Thursday, December 5, 2013
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pair…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:59AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
We’ve just been through Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. Now it’s time to set aside the sales, and celebrate the second annual holiday of thankfulness known as #GivingTuesday. It&…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMSunday, December 1, 2013
This Thursday night, every musical theatre lover gets the best seat in the house for NBC’s original production of The Sound of Music. What everyone will see, on that night only, hasn&#…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:11PMFriday, November 29, 2013
DCTS has partnered with Angelika Mosaic Film Center in Fairfax, Virginia to offer you free tickets to the latest screenings of opera, ballet and theatre from around the world. We have 3 pair…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:02AMTuesday, November 26, 2013
For the first time in its history, the Royal Shakespeare Company has recorded a production from its famed Stratford-Upon-Avon theatre for live broadcast. The production is Shakespeare’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PMAsk yourself which theatre company in our area is the most responsive to changing cultural demands. Perhaps a few come to mind, but if Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is on that list, the Dor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AMMonday, November 25, 2013
It’s true. Lee Mikeska Gardner, area arts administrator, director and actor – you may remember that Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal compared her memorable performance a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:35PMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Earlier this month, actors Jennifer Mendenhall, Michael Glenn and Nadia Mahdi took up the challenge of Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit, Red Rabbit (cold read befo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:37AMThursday, November 14, 2013
“It’s like bringing Washington Theatre into your kitchen.” the theatreWashington Web site enthuses, describing their first cookbook making its official debut this Monday, N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24PMTuesday, November 12, 2013
With their critically acclaimed mounting of The Iceman Cometh ending its run in barely 2 weeks, Quotidian Theatre Company announced the casts for the two remaining productions this season. C…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Acclaimed Broadway actress Kathleen Chalfant will perform a staged reading of Lynn Redgrave’s Shakespeare for My Father Tuesday, November 12 at 7:30 pm at Georgetown University. The …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMThis Sunday, November 10th, Tony award winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly, ) will be speaking to audiences at Reston Community Center’s CenterStage. If he wished…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMFriday, October 25, 2013
Audiences seeing MetroStage’s critically acclaimed production of Gee’s Bend this weekend will be in for a special treat. For performances Oct 24 – 27, Helen Hayes Award rec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:58AMJust in time for Halloween, Adventure Theatre MTC is holding its giant costumes and props sale on Saturday, October 26. Bargain hunters will find costumes in kids and adults sizes, props, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:26AMFriday, October 18, 2013
With the government shutdown ended yesterday, Glen Echo Park in Glen Echo, Maryland has re-opened, and the two companies in residence there have announced the resumption of their schedules. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:59AMFriday, October 11, 2013
In 1945 we were introduced to Tennessee Williams whose The Glass Menagerie settled in at the Playhouse on Broadway for a run of 563 performances. It brought a new generation of theatre goers…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PMStudio Theatre announced the second, and final extension of its critically acclaimed box office hit Torch Song Trilogy. The production must close Sunday, October 27th, 2013. Brandon Uranow…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
“Between me and the ape pacing over there, which one of us is actually thinking about THIS PLAY?” – Geoffrey For those of you who came to my Slings writing from my Smash …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMMonday, October 7, 2013
As most of you know, Ford’s Theatre has been closed due to the federal government shutdown, forcing a disruption in the schedule of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and the Tecto…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:18PMIn Tennessee Williams’ The Two-Character Play, the brother-and-sister acting team of Felice (David Bryan Jackson) and Clare (Lee Mikeska Gardner) are backstage, ready to open “The Tw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMMost visitors to the Baltimore Book Festival weren’t expecting to stumble upon some great theatre parked in the middle of Mount Vernon Square. But if you had the good fortune to visit Cent…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMFriday, October 4, 2013
Just announced – Adventure Theatre MTC’s production of Good Night Moon has become a casualty of the federal government shutdown. While the company itself receives no federal fund…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:51AMThursday, October 3, 2013
The deal about The 39 Steps is not that it’s a theatrical reproduction of the great Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same name. It’s that it’s what such a reproduction would look like on …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:59PMIn light of the closing of Ford’s Theatre during the federal government shutdown, The Ford’s Theatre Society has announced two performances of The Laramie Project at First Congre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
As late as Tuesday morning, October 1st, the staff of Ford’s Theatre was confident that their production of The Laramie Project would proceed during any shutdown of the federal governm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Nearly all performances scheduled will go on during the partial shutdown of the federal government, which went into effect today. Specifically: All productions at the Kennedy Center , includ…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AMMonday, September 30, 2013
Romeo and Juliet are back in town, but in David Leveaux' stark new production, it's difficult to tell just what town it is. The Prologue, as spoken here by Friar Lawrence instead of Chorus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51AMWednesday, September 25, 2013
While Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre is more accustomed to hosting repeat visits from tours such as Jersey Boys and The Book of Mormon (both scheduled for this season), on October 15th, Char…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:19AMMonday, September 23, 2013
Shakespeare Theatre Company announced late Friday that an agreement has been signed which will allow the theatre company to remain in the Lansburgh Theatre. A long simmering dispute between …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:26AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
If we ever wonder what the true worth of regional theatre is, and, as one of the busiest theatre hubs in the country, particularly what it is here in Washington, perhaps part of the answer i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:20PMTuesday, September 10, 2013
Don Juan, Faction of Fools’ newest production, opens this Thursday. Are they ready? And can the intrepid Fools make the fight choreography work in costumes, wigs and, this being commed…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:38AM 
