Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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 12:42PMSaturday, November 26, 2011
Theatre lovers haven’t been left out of the cyber super sales weekend. On Monday, November 28th, for one day only, Signature Theatre is offering 50% off all tickets to their 2011/12 se…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMTuesday, November 22, 2011
Audiences tuning in for tonight’s scheduled GOP debate will see Wolf Blitzer introduce the candidates, and then Mauricio Pérez, one of four Frankie Valli’s from the national tou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AMSunday, November 20, 2011
Capital Fringe Festival’s Fall Fringe, originally scheduled to close Sudayn, Nov 20th, has extended the two most popular productions in the original 11 show lineup. Good Girls Don’t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27AMFriday, November 18, 2011
DC’s Puppet Underground has teamed up with Occupy DC for a full afternoon of puppetry, poetry and music titled Occupy Kabaret Street, a roving street performance. The event starts at …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:31AMWednesday, November 16, 2011
Spooky Action Theater, a small company which has faced misfortune in the past, has become the recipient of a bequest valued at $1.6 million, Spooky Action’s Artistic Director Richard …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Local theatres participate in Razoo’s first area 24 hour giving campaign If your inbox has been buzzing today like a door bell on Hallowe’en with theatres asking for small bits o…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PMThursday, November 3, 2011
Shakespeare Theatre Company turns 25 this year, and to celebrate, they’re turning the Lansburgh into a Broadway concert hall for The Bard’s Broadway: The Boys from Syracuse, for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:37PMTuesday, November 1, 2011
In 1974, A.R.Gurney’s Children was produced by Lynne Meadow at the Manhattan Theatre Club. It was Gurney’s first full length play and it arrived on our shores following a succes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:13AMMonday, October 10, 2011
Frank Langella’s performance is spell-weaving In late 1963, Terrence Rattigan’s play Man and Boy opened on Broadway with a cast headed by film star Charles Boyer, where it limped…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:46PMWhat Constellation Theatre Company giveth, Center Stage taketh away. Comedies of manners and farce usually send this critic screaming into the night and searching for a bar that serves cockt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:08AMSaturday, October 8, 2011
In the end, Steve Jobs failed to “think different,” in the deepest way In his brilliant monologue, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, seen here at Woolly Mammoth last March, Mike D…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18AMFriday, September 23, 2011
Rick Hammerly talks about how directing Dead Man Walking has changed him as an artist On Wednesday night, Sept 21st, as supporters of Troy Davis held a vigil outside the Georgia prison where…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:51PMWednesday, September 21, 2011
A candlelight vigil will be held Sunday, Sept 25th, from 7 to 10pm beginning at the Dupont Circle fountain and walking to the 2600 block of 11th Street NW, Washington, DC. Actors Jason McCoo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:39PMMonday, September 19, 2011
The Kennedy Center celebrates turning 40 with MyTix, a generous ticket discount program This month, forty people will win a pair of tickets to Les Misérables, and others will be able to tak…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AMBaltimore has many advantages over its sister city to the South—better food, nicer people, filmmaker John Waters, and the citizenry got to see Alice Childress’ funny, furious come-to-Jes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:53AMFriday, September 16, 2011
“Dear Friends”, 1409′s Facebook entry began this morning, and with that, Elsayed Mansour and Jeff DeMontier went on to announce that their restaurant, 1409 Playbill Cafe, t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:38PMFriday, September 9, 2011
In 2001, twelve days after the 9/11 attacks, Anne Nelson, a teacher of journalism at Columbia, performed an act of kindness for a NYC fire captain. He had lost eight men in the collapse of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:15PMWednesday, September 7, 2011
Arena Stage celebrates with a three day ticket sale Arena Stage has announced that, as of September 1st, more than 100,000 audience members have seen its award winning production of Oklahoma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:58PMFriday, September 2, 2011
In the days of my youth I, like many of you, took the Peter Pan Pledge: “I won’t grow up, I won’t grow up/Never gonna go to school…” Regrettably, I neglected to take the Peter Pan …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:23AMTuesday, August 30, 2011
The Kennedy Center hosts its 10th annual Page-to-Stage new play festival from Saturday, September 3, 2011 to Monday, September 5, 2011, featuring works presented by more than 40 theaters fro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:01PMSaturday, August 27, 2011
With Hurricane Irene concentrated on DC area coastal regions, theatre companies have reported that they will continue with scheduled performances this weekend. The only events we have found …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AMFriday, August 26, 2011
The finalists of the Audience Choice Awards have been chosen, and we are about to open voting for the final round to select the winner in each category. Everyone who received a ballot for th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:41AMTuesday, August 23, 2011
Inspired by the DC area’s 5.9 earthquake today, Signature Theatre quickly responded with a salute to the fact that we’re still standing with this incredible offer: Just $5…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06PMRegistration to vote for the 2011 Audience Choice Awards closes Wednesday, Aug 24th at midnight. Everyone signed up by then will have the opportunity to vote both in the first round, which c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:35AMSunday, August 21, 2011
As the new season opens, there will be one fewer critic looking on. Bob Anthony, who wrote through his Web site AllArtsReview4, passed away from respiratory failure on Saturday, August 20, 2…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PMThursday, August 18, 2011
The critics have spoken. The judges have spoken. Now it’s your turn. We like to think of the Audience Choice Awards as one final round of applause for all DC area theatremakers. Think…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46PMTuesday, August 16, 2011
The press has spoken . The judges have spoken. Now it’s your turn. Since 2007, DC Theatre Scene has been asking its writers to name the best productions and performances of the theatri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AMMonday, August 15, 2011
This year’s Shakespeare Theatre’s popular Free For All is the return of their 2008 production of Julius Caesar. Originally directed by David Muse, now Artistic Director of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:10AMFriday, August 12, 2011
August is the hottest month for ticket sales too. DC audiences are showing they like seeing their favorite shows the second time around. Yesterday morning, Constellation Theatre had only 30…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMThursday, August 11, 2011
Our annual Audience Choice Awards recognizes the best productions and performances of the 2010/11 DC area theatrical season. Our staff is busy compiling their nominations, and soon we will…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AM 
