Thursday, 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 02:00PMIn this first of a two play evening, playwright Allyson Currin covers safe, familiar territory of friendship, commitment and support. Here, three playground Moms share aspects of their lives…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:27AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
With the closing of H Street Playhouse, Theater Alliance moves into what they call their “itinerant” phase, planning future productions in one, possible two theatres, and renewin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:10PMDue to overwhelming critical and popular response, The Studio Theatre has extended Amy Herzog’s compassionate and unsentimental drama 4000 Miles a third, and final, time. The company h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:34AMThursday, May 2, 2013
When the world premiere of CenterStage’s production of Beneatha’s Place by Artistic Director Kwame Kwei-Armah joins with their production of Clybourne Park on May 15th, the ful…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Nominations for the 2013 Antoinette Perry “Tony” Awards were announced today.Three productions first seen here were among the honorees: Steppenwolf Theatre’s production o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:50PMMonday, April 29, 2013
The 2013 Drama Desk nominees were just announced. Among the productions receiving multiple nominations which Washington audiences have been able to see are Giant by John LaChiusa, which debu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMIMAGINATION STAGE: NEW JUICY-JUICE IN OLD BOTTLES By Tim Treanor Bethesda-based Imagination Stage will feature some familiar stories given brand-new contexts in 2013-2014, the company has an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52AMFriday, April 26, 2013
Don’t invest on Broadway unless you love the show. There’s an 80% chance you’ll get little more back than tickets on opening night and a backstage tour. If you do see a rec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:00AMThursday, April 25, 2013
They call it a revolution in British theatre. At least one rating service ranks it as popular as Netflix. It’s Digital Theatre and for those of you who don’t already know, it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:15AMWednesday, April 24, 2013
On May 6th, Brian Childers will perform a special “Evening with Danny Kaye” to benefit the theatre company which handed him the role of a lifetime. Brian Childers as Danny Kaye (…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Michael Kahn returns to Signature this fall for the first time in nearly twenty years to direct the world premiere of Pride in the Falls of Autr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
WSC Avant Bard returns to Artisphere tonight at 8pm for a reading of Sarah Ruhl’s new adaptatation of the Virginia Woolf novel Orlando. Based in part on the life of Woolf’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” –Leonard Bernstein It’s already starting. The G…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AMThursday, April 11, 2013
You may well have heard that Matilda, the musical based on Roald Dahl’s popular novel, is now on Broadway, following a smashing first year run in London, where it continues to sell out…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PMThe 2013 Monologue Madness competition last Sunday at The Miracle Theatre saw two relative newcomers to the DC scene compete their way through a pack of 32, and elbow out of the running su…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:33PMMonday, April 8, 2013
Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater announces that due to popular demand, the world premiere play Mary T. & Lizzy K., written and directed by Tazewell Thompson, will add …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07AMSaturday, April 6, 2013
All hail middle-aged character actors! At varying points in this episode, I found myself singing the praises of guest stars, as we got visits from not one but two parents of our leading ladi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:22AMFriday, April 5, 2013
Chad Bauman, a fixture at Arena Stage since 2007, will become Managing Director of Milwaukee Repertory Theater effective June 1, the Company announced today. “Chad’s experience in helpin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:15PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
By anyone’s definition, John Carter is one pretty hip guy. As past vocations, he lists merchant seaman, railroadman and writer for hire. His poetry placed him as front man for rock groups …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:40PMMonday, April 1, 2013
Why should sports teams have the exclusive on fantasy team matchups? Why not allow theatre fans to form companies, be their own creative directors and cast their own productions? Such questi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:52AMThe old bromide “Be careful what you wish for” is richly applied in Art House, Idly Bent Theatre Company’s East Coast premiere of an intriguing new work from Australian actress & p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMFriday, March 29, 2013
In advance of the Helen Hayes Awards on Monday, April 8th, TrueTheatergoer asks readers who they feel most deserve to take home the theatreWashington awards for outstanding achievement in pe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:21PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
The heat has officially been turned way up on the lowly monologue. Next week, audiences will have two chances to cheer on their favorite performers as they compete for the adoration of the c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:00AMAnnapolis-based Compass Rose Theater will produce a 2013-2014 season which features a graduate of the 2007 New York Fringe Festival and productions of three well-known and much-honored play…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:30AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Gidion’s Knot, Johanna Adams’ stunning confrontation between an elementary school teacher and the mother of a boy who had committed suicide, is one of six finalists for the $25,000 Harol…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25AMSaturday, March 23, 2013
If your taste in musical theatre tends to the grunge, the gory or the absolutely silly, then you must be a longtime fan of Landless Theatre. For nearly 10 years, they’ve built a core a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:31AMThursday, March 21, 2013
American Century Theater is ready to open its next show, and what audiences will see, beginning tonight, is a closely guarded secret. Jack Marshall is betting it will be as shocking and in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:14AMIt’s hard to imagine what Washington theatre would be like today had Capital Fringe not arrived in DC to open up the scene to self producing artists. Since 2006, Capital Fringe has pre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Puppets, it seems, are everywhere in Washington. If they’re not performing (see two below for this month alone), they’re holed up somewhere rehearsing for the next time they̵…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:09PMMonday, March 18, 2013
TheatreWashington is holding a pre-Awards celebration tonight for all of this year’s Helen Hayes Awards nominees and, thanks to their special Webcast livestreamed direct from DC’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PM 
