Tuesday, January 20, 2015
A middle-aged man, decked out in modern-day armor—jacket, tie, suspenders, and shined shoes— sips a pale ale. He is achingly alone. Melancholy seems to be his most present friend. Regre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
Madeline—the iconic character from a series of children’s book written in the 1950s and 1960s—takes center stage at Creative Cauldron and rings in the holidays with magic and charm in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PMTuesday, November 25, 2014
Man’s best friend? A million spots? A crazy lady bent on making fur coats out of the dogs’ hides? Check, check, and check! Cruella de-Vil, the purple-headed puppy eater who has delig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:41AMMonday, October 6, 2014
Never were truer words spoken than when the blonde boy to my right turned to his friend and whispered, “This is so cool!” Entering the stage to rap music reminiscent of an early 1980’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
On a triangular tract of land snug behind a line of row-houses, Northeast DC harbors a secret Garden of Eden—a landscape flush with the fruits of the earth. Roma tomatoes. Lavender. Chard.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMThursday, September 25, 2014
The Seven Year Itch— that moment when you get bored with your spouse and cheat—is best known as the film that nearly shows Marilyn Monroe’s underpants beneath a billowing white halter …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMSunday, July 13, 2014
Dracula moonlighting as a blood-sucking lobbyist in downtown DC? Brilliant. A young Washingtonian concerned life should be more than the humdrum of laws, policies, and phone calls. Accurate.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:30PMMonday, June 16, 2014
With no-holds barred-performances from ladies unafraid to play the fool and with the resonant, seasoned, mature pipes it takes a lifetime to perfect, Menopause The Musical delivers—on laug…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AMMonday, June 9, 2014
How far would you go to rescue what you’ve lost—be it a watch, an hour, or sanity? Directors Colin Hovde and Nathaniel Mendez and the superb company of actors deftly blend humor and horr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMFriday, June 6, 2014
Freddie Mercury, the legend, may as well have invented rock flair, and his fist-pumping anthems play just as well in a theatre as at Live Aid. But this is a musical where story, plot, and ch…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMWednesday, May 7, 2014
A celebration of all things swingin’ ’60s. A cultural mish-mash from go-go boots to the pill. One, long “Dear Abby” column. And, a rainbow of fun. Literally. SHOUT! The Mod M…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:29AMMonday, March 10, 2014
In 1931, Peter Kurten terrorized Germany with little reason. Other than it sexually gratified him. Trolling Dusseldorf, he raped, beat, and murdered without prejudice. Men, women, and childr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMThursday, February 20, 2014
Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? bites—with wit and cruelty—and, at times, is touching in a completely sad way. But mostly, it’s offensive.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:08AMMonday, February 10, 2014
While Imagination Stage has produced a top-notch show—ingenious set, magical ambiance, quirky costumes, music and excellent actors—its decision to perform this “old as old” tale with…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Charles Dickens’ classic yarn seems less of a carol, as we call it, and more of a campfire tale, yet it has come to represent all that is wonderful about the holidays: redemption, joy, for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMMonday, November 25, 2013
Lyle’s a class-act. He cleans, serves and can save the day—that is, if you are willing to look beyond his reptilian snout and sharp incisors. He may be green, but he’s an extraordinary…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:58PMThursday, November 7, 2013
Google’s proliferation has made technology feel less like magic and more commonplace, like in 2004 when Gmail launched online storage limits, how much we could “save” of our lives—be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Seriously, a musical about nuns and Nazis? The only other musical I know of about Nazis is the fictional Springtime for Hitler. And yet The Sound of Music is a vital part of the American can…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:43AMThursday, October 3, 2013
In 1998, Matthew Shepard was beaten and hung from a fence in rural Wyoming, just outside Laramie. With nothing but the sky, sun, stars, moon, and mountains looking on, he wasted into a coma …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMMonday, September 30, 2013
Two one acts from Flying V: All Apologies and Me and the Devil Blues In an ethereal forest between heaven and hell, rigid rules govern the day-to-day of the heroin loving, hard-drinking 27 C…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:13PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Artful. Brilliant. Irreverent. Simple, yet genius. Everything—from the writing to the stage direction and the acting itself—is a marvel to watch in the Alliance for New Music-Theatre’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:15PMMonday, September 23, 2013
A tense vulnerability rings throughout A Young Lady of Property. It is both draining and riveting, and left me feeling as if I'd relived the million moments from youth when we all struggled …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:55PMMonday, September 9, 2013
One word, and only one word, captures the Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s production of Completely Hollywood (Abridged): Boring. Boring. Boring. Boring. Tedious minutes tick away without a whi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:45AMThursday, August 29, 2013
When your marriage commendation sounds as if it’s really a funeral eulogy, run. If you can’t, then vomit. As 7-year-old Alice tells it, “If you keep bad things inside, they make you ug…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AMSaturday, July 27, 2013
Imagine Election Day November 2016. Imagine Presidential candidates committing to reformed taxes. Transparent government. Peace. It’s not hard. Every election since we, the people, chose F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMTuesday, July 23, 2013
As The Third Breast opens, the cast sings, accompanied by acoustic guitars, tambourines, and a flute, as if around a mid-summer bonfire, and they invite the audience into the fold of their v…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:53AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Raucous. Rowdy. Rebellious, with a yell: this isn’t your 7th grade version of American history. 1814! The War of 1812 Rock Opera highlights three important things about the US of A. It kic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:37PMIn the Garden, Mother Eve readies a celebration of family and faith. She opens her doors to all: the downtrodden, the wicked, the faithful, the loved, and unloved. Equally. Not surprising—…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:22AMBrynn Tucker enters her show with nerve.And instantly, she exercises a rawness you’ll see often in the course of 60 minutes—and not just the rawness of exposed flesh, but of emotion, joy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:20AMSunday, July 14, 2013
The scene is set: a heavy rain pours and the black gauze of deception hovers over Detective Pimbley as he drowns his sorrow. Whiskey neat is his drink of choice, and Jim Beam’s the only fr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57PMSaturday, July 13, 2013
Misfortune, misfits, and mis-direction. All plague the “D.C. State Players” and as Tonee Bollocks, the “Director,” leans toward the audience, he pontificates, “the best lai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:54PM 
