Wednesday, March 22, 2017
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 sister…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMHey theater geeks, you’ll want to pay attention to this one! Did you ever think it’d be cool to sit back with the characters you had just seen on stage and just shoot the shit for a whil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PMOnce an accidental role, Kevin McAllister’s turn as raging pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr., in the expansive, Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre will be the third go-aroun…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMTuesday, March 14, 2017
Once an accidental role, Kevin McAllister’s turn as raging pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr., in the expansive, Tony Award-winning musical Ragtime at Ford’s Theatre will be the third g…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:06PMMonday, February 13, 2017
The problems that vexed Lillian Hellman’s “sound the alarm” play Watch on the Rhine at its debut in 1941 still apply to the handsome production at Arena Stage today. Worse yet, it’…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMWednesday, January 25, 2017
Actor and musician Daven Ralston glows when she talks about connecting with people through music. An accomplished pianist and violinist, Ralston is performing in Folger Theatre’s productio…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:12AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Arlington’s Synetic Theater transports audiences to the fairy tale realm of enchanted forests and love at first sight in its latest wordless adaptation. Sleeping Beauty gets the vis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Christmastime is officially upon us, heralded by the copious variants of Charles Dickens’ Yuletide classic A Christmas Carol springing up around the Washington, D.C. metro area. Offerings …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:48AMWednesday, November 16, 2016
Director Shirley Serotsky’s touching Broadway Bound at 1st Stage is a captivating mix of coping humor and tragic poignancy, borne aloft by Teresa Castracane’s soaring performance as Kate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:02AMWednesday, October 19, 2016
Bethesda, Md.-based Quotidian Theatre Company opens its 2016-2017 season with The Night Alive, the most recent, critically acclaimed drama from Conor McPherson, one of contemporary theater�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMTuesday, October 4, 2016
The Little Foxes is at once an old-fashioned melodrama and a biting critique, seemingly written for today, of the hotly resented “1 percent”. The play’s set up and mechanics feel l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:00PMTuesday, July 5, 2016
A variety of unrelated acts—song and dance, comedy, acrobatics, pantomime, magic—vaudeville was the popular American entertainment before radio, film and television. Happenstance Theater…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22AMMonday, May 2, 2016
There’s a lot of serious stuff exposed in Ayad Akhtar’s incendiary Disgraced, currently at Arena Stage. The 90-minute one act asks tough questions, presents thorny dilemmas, uncorks usua…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AMTuesday, April 5, 2016
I’ll get right to it: For all the big-time awards bestowed upon it and its marketing promising profound discoveries at the end of an artful journey, David Auburn’s Proof is puzzlingly fl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:34AMThursday, March 3, 2016
The play’s final words sum it up best: “This heavy act with heavy heart relate.” The Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of William Shakespeare’s Othello is decidedly heavy on…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
The narrator clues us in at the outset that what we’ll be watching are the shadows of memories. This “truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion” are Tom’s sheltered remembrances of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AMMonday, December 21, 2015
Unapologetically uplifting songs like the Act II opener “Sun’s Gonna Shine” have pressed a consensus judgment that Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s Broadway-bound period musical Brig…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit is one of those canonic icons that most theater-literate folks are familiar with but probably haven’t seen. When intellectuals of Sartre’s type attempt to ma…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:38PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
Michael Hollinger’s Tiny Island certainly fits the theme chosen for the Washington Stage Guild’s 30th year—“A Season of Past & Future.” The premise of estranged sisters reuniti…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AMFriday, August 28, 2015
It pains me to write this review of Dogfight at the Keegan Theatre. I’ve been a Keegan patron for years and was happy to experience its newly renovated space for the first time (it debuted…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:26PMWednesday, July 15, 2015
Not as well known or as often produced as Conor McPherson’s later works The Weir, Port Authority or Shining City, this superb production of This Lime Tree Bower is every bit as worthy, in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AMMonday, June 8, 2015
Spooky Action Theater’s spirited dive into the addled mind of avant garde playwright and nonsense man Alfred Jarry provides an experience of the provocateur’s life and art in a manner th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:30AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
Studio Theatre Artistic Director David Muse’s inspiration to “bring the 14th street nightlife” onto the stage and immerse its audience in a rock musical cabaret experience pays off big…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:49AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
John Patrick Shanley’s thought-provoking dialectic on the dead-end of certainty vs. the revelatory nature of doubt is masterfully handled by director Michael Dove in a production at Tysons…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25AMFriday, December 12, 2014
By Act IV’s wedding masque celebrating the betrothal of Ferdinand and Miranda, I fully capitulated to the spell of enchantment director Ethan McSweeny has conjured for The Tempest, his lat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PMWednesday, November 5, 2014
Giacomo Puccini’s abiding tale of tragic love proved its unassailable endurance as the Washington National Opera’s restrained, ashen La bohème received an enthusiastic standing ovation …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:53AMTuesday, October 28, 2014
I was all ready to declare Quotidian Theatre Company’s boldly imagined if awkwardly self-conscious reworking of Hedda Gabler as a fatal misstep in transference. But after revisiting Henrik…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:00AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
The reflective moments after a funeral open and close August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, the opening production of No Rules Theatre Co.’s 2014-15 season. And that’s wholly appropriate, as …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMTuesday, August 5, 2014
Chalk up another success for Arlington Va.’s Signature Theatre, which welcomed loyal subscribers and curious newcomers alike August 2nd for its annual free Open House event. Music, fun and…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Arlington, VA’s Shirlington Village is the place to be this Saturday, August 2nd, for Signature Theatre’s Open House, an annual celebration of theater and music. From noon to 10 p.m.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
Is The Veil firstly a ghost story? Hard to say, but it is appareled in those trappings, and some fine creepy moments are conjured, too. Is it historical metaphor? One may be led to believe s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:53AM 
