Thursday, June 27, 2013
dog & pony dc took their first road trip with A Killing Game earlier this month, and arrived back home able to use those magical words in its marketing, “award winning.” At…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMMonday, June 24, 2013
Two theatre companies recently became owners of their own performing spaces. This weekend, we attended the celebration of the purchase of Church Street Theatre by its resident company Keegan…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMFriday, June 21, 2013
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has awarded DC Theatre Scene a $10,000 matching grant for covering theater in Washington, DC. The grant, the largest received to date, allows DCT…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AMThursday, June 20, 2013
– Sam Simon, a 40+ year resident of the DC area, is now writing and performing in New York and Washington. He has trained with Artistic New Directions, Carol Fox Prescott, and Gary Aus…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:37AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
– Guest writer Jessica North Macie, co-writer of How to Have it All: The Musical, is a local actor, playwright English teacher at National Cathedral School, and full-time mommy to Lail…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:56AMMonday, June 17, 2013
June 17, 2013 — Tickets for the 2013 Capital Fringe Festival went on sale this morning, the festival announced.This year, audiences will be offered 128 shows, in 738 performances, in 1…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:50AMFollow our coverage click on the images July 12 – 28, 2013 Check back here for our Fringe news, and reviews of all 129 shows. The po…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:01AM– Guest author Evan Crump is a DC Area actor and playwright and Artistic Director of Unstrung Harpist Productions – Part of Fringe Peeks, our “in their own words” s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AMQuotidian Theatre’s 2013-2014 season, it’s 16th, will be composed of three plays by notable Irish or Irish-American playwrights. Their season will kick off with a production of Eugen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMFriday, June 14, 2013
Olney Theatre Center has resolved the problem of how to satisfy a diverse audience by announcing a nine-play 2014 season (they run on a calendar year) divided in thirds: three for audiences …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:49PMThursday, June 13, 2013
Fans of the hilarious Canadian TV series Slings and Arrows will be relieved to know that Netflix, which had planned to sunset it on June 1, has responded to howls of protest – includin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:52AMMonday, June 10, 2013
Last night’s Tony Awards show deserves its on Emmy. Right now. In case you missed it, here’s Neil Patrick Harris and the casts of nearly every musical on Broadway doing the openi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:07PMSunday, June 9, 2013
Here’s who’s covering Capital Fringe for DC Theatre Scene this year. Sarah Ameigh is graduate of Penn State University, where she studied sociology, advertising, and theatre. S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AMFriday, June 7, 2013
Have you heard? Due to the onrush of donors which slowed their servers yesterday, DoMore24, the one day community wide giving program of the United Way of the National Capitol Area, is exten…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
Standing in a Capitol Hill bakery, they could have been a pair of European travelers, not quite blending in with the hustling Washington crowd getting scones and lattes in the afternoon rush…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:23PMFriday, May 31, 2013
Jacqueline E. Lawton, DC based dramaturg, teacher and playwright (her play The Hampton Years officially opens next Monday at Theater J) has made time in her busy schedule to include on her W…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMBob Marley’s Three Little Birds, a ‘jammin’’ musical with live accompaniment featuring the timeless music and lyrics of Bob Marley and based on the children’s book by h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:16AMThursday, May 30, 2013
With eight productions just announced, the National Theatre will have its busiest season in years, thanks to its new booking team, The National Theatre Group. Five musicals will be among the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AMFriday, May 24, 2013
Theatrelovers will have plenty to enjoy this weekend: To start, Pallas Theatre Collective, busy with preparations for their upcoming read of Usher: A New Musical (June 22), is presenting a f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:35AMThursday, May 23, 2013
One of the signatures of Signature Theatre is Stephen Sondheim. Almost from its inception, works by Sondheim have been a hallmark of the Arlington-based company’s seasonal output. When Sig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AMThink you know who will take home a Tony on Broadway’s biggest night? TrueTheatergoer, the Web site where audiences rate and recommend shows in DC and New York, is holding a contest to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:50AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
DC Theatre Scene is giving away a pair of tickets to opening night of Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody Wednesday, May 22nd at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD. Spank! is here for 6 performanc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Due to an unforeseen circumstance, GALA Hispanic Theatre’s well received production of DC-7: The Roberto Clemente Story has closed one week short of its planned run. GALA ends its se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:52AMThis month, theatreWashington’s popular piano singalong Showtunes & Cocktails features Alex Tang at the piano with special guest, on her night off from Keegan Theatre’s The F…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMThursday, May 16, 2013
Last night, Capital Fringe held a “State of the Fringe” meeting. Jonathan Fischer was there for City Paper, and turned in an excellent update on the status of the Fringe which in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMOne of the Washington area’s most famous playwrights, Ken Ludwig (Crazy for You, Lend Me a Tenor, Fox on a Fairway, Shakespeare in Hollywood), will be hosting an interactive discussi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMGood news for all of you who don’t yet have tickets to see Keegan Theatre’s production of The Fully Monty. Thanks to the enthusiasm in the press – Susan Galbraith calls i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Crash of Rhinos, a new theater company in the process of being born, will hold a sketch comedy revue called the “Crash!” in The National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts’ blac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:38AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
While the Nationals are away, the Washington National Opera will take to the field of Nationals Park for their popular live broadcast from The Kennedy Center. This year, on the jumbo screen,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:37PMMichael Stebbins, whose eight-year tenure as Rep Stage Artistic Director ended earlier this month, will appear in next season’s production of the solo play, I Am My Own Wife, the company…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:01AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Staff in the Executive Office Building scramble over yet another incident involving the Vice President. This time, while the President and his advisors are photographed tensely following the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:00PM 
