Monday, March 27, 2017
The name Donny Hathaway probably doesn’t ring too many bells these days—certainly not as many as Stevie Wonder or Roberta Flack, his contemporaries—but you likely sing him every Chris…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMMonday, February 27, 2017
The Mushroom Kingdom is in a tizzy. It’s perennial hero (and everyone’s favorite Italian plumber), Mario, no longer finds satisfaction in running, leaping, and rescuing, in facing his sp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMMonday, February 13, 2017
The Snow Whyte of the future is a lot doper than the one of the past. She’s also a lot more gender friendly and fiercer. The girl is no longer just a pretty face, thanks to The Freshest Sn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMTuesday, February 7, 2017
Like a fantasy disco, I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart opens all glitz and glamour. Yet, it isn’t as frivolous as it would want you to believe watching Sam (Nicole Spiezio) and Leo (Tommy H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:48PMWednesday, February 1, 2017
“Brilliant” is barely adequate to describe Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies, which blurs the line between comedy and drama with the infinite precision, speed, and flash of a p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMTuesday, December 20, 2016
Like its English cousin, An Irish Carol is a dramatic look at life on a day when it should be most celebrated and filled with peace, hope, and love. Unlike its cousin, there are no actual gh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AMFriday, December 16, 2016
Dickens—that stuffy purveyor of eternally drab tales—gets a refreshing and quirky upgrade in The Second City’s Twist Your Dickens, the Kennedy Center’s merry holiday fare that will h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMTuesday, December 6, 2016
The magical, the magnificent, The Magi. This play, wrapped in a concert, is a wonderfully performed piece that showcases the best of theatre: Storytelling. Drama. Humor. Song, along with gu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:31PMThursday, November 10, 2016
Dark. Squirmy. Brutal. Galling. Backwards. Chilling. A slew of punchy, powerful words ran through my mind, much like the pithy (and punctuated) Tame. on Monday night, as I watched a man dom…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMMonday, October 31, 2016
Open Circle’s The Who’s Tommy shakes the establishment not with its hard-hitting guitar riffs but with its fearless use of American Sign Language (ASL), a move more rock ‘n…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMSaturday, October 29, 2016
Debbie Allen’s Freeze Frame…Stop the Madness is a multi-media show about gun violence at the hands of cops/authority figures. Dance is its beating heart. Which is good. Because the dialo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMFriday, October 28, 2016
A musical about a suburban mom and her teen daughter having a bad day doesn’t scream high-octane or joyful or laughable, but Freaky Friday is lively, agile, and full of fun, fun, fun. Revi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMWednesday, September 21, 2016
Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s production of Bad Jews is drop-your-eyes, shake-your-head, rub-your-forehead funny. Because your family, though maybe not Jewish, is most probably just as mess…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:10AMMonday, September 19, 2016
The wide-eyed, baby-faced babe with a bod known as Betty Boop is an icon—a 1930s cartoon character based on singer and dancer Helen Kane (and influenced by other ladies of the day) who be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMWednesday, September 14, 2016
The truest measure of a show is often how it leaves you feeling. Sometimes, a show has got its work cut out for itself—taking someone from an incredibly rotten mood to elation (or deep tho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:28AMMonday, August 22, 2016
The elusive O-1 visa for individuals with extraordinary skills is a rare bird in the immigrant community, often going to big-name, A-list entertainers. Think Celine Dionne (Canadian) or John…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:18PMMonday, July 18, 2016
Becoming—a modern dance in nine segments about how the interactions of the human heart shape us—is filled with bare feet and beauty. It is a stunning concoction of ballet, acrobatics, an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:57PMWednesday, July 13, 2016
Nathan Duncan (Andrew Flurer) wants to tear down the system and build a better one (you know, “Damn the man” style). Instead, he’s an-almost-lawyer-turned-dog-walker with a marijuana o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMTuesday, July 12, 2016
The Golden Smile is controlled, constructed chaos, a perfect orchestration of madness. It is terrifying and marvelous all at once. Theatre of the absurd in a mental hospital. Seven pati…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07PMMonday, July 11, 2016
How To Be The Perfect Wingwoman is a musical for the modern lady (or gent) that features great voices and really good acting. Jazelle (Kristina Brooks) is a sweet, good girl forever sentence…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Sure, soft animal. hideous heart it is a bit strange. A hodgepodge of dance, guitar, and storytelling, but it is completely engaging. And moving. Robin Neveu Brown and Kevin Alan Brown—new…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:26PMSaturday, July 9, 2016
I hate to say this, but I hated AS IT WERE and/or WHAT (ever) DOESN’T MATTER. The long, convoluted title should have tipped me off a week ago when scouring shows, but the description w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AMFriday, July 8, 2016
Joseph Price has got a lot of guts—just standing on a stage and being himself while making you a part of his story. Color Theory: An interactive Game/Play is a thoroughly fun and enjoyable…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38PMMonday, June 27, 2016
Chalk opens amid chaos one Easter Sunday during a revolt that culminates in hangings and fires. In the middle of it all, palace guard Peter Sedovski (Jon Reynolds) places a cross around the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37PMMountain Dew. Hulk Hogan. Stuffed crust pizza. These. These things make America great. At least according to The Second City. It’s a sad list, but luckily the open secret here is that The …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
Venus Theatre has a knack for finding new scripts that make you ache and ruminate all at once—appealing at once to emotion and intellect, deeply, endlessly. Garbage Kids, a tale of homele…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PMTuesday, May 10, 2016
Sometimes less is more—like when only two actresses take the stage and expertly convey a complicated, yet relatable, relationship filled with both mutual admiration and envy—so I’ll k…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:45PMWe all know that The Wizard of Oz is the story of a girl and her dog. And home. Right? So, does the 2011 musical, featuring new compositions and lyrics by Andrew Lloyd Weber and Tim Rice, su…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:26AMWednesday, April 20, 2016
The worst traffic in history, created by road construction and events, plagued a five-block radius within downtown Baltimore this past Saturday, causing even the cast of the Chesapeake Sha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMTuesday, April 12, 2016
Maryland Ensemble Theatre’s original Oedipus Rox!—based on Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex—is filled with cosmic design and some rockin’ operatic heights, but it’s a tragicomedy that has …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMFriday, March 18, 2016
In 2004, Green Day was an amiable, if declining, punk rock band who’s most recent hit had been a sentimental ballad called “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)”. Their breakthrough album…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:14PM 
