-dominated science fiction literature genre; her work is beloved by fans of all ages and races…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMWednesday, April 25, 2018
“This season is our 25th anniversary and when I was planning it, I was really committed to representing what I thought was true to the history of the type of work that Rep Stage has produc…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMTuesday, April 17, 2018
In 1991, singer/songwriter Matthew Sweet became something of a radio staple after the release of his third album, “Girlfriend,” which was hailed by critics and fans alike, and establishe…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMThursday, April 12, 2018
Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia is opening tonight and here through June 17, performing under its familiar big top in Tysons II, McLean, VA. And just like every Cirque show, this one promises…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 05:36PMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Brittany Alyse Willis used to commute to work by riding the Red Line from Maryland into Metro Center to work at one of the shops at the Natural History Museum, and although she didn’t know…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 05:13PMThursday, March 22, 2018
When Studio Theatre decided to stage Irish master Brian Friel’s Translations this season, the timing seemed like a perfect fit for Studio’s Belfast-born associate artistic director Matt …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Christopher Michael Richardson is “easing on down the road,” nightly as the Lion in Ford Theatre’s imaginative production of the Tony-winning, The Wiz, which runs through May 12. “Th…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 01:47PMFriday, March 9, 2018
After Avant Bard’s successful Helen Hayes Award-nominated production of The Gospel at Colonus last season (the original cast was nominated for “Outstanding Ensemble in a Musical …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMFriday, February 23, 2018
Although Gordon Kiyoshi Hirabayashi might not be a name people recognize, many know his story and the historic Supreme Court case which bears his name— Hirabayashi v. United States. The so…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMMonday, February 19, 2018
Dr. Ruth Westheimer is a beloved ’80s icon. The tiny, yet big-opinioned sex therapist was a fixture on late night talk shows and the radio throughout the decade, and even fronted several o…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 03:49PMFriday, February 16, 2018
It was more than a dozen years ago that actor Heather Raffo, whose family is from Iraq, recognized a void of female Iraqi protagonists in American theater. That propelled her to write and…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:00AMThursday, February 15, 2018
Most theater performers don’t get to spend Valentine’s Day with their significant other, but that’s not the case for Rob McClure and Maggie Lakis, who spent the night kissing, embracin…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMWednesday, February 7, 2018
You can’t judge a show by its title, and never was that more the case than with Something Rotten!, the musical farce now appearing at the National Theatre, which provides a rip-roaring, la…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 06:25PMFriday, January 26, 2018
In 2007, Richard Henrich adapted the Ursula K. Le Guin book, The Lathe of Heaven, for a production at Spooky Action Theater, which he directed. But the show didn’t completely fulfill his v…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 09:49AMThursday, January 18, 2018
Put a group of high school junior girls together and the conversations could range from anything from boys to movies to selfies, but when those girls are part of a win-now, demanding soccer …
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMTuesday, January 16, 2018
From Ramin Karimloo and Ruthie Ann Miles at the Kennedy Center to new works by Tony winner Robert Schenkkan and Heather Raffo, here’s what to see in the Capitol city.
Linked From Playbill at 12:00AMFriday, January 12, 2018
“We have been doing a classical musical in the January/February slot, but it gets dark at 5, it’s winter and cold, and that audience sometimes doesn’t like going out,” director M…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMThursday, January 11, 2018
In the fall of 2015, the inaugural Women’s Voices Theater Festival, showcased 62 female-penned world premiere plays. The festival was a rousing success, garnering interest in the playwri…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMMonday, January 8, 2018
Michael Kahn, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s artistic director, has lured Michael Urie to play the titular Prince for its upcoming production of Hamlet, opening next week and has pepper…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMTuesday, December 19, 2017
It was back in 2008 that CulturalDC created the three-week Source Festival, a vehicle for launching new plays and fostering the careers of emerging artists. After 10 successful events, the o…
Linked From DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMTuesday, December 12, 2017
The team of playwright Rachel Bonds and director Mike Donahue (The Wolfe Twins) has returned to Studio Theatre to present Curve of Departure, fresh from its world premiere at South Coast Rep…
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