Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Martyna Majok’s new play, Ironbound, opens September 9 at Round House Theatre. She was born in Bytom, Poland, and aged in Jersey and Chicago. Her plays include Mouse in a Jar, the frie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMThis article is based, in part, on research done for DCTS’ presentation at the Smithsonian Museum on Aug 20, 2015. You can see a play in this town for nothing or next to nothing. You c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMTuesday, September 1, 2015
Karen Zacarías’ new play Destiny of Desire opens September 11 at Arena Stage at the Mead Theater for American Theater. Her award-winning plays include The Book Club Play, Legacy of Ligh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:27AMMonday, August 31, 2015
One comfort in losing my mother at the age of 66 is that she comes to me in my dreams. Many nights, we get nocturnal do-overs as she stands before me healthy, warm and whole—the mother I r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMMarcia E. Cole is a native Washingtonian who in the process of re-invention, received her BA in Early Childhood Education in 2014 from the University of the District of Columbia. Her new p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AMHis dream was to play Jean Valjean and on June 23rd, 2015, Kyle Jean-Baptiste, an African-American actor from Brooklyn, made Broadway history when he became the first African-American and, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AMFriday, August 28, 2015
E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright and librettist. Her new play Now Comes the Night opens at 1st Stage September 18. Lewis’s work has been produced around the world and is pu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:21AMA roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, Mosaic Theater and Constellation Theatre Company. Women’s Voices Theater Fe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:52AMThursday, August 27, 2015
Madison Middleton is a sophomore at School for Tomorrow. She’s participated with Highwood Theatre since 2011, most recently appearing in August: Osage County as Ivy. Other notable High…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25AMWednesday, August 26, 2015
Caleen Sinnette Jennings is an actor, director and playwright who is a founding member of The Welders, a new D.C. Playwrights’ Collective. Eight of her plays have been published by Dramati…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Compass Rose Theater is producing Patricia Henley’s If I Hold My Tongue, set in Baltimore, MD, which opens September 17. She is the author of three novels, four short story collections…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:41AMFriday, August 21, 2015
On August 20th, DC Theatre Scene was invited to speak about the upcoming season at the Smithsonian Museum’s S. Dillon Ripley Center . The speech, given by Lorraine Treanor, Jennifer Cl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
A roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from Theresa Rebeck, Signature Theatre, Taking Care of Our Own, La-Ti-Do, Center Stage, and Studio Theatre. Theresa Rebeck: ̶…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:39PMBekah Brunstetter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is an alumni of the CTG Writers Group, Primary Stages writes group, Ars Nova Play Group, T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMSaturday, August 15, 2015
Miranda Rose Hall is a playwright from Baltimore, MD. She has presented work in DC (Kennedy Center Page-to-Stage and Georgetown University), Baltimore (Center Stage), and Anchorage. She is r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMFriday, August 14, 2015
In Spring, 2016, another musical first debuted at Arena Stage will open in New York. It was just announced that Dear Evan Hansen will be produced at Second Stage’s Tony Kiser Theatre (…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMThursday, August 13, 2015
South Africa and Anacostia Playhouse have one thing in common: they’re both usually sources for exceptional plays. South Africa’s John Kani/Athol Fugard playwriting and devising team mad…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:39AMA roundup of some of this week’s theatrical news and notes from Synetic Theater, Molly Smith, Bohemian Caverns, Source Festival, Studio Theatre and Infinity Theatre. Who’s playing Al…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:19AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
Joshua Morgan took DC by storm when the (then) Off-Broadway sensation, Hedwig and the Angry Itch, opened at the Warehouse Theater. Morgan, who directed the musical, must have liked what he s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:13PMClaudia Barnett grew up in the Bronx and lives in the woods of Tennessee. She has served as resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre and Tennessee Repertory Theatre and has developed four s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:19AMMonday, August 10, 2015
Kathleen Akerley, Artistic Director of Longacre Lea, has two plays debuting in the Women’s Voices Theater Festival: Bones in Whispers opens August 12 and Night Falls on the Blue Planet…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:01AMSunday, August 9, 2015
August 12 – Nov 22, 2015
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(WASHINGTON)—The Kennedy Center hosts its 14th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 5 to Monday, September 7, 2015, featuring more than 50 theaters from the D.C.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:40AMSaturday, August 1, 2015
The Law of Return, DC-area playwright Martin Blank’s three-actor work about superspy Jonathan Pollard, is set to become a feature film with Blank as screenwriter. Gail Berman’s T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37AMWith 286 shows already announced, and 24 companies still to be revealed, the new season, which begins this week, can already be predicted to surpass the busy 2014-2015 season. The Page-to-St…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:27AMWednesday, July 29, 2015
Nancy Robinette, among Washington’s most honored and in-demand actresses, departs for Broadway to appear in one of Broadway’s biggest hits, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PMSunday, July 26, 2015
At tonight’s closing celebration for the 2015 Capital Fringe, results were announced for the Pick of the Fringe Audience Awards and the Special Director Award. This is the first year f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07PMThursday, July 23, 2015
Theodore Bikel, the famed folk singer, social activist, stage actor, died of natural causes on Tuesday, July 21 at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 91. Mark Kennedy of AP provi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:08PMSaturday, July 18, 2015
With the shift in venues in the 10th anniversary Capital Fringe Festival, it seems that more dance is being included as a welcome mix into the festival. With So We Meet Again from ArasDance,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:56AMFriday, July 17, 2015
We hear a scream and a belch of demented laughter. Mary Girard (Eliza Hill) is in the tranquilizing box — an eighteenth-century sensory deprivation chamber, only less fun. She is strap…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
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