Monday, June 27, 2016
The Arlington-based WSC Avant Bard announced today that it will devote its upcoming three-play season to the kind of theater for which it is best known: original spins on classic plays. The …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 16, 2016
Have things become so grim in our political life that we’ve lost the capacity to laugh at ourselves? Granted, we have managed to nominate the two most despised candidates for President…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:02AM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
Crisp, lively, funny and full of life — although not always perfectly successful — the six ten-minute plays in the Source Festival’s Secrets and Sound cohort is a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:34PM[SHARE]A member of his Cabinet asked President Woodrow Wilson how long it took him to prepare his speeches. “It depends,” he said. “If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:25AM[SHARE]The secret to writing a play which grabs you by the heart is to ask a narrative question and then answer it at precisely the right moment. Answer it too quickly, and you have a story which d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:16AM[SHARE]The principal territory which the Artistic Blind Date lost&SOUND explores is secrets. This it holds in common, at least in part, with Static, the full-length play to which it is bonded, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
Like a 1950s cellar, the room is festooned with clothes-lines, which are, in turn, draped with fabrics, and also photographs and notes, all attached by clothespins. There is a ball of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:06PM[SHARE]The old adage is that a conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, but, as Jennifer Fawcett’s Buried Cities shows, things are more complicated than that. In Buried Cities, whic…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 25, 2016
So — all right, you missed All the Way at Arena Stage and you are forced to your TV as a consolation prize. I’m here to tell you that as consolation prizes go, this is a pretty g…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:30PM[SHARE]Monday, May 23, 2016
John, a professor and author, is about to receive tenure, and buoyed by the security that tenure brings, about to buy a lovely new house for his family as well. That will change. Signifi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:45PM[SHARE]Friday, May 20, 2016
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the last in our series highlighting this year’s H…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 19, 2016
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the third in our series highlighting this year’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:16AM[SHARE]Compass Rose’s 2016-2017 season will include an acclaimed musical, a play which became an acclaimed musical, perhaps the most acclaimed play of all time, and a play about an acclaimed …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 18, 2016
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the second in our series highlighting this year’s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Subscriptions became available today for Studio Theatre’s 2016-2017 season which features Three Sisters, No Sisters, Michael Kahn directing Caryl Churchill and Tom Stoppard writing on�…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:30PM[SHARE]The staging is impeccable, the acting is first-rate, the script is amusing and, to the extent you can say this about a play which has Hitler, Freud, Lucifer and Pope Francis talking to each …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:44AM[SHARE]Monday, May 16, 2016
It is an extraordinary thing to commit yourself to work in theater despite the long hours and low pay. Why do people do it? This is the first in a series highlighting this year's Helen Hayes…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 03:38PM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2016
Everyman Theatre announced this weekend that a venerable thriller and a venerable farce will bookend its 25th-Anniversary season, which will otherwise contain new comedies, a John LaChiusa m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:37AM[SHARE]Monday, April 25, 2016
The disciple Paul converted to Christianity after being knocked off his horse by a shaft of light, and hearing a voice say, “Saul, why dost thou persecute Me?” The conversion of …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:48PM[SHARE]Friday, April 22, 2016
The Wonder of Will, a season long celebration of the Bard by the Folger Shakespeare Library will culminate with a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare (and the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:39AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2016
A new adaptation of an old story and a successful adaptation of an even older story will join two Shakespeare plays (one of which is produced quite rarely) in Folger Theatre’s 2016-201…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:50AM[SHARE] Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will do some time-traveling in its 2016-2017 season, with four plays from Shakespeare; another story taken from the Bard’s lifetime; an icon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:44AM[SHARE]Monday, April 11, 2016
Mosaic Theater, buoyed by a million-dollar grant from the Logan Foundation, will launch an eight-play second season which will “unearth and investigate issues of race, social inequity,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:16PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 10, 2016
Fans of Sartre will know this setup: three guys walk into a small room in the afterlife. But unlike No Exit, the characters in The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens, and …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 7, 2016
Theater J, long a dominant company in Jewish theater throughout America, will offer a 2016-17 season full of plays about dominance under attack — including a perhaps surprising choi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:25PM[SHARE]To memories dulled by the passage of time, Lyndon Johnson seems like a bumptious interloper on the smooth passage between Jack Kennedy’s understated elegance and Richard Nixon’s …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:37AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Shepherdstown’s Contemporary American Theatre Festival will offer a five-production schedule which will include new plays by Chisa Hutchinson, whose Dead and Breathing ignited the 2…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2016
The Reva and David Logan Foundation, a Chicago-based organization dedicated to supporting social justice, the arts, scholarship and investigative journalism, will give Mosaic Theater Company…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:20PM[SHARE]Baltimore’s Center Stage will kick off the 2016-2017 back in its Calvert Street home after a $28 million renovation with a production Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderos le Laclos…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:20PM[SHARE]Monday, March 28, 2016
Tom Horan’s Static, in which a young girl who knows the legend of a couple driven mad by the objects in their house grows up to acquire the house — and the mysterious box of cass…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:10AM[SHARE]Friday, March 25, 2016
Rep Stage will present a four-production season of stories about strange things, but doubtlessly none will be stranger than the story of Dorian’s Closet, a musical about the life of fa…
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