Tuesday, May 14, 2019
More Ryan Maxwell photos from this year’s fabulous Helen Hayes Awards at The Anthem. Recognize anyone? Leave a caption (include the photo #) in the comments below and we’ll add it. Fee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PMSunday, March 12, 2017
Why the heck is From the Mouths of Monsters only running this weekend? The workshop production currently in all-too brief residence at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater is more than re…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:54AMSaturday, January 14, 2017
There’s a great jazz band in residence at the Kennedy Center, featuring lively, poppy, soulful original music by Terence Blanchard. It alone is enough to recommend a glance at Bud, Not Bud…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PMMonday, December 12, 2016
Playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer is having something a breakout year here in the District. The Kennedy Center recently premiered his new piece for young audiences Where Words Once Were,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMMonday, November 7, 2016
Language is a playground. Structures and agreed-upon rules are there to be bent and broken, juxtaposed and toyed with. The Kennedy Center’s latest commission, Where Words Once Were, posits…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PMMonday, October 10, 2016
How much can a single great performance carry a whole production? That question is put to the test in Taffety Punk’s staging of Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s An Iliad, a semi-cont…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:28AMMonday, October 3, 2016
You might have heard about the Deepwater Horizon flick that just came out. I’ve not seen it, but based on the trailers it’s a big, bloated action disaster action movie that focuses …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMMonday, July 25, 2016
New works by local playwrights and artists dominated the 2016 Capital Fringe audience-chosen awards this year, announced by Capital Fringe’s Julianne Brienza: Best Comedy went to John Kri…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:21PMFriday, July 22, 2016
Vote Early. Vote Often! The most important election of 2016 is coming up soon. I write of course, of the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival Audience Awards. This year’s awards are hosted by our …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:34AMThursday, July 21, 2016
Pssssst. Hey, you. Pssssst. I’ve got a secret for ya. See, I’ve found this really cool little mobile app called PokémonGo. You walk around in the real world and catch…. Oh, you’ve h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:40PMWednesday, July 20, 2016
Whisper Into My Good Ear features two old men sitting on a bench talking for about an hour. They talk about mortality. They talk about the indignities of aging bodies, loss of eyesight, d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMTuesday, July 19, 2016
There’s something exciting about seeing history through the eyes of the losers and villains, it’s something about the dramatic tension between history being written by the victors and id…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:39PMSunday, July 17, 2016
We’re ten days into Fringe and I’m writing this during the first major rainstorm of the festival. Making it this long without severe weather is something of a minor Fringe miracle. Gives…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:00AMFriday, July 15, 2016
Let’s all give a nice big “welcome home!” to prodigal son Zack Myers, a locally-born multi-talent currently based out of Miami. Myers is currently camped out on the fringes of Fringe i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:57AMSunday, July 10, 2016
Christopher McDonnell, producer, director, and star of In A Nutshell, is to be commended for his ambition. For his production at this year’s Capital Fringe festival, he has chosen to pre…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03PMGender performance is a balancing act. This is the only-mildly pretentious thought that popped in my mind while watching the ambitious new local dance/circus/theatre company Steal A Step. S…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03PMSaturday, July 9, 2016
We’re seeing a particularly intriguing trend emerging at this year’s Fringe: area burlesque performers and troupes trying their hand at more traditional narrative storytelling, while try…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:10PMFriday, July 8, 2016
The Class Act Players are young, talented, and ambitious to an almost irritating degree. With SuperNOVA, the college-aged troupe presents their second full-scale original musical in as man…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:22PMThursday, July 7, 2016
Just minutes away from the opening of Capital Fringe 2016, Ryan Taylor takes a minute to pen the first entry of DCTS’ newest column, On the Fringe. Take it away, Ryan – Welcome…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:21PMSaturday, July 2, 2016
I must be getting soft in my old age, because I rather liked Bridges of Madison County. I better turn in my Fringe card and buy a mini-van. The touring run of Bartlett Sher’s Tony-winning …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AMSunday, June 12, 2016
I had simple plans this Sunday. Laundry. Chores. Shopping for a small dinner party I’m hosting. And finishing off my review of District Merchants, the latest classical adaptation from loc…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PMWednesday, June 1, 2016
“For you to be happy is all I’ve ever wanted…” Pretty words. Funny how often the subtext is “as long as you’re happy how I want you to be happy.” Control issues abound …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:25PMThursday, May 5, 2016
Paul Watson is, by all evidence, a fascinating man. Best known for a famous photograph of the corpse of a UN soldier being desecrated on the streets of Mogadishu, the Pulitzer Prize-winning …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Good to have you back, Solas Nua. The U.S. premiere of Deirdre Kinahan’s Wild Sky marks the welcome return to full theatrical production of Irish-focused arts group, now under the artistic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PMMonday, March 14, 2016
Laura C. Harris has now starred in my two favorite Signature Theatre productions. Her star turn in the immensive physical (and criminally underseen) Tender Napalm put her on my fanboy map, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PMThursday, February 11, 2016
How do you distinguish between “liking” a piece of art and “respecting” it? Is it even possible to like something if it completely devastates you? If thinking on it too deeply causes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:26AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
10. The Last Burlesque Produced by Pinky Swear Productions I’m partial to the work of prolific DC playwright Stephen Spotswood (I’ve produced and directed his work myself), and his story…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:00PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
This time, I survived. The team behind DC Dead is back with a sequel to last year’s surprise interactive horror hit. Whereas last year’s version was something of a final goodbye to the N…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:32AMThursday, October 1, 2015
There’s so much great free art in this town. Smithsonian’s out the wazoo. Free performing arts are a little tougher to find, with one of the major providers being the good people of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AMMonday, September 21, 2015
The spirit of the Fringe has infiltrated the national headline-making Women’s Voice Festival. With a lively, if modest, production of Jennie Berman Eng’s Whenever You’re Near Me (I Fee…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:16AMFriday, September 4, 2015
Can I use fairy magic to go back in time and kick my own ass? (Or should I say Bottom?) Because 2012 Ryan completely missed director Ethan McSweeny’s original take on his giddily horny ver…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:49AM 
