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Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Studio Theatre extends Time Stands Still by Lorraine Treanor

Audiences have an additional week to catch Donald Margulies’ Tony Award nominated Time Stands Still. Studio Theatre just announced that their production has just been extended until Februa…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50AM

Stage Manager wanted for Molotov’s Julius Caesar by Lorraine Treanor

Molotov Theatre Group seeks a non-equity Stage Manager for its first show of the 2012 season: Julius Caesar, directed by Kevin Finkelstein and adapted by Shawn Northrip. This is a good oppor…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:53AM
Tuesday, January 31, 2012

NSAL competition for Musical Theater Performer. Cash prize is $4,000. by Lorraine Treanor

This year’s National Society of Arts and Letters’ National Career Awards will be presented for Musical Theater. All performers, 18 to 29 years old who do not have a professional …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:56AM

Acme and UnSaddest team up for Rogue Waves by Lorraine Treanor

Last summer, for this column, I took a brief look at Baltimore’s Ten-Minute Play Festival, hosted by the UnSaddestFactory Theatre. The most mind-blowing feature of that weekend of occa…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AM

Faction of Fools seeks costume designer by Lorraine Treanor

Faction of Fools, DC’s Commedia dell’Arte theatre company, seeks a Costume Designer for Hamlecchino: Clown Prince of Denmark, running April 26 though May 19 at Gallaudet Universi…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:19AM

Theatre Lab seeks Technical Director by Lorraine Treanor

The Theatre Lab, Washington’s largest theatre school, seeks part-time Technical Director for summer teen productions of Parade, Urinetown, and Off a Broken Road. Work with professional…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:16AM
Monday, January 30, 2012

No Rules takes a new look at Peter Pan by Lorraine Treanor

Actors playing Peter and Wendy give us their takes on the new play No Rules Theatre Company is getting ready to open the world premiere of Peter Pan: the Boy Who Hated Mothers with John Evan…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:37PM
Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Amelia gets a 2 week extension by Lorraine Treanor

Amelia, A Story of Abiding Love,  the two actor Civil War drama by Alex Webb enjoying a critically acclaimed run at Washington Stage Guild, has added 8 performances, and will now close Febr…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:03AM
Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Adventure Theatre auditioning child actors this Sunday for Big, the Musical by Lorraine Treanor

Adventure Theatre is casting child actors for the world premiere Theatre for Young Audience version of Big, the Musical. The company is seeking young musical theatre singing and dancing perf…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:27PM
Monday, January 23, 2012

Olney Theatre announces its 2012 season by Lorraine Treanor

Olney Theatre Center, which operates on a calendar year season, having just ended its 2011 season last weekend with the highly successful Sound of Music, thanks to several extensions, has ju…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AM
Thursday, January 19, 2012

Artomatic set to occupy Crystal City building in May, first event is Jan 28th by Lorraine Treanor

Call for artists and volunteers Artomatic, the area’s biggest exposition of visual and performing arts, has announced that this year’s free arts event will take in Crystal City a…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:51AM
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Preview performances of Necessary Sacrifices have been canceled by Lorraine Treanor

Ford’s Theatre just announced that due to a private health matter, David Emerson Toney has withdrawn from the cast of the Ford’s Theatre Society production of Necessary Sacrifices. F…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33PM

Adventure Theatre helps young writers take a stand against bullying by Lorraine Treanor

Adventure Theatre gets Montgomery County Middle Students involved with Anti-Bullying New Play  contest. Deadline to submit is Jan 30, 2012. Michael J. Bobbitt and Sang Bobbitt Hanna Many ch…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12PM
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

WATCH nominations announced by Lorraine Treanor

January 15, 2012 – The Washington Area Theatre Community Awards announced its judges’ nominations for the 12th annual WATCH awards at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA.  WATCH jud…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AM

Stick Fly by Lorraine Treanor

I’m reviewing Stick Fly a couple of weeks after it opened on Broadway because when it was announced, I didn’t have much interest in seeing it. The title eluded me, I’d not …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:05AM
Monday, January 16, 2012

David Emerson Toney’s snowy day by Lorraine Treanor

David Emerson Toney agreed to write the book for a children’s musical at Adventure Theatre based on Ezra Jack Keats’ well loved book “The Snowy Day”.  But he was stuck. In the book,…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:32PM
Thursday, January 12, 2012

