Thursday, January 17, 2013
We admit it – when Artistic Director Hanna Bondareswka sent the Ambassador Theater’s press release for their upcoming performances at Flashpoint Gallery, our email back could be capsuliz…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMWednesday, January 16, 2013
The critics have fallen hard for Tryst, and it seems audiences agree. Washington Stage Guild just announced that the smart, suspenseful drama, starring Felipe Cabenzas and Emily Townley, ori…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:08PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
Yesterday marked the one month anniversary of the massacre of 6 teachers and 20 school children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Last night, on The Rachel Maddow Show, parents of 6 year old …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AMMonday, January 14, 2013
After watching a performance of American Buffalo in Chicago about 8 years ago, as we exited into the lobby, we saw a series of overhanging tickets suggesting ways we, the audience, could con…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:10PMThis month, theatreWashington’s Show Tunes & Cocktails moves to Signature. Their invite: “We’re free of political sing to the rafters and kick off 2013 with a Show Tu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AMFriday, January 11, 2013
Theater J’s first play of the new year will be performed away from company’s venue on 16th Street. Boged (Traitor): An Enemy of the People, produced in conjunction with George Washin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:31AMTuesday, January 8, 2013
Who was this woman who haunted Sampson through Judges 13-16, teasing and seducing him until he gave up the secret of his strength? Was she merely a mercenary of love? (“[W]e will give thee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:31AMMonday, January 7, 2013
She became everyone’s fair lady when she stepped from the ensemble into the leading role of Eliza Doolittle at Arena Stage last Saturday night and turned in a heart-stealing performanc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:10PMIt reads more like a scene from a 50’s showbiz movie. It’s the closing weekend. The Saturday night performance is nearly sold out. The star is taken ill. Her understudy is ill. Hannah …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:56PMWednesday, January 2, 2013
Take $20 off the ticket price to Apples from the Desert at Theater J, Saturday, January 5 at 3pm Sarah Marshall, Michael Tolaydo and Jennifer Mendenhall (Photo: Scott Suchman) Jennifer Men…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:15PMFriday, December 28, 2012
A Note from Lorraine Treanor Big problem – new solution. During the last month or so, DC Theatre Scene has faced some technical challenges in our effort to bring fresh theatre news to you.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:36AMTime for one more reading this year? Flying V Theatre (remember Me and Devil Blues?) will be performing a reading of a new play, The Library, by company member Lee August Praley. Synopsis:…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:55AMWednesday, December 26, 2012
January 21, 2013 the nation pauses to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama and to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr Day. In honor of these events, CENTERSTAGE will be making 100…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMNearly 3,000 years after Homer first penned and, possibly, performed The Iliad, co-authors Lisa Peterson and the actor Denis O’Hare created a solo play from Homer’s ode to larger than li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:29AMThis year, New Year’s Eve falls on Monday, the day when theatres are traditionally closed. But this year, you have nine chances to catch your last show of 2012 on New Year’s Eve and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:35AMMonday, December 24, 2012
Raise your voices with a hearty “If I Were a Rich Man” “Sunrise, Sunset” and the rest of the beloved Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick Broadway score with the Fiddler on the Roof Sing-Along…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:26AMShakespeare Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s beloved romantic comedy. Step inside the theatre for a play within a play that will transform into an evening of magic a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:16AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
The children’s play Clever Rachel and a free Christmas day event are the December offerings in the new JCCNV Performing Arts Series from Fairfax, Virginia’s Jewish Community Cent…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Olney Theatre Center begins its search for new Artistic Director Olney Theatre Center announced this morning that Martin Platt, who joined the company as its Artistic Director in June, 2012,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:53PMSunday, December 9, 2012
Marc Kudisch walks into a room, motorcycle helmet tucked under his arm, and the coolness vibe spikes by a factor of 10. He’s a Broadway star with more than 20 major shows – like 9 to…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:04AMFriday, December 7, 2012
When we (and our grandparents’ grandparents) were children we dreamed of going to the Moon, shot perhaps from an enormous precise gun and flying a quarter million miles in a speeding bulle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
For the east coast Landesman household, fireworks this New Year’s Eve will mark more than the incoming year. It will mean that, for the first time in his illustrious career, Rocco Land…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMWednesday, November 28, 2012
It’s seldom that Howard Breitbart, one of Washington’s most sought-after pianist/musical directors, has an opening in his schedule. If not working for the major musicals producer…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:51PMMonday, November 19, 2012
It’s not unusual to find an in our area performing in a show and rehearsing another. But, with two shows running at the same time, Joe Brack will be zipping from one side of town to th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PMTuesday, November 6, 2012
Legendary Broadway director/producer Harold “Hal” Prince will receive the fourth annual Sondheim Award from the Arlington, VA-based Signature Theatre, the company announced yeste…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMWednesday, October 31, 2012
Rep Stage’s PWYC first preview for the made-for-Halloween play Mary Rose, scheduled for tonight, has been canceled. Instead, the play will open for previews Thursday, Nov 1 at 7pm. The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMTuesday, October 30, 2012
“The show must go on”, Brett Abelman of Beltway Drama Series just told us. Their final reading of Election Day Plays 2012: Fresh Plays For People Left Out of the Two-Party Race…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PMMonday, October 29, 2012
Chesapeake Shakespeare, which was to have concluded its outdoor performance of Richard III last night, has announced that, due to the impending storm and the closure of PFI Historic Park, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
It’s not a Halloween trick. Two theatre companies, facing opposition to their presence, are preparing legal defenses in order to protect their rights to remain in their DC locations. H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:21PMRichard O’Brien’s garish and goofy cult classic The Rocky Horror Show is both a Bible and a coloring book. Any troupe playful enough to take it up must honor the show’s signature look,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:40AMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Henrik Ibsen wrote An Enemy of the People in 1882 in a fit of white heat as a diatribe against the general public and the politicians, and as revenge for the vicious attacks they visited upo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AM 
