Friday, 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 11:49AMMonday, August 24, 2015
It’s a strange, if exciting, thing to watch a production at war with it’s own thesis. At a time during which much of the national conversation in the theater industry is about diversity …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:57PMWednesday, June 10, 2015
A disaffected 20-something falls in love with the embodied mental projection of Mary-Kate Olsen, running away with her imaginary lover to an island paradise. Gosh, that’s an irresistible p…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:34AMFriday, May 22, 2015
Alex Mills in assless underwear. … … … I have been informed by my editor that “Alex Mills in assless underwear” does not constitute a sufficient review of Synetic Theat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42AMThursday, May 14, 2015
Amazing how people can talk themselves out of doing the right thing. Mix a heap of overthinking and a dash of inertia and you can warp morality into anything that fits your interest or mood.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:30AMSunday, April 26, 2015
I yelled “bravo” during a round of applause yesterday. I’ve never done that before. And it wasn’t even at the end of a show. It was during the act break. Of a children’s dance piec…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:34PMWednesday, February 11, 2015
The United States of America has been at war for 14 years. 4489 Americans have died in Iraq. 2356 in Afghanistan.* Over 52,000 wounded. 970,000 disability claims registered with the Veterans…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:57AMThursday, January 8, 2015
I’m not a church-going man; the theater is my church. It’s where I go to experience, and aspire to create, the sort of communal experience that a house of faith provides so many. Call me…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:22AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Trigger warning: this review contains references to a play containing linguistically graphic depictions of sexual assault, forced abortion, racism, misogyny of the violent sort, disembowelme…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
With a title as juicy as Bad Jews, a writer better be able to back up the bravado with some some serious skill. Luckily for DC audiences, Joshua Harmon is a young writer of uncommon emotiona…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PMMonday, November 10, 2014
Heading into the forcefully cheerful holiday season, Scena Theatre’s got a nasty little gift waiting for audiences at the Anacostia Playhouse. Mark Ravenhill’s Handbag is packed with cop…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:05PMMonday, October 27, 2014
In recent years there has been a marked uptick in collaborations between the DC professional theater community and Gallaudet University, the famed local school for the deaf. I’ve been a pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:00PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
As a director with a sideline in criticism I’ve always feared my fellow artists would one day eat me alive. I never thought it would happen so literally. DC Dead, currently shambling the h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:08PMThursday, September 4, 2014
At a key moment in the Dirty Dancing musical, currently kicking off its national tour at the, er, National, Samuel Pergande’s Johnny struts through the audience, mounts the stage, walks co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:07PMMonday, June 9, 2014
Nobody in the world of Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s The Totalitarians seems all that interested in little things like gender, race, sexuality, party affiliation or class. In Nachtrieb’s cynica…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PMMonday, May 12, 2014
If the Zeitgeist Festival is truly an indicator of the current global evolution of theater, than I’m happy to say this industry is as strange, wonderful, bizarre, rough, frustrating, intim…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:46AMFriday, May 2, 2014
There’s a certain irony in producing The Threepenny Opera in shining Shirlington. Signature has chosen to present one of the great polemics against human degradation in a community fastidi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
I respected Arguendo more than I liked it. From a technical perspective, it’s near flawless. Four fine actors (Mike Iveson, Vin Knight, Susie Sokol, and Ben Williams) play the nine justice…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:05AMMonday, March 31, 2014
The BROS were in town for one vanishingly short weekend. The Baltimore Rock Opera Society brought their grungy magnus opus Gründelhammer to Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory. Gründelhammer is…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Every great young actor should get his shot at Hamlet. The Dane is the tragical crown jewel, the great emo star-maker. It’s to Synetic’s credit that upon remounting the production th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:50AMThursday, February 20, 2014
American Idiot celebrates a year in the life of the early 21st Century American dudebro. Based on the multi-platinum 2004 album by pop-punk 90’s survivors Green Day, Idiot follows the misa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
This is the fairy tale story of the whirlwind romance between a lonely, lyrical young script and the scrappy theater company that swept her off her feet. Such is the tale of Rorschach Theate…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:38AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
I remember Miss Nelson. I remember the kindly young teacher driven batty by the especially naughty students of Room 207. And I, of course, remember nasty, mean, odorous Viola Swamp. Those ar…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:17AMSunday, July 21, 2013
The good people at Wild Rumpus Productions should thank the deities of all the varied pantheons they found Manu Kumasi, star of solo comedy Sanka, Ya Dead Mon?. With off-the-chart presence a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:38AMFriday, July 19, 2013
They Call Me Q! ranks among the very best of a large and varied crowd of autobiographical solo shows I’ve seen over eight years of Capital Fringing. Click for tickets to They Call Me Q The…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:52PMSunday, July 14, 2013
It’s Fringe season, so when you tell folks at the tent you’re off to In Search of The Perfect G-String they’re to be forgiven for their assumption you’re headed to one of the sever…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:27PMFriday, July 12, 2013
The Kubrilesque audience enters to incessant click-clack of a typewriter, the province of an intense, hard-drinking man and a reference that if you don’t immediately get it might just mean…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:01PMFriday, May 4, 2012
- When we asked Matthew R. Wilson, founder of Faction of Fools how the students at Gallaudet were responding to his company’s presence on campus, his answer was a quick invitation …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:33AMFriday, October 14, 2011
Pretty soon, every season will be Fringe Season. What once was solely a summer phenomenon has blossomed into an all-year producing organization. This November, FallFRINGE is back! This year�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:39AMThursday, July 21, 2011
iKilL is a exhibition of excellent choreography performed by a well-drilled ensemble. Auteur director Izumi Ashizawa has gathered a team of talented young actors. Together, they seek to port…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:56PMFriday, July 15, 2011
Playwright Pam Mandigo’s Washed is concerned with Big Themes and Big Questions. How does a society function without knowing God? Is redemption possible for even the most vile of criminal…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PM 
