Sunday, July 12, 2015
Human digestion is all about breaking down food into base nutritional particles for the body to absorb energy, grow, and repair itself when it’s hurt. Perhaps it’s the overwhelming b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:34PMSaturday, July 11, 2015
There are only a few rules of battle in Laugh Index Theater’s IMPROV WARS, that pits local improvisational teams against each other in a series of head-on quick-witted bouts. Everything ha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMWednesday, July 16, 2014
The moment the lights dim at Hunger & Thirst Theatre Collective’s Contrafact of Freedom, the audience is ferried to early 19th century Maryland where Francis Scott Key is on the cu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:38PMTuesday, July 15, 2014
There’s a grand spectrum of people and situations to satirize about the District of Columbia, yet Bucharest Inside the Beltway’s production of Districtland manages amazingly to c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:11PMMonday, July 14, 2014
Prepare to go on a trip with banished? Productions in The Circle² — literally, figuratively, and temporally. With a downloadable audio track and assistance from tour guide/director Ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:46PMMonday, August 26, 2013
Alexandra Petri is very normal, or at least that’s what her mother and father have always told her growing up. One might surmise they said this out of a parental concern that the child…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AMMonday, August 19, 2013
The Arcturus Theater Company tackles a challenging subject in Full Bloom, Suzanne Bradbeer’s coming-of-age story that takes us into the life of Phoebe Harris, a New York City teenager …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Russ Widdall’s portrayal of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an understated oral progression of a man who toiled happily in his brother’s shadow until he was propelled to run for preside…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Anyone who’s ever found themselves hypnotized by an episode of the Real Housewives franchise will recognize the seating arrangement and musical interlude as Jenny Splitter’s come…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PMPlaywright Tarpley Long and director Tracy McMullan have taken on an extreme challenge in Dark House, their re-imagination of William Faulkner’s Southern Gothic novel “Absalom, A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMThere’s a quiet magic that happens in Last Train to Nibroc. It doesn’t occur often, but when it does, it’s a blissful reminder of how transcendental theater can be. Using o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12AMSaturday, July 13, 2013
James Judd is that guy you meet at a party and end up spending the whole night listening to and laughing with in a corner. In Funny Stories 2, the second edition of his first showing at last…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PMThe one thing I learned in Social Media Expert, John Krizel’s Twitter play, is that 80 minutes is a really long time to sit through a story about 140 characters. To be fair, Krizel has…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:25AMWednesday, November 21, 2012
Rarely does a theater company hope that its audience will die during a performance, but that’s exactly what dog & pony dc aspires to as it prepares its latest production, A Killing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:08AMSaturday, July 21, 2012
The worst thing about Dr. Science’s Science Time Science-va-ganza! is that it’s only an hour long. Actors Adam Ruben, Chuck Na, and Jason Pittman have crafted an original combina…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMSunday, July 15, 2012
The Interview has the potential to be a really special play, but the story needs more than the 55 minutes it has, even if the whole performance is a conversation between two men. At work beh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:29PMIt’s hard to be funny, just ask the cast of Aaaaagh! Murder! As a spoof on all things Masterpiece Theatre, from Agatha Christie to “Downton Abbey”, Aaaaaagh! Murder! sets i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:19PMTowards the beginning of Mark Whitney’s one man show, Rightful Masters, Whitney says something that explains his entire performance in five words: “This is really a presentation&…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:59PMThe title may lure D.C.’s politicos and wonks, but be warned, Young Republicans isn’t so much a play about being Republican, as it is a play about being young. (Think “Glee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:01AMFriday, July 13, 2012
In Beertown, all the residents sing and dance, and they love their histories to a fault. It’s that collective obsession with the past that created a town bylaw that says that every fiv…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:21PM 
