Thursday, July 24, 2014
How’s it going, Capital Fringe fans? As we get ready for this final Fringe weekend (Capital Fringe closes Sunday, July 27) we thought we’d check in with all the Fringe-goers. We …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMWednesday, July 23, 2014
American Century Theater, which, in the past twenty years has produced more than 100 shows, will close its doors in 2015 at the end of what will become their final season. In making the anno…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMMichael Kooman and Christopher Dimond know their way around a musical. Broadway performers like Patina Miller, Heidi Blickenstaff and Christopher Siebber know that and lined up to sing on th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AMFriday, July 18, 2014
Elaine Stritch, a Broadway star of incomparable depth and versatility, died yesterday in her Birmingham, Michigan home at the age of eighty-nine. She debuted on Broadway in 1946 with Loco, a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AMThursday, July 10, 2014
With 161 performances and events this year, this year’s Capital Fringe Festival is the biggest yet to be produced and the most adventurous. Added to the roster of theatrical performanc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMFriday, June 27, 2014
We’re noting a curious shrinkage of theatre coverage, even while the number of plays produced in our area and around the country and audience attendance continues to rise. Variety, whi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMFriday, June 20, 2014
From Arena Stage — A celebration of Jerry Manning’s life will take place at Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater Monday June 23 at 6:00pm. The gathering, organi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:45AMThursday, June 19, 2014
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SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PMWednesday, June 18, 2014
June 18, 2014 –Working in theatre pays – but not much. And surely among the least paid jobs, below even that of actors, is the person who writes about theatre. With assignments…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:20PMFriday, June 13, 2014
From Scena Theater comes this video preview of the highly anticipated performance by one of Washington’s favorite actors Nancy Robinette in Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days. Comment…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMThursday, June 12, 2014
“All voices raised on the same day around the world in praise of one of this country’s most important plays,” organizer Erich McMillan-McCall Founder/CEO of Project1VOICE t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMThe theatre venue in downtown Silver Spring now known as Round House Silver Spring will have a change of name and management beginning July 1, 2014. It will become the Silver Spring Black Bo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AMTuesday, June 10, 2014
Actor Frank Britton survived a vicious attack on the streets of downtown Silver Spring following the opening night cast party for The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. From his hospital bed, Brit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Step this way, ladies and gentlemen, for the first look at the sideshow performers you’ll meet when Side Show performs at the Kennedy Center (June 14 – July 13, 2014). In …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:34PMFriday, May 30, 2014
Tonight, the Montgomery County Police announced that they had arrested 18-year-old Elijah Jeremiah Smith of Washington, DC, in Monday night’s Silver Spring assault on and robbery of actor …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:05PMIf you think you can predict who will be breathlessly reading their acceptance speeches at the Tony Awards, June 8th, you could come up a winner and receive $200 in TrueTheatergoer’s l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMWednesday, May 28, 2014
A play about a private school – in rhyme. A Shakespeare classic – live, and broadcast on WAMU. A musical – in American sign language. A Christmas Carol – in Klingon. Nobody expected …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:14AMSaturday, May 17, 2014
First look at Side Show: May 13, 2014 — at the Meet and Greet for the cast and creatives of Side Show, the Bill Russell/Henry Kreiger musical based on the true story of conjoined twins…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMThursday, May 15, 2014
It takes time to build a theatre company, and not just in a logistical sense; you also have to find your voice and working method. So it should not be taken as anything but a good sign of co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AMMonday, May 12, 2014
A highly stylized, spirited musical revue that shimmies through the (popular and some not-so-popular) songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Smokey Joe’s Café triumphs—from its superb …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMFriday, May 9, 2014
“Legend has it the word ‘fiasco’ was first used to describe commedia dell’arte performances that went horribly (and hilariously) wrong.” So says the website for Fiasco Theater as i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AMMonday, May 5, 2014
Yank!, the musical by brothers Joseph and David Zellnik which Richard Seff predicted would have a long life after its NY debut in 2010, has finally made it to DC thanks to The Rainbow Theatr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
At 8:30am today, Lucy Liu and Jonathan Groff will announce the nominees for this years Tony Awards from the Paramount Theater. (Watch this space for the complete list). Watch it here Hugh Ja…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:25AMMonday, April 28, 2014
Popular restauranteur and activist Andy Shallal has extended the life of Motti Lerner’s The Admission, renting out The Mead Theatre at Studio Theatre to give the much-in-demand Theater…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:17AMOpera is fun and in your face in Washington, D.C. lately. “Ladies’ Night” last week at Black Fox Lounge in Dupont Circle was the fourth performance of the newly founded D.C. chapter of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:13AMThursday, April 24, 2014
“I feel like it’s one of the greatest achievements of our career. I feel more proud than I’ve ever felt of anything,” Susan Marie Rhea, co-director of Keegan Theatre’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Our Helen Hayes Awards coverage continues. Last night, John Dellaporta’s Twitter account lit up with social coverage including a dance video. He signed off at 1:30am, as he hopped an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:43AMMonday, April 21, 2014
We’ve got the Helen Hayes Awards covered! Showtime tonight is 7:30pm at the National Building Museum. Christopher Henley will be near the stage covering the presentations, while DCTS…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:54PMTaken together, Parts One and Two of Shakespeare’s Henry IV are so big that they need a category of their own. I left Friday night’s performance of Part Two thinking of cathedrals, which…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:15AMTuesday, April 15, 2014
TODAY show co-host Kathie Lee Gifford will be the voice of the Giant’s Wife in NextStop Theatre’s upcoming production of Into the Woods, the company announced today. In so doing,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:15PMWednesday, April 9, 2014
Folger Theatre’s entry into March Madness titled Bracket of the Bard has come down to the final two. Voting today has been so close, it’s impossible to predict whether Much Ado A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:14PM 
