Monday, November 30, 2020
Any creative way that local companies find to bring us original theater feels like a lifeline these days, and We Happy Few’s genteel caper, Loveday Brooke in ‘The Mystery of the Drawn Da…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMMonday, March 9, 2020
A 16th century queer romance that’s a jukebox musical set to the hits of The Go-Gos? It’s hard not to think “train wreck potential” when you hear the synopsis of Head Over Heels, the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:18PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
As Constellation Theatre Company wraps up its performance of The 39 Steps each night, one thing’s for certain: the lighting designer deserves his own curtain call. Managing Director A.J. G…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:06PMTuesday, January 14, 2020
When a play about Martin Luther King, Jr. is set at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis on the evening of April 3, 1968, it’s easy to assume that you know where the play is going. But The Mount…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMonday, December 9, 2019
It’s a savvy move on the part of Synetic Theater to stage a production of The Snow Queen right as children and tweens everywhere are besotted with the prospect of “Frozen 2” opening in…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMMonday, November 11, 2019
In White Pearl, playwright Anchuli Felicia King quickly throws the audience into a keenly contemporary conflict: a viral social media PR crisis, with a company accused of racism. Inspired by…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Jon Fosse’s Sea is a tricky play to connect with. Its inhabitants seem at times to be on a boat (“I am the Shipmaster!” one insists, over and over), but it’s clear early on that the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMFriday, October 11, 2019
High school musicals are hot right now, with Broadway hosting everything from the biting Mean Girls to the heart-warming The Prom to the phenomenon Dear Evan Hansen to the zany Be More Chill…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:06PMThursday, September 5, 2019
Yvette Spears is one of those performers who sings with her whole body and soul. Medleys start deep in her throat and nearly consume her as she belts out the blues, whether she’s scolding …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:36PMMonday, July 15, 2019
Broadway musicals’ 11 o’clock numbers are often defiant, triumphant character studies or orchestra-swelling realizations of love — think “Rose’s Turn” from Gypsy or “She Used t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
It’s probably safe to say that We’re All Going to Fucking Die! is the only Fringe show where you stand a chance at taking home a prostate massager. Despite the cheekily morbid title, thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMIn 33 1/3 Chorus Girls, seven comedic sketches are linked by the loose thread of “show business.” A klutzy stand-up comedienne tells academic jokes about Harry Potter, surrounded by heck…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMFriday, June 28, 2019
Mom’s so in denial about having a baby, she’s nine months pregnant and still thinks she’s making it to her ballroom dancing competition in Spain. Shady used car salesman Dad’s hoping…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Frankie Addams really, really wants to get out of dodge. The teenager and her struggles are put center stage in The Member of the Wedding, a staple of high school English classes adapted int…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMTuesday, April 30, 2019
Constellation Theatre Company’s latest production may be called The White Snake, but it’s the Green Snake who steals the show. Momo Nakamuru proves a delightful, hilarious presence as th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Pre-dinner martinis turn into two bottles of champagne, which turn into nightcaps of Benedictine. The alcohol just keeps flowing during Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, and things get more an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
My sister asked me what play I was going to see as we wrapped up our phone call. “Oh, it’s a musical about one of those contests where people stand around a truck and the last person who…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMMonday, February 11, 2019
As a film, the tiny indie musical Once (shot over 17 days for a mere $150,000) was such an unlikely hit that it’s easy to be cynical over whether a big-budget Broadway adaptation could cap…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:42PMWednesday, February 6, 2019
Abrupt decapitations. A chatty, fiendish cat. Magical sorcery onstage and off. An epic costumed ball thrown by Satan himself. On its surface, The Master and Margarita doesn’t seem like the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:54PMFriday, January 18, 2019
Keith Hamilton Cobb (or at least, the actor he’s playing) isn’t exactly afraid that his director might accuse him of playing the race card when it comes to his opinions over Othello. Onc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:48AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Broadway obsessives who can rattle off titles like Shogun: The Musical, Smile and Ruthless with as much authority as The Music Man and Les Misérables will find a special place in their hear…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AMMonday, December 17, 2018
So is God more like a Jewish mother or an abusive husband? Both comparisons are thrown around like zingers in Mosaic Theater Company’s Oh, God. In Anat Gov’s comedy, God (Mitchell Héber…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:32PMFriday, November 30, 2018
The glimpses we get into God of Vengeance, the real-life play-within-a-play that’s at the heart of Paula Vogel’s thrilling, stirring Indecent, are audacious, provocative, tender, challen…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMMonday, November 19, 2018
Whether they’re getting dolled up for a trip to the Shop-N-Stop like it’s a trip to the prom, or realizing, as the Fed-Ex guy walks away, that they’ve had an entire conversation with t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMWednesday, October 17, 2018
There are only about a dozen cast members onstage at the exhilarating closing of Aida’s first act, but given their vocal power and emotional heft, you’d swear there were 30. Constellatio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:32PMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Was Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors lacking for want of a Broadway-style splashy opening number? Probably not, but director Alan Paul has tinkered with the comedy by adding a handful of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PMTuesday, September 18, 2018
Eye rolling and harrumphing over Broadway musical writers being out of ideas feels pretty banal at this stage in the game. It’s no secret that creators of musical theater are relying more …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:18AMTuesday, July 17, 2018
In Monumental Theatre Co.’s production of Pippin, young dreamers are still out to find their own corner of the sky — they’re just also likely to share that corner with their social me…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:18PMMonday, July 9, 2018
Playwright Matthew Capodicasa has tapped into a truly terrifying idea in The City Of… The premise: What would happen if an entire town just gradually started forgetting everything about ea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMFarah Lawal Harris’ America’s Wives is an extended metaphor, really. Its central two characters are both married to a distant, narcissistic, unfair man named America. His first wife is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Amy Leigh Horan’s new play Burst is tough to watch — and at the same time, engrossing to watch — precisely because it feels so real. Anyone who has dealt with grave uncertainty and a d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24AM 
