Thursday, 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 11:49AMFriday, August 5, 2011
Lyricist Fran Landesman started with “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” and the Broadway musical The Nervous Set. Then turned her life into songs. Here’s how our li…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:40PMThursday, August 4, 2011
Why settle for stools from Ikea, when you can have Ikea-like stools that Jennifer Mendenhall and others used in Circle Mirror Transformation? Or wouldn’t that red couch Tom Story is p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:45AMWednesday, August 3, 2011
The 2010-2011 DC area Theatrical Season Last updated Aug 3, 2011 Click to sort COMPANYClick to sort PRODUCTIONClick to sort 2011/12 DATES 1st StageDON'T DRESS FOR DINNER by Mar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:43PMMonday, August 1, 2011
Today, Taffety Punk continues its annual tradition of bootleg performances when the company plus friends gather for the one and only rehearsal of tonight’s single performance of Willia…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30AMThursday, July 28, 2011
E. Faye Butler begins rehearsals for Arena’s Trouble in Mind On August 9th, there will be one change in the cast of Arena Stage’s hit show Oklahoma! as one actress moves from …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:45AMMonday, July 25, 2011
July 24, 2011 – Sunday night, as the last shows in this year’s Capital Fringe were winding down, the Capital Fringe closing night party in the Baldacchino Gypsy Tent was underway…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:03PMCompany Click to sortProduction Click to sort2011/12 Dates Click to sort 1st StageDON'T DRESS FOR DINNER by Marc CamolettiSept 9 – Oct 2 1st StageTHE HOW AND WHY by Sarah TreemOct 28 – N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMFriday, July 22, 2011
With 3 more days to go, there is still plenty of Fringe left – 44 performances today alone. However, it’s news to no one that we’ve got what could be record breaking temper…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:31PMThursday, July 21, 2011
Michael J. Bobbitt and members of Adventure Theatre are setting off on an adventure of their own when their Nippon Airways flight departs July 27th, touches down in Japan the next day before…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PMFriday, July 15, 2011
DC playwright Gwydion Suilebhan argues that perhaps it has. This year, the price of a Fringe ticket has gone from $15 to $17, and the required one-time purchase of the Fringe button has incr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PMThursday, July 14, 2011
An interview with e-Geaux (beta)’ s Joseph Price and Amy Couchoud Believe it or not, groundbreaking technology is making its world premiere at Capital Fringe. And Steve Jobs is nowhere to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:57PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Traveling to Shepherdstown, WV to cover the Contemporary American Theater Festival is the most sought-after assignment among DCTS writers. If you’ve been to the Festival over its pas…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:14AMAlthough seemingly a tortured treatise on reconciling faith and forgiveness, From Prague by Kyle Bradstreet actually comes off more as a travelogue about the charms of Czechoslovakia. John …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12AMThursday, July 7, 2011
A look at the art of the Fringe button The Capital Fringe button you’ll be sporting somewhere on your person this July may look like you bought it at a Winslow Homer exhibit, but actua…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:57AMTuesday, July 5, 2011
July 7 – 24, 2011 Welcome to this year’s Capital Fringe splash page. Use it as an easy reference to all of our Fringe coverage throughout the site. Coming soon – meet thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:27PMThe press release reads CHERRY RED PRODUCTIONS TO CLOSE FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER, AFTER ONE FINAL NIGHT OF DEBAUCHERY! And on that one final night, August 27th, DC’s smut-loving the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:39PMTuesday, June 28, 2011
Most interesting read of the morning: ‘White Hot Set’ from WeLoveDC. Jenn Larsen, seeing that minimalist all- white set for Old Times wondered what it took to create and maintain…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:29AMTuesday, June 21, 2011
When Lean & Hungry Theater imagines its audience, they’re not thinking of the devotees of the bard, though many of their fans are just that. They create their versions for thos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:07AMFor about half of this thirty-minute adventure, Adjusting the Volume is as much fun as an (artistic) blind date can possibly be. Visual artist Lee Gainer displays a gorgeous series of images…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:33AMFriday, June 17, 2011
On Monday, June 20, 2011, 17 African-American theatre companies across the country will take part in the first annual celebration of African-American Theatre by producing benefit staged read…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:46AMWednesday, June 15, 2011
Bernadette Peters as Sally (Photo: Joan Marcus) Just announced – the Kennedy Center’s star studded production of Follies, just ending its six week sold-out run here on June 19th,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:32PMFor four sold out performances in New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, a star studded cast performed Stephen Sondheim’s Company acompanied by the New York Philharmonic. The recording of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:38PMAttention, all you future Broadway stars. Signature Theatre is ready to discover you. The Tony Award-winning company in Arlington, VA, has just announced that audition slots are now open to …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
Welcome to our coverage of this year’s 2011 Source Festival. Here’s how this year’s producers describe it: “Every creative journey begins with one bold step. In the spiri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMDue to high box office demand, both Studio Theatre and Woolly Mammoth this week announced extended runs. Woolly Mammoth’s Bootycandy by Robert O’Hara now closes July 3, 2011.�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:34AMFriday, June 10, 2011
When Amadeus closes this weekend at Round House Theatre, its leads set off on very different paths. Sasha Olinick, who plays the audacious genius Amadeus, goes into rehearsal as Toad in Wind…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:13PMBefore listeners around the country who were tuned in to NPR’s “All Things Considered” on Thursday heard about the regional Tony Award being presented Sunday night on the t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AMWednesday, June 8, 2011
Rusty Clauss, who mastered comedy and drama during a lengthy career on Washington stages and who performed in movies and on television, died on June 4th after suffering a stroke following a …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMTuesday, June 7, 2011
Finland’s best selling novelist writes a play about Estonia’s painful past On June 9th, Scena Theater – which bills itself as “Washington’s International Theater” – wil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:01AMElegant and delicate as the gossamer wisps of a spider’s web, Spooky Action’s Einstein’s Dreams is a work of enchantment which might actually be true. For what is scientific advancemen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AM 
