Monday, May 25, 2015
Titled the Mead Center for American Theater, the dazzling new $135 million waterfront complex is an instant national theater landmark.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM[SHARE]Review of the debut of the national touring company. "What's peace and love for if not for sharing?"
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM[SHARE]Admittedly not one of Webber's best, but Terry Ponick found Eric Schaeffer's production at Signature Theatre "slick, compelling, and surprisingly moving."
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:58PM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2013
The Kennedy Center's new production of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár's vintage 1910 dramedy The Guardsman, starring Finn Wittrock and Sarah Wayne Callies, promises to be a surprise h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Signature Theatre’s production of Jason Robert Brown's musical The Last Five Years starts out almost like a cliché, but then sneaks up on you and gets you deeply involved before you k…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2013
A sprightly new production of the classic Broadway musical Fiddler On The Roof  is now on tap at Toby's Dinner Theatre of Columbia. While lacking the expanse of a Broadway stage, To…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2012
An Irish Carol , now in its second of hopefully many annual appearances at Keegan Theatre, is not your father's Christmas Carol. Unless you father is a drunken, aging Irishman hanging about …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, December 17, 2012
Irving Berlin's White Christmas, now at the Kennedy Center Opera House through January 6, is an irresistibly toe-tapping song-and-dance confection which rolls a selection of Irving Berlin hi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Well on its way now to becoming an annual Falls Church Christmas tradition, the Creative Cauldron's production of Christmas Cabin of Carnaween opened last weekend at ArtSpace Falls Church wh…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 20, 2012
The Quotidian Theatre Company's new production of James Joyce's The Dead, which opened this past weekend could be the best holiday theater surprise of the season. Quotidian's production of t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:37PM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
Tom Dudzick's Over the Tavern has seen a lot of productions since its first stage outing back in the mid-1990s. Olney Theatre Center's new production looks good and feels authentic. But unfo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2012
The Keegan Theatre's A Couple of Blaguards is an oasis of madcap, guilt-free fun in the midst of a DC fall season that usually emphasizes high-seriousness or more substantial fare. The Keega…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2012
The American Century Theater's new production of Archibald MacLeish's nearly forgotten verse play J.B. is well worth encountering, particularly if you're looking for an intellectual challeng…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:49PM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
As area performing arts companies crank into high gear for a frantic September of opening nights, Alexandria's MetroStage seems to have gotten the jump on nearly everyone. Their fantastic, e…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:14AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
Arena Stage's recently opened production of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart is the area's first production of the controversial play since 1995. It was in that year that Arlington's Washingt…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Cuchullain is inspired by Irish legend and “Cuckoo’s Nest”, its author explains Rosemary Jenkinson's brand new one-man, one-act play Cuchullain, currently in rep with Ke…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:40AM[SHARE]The traveling road show edition of Memphis, winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Broadway's Best Musical, arrived at the Kennedy Center's Opera House this weekend past. DC is the first stop, la…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:51AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Suzanne Andrade's The Animals and Children Took to the Streets is, as Monty Python once explained, something completely different. It's not really a play, although it tells a story.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:25AM[SHARE]Friday, June 8, 2012
The always hyperkinetic Synetic Theater company is in action again at its home base in Crystal City. This time, instead of funneling classic theater works through their uniquely visual, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
If you're among the many, many Washingtonians who love good vocal and choral music, you can't do better than to head on down to the Atlas Performing Arts Center to catch the Washington Savoy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:28AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 11, 2012
a photofeature which takes you inside and behind the scenes of the newly restored Howard It'll be a hot time in DC's Shaw neighborhood this week as the venerable, historic Howard Theatre sta…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:27PM[SHARE]Friday, March 23, 2012
This year's Source Festival will feature 24 new works, several by area playwrights under the direction of such well-known directors as Jennifer Nelson, Factor 449 Artistic Director Rick Hamm…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Sunday evening, Arlington's Signature Theatre revealed the world premiere of Brother Russia, a new rock musical by the creative team of John Dempsey and Dana Rowe. Chock full of interesting …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:55PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 21, 2012
From time to time, most performing arts organizations schedule a special evening of entertainment geared toward raising audience awareness as well as attracting much needed donations from we…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:53AM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2012
Now on stage at Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia, the company's production of Rodger's and Hammerstein's classic 1951 musical The King and I is a remarkably effective revival of this exotic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:11AM[SHARE]We talk with Louie Magic, Dennis Diamond, and Daryl Hannah, if that be their real names. The Elephant Room isn't really a play and it isn't really a magic show. In fact, it's a little har…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:46AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 26, 2012
The fabulous Zaza, as portrayed by singer/actor Christopher Sieber, is the heart and soul of La Cage aux Folles, the current revival of the smash Broadway musical now playing to packed house…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 24, 2012
SCENA Theatre's current production of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler puts some interesting twists on a classic that's rarely seen on DC stages these days. SCENA's veteran A…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2012
Arlington's provocative American Century Theater opened its latest intriguing blast from the American past last weekend at Gunston Theater II. On tap this time: Jules Feiffer's 1967 bizarrel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:55AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2012
The Broadway run of Billy Elliot the Musical ended last night, but the national tour is just starting its eight month road trip and has one week to go in its highly successful run at the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:11PM[SHARE]Monday, December 19, 2011
The touring production of Billy Elliot, the Musical, now ensconsed at the Kennedy Center Opera House,  is a driving, energetic, and oddly appropriate holiday feast for thoughtful theat…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:25AM[SHARE] 
