Wednesday, June 12, 2019
With stars overhead and faint sounds from picturesque Ellicott City, Chesapeake Shakespeare Company (CSC) brings a homey atmosphere to their movable Macbeth, performed amongst the renovated …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:42PMSaturday, March 23, 2019
With characters named “Dude,” “Gal,” and “Chick,” I was wary that Spills would be just another cliché story about millennials (What industry did we kill this time?). I was wrong…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:55PMTuesday, October 30, 2018
East of Eden is an American classic, a huge and sprawling novel, stretching from the Civil War to World War I and from California to Connecticut. John Steinbeck — who won the Pulitzer …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AMFriday, October 5, 2018
Washington Stage Guild’s Summerland serves up spirits from the next world but fails to make much of the play’s unusual post-Civil War subject and its fascinating antagonist. Sho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
In Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s She Stoops to Conquer, a skilled cast with a script that has stayed light and funny for over two hundred years makes for a great night out, hour after h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMThursday, July 26, 2018
Perhaps more than any other show at this Fringe, 52:15 challenges its audience to reconsider one of its core beliefs. The 100th Monkey Theatre Ensemble’s mix of traditional, surreal, and p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:54AMIn Aphrodite’s Refugees, Monica Dionysiou finds new ways to share stories she grew up with: in this case, as show’s description puts it “the fate of four teenage refugees i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AMWednesday, July 18, 2018
Brian Quijada is unstoppable. In his autobiographical Where Did We Sit on the Bus?, he sings, dances, and wields a live looper like a genius to create a solo performer musical that takes us …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMThe Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey brilliantly subverts both crime procedurals and comedy. This is a show not about catching the bad guys or laughing at weirdos, though it’ll trick …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMSunday, July 15, 2018
After nearly two centuries of begging, God allows Karl Marx a brief visit to Earth to clear his name. “I am NOT a Marxist!” he emphatically declares in historian Howard Zinn’s play. We…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
A holon, coined by Arthur Koestler in his book The Ghost in the Machine (1967), is philosophical term for something that is simultaneously a whole and a part. For example, Holon! is one whol…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMIn two years, David Rodwin went out with 120 women. Evidently, that changes a man. F*ck Tinder, Rodwin’s solo show on his dating life, ranges from deep vulnerability to unrestrained boasti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMFriday, May 4, 2018
Sam Shepard’s obituary in the New York Times describes his plays as hallucinatory, though his Pulitzer Prize finalist, True West, is relatively close to naturalistic. Critics often count …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMFriday, April 27, 2018
Girlfriend, a distinctly gay love story built around a specific alt-rock album, delivers a universal narrative of first time young love and the music that makes the teen years survivable. Ji…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMTuesday, April 10, 2018
Rapture, Blister, Burn is a masterful exploration of feminism in practice, and Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) gives it a sharp, engaging production sure to stoke important conversations ove…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:31PMTuesday, January 30, 2018
Perisphere Theater refreshes Molière’s classic Tartuffe with a skilled and playful cast. But you need be patient. The show digs itself a very deep hole in its first full scene, exhibiting…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:10PMMonday, October 30, 2017
Safe as Houses seizes a few opportunities to explore how unintentionally hurting loved ones does not make that hurt any less your responsibility. It gets bogged down, however, in handwringin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AMWednesday, October 18, 2017
There’s something noble in sticking with your family no matter what, but there’s also something noble in finally cutting ties with a toxic parent. The Price grinds that contradiction aga…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMThis past weekend, En Garde Arts brought a new multimedia documentary theatre piece to the Kennedy Center. True to the best of its genre, Wilderness strikes right at the core with devastatin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMTuesday, October 3, 2017
With a title like Love and Information, Forum Theatre’s newest show grants itself a wide warrant, delivering quite a bit of the former and volley after volley of the latter. The show reall…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMThursday, September 14, 2017
In Cabaret We Trust is a carnival of artistic talent from across a variety of media, even inviting the audience to participate. TBD Immersive earns its name by opening up a tremendous set s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
It’s very easy to wheel out Shakespeare for yet another production. It’s effortless to claim that your production is Important because it speaks to the current political climate. But wit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:18PMTuesday, July 25, 2017
In their first original piece in five years, Synetic Theater tells a grand story, from humanity’s flawed origin all the way to an ignominious end. The non-stop display of physical prowess …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMMonday, July 17, 2017
With P.I.C. : The Prison Industrial Complex, the Conciliation Project hits the cruelty of the American criminal justice system hard with just about everything they can throw at it: Scores of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:24PMFriday, July 14, 2017
We sent Marshall Bradshaw out to check on what the bars near Fringe headquarter have to offer all you Fringe-goers. Here’s his report. Star & Shamrock Tavern & Deli 1341 H St N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:18PMMonday, July 10, 2017
Autobiographical solo performances are a major food group at Capital Fringe. Spy in the House of Men follows the recipe step-by-step, but stands out from the rest as particularly well-writte…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMSunday, July 9, 2017
8 Bit Circus Sh*t’s two acts are almost as different as fire and ice. Both are video game-inspired displays of fire circus tricks, but vary greatly in excitement and accessibility. Act I t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33AMSaturday, July 8, 2017
Against a backdrop of trendy dramedies and raunchy musicals, the Wheel Theatre Company’s The Blind leads its audience to a cold, dark forest a century old. Your experience depends on how f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06AMFriday, June 16, 2017
In a moving memorial, director and co-conceiver Todd Kreidler uses solo actor Eugene Lee to call his friend and mentor’s spirit back to the world. Playwright August Wilson seized the oppor…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
Oberon, king of the fairies, has been challenged by his queen Titania to write a play to rival Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream without resorting to magic. But Oberon, though beau…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:54AMWednesday, June 7, 2017
Playwright David Ives’s mastery of rhymed verse builds on Molière’s 17th-century comedy of manners. Together, they will leave your sides aching. The School for Lies is the fourth French…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AM 
