Wednesday, November 21, 2018
Anacostia’s Theater Alliance announced that it has selected Raymond O. Caldwell, its Associate Artistic Direct, to succeed Producing Artistic Director Colin Hovde at its helm next year. Th…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48AMMonday, November 19, 2018
The man who shouted “Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!” in Baltimore’s Hippodrome during the intermission of Fiddler on the Roof on November 14 actually meant his outburst to be a g…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AMThursday, November 15, 2018
An unidentified man gave a Nazi salute and shouted “Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!” as the audience returned from intermission for act two of Fiddler on the Roof at the Hippodrome ye…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:32PMMonday, November 5, 2018
Things that are Round, Callie Kimball’s fine new play getting its world premiere at Rep Stage, could, with justice, be called Things that are Delusional, for it is the power and author…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:54AMSaturday, November 3, 2018
The Duchess of Malfi is a morality play with no morals, a revenge play in which no one’s revenged, except accidentally; a tragedy in which so many people get killed that there’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AMTuesday, October 30, 2018
The masochist believes in the transformative power of magic, of the variety that the goddess Circe used to turn Odysseus’ men into swine. To the masochist, the beloved is a goddess (Ve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:54PMMonday, October 29, 2018
The novelist, poet, performer and playwright Ntozake Shange, best known for her 1976 Obie-winning choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, died last…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:36PMThursday, October 25, 2018
– Ethan McSweeny’s been handed the keys to the American Shakespeare Center. Here’s what he plans to do with them. – How the Job Found the Man He knew of the place, but he…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12PMTuesday, October 23, 2018
It is worth noting that almost all the Shakespeare histories are tragedies, and almost all the kings whose stories he recounts are fools or knaves or both. The one exception (aside from the …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:04PMTuesday, October 16, 2018
It took a brave playwright to write How I Learned to Drive and it takes a brave company to stage it now, and if you go to see it with an open heart, you are a brave person, too. How I Learne…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PMIn this play, Anon (Eiren Stevenson) and his mother Nemasani (Toni Rae Salmi) flee their war-desecrated county to go to a land that they have heard is just and prosperous. But when they get …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:06AMMonday, September 17, 2018
We are riveted by a need to understand the perpetrator of a mass shooting, but isn’t it more pertinent to know what the survivor feels? After all, it’s much more likely that we w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMFriday, September 14, 2018
The skies opened up as Route 66, going west, became Route 81, going south, frustrating my vow to drive at 80 mph for the rest of the way. We had left at ten after ten, a reasonable enough st…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PMThursday, September 6, 2018
The Shakespeare Theatre Company has ended its nearly year-long hunt for Artistic Director Michael Kahn’s successor with the appointment of London’s National Theatre Associate Dir…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:33AMFriday, August 24, 2018
Cheese, wicked stepmothers, wicked stepfathers, national emergency and whatever your imagination can come up with — Imagination Stage will this season be probing all the themes which f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:32AMTuesday, August 21, 2018
GALA Hispanic Theatre will mark its next season, its 43rd, with eyes on modern classics: a play which takes Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea as a jumping-off point, the musical v…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AMLove the classics, but think they’re old hat? WSC Avant Bard has something for you this year: two brand-new reimagined classics (one by the Bard), plus one classic from our own time. T…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:24AMMonday, August 20, 2018
Washington Stage Guild, well known as the premier DC producer of the works of George Bernard Shaw, won’t be producing any of the master’s plays this year. Instead, it will serve …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:36AMWednesday, August 15, 2018
Stephanie Ybarra, The Public Theater’s Director of Special Artistic Projects, will be the new Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, the company has announced. She succeeds Kwam…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:36AMMonday, August 6, 2018
Imagine that George and Martha from Virginia Woolf invited the squabbling couples from God of Carnage over for a spot of dinner and some Hitchcock-style mystery and you pretty much have Dinn…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PMMonday, July 30, 2018
Annapolis’ Compass Rose Theatre will grace its new digs at 1623 Forest Drive with a 5-play 2018-2019 season, including three contemporary plays about art and two classic musicals. Comp…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMBest Medicine Rep Company, the Gaithersburg theater helmed by noted comic playwright John Morogiello, will feature three plays written by Morogiello himself in its 4-play 2018-2019 season. C…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:06AMSaturday, July 28, 2018
Alexandria’s MetroStage will open with Athol Fugard’s most recent play, and then bring back three of its most acclaimed productions to round out its 2018-2019 season. The Fugard …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:18PMRorschach Theatre, whose recent work has been characterized by world premieres, outlandish concepts, magical realism and suspenseful moments, will offer three world premieres of suspenseful,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:48PMThursday, July 26, 2018
The Country Co-Ed is a sex comedy. Everybody likes sex, right? Everybody likes comedy, correct? So how could things go wrong? Well. it’s a little more complicated than that. The Countr…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:36PMAaah, dammit, Teddy (Ari Eckley) has neurosyphilis! But who gave it to her? Was it Jeff (Reid Clark), an old lover now ensconced in Canada, in marital bliss? Was it the other Jeff (Walter C.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AMBack in my dating days, I kept company with a certain young woman who quite impressed me. I met her at her apartment preparatory to going to dinner. Just as we were about to leave, she got a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:12AMThursday, July 19, 2018
One of the unexpected pleasures of the Capital Fringe Festival is going to see the latest work by a Washington-area tyro and being blindsided by the work of an entirely different tyro. The k…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:24PMTuesday, July 17, 2018
The fine actor Vincent Clark, known mostly for his work at Washington Stage Guild, plays a sick man in this one-actor show. A very sick man. Imagine yourself at a holiday party with an elder…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:12PMSunday, July 15, 2018
Joey Maranto, a stand-up comedian, tells here the story of a failed stand-up comedian, failed improv performer, and failed children’s entertainer for a Christian television show (all t…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:04PMSaturday, July 14, 2018
Once there was a couple that so loved peace and justice that they would blow up buildings and kill people on its behalf. After that, they would move to another town, changing their identitie…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:54PM 
