Saturday, February 29, 2020
At Shakespeare Theatre's 2020 mock court Thursday night, the veteran Shakespearian actor Ed Gero described the special challenges facing a theater artist who takes on one of the Bard's works…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:24PM[SHARE]Friday, February 28, 2020
Peter Pan, having swept the Darling children up into the sky with fairy dust, brought them to Neverland, a venue full of pirates and mermaids. There, along with the lost boys, they did battl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:42PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 19, 2020
American History " some real, some imagined " will mark Arena's ten-production 2020-2021 season. The inaugural show at the Mead Center for American Theater will be a world-premiere musical a…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:18PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Olney Theatre Center leads the pack of company nominations with 27 nods for this year's Helen Hayes Awards, theatreWashington announced last night at its annual kickoff to the Helen Hayes Aw…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:24PM[SHARE]Monday, February 3, 2020
Folger Theatre will be out-of-house for the 2020-21 season while the venerable Folger Shakespeare Library undergoes renovation. To get its audiences ready for the pleasures yet to be, the co…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]Friday, January 31, 2020
America "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon, and returning him safely to the earth," said John Kennedy, in whose building thi…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Love and death, murder and ghosts will raise their occasionally ugly but dramatically satisfying heads in Rep Stage's 2020-2021 four-play season, the company announced Friday. The Rep Stage …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 16, 2020
Tim Treanor was asked to recommend 7 plays for the lecture DC Theatre Season 2020 held January 14 in the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center. Since we've had several requests for his r…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 26, 2019
Victor Shargai, an actor, costume designer, interior designer, philanthropist, and Washington theater leader died on Christmas Eve at the age of 83 after a brief illness. Shargai was the lon…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 10, 2019
In an old house in Paris, covered in vines, lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. And at Creative Cauldron, for their Christmas thing, the twelve little girls get up and sing. Oh,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 4, 2019
In the genteel Mayflower Hotel, where J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson often ate dinner alone together, Mark Phillips and Ryan Phillips are engaged in a magic duel. By "magic duel" I don't m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Antony and Cleopatra is Shakespeare's saga of love and war, in which " spoiler alert " war wins. Our situation is this: Julius Caesar has been assassinated and, after some skirmishing, the s…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 05:24PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 19, 2019
The end of your life starts slowly, and after some incomprehensible incident. Everything seems dreamlike. They are talking to you " the policeman, the lawyer, the judge, the doctor " and you…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 13, 2019
"It's not the person," cries the sculptor Louise Nevelson (Susan Rome) in Edward Albee's Occupant, "It's the work they do!" Would be it that Albee had heeded his character's advice. Then we …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 02:03PM[SHARE]Monday, November 11, 2019
In a convent of cloistered Catholic nuns, a baby lies in a wastebasket. She has lived for less than an hour, before being strangled with her own umbilical cord. In another part of the room, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 17, 2019
Avant Bard Theatre, formerly known as WSC Avant Bard (and before that, as Washington Shakespeare Company), will mark its 30th anniversary with a new name, and a three-play season, Artistic D…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Louis Altarescu and Alan Friedman, well known volunteer ushers and theater enthusiasts until Friedman's untimely death last month, have been selected to receive the 2019 Gary Maker Audience …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2019
If baseball represents the joy of sport " its season concluding with popped champagne corks and ticker tape parades for the winners and the promise of next year for the losers " then boxing …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:12PM[SHARE]Friday, September 13, 2019
Henry IV, Part 1 is the best of the Shakespearean histories, because it is a redemption story " not of Prince Hal (Avery Whitted), who rose from his Eastcheap debauchery to become England's …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 10, 2019
The titular doubt in John Patrick Shanley's classic play, now being given a rigorous yet nuanced treatment at Studio Theatre, is not about whether the intense, charismatic Father Brendan Fly…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 15, 2019
So you're an actor who has just blown in from Oregon and you'd like to show your stuff to a D.C. casting director. Or you're a WATCH-award winning community theatre actor who wants to step u…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 24, 2019
It is part poem, part prayer service, and part therapy session, but the first thing that will strike you about From Divorce to Restoration is its name. Restoration? Really? Aside from death,…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:03AM[SHARE]Monday, July 22, 2019
"Only connect," wrote the novelist E.M. Forster, "Live in fragments no longer." Ah, but that's easier said than done, E.M., particularly in the windblown wilds of the Western U.S., the so-ca…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Simon Godwin is poised to take the reins of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, but the presence of Michael Kahn hangs over it like a mist. If you have any question, you should see the free-for…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 04:42PM[SHARE]Monday, July 15, 2019
Imagine that you are a soldier " an intelligence analyst " deployed to the Caribbean Command in Key West, Florida. Your daily tasks involve reading reports and commenting on them in air-cond…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:24AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 13, 2019
Although he wrote until his death in 1937, the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was resolutely of the 19th century. His lurid prose, which frequently invoked evil in its most hideous forms, pres…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24PM[SHARE]Rob Rafferty's been waiting for what we have all been waiting for " which is to say, for the fate which awaits us all. Poor Rob has been diagnosed with Brain Crabs, and so is reminded that h…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Let's get this out of the way first. Two Gentlemen of Verona is not Shakespeare's worst play. Not by a long shot; not in a universe which has Timon of Athens and Coriolanus and Two Noble Kin…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:24PM[SHARE]Surfacing: An Inventory of Helplessness is less a story than a meditation on a condition. And the condition is grim. A (Yvonne Paretsky) seeks refuge in Vienna. The law is that if she can es…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 9, 2019
In 2010, the Contemporary American Theater Festival staged something called The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show. It was the first musical they ever did. They've never done one since. The pla…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PM[SHARE]In Hillel Mitelpunkt's The Accident, a self-involved man, somewhat drunk, hits and kills a Chinese immigrant at about eighty miles per hour. Then, with his passenger, an equally self-involve…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:06PM[SHARE] 
