Monday, November 16, 2020
The tangy DC streets or a soulful bowl of NOLA. From Gumbo to Mumbo celebrates each from its first notes—for what writers and performers Drew Anderson and Dwayne Lawson-Brown do is somethi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Homebound’s episode nine “Refuge” begins with poetry. And dance—the hazy figure of a woman in her living room moving to the sound of her own voice as the camera cuts to Maboud pullin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:24PMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Craig (Craig Wallace) has found his feet in this week’s episode, “Community,” by Agyeiwaa Asante. He’s been able to run 2.23 miles to honor Ahmaud Arbery, and now he can’t stop run…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMWednesday, June 17, 2020
If any of Homebound’s episodes have been pure joy, it is episode 7, “The Date,” written by Dani Stoller, who finally finds Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh) a match in the charming pixie-i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Sometimes it snows in April Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad Sometimes I wish life was never ending And all good things, they say, never last Prince wrote that in 1985 on the song “Someti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
Homebound’s episode 5 finds us once again with Craig (Craig Wallace), who has become somewhat of an avuncular safe haven for the various souls of Homebound. It’s easy to understand why:…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMWednesday, May 20, 2020
Homebound’s episode 4 shifts back to Maboud (Maboud Ebrahimzadeh), who’s hanging in his sweat pants, rocking a Smashing Pumpkins T-shirt (long live Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMWednesday, May 13, 2020
Here is the episode that elevates Homebound, taking us out of this moment for 11 minutes virtually to show us how this moment fits into life’s larger narratives. It also takes us beyo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PMTuesday, May 5, 2020
If Alexandra Petri’s “Connect!” – which opened Round House Theatre’s weekly web series Homebound – was a prologue, then Karen Zacarías’ “Human Resource” offers some risi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PMWednesday, April 29, 2020
The first episode of Round House Theatre’s new weekly webseries Homebound is a quick, slick, fluid slice of life in the pandemic. The opening sequence—a close-up of hand washing as if it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMFriday, April 10, 2020
After years of writing reviews for DCTS, I’m writing my first preview! The world is changing, and I’m rolling with the punches. And, it’s not for a musical or play, but for Story Dist…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMThursday, March 5, 2020
For a brilliantly good time, call Flying V, who notched up the fun last Friday with The Adult Fan Fiction World Championships. So why are you reading about it here? Because this is a theatre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMMonday, February 10, 2020
Save the Earth. Kick a little ass. Ripe out a spleen (or a spine). And do it all with a power-pop ballad in your heart. That is The Toxic Avenger: The Musical, and, in Rorschach’s hands, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
To leap, bound, and twirl through Narnia is to enjoy the storied fantasy world anew, watching the Pevensie children learn the value of sacrifice, friendship, family, love, and, of course, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMonday, November 11, 2019
Abstinence and sex. Sex and abstinence. They’ve long vexed the masses, from noble to peasant as far back as the 1700s, when British writer Elizabeth Inchbald translated a German play rough…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMWednesday, October 9, 2019
All the charm in Creative Cauldron’s Disenchanted! is homespun, from madcap performances to powerful voices and kitschy props. But the script lobs too much hate at the House of Mouse (wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
“Jubilant!” Strange word to describe a play about skin tones, a mean girl with a foul mouth, and the lasting affects of colonialism. Yet, no other word works when it comes to School Girl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
Creative Cauldron doesn’t shy away from the big and bold, and producing the Broadway version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast embodies that to the hilt. Amidst its small modest space, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMWednesday, May 29, 2019
Singin’ in The Rain seems like the type of beloved movie that shouldn’t be made into a stage version, with its perfect 1952 film, directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and named by th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Economy or first class? Glasses or inhaler? Go right or go left? Rather, stay or go at all? I say go—go fast to Escape from Peligro Island: YOU Create Your Own Adventure, a delightfully f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMThursday, April 25, 2019
The National’s stage has an air heavy with anticipation. Trash hangs across a large set that is part tin shack, part jungle gym. It’s as if Marie Kondo has Kondo-ed a junkyard. Everythin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
Pooh Bear is a fuzzy, golden puff full of positive wonderment whose honey addiction still roils little bellies with laughter at Adventure Theatre MTC’s Winnie the Pooh, a sweet stroll thr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:29AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Twenty years on. And the horror of April 20, 1999 has not only not dissipated, but it also seems to have continually intensified with each mass school shooting. Virginia Tech. Sandy Hook. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMThursday, February 28, 2019
Seems poetic that The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up is well over 100 now and still as impish as ever in Finding Neverland. Peter Pan, the eternal boy, sprung from the mind of Scottish novelist…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:28AMMonday, February 4, 2019
Gypsy is a grand, brilliant affair. Then and now and forever. And Toby’s Dinner Theatre is giving it a first class production. This is the story of Rose (Cathy Mundy). The precursor to th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMTuesday, January 29, 2019
Assuming love and sex are an intertwined riddle to be solved and you want an answer to the mystery —you’re not going to get it here. If you want to walk away deep in thought, contemplati…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
The title, New Guidelines for Peaceful Times, sounds like a satirical take on a dystopian world. But it’s not. It’s a much more earnest, honest, and delicate look at how war—the inter…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04AMTuesday, October 9, 2018
Synetic’s Sleepy Hollow takes no cues from Disney’s version or even the 1999 remake by Tim Burton, which saw the tale go darker and deeper. It is far better—a richer, more provoc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMMonday, October 1, 2018
Wow. Just wow. Born Yesterday, a Tony-award winning play written in 1946 by Garson Kanin, feels likes a premonition come to fruition. Shortly after World War II, tycoon Harry Brock (Edward …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMThursday, September 27, 2018
We often imagine Lincoln to have been an amiable, principled man, worn down by war and illness. Perhaps his own and, certainly, that of his sons and wife. Which is why Brandon McCoy’s Fran…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMTuesday, August 28, 2018
Sometimes it is just easiest to say it up front as clearly as possible: I loved The Ice Child—an old-school-esque “once upon a time” fairy tale about very real-world, right now issues …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AM 
