Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Finalists just announced for the Audience Choice Awards Aug 15, 2012 — After an initial round of balloting which ended last night, Audience Choice voters selected six shows and perform…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:38AM[SHARE]Friday, August 10, 2012
The Shakespeare Theatre Company announced today that it is adding three additional productions, including the National Theatre of Scotland's well-received Black Watch, to the 2012 portion of…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:40PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2012
Forget all that you may have heard about August: Osage County. It is not a dark comedy where an Estelle Parson-ish virago grandmother skewers her pampered children with her acid tongue. It i…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 7, 2012
In 2011-2012, we got theater that money couldn't buy. In this provocative article, my erstwhile colleague Chad Bauman lamented the fact that our Helen Hayes Awards " like the Tonys and many …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:23AM[SHARE]Some of the most renowned names in American letters will find their way onto the American Century Theater's stage in 2012-2013. Among the strangest and most powerful: Orson Wells' Voodoo Mac…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 07:33AM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2012
Arlington's Signature Theatre, a Tony-award winning company which specializes in musicals, will be awash in harmony for its August 4th open house. The noon-to-10pm celebration will feature f…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:39AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 21, 2012
Catherine Asaro is a person of formidable accomplishment. A physicist with a PhD from Harvard, she has written twenty novels in her "Saga of the Skolian Empire" science fiction series as wel…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 01:55PM[SHARE]Friday, July 20, 2012
The clever and provocative premise of Washington-area playwright AP Carroll's new play is that the Roman occupation of the land of Israel, the appearance of Jesus Christ (Kofi Owusu) and the…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2012
The rube Wade (Mark Pagan) wanders onto the stage. In a pitch-perfect South Dakota accent " straight out of "Fargo" " he explains that normally he volunteers for his Church of the Nazarene d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:59AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Quotidian, located in Bethesda's Writer's Center, will offer plays based on three great stories for its fifteen anniversary season in 2012-2013. The Company will open with James Joyce's The …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:46AM[SHARE]It is September 11, 2001. The United States is under attack. Huge commercial jets have slammed into New York's Twin Towers. In Washington, a third commercial jet has slammed into the Pentago…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:11AM[SHARE]Let's make some things clear at the outset. In All-Nude College-Girl Revue, nobody is nude. Nobody is in college. Nor is it a revue. It is instead the life story, more or less, of Lisa Faith…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Once upon a time, a very bad thing happened to Kaballah (Kathleen Alvania), and so as she grew older she turned into a raptor " a carnivorous bird, with razor-sharp claws and a beak capable …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 06:18PM[SHARE]Monday, July 16, 2012
We walk into the darkened Bedroom of Fort Fringe. There, in the shadowy corner of the stage, is a mannequin, with snow-white face above black clothes. The mannequin stares at us. Her eyes be…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:32AM[SHARE]We do not go in for burlesque much in Washington, but to our northern neighbors in Charm City, it is a big deal. Burlesque is so much in the fiber of Baltimore that its chief sage and poet, …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:20AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 15, 2012
So have you seen this in a Fringe show? The protagonist, a gay man (you know this because the opening song is "Everyone I Know is Gay"), after the obligatory "Men are Pigs" song (presumptive…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:21AM[SHARE]Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, like the great play which gave rise to it, is a puzzle box yielding different treasures every time you open it up. I'm delighted to report that Infinit…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:06AM[SHARE]This show is brief and funny. So this review will be brief. Click for tickets to Why So Serious Why So Serious is twenty-five minutes or so with the comedian Trevor Joyner. He is a funny guy…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:33AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 14, 2012
The title of this fun show recalls the Sex Pistols' smashing album, “Nevermind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols“, and Patrick and Maxwell Denney, the ambitious co-creators, d…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 10:44AM[SHARE]In Church, we go to church. That is to say, we sit in darkness on folding chairs, bathed in religious music, grand and engaging, and beautifully sung by an unseen and uncredited choir. …
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:13AM[SHARE]Friday, July 13, 2012
Bless me, father, for I have sinned. It has been thirty-five years since my last confession, but that one didn't count because they hadn't given me my Miranda warning.
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:04AM[SHARE]How do I put this delicately? It takes a helluva man to enjoy a clown. A clown may appeal to the inner child, but the outer adult craves a searing Mamet play or somesuch, followed by a dry m…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:42AM[SHARE]Monday, July 9, 2012
"This is the saddest play I've ever seen in my life," a friend opined in the lobby of the Shepherd University’s Frank Center. He is a theater professional, and has seen a lot of plays.…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:18AM[SHARE]This year's Contemporary American Theater Festival features two terrific world premieres, and when you go, you should make a point of sinking your teeth into each of them. Let us sink out te…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2012
The problem with history plays is one of time. In theatrical time, the greatest of problems are resolved in a hundred and fifty minutes or less. Across that tiny stretch of time we have conf…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 12:37PM[SHARE]Attention, all ye parents of young children now pouring sweatily over your five-year-old child's application to the day care center which will most help her get into the private school which…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:55AM[SHARE]Saturday, July 7, 2012
In a forest dark and deep, lightning sunders nature's sleep. The cabin lights flicker, and then go out " "why, it's about us!" the audience doth shout. Could playwright Neil LaBute, whose pl…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 11:47AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Keegan Theatre will be keeping its focus firmly on its Celtic roots during its 2012-2013 season, with supplemental emphasis on searing American drama and on musicals with a little lilt and l…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 09:02AM[SHARE]Monday, June 25, 2012
Glen Echo's Adventure Theatre – Musical Theater Center will present some adventures in size for its young audiences next season, exploring from both ends of the spectrum. Adventure wil…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:52AM[SHARE]Monday, June 18, 2012
New Olney Theatre Centre Artistic Director Martin Platt has wasted no time in putting his stamp on the company's 75-year history, announcing the 9 productions for Olney’s 2013 season w…
SOURCE: DC Theatre Scene at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 13, 2012
It is playwright David Bar Katz's singular insight that Superman, like the other extraordinary men and women of the comics " Batman, Spiderman and the like " were primarily the creation of J…
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