8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
A grown daughter's soon-to-be-published memoirs of a childhood family trauma rip open long-festering emotional scars over Christmas Eve at the Palm Beach manse of an aging Hollywood B-list c…
As I watched the performance of The IN Series' most recent offering, I thought about starting my review with a warning: "Don't go to see L'Enfance du Christ unless you want to be transformed…
"It was 9:30 on Christmas Eve," the lone figure entones in the grandest theatrical tradition of beginning an eerie tale. This holiday season, our fair city is visited by one of Britain's lon…
I Take Your hand in Mine is based on the intimate letters written between Anton Chekhov at the end of his life and his wife Olga Knipper. It has come to the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop in…
For LGBTQ+ audiences, the story of BARE is a tale as old as time: Two young men share a forbidden romance. BARE takes the story and places it in a Catholic Boarding school, amidst a throng o…
Romantic comedy movies can be saccharine, especially when they're set during the holidays. Some people love these fluffy flicks, and others love to riff on them. But no matter how someone fe…
In this ambitious collection of Irish folktales, four siblings, neglected and mistreated after their mother's death, are cursed and forced to live in exile for 900 years as swans. Told as pa…
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,…
When singer/musician/educator John Langstaff launched a seasonal celebration of early music in Boston back in 1971, comprised of song and general merriment that would bring community togethe…
It's a savvy move on the part of Synetic Theater to stage a production of The Snow Queen right as children and tweens everywhere are besotted with the prospect of "Frozen 2" opening in theat…
Professional productions of Fiddler on the Roof traditionally feature the iconic Jerome Robbins choreography from the original production. The 2015 Broadway revival of Fiddler on the Roof wa…
Palette 22 in Shirlington Village wants to cultivate artwork. This goal is present on the walls, with every available inch covered with paintings or a mural. There's an easel and painting st…
For those who were lucky enough to catch Second City's original sketch comedy She the People when it rolled through town last December, you might be wondering how the all-female cast of come…
As the Washington DC area continues to grow as a cultural center for performing arts, one mysterious industry has begun to appear within the District. Seemingly out of nowhere, but really, w…
Soon, someone will be caught by surprise. Someone will remember how it feels to fall in love. Someone will imagine themselves on a Broadway kick line. Someone will wipe away tears. Someone w…
Just when you thought you couldn't take another holiday show, up pops The Crater Sisters' Christmas Special at Best Medicine Rep. Bouncing along with creativity and zest, this Christmas …
Alakazam! See a middle-aged man regress to a bug-eyed, slack-jawed 10-year-old while watching eight magicians! So it was Tuesday night as the Illusionists brought their latest production to …
Editor's note: The mix of cultures has always provided a rich stew for theater, showing us both the universality of human longing and the diverse ways in which it can be expressed. So, for e…
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…
Gregory Keng Strasser first popped onto my radar when I met him while auditioning for 410[GONE] at Rorshach Theatre. At the time, I thought it quite an anomaly, as there were almost painfull…
As A Christmas Carol is to the theatre, so is The Nutcracker to the dance. It's the perennially performed ballet that defines the holiday experience for many families " and provides a depend…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is playing in a delightful production that you should see, if you can, at Round House Theatre in Bethesda. It is a mystery. It is a paean to…
Washingtonians are unusually lucky to have two top-notch Nutcrackers to choose from every year. The Washington Ballet's charming D.C.-themed production is an area favorite and it is always i…
The big takeaway from The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is the glimpsed exposure to what goes through the mind of a special person"in this case someone with an autism spectru…
Goldstar Black Friday deals: Tickets for under $20? Yes! Goldstar, our ticketing partner, has 22 Black Friday deals: Theatre, dance, opera, jazz … at these prices it's easy to try …
