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SOURCE: breakingcharactermagazine.com at 02:20PMWednesday, April 23, 2014
As reported here yesterday, Monday morning, Woolly Mammoth Theater announced the cancellation of their upcoming festival of work from Russia. The withdrawal of Moscow municipal funds crucia…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:17AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
DCTS writer Robert Duffly is presently studying in Moscow, under a program from Harvard University The Russians are not coming. Monday morning, Woolly Mammoth Theatre announced the cancellat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:33AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
Todd London, artistic director of New Dramatists, has compiled a family Bible for the modern American theater. In the letters, speeches, and reflections collected in An Ideal Theater: Foundi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:56AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
The mythmakers at Constellation Theatre Company, who previously produced The Ramayana, The Green Bird, and Metamorphoses, have now gone after the world’s oldest story. Gilgamesh, the a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:58AMFriday, April 12, 2013
Performed with Wallenstein as part of STC’s Hero/Traitor Repertory, Shakespeare’s less-performed Roman tragedy roars to life at the STC. Director David Muse sheaths the tragedy&#…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:45AMMonty Python’s Spamalot now at The National Theatre for its brief and final visit to DC, is a musical romp through a favorite film that shouldn’t be missed. A delight we’r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:48AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Like Dahl’s famous peach, this larger-than-life production teems with fun. A bit of genre anxiety robs the story of some of the stage magic it deserves, but there’s still plenty …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:35PMMonday, March 18, 2013
Pennsylvania Avenue meets Broadway in Capitol Steps‘ farcical revue of contemporary politics. Comprising an ensemble of multi-talented former Hill staffers, Capitol Steps offers a musi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:09AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Hell hath no water break for Bill Largess, whose one-man Dante’s Inferno sears through Dante’s underworld in 90 minutes. Exercising a mnemonic hat would impress Homer, Largess e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:12AMMonday, October 29, 2012
“Nothing in the world is as amazing as something that is neither clear nor unclear,” marvels a member of director Aaron Posner’s dervish ensemble in The Conference of the Birds, no…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:30PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Holly is a precocious 15-year-old. She knows the fine points of quantum physics, and she’s in her school’s gifted and talented program. She is also pregnant, and a recent convert…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:28AMMonday, August 13, 2012
The end of days strikes close to home in Impossible Theater Company’s new devised piece, [missed connections] at The Fridge, a snug but supercool gallery space near Eastern Market. The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:45PMGroundlings gathered in Dupont Circle Saturday night to watch Empty Chair Theatre Company juggle skulls and, eventually, die all over the fountain’s north steps in a swashbuckling and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMSunday, July 15, 2012
Stephen Spotswood’s new play We Tiresias is not so much a retelling of the blind seer myth as it is a total refiguring. Using three actors to portray different phases in the prophetic …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27PMSaturday, July 14, 2012
At least until the end of the Capital Fringe Festival, philosophically inclined theatergoers can find hell in a church basement. One Universal Race Theater’s production of Sartre’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:24AMIzumi Ashizawa’s Dreams in the Arms of the Binding Lady is a nightmare in all the right ways. In turns seductive and ghastly, this dream sequence drawn from Japanese myth is an entra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:21AMFriday, July 13, 2012
The Nita and Zita Show lovingly re-imagines the 1920′s vaudeville scene, whisking audiences to the Folies Bergère era with sparkling dance numbers and Hungarian gypsy tunes. Inspired …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:19AMFriday, June 29, 2012
Brave Spirits Theatre plays dress-up in this jaunty production of Shakespeare’s Richard III, staged minimally with a cast of ten in the Atlas Performing Arts Center’s Lab Theater…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:45PMMonday, June 18, 2012
It’s taco night in the Source rehearsal studio. As three strangers sit down to dinner, their similar anxieties bring them into a shared space that starts to feel like home. With its ri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:43PMOver a series of experiments, a scientist is drawn ever closer to his subject in this elegant, gymnastic dance of opposites. One of the Source Festival’s three Artistic Blind Dates, th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AMIt’s taco night in the Source rehearsal studio. As three strangers sit down to dinner, their similar anxieties bring them into a shared space that starts to feel like home. With its ri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:35AMWhen the man in the fedora leads the audience onto 14th Street and promises they’re about to see something that “has never before existed in the history of this evening,” he’…
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