For many of us in the audience of UrbanArias' new production, Glory Denied, the Vietnam War is not distant history. Like the characters in this opera by Tom Cipullo, we carry that war in…
"Are we? Are we human?" " a line of dialogue from Sheltered "Noah said 'No, no you're full of sin. God's got the key and you can't get in." " lyrics of "Didn't It Rain," a spiritual …
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel encompassing the lives of two Afghan women, Mariam and Laila, living in war-torn Kabul and both married to the same man, Rashee…
A compelling story and witty script, a faultless. pitch-perfect cast under the savvy direction of Adam Immerwahr, and its excellent design make Theater J's production of Sheltered a must-see…
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…
In 2009, a 15-year-boy was doused with rubbing alcohol by four middle school classmates, who lit him on fire in a heinous tragedy that rocked a South Florida community. A few years later, pl…
When a play about Martin Luther King, Jr. is set at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis on the evening of April 3, 1968, it's easy to assume that you know where the play is going. But The Mount…
2020 marks the 8th year of Washington National Opera's showcase of new compositional teams working in the most specialized art form of opera in a rollout of three twenty-minute operas. It's …
How does a community face up to its history? And how does that community both move on while holding onto a pivotal moment that still elicits reactions from tears to indifference to denial? T…
Charlene V. Smith is not shying away from a theatrical marathon. As the artistic director for Brave Spirits Theatre (BST), Smith and the company's productions have often focused on learning …
Theater J, which in addition to its season of fully produced plays helps re-discover Yiddish plays through readings in its Yiddish Theater Lab, today announced the formation of two national …
Brave Spirits " oh brave indeed! " have kicked off their ambitious plan to perform the entirety of Shakespeare's double-tetralogy of history plays covering one of the most tumultuous periods…
In 1981, the once enfant terrible of stage and screen, Peter Brook, then seasoned into arguably the most formidable theatre director in the world, took the opera world by storm with his radi…
Broadway lights will dim on January 7, 2020 at 6:45 p.m. for Jerry Herman, who died on Thursday, December 26 at the age of  88, and at the end of a year that saw at its beginning the deat…
We asked area theatre companies to tell us what they were most looking forward to in 2020. Their answers surprised us! Contributors:Â 4615 Theatre Company . American Ensemble Theater . Ame…
Dear readers, We know you're busy, so we'll be brief. Here's why we hope you will make a 2019 tax deductible donation to DC Theatre Scene. In 2019, we wrote 643 articles: reviews, interviews…
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…
This year, as we've already reported, 26 productions were so popular at the box office they earned extensions and 5 productions were co-produced and played or will play in each company's …
As a Person of Faith, I have become more disenchanted with how Christmas is celebrated as I've gotten older. The commercialization of the holiday promotes materialism over caring about one a…
One last standing ovation for these performers whose work quite simply blew us away this year. Ian Merill Peakes, Amadeus, Folger Theatre In Amadeus, Ian Merill Peakes brought Peter Shaff…
Some music gets inside your head and stays there. Think "Sherry", "Big Girls Don't Cry", "My Eyes Adored You". It's pretty much a guarantee you can at least hum at least one of these. After …
In a year that has ended so dramatically off-stage, and during which so many people talked dismissively about "political theater" " when they didn't mean anything actually happening in a …
Prufrock, Chamber Dance Project Leading my most memorable performances for 2019 would have to be the Chamber Dance Project's premiere of "Prufrock" in June at Sidney Harman Hall. Choreograph…
Everyone has a special memory of their first musical. Mine was My Fair Lady. It had opened in London in 1958 on Drury Lane after taking Broadway by storm, and, as a young child living there,…
What matters most, when all the theatrical offerings for 2019 have been made, is what lingers in the minds and hearts of the audience. We asked our writers and the Gary Maker Audience Award …