Monday, March 7, 2011
Ganymede Arts Artistic Director Jeffrey Johnson is organizing a special benefit concert titled “Go Mama Gone” on Sunday, March 13 in support of the popular home decorative s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AMTuesday, February 22, 2011
This morning, Arena Stage announced that their groundbreaking production of Oklahoma! returns to the Fichandler Stage for an extended 3 month run, July 8–October 9, 2011 featuring many of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMJay Landesman, cultural original, has died at 91 Irving “Jay” Landesman, whose revolutionary musical played for less than a month on Broadway but set a template for The Fantasticks and o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:40AMFriday, February 11, 2011
SHAKESPEARE THEATRE’S 2011-2012 SEASON TO FEATURE CONTROVERSIAL O’NEILL PLAY; TWO VERSIONS OF TWO GENTLEMEN Shakespeare Theatre Company today announced that it will be performing Eu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMThursday, February 10, 2011
By now we hope all fans of the work of Kenneth Tynan have made plans to catch Philip Goodwin’s solo performance in Tynan, about to close this weekend at Studio Theatre. While most of the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMMonday, February 7, 2011
In its fourth event of a series aimed at mature audiences, the ever-popular Playhouse Puppetry Slam, returns for a one-night only showcase of vignettes that will leave you stunned, maybe eve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:02PMThursday, February 3, 2011
Ann Deavere Smith’s solo show Let Me Down Easy has been selected to be part of the “Great Performances” series on PBS. PBS crews will be on hand this Friday and Saturday, F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AMWednesday, February 2, 2011
Some of the mid-Atlantic’s best theatre & film actors battle for over $2,000 in cash & prizes [Editor: We could find no way to improve on this news story sent in by producer Edward…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:17AMMonday, January 24, 2011
The Helen Hayes Awards, which certainly knows their way around great musicals and glamorous parties - each year they throw a lavish cast party following the Helen Hayes awards – ha…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMWednesday, January 19, 2011
The Greatest Star of All: Ed Dixon on playing Max Von Mayerling in Sunset Boulevard. It’s rare when an actor gets a chance to reprise a role he loves, and that’s what happened to Ed Dixo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AMTuesday, January 18, 2011
Unless you already have a reservation, you can’t see Taffety Punks‘ bootleg performance of Reals at the Corner Store tonight. It has sold out. But Gwydion Suileban’s new …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:55PMMonday, January 17, 2011
Sunday, Jan 16, 2011 — Nominations for this year’s WATCH (Washington Area Theatre Community Honors) Awards were read at the Birchmere Musical Hall, Alexandria, VA, which will als…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PMTuesday, January 11, 2011
On Monday, January 17th, DC area actors join actors in other cities in reading Being Harold Pinter, the newest work by Belarus Free Theatre. The play incorporates letters from Belarusian pol…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMSunday, January 9, 2011
The Great Game: Afghanistan – a seven-hour, three-play set of nineteen distinct stories covering nearly two centuries of superpower adventures in Afghanistan which played at Shakespeare Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:46PMThursday, January 6, 2011
If you were tuned to WAMU-88.5 last Halloween Eve, you probably heard MacBeth in the 21st Century, a co-production between WAMU and DC’s radio theatre company, Lean & Hungry Theate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:01PMThe new year begins, ominously. For reasons they’ve chosen not to share with us, a consortium of eleven producers led by “Bram Stoker’s Dracula Ltd.”, decided to dig up the original …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58AMSaturday, December 18, 2010
Hilton Als, the esteemed theatre critic for The New Yorker magazine, just released his list of 10 best performances of the year. The list – which includes stage, television and cabar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:26AMMonday, December 13, 2010
Threatened with teacher layoffs due to funding cutbacks, Duke Ellington School of the Arts decides to risk it all on a Broadway-style production of Dreamgirls. On a chilly Friday night an ho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:17AMSaturday, December 11, 2010
On opening night, Thurs, Dec 11th, 12 senators – all of them women – found something to laugh about when they took a bi-partisan night out to attend Woolly Mammoth’s latest…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMFriday, December 10, 2010
HBO has filmed a documentary of Carrie Fisher’s one woman comedy Wishful Drinking which debuts this Sunday, Dec 12th at 9pm on HBO. As those who saw the show when Arena Stage brought i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:23PMTuesday, December 7, 2010
On Monday, December 13th, three of the leads in Arena Stage’s production of Oklahoma! will make a special appearance at Artspeak!. DC actress Eleasha Gamble and Nicholas Rodriguez, w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:11AMWednesday, November 17, 2010
Politics is like the weather: the only thing predictable about it is its unpredictability. It changes – and changes back, and changes again – with a speed that keeps us from ever getting…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMThursday, November 11, 2010
Solas Nua is giving Washington audiences a chance to see and help shape experimental works in development, straight from Dublin. Titled ‘Project Brand New’, the mini-festival is …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51AMWednesday, November 10, 2010
According to Patrick Healey, writing in today’s New York Times, Broadway producers are on their way to Washington to take a look at Arena Stage’s production of Oklahoma! “t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:25AMTuesday, October 26, 2010
Oct 26th preview has been canceled. Just 10 days before the opening of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, the first production in the $135 million dollar Mead Center for American…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AMWednesday, October 20, 2010
In case you’re not already booked for the many shows performing around town tonight, we thought you might enjoy watching “A Broadway Celebration: In Performance at the White Hous…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AM 