Ticket sales are red hot for John Logan’s Red by Lorraine Treanor

Preview week has sold out, and eight performances have been added If you were planning to catch John Logan’s Red at Arena Stage in its discounted preview week but don’t already h…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:28PM
Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Nu Sass gets ready for its first musical – sock puppets and Sondheim by Lorraine Treanor

Nu Sass, which won Best Comedy at last summer’s Capital Fringe Festival for Priscilla Dreams the Answer is back with a 2 day concert version of  its first musical, Stephen Sondheim…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:19AM

Alice Ripley to headline Artspeak! January 31st by Lorraine Treanor

How to inspire and excite young people and help ensure the artists and audiences of the future? Philanthropist and super-fan Mark Shugoll thinks he has one answer: start early. Since 1989, A…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:20AM
Monday, January 9, 2012

Playwright seeks 50+ male actor to round out the cast of new play by Lorraine Treanor

Looking for an actor, 50 or older who could convincingly play a retired person, for a new, darkly comic stage drama – The Waiter.  Character description: MR. PERPETUALLY UNDECIDED: A …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PM
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Registration for Monologue Madness auditions opens at 10am today by Lorraine Treanor

The DC area’s best theatre & film actors battle for over $1000 in cash & prizes Basketball has it March Madness Tournament, and, thanks to DC actor/producer/athlete Edward Daniels,…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:19AM
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Lean and Hungry casting for The Tempest by Lorraine Treanor

Lean & Hungry Theater, the innovative company which adapts Shakespeare plays into radio plays,  is holding auditions 11 am – 7 pm, on January 8th for The Tempest, directed by Hann…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26AM

In the Heights co-stars in STC’s Two Gentlemen rock opera by Lorraine Treanor

Shakespeare Theatre promises both spice and funk when its concert version of Two Gentlemen of Verona (a Rock Opera) opens for a three day run Jan 27th. Robin De Jesus, In the Heights, 2008. …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AM
Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Auditions for 2 new Adam Levowitz musicals, week of Jan 9 by Lorraine Treanor

DC composer and conductor Adam Levowitz and his newly launched MaXaM Production Group are casting for two new musicals, The Buddy Drew – The Musical  and Galactic Cigarettes Present…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM
Friday, December 30, 2011

Joe Brack is the last elf standing by Lorraine Treanor

Performers in holiday shows have lots to be merry about this season as box office sales have earned extensions for their shows. Synetic’s Romeo and Juliet added a week, closing today,…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:58AM
Monday, December 19, 2011

Shakespeare Theatre renames rustics in Much Ado in response to complaints led by Hispanic director by Lorraine Treanor

The Huffington Post announced Saturday that the Shakespeare Theatre has changed the names of Much Ado About Nothing’s Juan Huevos and Jose Frijoles, two of the buffoons featured in Dogberr…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AM
Friday, December 9, 2011

Comic Justin Purvis on MetroConnection by Lorraine Treanor

This week’s MetroConnection is all about health and wellness – an ironic choice as host Rebecca Sheir tells us she’s suffering from a raging head cold.  Justin Purvis (cou…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:07AM
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Wonderful Life by Lorraine Treanor

The miracle is not Christmas, but that we come to it at all. For eleven months, we snap and tear at each other like ravening dogs, foot soldiers in the war of all against all, but on Christm…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AM
Monday, December 5, 2011

Sons of the Prophet by Lorraine Treanor

It’s difficult to offer you a focused picture of Stephen Karam’s Sons of the Prophet at the Roundabout’s Laura Pels Theatre. It manages  to tell a dark story with humor an…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25AM
Thursday, December 1, 2011

William Shakespeare arrives at Shakespeare Theatre by Lorraine Treanor

Madame Tussauds London has transported their intricately fashioned wax sculpture of William Shakespeare to the lobby of the Sidney Harman Hall, where he appears, outside the main floor gift …

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AM
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Equivocation by Lorraine Treanor

Equivocation is a six-course meal of a play, not turkey and stuffing but some rarer and darker bird, with sides of squashed hopes, whipped religious feelings and humiliation pie – and yet,…

SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PM

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