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 11:53AMArlington’s Synetic Theater, showered with superlatives for its moody goth fantasias and wordless “Silent Shakespeare” series, is tentatively emerging from its comfort zone in concludi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:23AMUnsettled is the residual impression after viewing 1st Stage’s The Cripple of Inishmaan, although, and surely because, the experience delivers on the promise of enfant terrible playwright …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:11PM“Summertime and the livin’ is easy.” Those familiar with Porgy and Bess’s story of unlikely love, drug addiction and brutality amidst the slums of Charleston, S.C., know life for the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:59AMYael Farber’s Mies Julie, an unflinching adaptation of the Victorian shocker Miss Julie, clenches you tightly and doesn’t let go during its 90-minutes of fever-dream performance art stag…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:23AMFirst-time director Michael Avolio has done something extraordinary. How’s that, you ask? Not only did he have the chutzpah to stage Eugene O’Neill’s rarely-produced, large-ensemble gr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:20AMGrieving the sudden death of a cherished person is a most personal process, not bound to an expiration date or applied formula. The passage from shock to acceptance is a campaign for control…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AMJon Robin Baitz’ fitful exposé of a coiffured, political-celebrity family in extremis, Other Desert Cities, the hit of the 2011-12 Broadway season, is a cool, captivating examination of t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:57AMFor all the imposing bang of Thomas Stearns Eliot’s blasts of modern poetry (The Wasteland, Four Quartets), his “drawing-room” plays, while also flush with important, complex ideas, te…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMThe joint Signature Theatre/Ford’s Theatre mini-version of the classic tart of a musical Hello Dolly! is charming and delightful, if a bit lackluster. Here, director Eric Schaeffer attempt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:59AMDiscerning theatergoers, are you looking for a contemporary play that you can relate to, that makes you laugh and think about the world? Are you in need of a delightful and gripping entertai…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AMDespite theater’s origins in religious ritual, dramatists for the most part these days present religion as a foil for criticism or mockery .. That’s especially true in regards to Christi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41PMScottish playwright Anthony Neilson is known across the pond as a visceral force in contemporary theater, from the vanguard of the brash “in-yer-face” genre, and creator of challenging w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AMFor those who have come to know the irascible George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion chiefly from the Cinderella romances of subsequent iterations, there are many recognizable commonalities to fe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AMPlaywright Gregory Burke’s intense and electrifying Black Watch manages to capture the valorous romance, raw humanity and transcendent camaraderie of soldiers in combat while simultaneousl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:21AMTo clip characters helpless from the bounds of their classic works and conjure up the residue of their stories requires bravery in vision, deftness in execution, and a wholehearted love for …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52AMAudiences for playwright Larry Kramer’s landmark 1985 agitprop drama The Normal Heart, will undoubtedly include those old enough to have been aware of and remember the baffling and fearful…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:31AMThe account of young American Jews who created some of the most popular and enduring superheroes of the golden age of comic books — invincible heroes who stood for truth and justice — wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMThe first big production number from Flora the Red Menace, “One Good Break,” a paean to young seekers everywhere, couldn’t be more apt as the theme behind the show’s creation. For mu…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMIt’s got Sinatra’s dulcet cool and Tharp’s kinetic heat baked in but still this puddin’ can’t rise. Come Fly Away, a remixed version of the 2010 Broadway dance revue now at The Ken…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:26PMEugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! plays a welcome trick on you. While enjoying a lighthearted situational comedy of stock family shenanigans, set in a time and place out of extant memory …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMRenaissance woman Natsu Onoda Power is generating a reputation for original, highly inventive performance pieces. Writer, director, designer, theater prof at Georgetown University, Onoda Pow…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AMI was on my way to the basement of a church in NW Washington to see a play I had never heard of, a minor work from a major voice in theater, one of my favorites, in fact. I was directed arou…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:34AMGet thee down to Penn Quarter’s Sidney Harman Hall to behold Shakespeare in the tropics, under the palms, smoldering in the Caribbean sun: it’s the one about the guy who secretly loves t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:48AMUnfinished business is at the heart of Conor McPherson’s ghost story of a play, Shining City, an often potent and truthful accounting of the way we live. Currently onstage at Quotidia…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:44AMSynetic Theater’s distinctive take on the Bard endures with the company’s Speak No More Silent Shakespeare Festival’s second offering: Othello. Synetic stamps its signature on one of S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMThe odyssey of the redemptive thief turned champion of the innocent and the good, the story of the lodestar Jean Valjean and “the miserables” triumphantly returns to the Kennedy Center r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PMWho is that boogeyman scaring the gullible and accommodating? Is it the headless Hessian wreaking terror on the residents of Sleepy Hollow, immortalized in Washington Irving’s classic 1820…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:02AMWho would’ve bet that a musical, by turns wacky and heartfelt, guided by a suicidal narrator struggling with his sanity—himself a metafictional send-up of anachronistic boys’ detective…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:35AMSteve LaRocque shines in Quotidian’s No-Frills Cherry Orchard The peasant-born millionaire Yermolay Alexeyevich Lopakhin often commands center stage in Quotidian Theatre Company’s earnes…
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