Wednesday, December 30, 2020
After death, two professionals spring into action. The undertaker applies makeup, and puts formaldehyde in the veins, so that the forgetting may begin after a celebration. If the undertaker …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Congress has included a $15 billion grant package for performance and related arts, including theaters, in the $900 billion coronavirus relief package it passed on Monday. The program, calle…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PM[SHARE]Friday, December 11, 2020
Do you remember the old Firesign Theatre? On their records (do you remember records?), an absurd scene would dissolve into another absurd scene, until you dissolved in laughter. To put a per…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AM[SHARE]Monday, December 7, 2020
Scrooge was right, you know; it is humbug to fall like jackals upon each other for eleven months of the year, but on the twelfth to feign good will and generosity of spirit. He was a skinfli…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:32PM[SHARE]Friday, December 4, 2020
After fifteen and a half years and more than ten thousand articles, DC Theatre Scene will cease publishing on December 31, 2020. After December 31, there will be no more reviews, no more art…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2020
You're never quite sure which Claus is independent in Jackob G. Hofmann's meandering, pointless 70-minute video comedy until the very end, and by that point it doesn't matter. In Best Medici…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 24, 2020
Shakespeare Theatre Company announced yesterday that it will cancel its limited in-person production of Blindness in light of an increase in the number of DC coronavirus cases. The increase …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 22, 2020
The economic havoc caused by the coronavirus has claimed another local victim " Brave Spirits Theatre. The nine-year-old company was in the midst of an ambitious project to produce Shakespea…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2020
Brothers and sisters, think back to the day you asked your Heart of Hearts to join you in eternal matrimony, if there was such a day. Did you do it in the traditional way, at a restaurant, k…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2020
An embittered Ari Roth today announced that he has resigned as Artistic Director of Mosaic Theater Company, the company he founded six years ago after parting with Theater J. Board of Di…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2020
Tom Prewitt, Avant Bard Theatre's Artistic Director, died suddenly yesterday, the company announced on Facebook. W. Thompson Prewitt, wAvant Bard's Executive and Artistic Director since Febr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Live theater is a dangerous place. We know it as a place where audacious ideas and forms " The Seagull, Death of a Salesman, Angels in America, A Strange Loop " saunter their risky walks acr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2020
Melissa Dunphy's The Gonzales Cantata, which will begin its run on In Series' website November 3, is an opera with a unique libretto " transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2020
There are not many towns which could be riveted by a tale which revolves around the tax treatment that carried interest gets, but, by God, Washington is one of them. Of course, the carried i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2020
Shakespeare Theatre Company's peripatetic Artistic Director Simon Godwin, having instituted a six-production 2020-2021 season for STC notwithstanding the pandemic, has decided to use his spa…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:33PM[SHARE]All stories are about the loss of power " or, more correctly, loss of the illusion of power, and the more fundamental the loss, the more heart-wrenching the story. Here we are, in the prime …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Everyman Theatre today announced that it would resume producing theater live and in person by continuing the run of Caleen Sinnette Jennings' Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains on Nov…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 18, 2020
Halloween has a special resonance this year, as the horrors are close at hand, funerals are more numerous than weddings, and at times the whole world seems to be a sepulcher. In this context…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:03PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Like spring crocuses peeking out of the melting snow, DC-area theaters are beginning to formulate a path back to their audiences, tentative but real. Shakespeare Theatre Company is among…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2020
The pandemic has turned theater into a treasure hunt for some companies as they scramble to find new modes of presentation which are both safe and rewarding for their audiences. But one area…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, September 26, 2020
The Helen Hayes Awards were last night, so I slipped into my good tux, straightened my black tie, and took the Metro down to the waterfront. I hoofed it to the Anthem; saw some buddies; shoo…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:42AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2020
Statehood for the District of Columbia has always been a fraught enterprise. It wasn't until 1961 that Washington residents could vote for President; and before 1973, Congress appointed DC g…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2020
If you are inclined to self-righteousness " and, really, who isn't? " you might be prepared to look down your nose at the various Senators, House Members and other political high rollers who…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36PM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2020
We think of Shakespeare as a romantic. He was anything but. As portrayed in the canon, love is an affliction, which clouds the reason and destroys discrimination and judgment. If we take a c…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:18PM[SHARE]Monday, August 17, 2020
To frame a story about the triumph of lies over truth, jealousy over love, anger over generosity of spirit and " let's put it plainly " the insidious reach of racism over all decent impulses…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Changes which might come about in theaters once the plague is over may affect ways in which audiences see and experience the art. To prepare patrons for these changes, Theater J will be offe…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 5, 2020
When the pandemic struck America, Congress was quick to help out the airline industry (to the tune of $50 billion) and cruise ships " two businesses which were financially devastated by the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12PM[SHARE]Saturday, August 1, 2020
Into the valley of death rode the six hundred…no, no, no, that's not it at all. I'm looking for a poem to help me decide what to do " poetry is the oldest form of literature, after all, pr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:03PM[SHARE]Friday, July 31, 2020
Since art, like life itself, constantly renews itself, new generations of artists arrive on stages, and in studios and publishing houses, whether we are ready for them or not. They are not d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 23, 2020
A new survey from Shugoll Research shows that area theatergoers are even more reluctant to return to theater in the face of the coronavirus than they were when the survey was conducted last …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, July 20, 2020
Arena Stage, whose ten-play season was cancelled earlier this year by coronavirus, has announced that it intends to restage in 2021 three of the plays it lost this year. To that contingent, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:42AM[SHARE] 
