Shakespeare Theatre Company Artistic Director Simon Godwin's choice of directorial debut wasn't a stretch. Godwin's newly minted tenure at STC begins with a vivid and zesty restaging of his …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:36PM[SHARE]On the positive side, there's nothing "scaled down" about the Kennedy Center's latest Broadway Center Stage series presentation of Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt's 2008 steamrolling tearjerker Ne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:36PM[SHARE]The big takeaway from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the glimpsed exposure to what goes through the mind of a special person"in this case someone with an autism spectru…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM[SHARE]A doleful ballad fittingly eases you into Quotidian Theatre Company's (QTC's) lovingly rendered production of Conor McPherson's Port Authority. Three generations of Irishmen then introduce t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AM[SHARE]The staging of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning Fences at Ford's Theatre seemed made-to-order for a grand slam home run. The memorable backyard drama of father and son a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12PM[SHARE]Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's restaging of his 2017 Broadway production of Jitney at Arena Stage"bringing to town much of the design team and several of the actors"is a terrific kickoff t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]There are so many weirdly gleeful moments stuffed in Assassins, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and book writer John Weidman's darkly comic and brilliant musical vaudeville exposing the a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:12PM[SHARE]Over 100 and some years ago, The Mollusc was the best-known work of an Englishman considered to be in affinity with the likes of Oscar Wilde. About 10 years ago, my colleague at DC Theatre S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:33PM[SHARE]I guess I just don't get Falsettos. The Tony Award® winning musical may have been fresh at its 1992 Broadway debut"it's mainstream depiction of gay couples was certainly trailblazing"but …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:03AM[SHARE]Admittedly, the synopsis for the dystopian kitchen-sink drama The Children at Studio Theatre didn't tremendously excite me initially, notwithstanding the interest in acclaimed British playwr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]Enchantment awaits those who enter Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim's wildly inventive, darkly comic thicket of life lessons sprung from children's fairy tales in a new revival at Ford's The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:44AM[SHARE]Director David Muse's Richard the Third is clearly rendered, scored to propulsive industrial rock and sets itself apart from previous productions by a series of grisly execution scenes, b…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AM[SHARE]I normally don't like dumb movies of the kind in which the actor Jack Black has made a conspicuous brand. But School of Rock, the sleeper hit from 2003, wasn't that dumb"it was funny and swe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AM[SHARE]The streak is broken. Playwright David Ives' winning series of brilliant, hilarious "transladaptations" performed at the Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC) over the last decade ground to a cr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]The revival of Cole Porter's 1934 madcap romp Anything Goes at Arena Stage manages to be everything that it can be"an anachronism, tiresomely silly and outright dumb in places, but also the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06PM[SHARE]As I write this, leaders from around the world are marching down the Champs-Élysées in Paris under a canopy of umbrellas in the rain, gathered to commemorate the 100th anniversary of th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PM[SHARE]Actress Natascia Diaz's bold performance breathes transformative life into Fosca"one of musical theater's most remarkable creations"in Signature Theatre's resplendent revival of Stephen Sond…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:06AM[SHARE]In 2015 the president of Prince George's Community Pool in Mt. Rainier, Md., discovered copies of decades-old correspondence between pool officials and Raymond Bowlding, a local black man, w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PM[SHARE]Other Life Forms, local actor and playwright Brandon McCoy's new play, is likable"sweet, goofy and well-intentioned"but still needs a lot of work to have any lasting impact. The comic curios…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AM[SHARE]Playwright Ken Urban's absorbing new play starts strong and keeps you hooked during most of its snappy real-time runtime before slogging down in a closing exhalation and then abruptly coming…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:36AM[SHARE]Broadway actress and singer-songwriter Desi Oakley is over 200 performances in on the national tour of the fan-favorite musical Waitress, now at The National Theatre. She plays the lead r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PM[SHARE]Seeing Two Trains Running at Arena Stage marks the halfway point of my consummation of playwright August Wilson's decalogue of dramas expressing the 20th century black experience in America.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:30PM[SHARE]Referenced more now as "the first show from the guy behind Hamilton," the decade-old In the Heights created by current cultural darling Lin-Manuel Miranda burst spirited and joyful during it…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:19AM[SHARE]The Farnsworth Invention, showbiz writer Aaron Sorkin's misfired attempt to retrofit a screenplay about the patent battle over television transmission into a stage drama was a dud when it op…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:44PM[SHARE]Much of the fumbling journey of growing up as a teenager is done around other teenagers, not parents or other adults, at least in my experience. And the essence of that pubescent collective …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AM[SHARE]There was reason behind the fact that I had not yet seen The Book of Mormon. The show, a pop culture lodestone and the apex theatrical event until it ran up against the wave of adorat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:36AM[SHARE]A skeleton crew is the minimum number of people needed to maintain something in operation"to keep something alive. The title of Dominique Morisseau's appealing, thought-provoking drama…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:06PM[SHARE]Fifty years since Cabaret debuted on Broadway and almost as long since the 1972 film adaptation emblazoned its haunting imagery and seductive score across our collective consciousness, the j…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]Black rage"internalized, until it's not. Stories that carry like the blues. Language that ricochets like jazz. Penetration into the trauma of the black experience in America. This is the tra…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:12AM[SHARE]Lorraine Hansberry's groundbreaking portrayal of a black working-class family and its "dream deferred" in mid-20th century America maintains its timeless grace in a new revival at Arena Stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:31PM[SHARE]The women chant their lines over one another above a rising swirl of offstage clamor that reaches a crescendo pitch. Masha (Caroline Hewitt),"the most troubled of the three Prozorov sisters"…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PM[SHARE]
