Thursday, December 6, 2012
Most of the attention in a theatre review usually goes to the actors and the strong eleven person cast of Young Robin Hood certainly deserves praise. Yet the success of this world premie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:26AM[SHARE]Monday, November 5, 2012
The Brontes is not a play for lovers of 19th-century literature. In fact, some of this crowd will be offended by this irreverent production from Dizzy Miss Lizzie's Roadside Revue. But t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 31, 2012
If I were to tell you that young couples once danced nearly to the point of death, staying in motion for forty-five minutes every hour around the clock for sometimes 4,000 hours straight for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:38AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 22, 2012
The Bedroom is by the far the worst venue I have yet to view a play in. The low ceilings provide for terrible sightlines, especially for those not in the first few rows. This also cr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:04PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2012
Viewing Pointless Theatre's Imagination Meltdown Adventure is like looking at a bowl of half-melted ice cream: what you see is runny, messy, and almost formless. But then you think "what…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:17AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Actor Meshaun Labrone is an experienced actor who has played a number of Shakespeare's most famous characters, including the title role in Richard III. It shows throughout in his one man…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:22PM[SHARE]The Cloudism Project from Borealis Theatre seeks to create an "atmosphere" for a unique interactive experience. What we get is a clever, but in fact, conventional play. Perhaps this was …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:07PM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
Most "adult" plays are meant as biodegradable entertainment; few, if any offer as many ponderable themes as Maurice Martin's R.U.X.. Just before the show, by chance I ran into Martin in …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:10AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2012
Someday, Jace Casey (actor, writer, director, choreographer, composer, choreographer, music director, arranger) is going to spend a slow afternoon going over the production notes and artwork…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
The Last Flapper ends when Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald leaves the building.  Oh, I'm not giving away anything: she left it many years before the play began. The "jazz age" author/ d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:14PM[SHARE]Friday, June 15, 2012
Once upon a time, there was a lonely critic. Never mind where he lived, nor care whether he was tall or handsome, though he certainly was not rich. One day, this lonely critic went t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:56PM[SHARE]Friday, May 11, 2012
Russian playwright Ivan Vyrypaev, whose play Oxygen is being produced by Taffety Punk, is a proponent of the experimental school of New Drama where plot and character are no longer the basis…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:50AM[SHARE]Monday, April 30, 2012
Don't take this the wrong way, but Hamlet has always been difficult for me. Yeah, there are more than a few who say it's Shakespeare's greatest play (though the older you get, the more y…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:59AM[SHARE]Friday, April 27, 2012
Producer/ stars Allyson Harkey and Karen Lange, in their newest production for Pinky Swear"Marisa Wegryzn's Killing Women" present a play about the big women's issues of our day. In part…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 22, 2012
Who knew there was such a lode of priceless, unheralded Eugene O' Neill material out there, and just under our noses? The New York Neo-Futurists found it by digging in a place some of us…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Artistic director Caren Hearne was all bubbles and shine as she introduced Studio 3 Theatre for Young Audiences' production of Lizzie Allen's Home to a Saturday afternoon crowd at the Workho…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 20, 2012
On Friday, March 16th, a company called Tattooed Potato showed its first public face at Flashpoint. Although they are not there yet, this group could easily evolve into yet another iconi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:45AM[SHARE]Monday, February 27, 2012
I want you to imagine it is 1927; the week after Christmas. You have bought your tickets, and now your chilly bones sit in a dark corner of Florenz Ziegfeld's Theater in New York. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2012
If you think furs, Fabergé eggs, ballet when you think about 20th century Russia, Les Justes is here to remind you that for every lithographed Russian noblewoman traipsing around St. Peters…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:35PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Welcome to winter wonderland, presented by 1st Stage. If you’ve been to this theater, things will seem a little different this time. The arena-like seating is curtained off for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:35AM[SHARE]Monday, February 6, 2012
Landless Theatre is at it again. Yes, the company that brings you inane post-modern theatre, has hit another one: Devil Boys from Beyond, premiering this February, and though it's a trip…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:12AM[SHARE]Monday, January 16, 2012
This Saturday, I attended DCTS' annual party at a lovely Thai restaurant near DuPont Circle. I must say that every moment was enjoyable, but the party really started with Tim Treanor's t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 21, 2011
If you like comedy that makes you smile as well as laugh you can't do much better than 1st Stage's presentation of Miklós László's Parfumerie. Audiences on this side of the worl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:14AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 29, 2011
"Take a typical show at the old Globe, kick out the wine merchants and vassals who paid subscriptions and leave only the groundlings, and you'll get the audience Apron Theatre Company Artist…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:49PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 26, 2011
- This play will probably always be part of the dramatic canon, because it tells a story that seems to repeat itself as often as summer rain. From Socrates to Christ, to Jan Hus, to Drey…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:58AM[SHARE]Saturday, October 22, 2011
If you are seeking a nuts-and-bolts review of KJ Sanchez and Emily Ackerman's ReEntry, you need to look elsewhere. I can't provide that; this is simply a play that resists that kind of a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:09AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2011
Plays the devil made them write There was once a kid who lived in Cottage City, Maryland. In 1949, in fact. Research says the boy"Ronnie Hunkeler"was very "off." A loner with cla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:19PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
The "star" of one of the most popular plays this season only appears on the stage for a few minutes, has no lines of dialogue, and doesn’t take questions from the press. Worse stil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:02PM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2011
Some of you have lost loved ones to a disease that took its sweet time to do its destruction. I will not ask you to remember what that felt like. You recalled it all, just because I …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2011
Be patient, readers. There is a review in your future, but first"a history lesson. Lithuania is a relatively small (about 3 million people) country on the Baltic Sea, bordering both …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2011
It seems there are three simple rules to staging Shakespeare successfully. One: put the play in a modern setting, like, say, a dive bar in Anytown, country unknown. Second, inject as…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:09PM[SHARE] 
