“You all ready to get depressed?” It’s a lighthearted way to begin a performance, particularly when the title promises a subject matter that’s really less than cheery. That being…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:49AMIt’s 2015. At this point, we must have seen just about every iteration and incarnation of fairy tale that can possibly be cooked up by wandering minstrels and Walt Disney… right?…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:43PMThe performance of Wrestling with the WIP begins in the lobby of Brookland’s Dance Place: four women in quilted skirts in a blend of pantomime, precise movement, and frustrated shouts …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:43AMIn all honesty, I don’t want to say too much about Burlesque Classique’s Vaudevillian Romp, because I’d be cheating you out of your ticket (er, eraser). What I can tell you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:14AM“You know, it took me ten years to become an overnight sensation,” quips the sensational Danny Kaye, the springy curls of his hair bouncing as he waltzes around the stage, kickin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:28PMWalking into Hillyer Art Space’s main room, its walls lined with white folding chairs with a rustically set table at the head, you might get the feeling that you’re walking into …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:49PMLet’s cut to the chase: À Demain has the greatest performances of one of the finest scripts I have seen in years. I struggle to think of its equal — As You Like It at the Folge…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMThe main stage at the Goethe Institut is set like a Southern living room — a rocking chair, a small side table and what appears to be a glass of sweet tea perched atop it. As I take my…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:17PMMy father was an opera singer, sometimes still hums “toreador en garde” around the house, so when the arias flowed between scenes in Marriage, Lizards, and Love I was delighted…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:53AM“Is this Ghostbusters?” one little girl shrieks as an almost hazmat-clad figure pushes a strange mechanical contraption along the sidewalk facing the White House. Her mother quie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:20AMBargain Basement University provides a service sought worldwide: a quick and easy Bachelor of the Arts program, conveniently located around Fort Fringe, by which I mean it provides a brutall…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:38AM“Ronna, when I first met you, I thought you were a snobby white bitch. I judged you by sight, and not your inner self. But girl, you are a dynamite lady!” The upstairs gallery ro…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:47PM“You go home with a stack of books, I go home with a suitcase full of empty condom wrappers,” quips Lizzie (Stacy Mathison) to Olivia (Alex Johnson), and no scene or snippet of d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:34AMWe all have those evenings that turn, inevitably, into those storytelling days of yore — gathered around a fireplace or a fruit bowl, talking about family and friends, the good times a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:23AM“Who’s got this card?” Anna Lathrop calls, holding up the nine of diamonds. The woman in front of me raises her hand and Lathrop, the ringmaster of the evening, waltzes ove…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:27PMI know what you’re thinking: Christmas in July? Well, if you’re going to perform a retelling of the Nativity entitled Misconception: The Lost Gospel of Christmas, you might as we…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:08AMAs a kid, I dreamed of walking on the moon, of seeing the distant continents and all the vastness of space from within the confines of a climate controlled suit. Click for tickets to Kids in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:49AMRomeo and Juliet: Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, hashed out a thousand times in hundreds of variations on both stage and screen. So what keeps a production of arguably the most famous love…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:09AM