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 10:24AMTake out the words, and it turns out you can make Shakespeare’s most violent play even more brutal and terrifying. With Titus Andronicus, Synetic Theater has created a vicious, disturbing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMThere’s no getting around it — The Winter’s Tale, as far as Shakespearean romances go, is a weird play. One King’s jealous rage springs into action for seemingly unfounded reasons. H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:29PMFollowers of Jesus post Bible verses on Reddit. John the Baptist unplugs the wifi to get everyone’s attention. The surrendering of your cell phone or laptop is the ultimate show of commitm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AMThose unfamiliar with the works of Jonathan Coulton are likely to find themselves going down the Google rabbit hole after seeing It’s the Rest of the World That Looks So Small, a theatrica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:56AMYou know things are going to start getting weird when the woolly mammoth and the dinosaur show up at the front door. Indeed, Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth may be a classic, but …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AMJaqueline Marie Butler may seem like an unassuming teenage girl, just doing her best to find her way in her new, confusing home country of Nigeria. But don’t underestimate her — as Jaque…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:20PMAn Irish Carol does a fine job capturing the spirit and message of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale in an evening spent in an Irish pub. No small feat. The play, courtesy of author Ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:04PM“Seasonal Disorder” is an improv grab bag of sorts. Depending on which night a person shows up, between now and December 31st, the audience can end up seeing everything from comedy to dr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMIt might be tempting to write off The Pajama Game as a slight, dated musical from the 50s that doesn’t have much relevance today. After all, this is a show where characters throw around ph…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AMMan, Faction of Fools really loves its cheese. Dairy productions from pecorino to gouda all get gleefully name-checked during the troupe’s infectious Fool-for-All, Tales of Marriage an…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMThere’s a certain art to speaking without saying anything of substance - a talent all too familiar to those who live among the politicians and think tank heads of Washington D.C.. Pe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:43PMThere is a certain subset of people, particularly kids of the 80s, for whom such phrases as “As You Wish” and “Never argue with a Sicilian when death is on the line” …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:41AMYou don’t meet a ton of pundits or humorists these days that can utter the phrase, “Never met a man I didn’t like” and mean it. But Will Rogers was a different sort o…
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