8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
Washington National Opera opened its 2019-20 season at the Kennedy Center on Saturday night with a performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Otello signaling that the company, under the leadership of …
Honest artistry is flourishing at the Washington Ballet these days and it was on delightful display Thursday night when the company opened NEXTsteps, a program of three world premieres that …
When you leave this world, what are you going to leave behind for your loved ones? Memories? An inheritance? How about an entire fantasy world in which a version of you lives on and offers i…
There are plenty of shows performing tonight in DC, and most patrons will undoubtedly be on their phones during intermission (PLEASE wait till then!) to check on one historic event. That is,…
Václav Havel was a renowned politician who went from political prisoner to serving as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the country's dissolution three years later, who…
There's a pall of delicious irony lingering over Constellation's Little Shop of Horrors, the now-classic musical tale of a weirdo named Seymour from Skid Row who finds an extra-terrestrial p…
In a season with high profile productions of Little Shop of Horrors on Broadway and across the country, the DMV is getting its own taste of the Alan Menken sci-fi musical theatre classic…
Everybody is a wonder. Brilliant visuals, arresting acting, ingenious direction by Will Davis, a searching script by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and an overall generosity of spirit tha…
Aleasha Harris, author of What to Send Up When It Goes Down wrote: "The idea was to hold people accountable, be confrontational, let it be messy, let it be angry, and let it tread as absurdl…
She devils. Film-noir temptresses. Crazy women in attics à la "Jane Eyre." In art of all sorts, women who speak up, sashay to a different drummer or who just challenge male authority ofte…
Mark Twain's 1881 novel, The Prince and the Pauper, receives an engaging update (with a "digital, Hip Hop-infused twist") at Kennedy Center's Family Theater with the world premiere of the Ke…
"You don't need a Weatherman to know which way the wind blows."- Bob Dylan Shakespeare's The Tempest is a comedy in the sense that it has a happy ending. However, we only get to that hap…
Audiences attending the closing performance of George Bernard Shaw's Candida at Washington Stage Guild Sunday, Oct 20th, witnessed a pre-show ceremony as Lou Altarescu accepted the 2019 Gary…
I admired many things about my late father, among them that he never stopped learning or being curious about people and life, even at the age of 92 and grappling with major health issues. I …
There are many cues to what's wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams' dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant seamst…
Thoughts of a Colored Man by young poet/playwright Keenan Scott II masterfully tells nearly every part of the experience of being a Black Male in America today. The tagline "One Theme: Seven…
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…
Chesapeake Shakespeare's production of Dracula is just what's needed for this season of dying leaves and chills down the spine. Playwright Steven Dietz has taken the original Bram Stoker nov…
Charlie Brown and the gang is back! Ten years later, the kids are in high school and are ready to address some big questions as they keep on growing up. Linus no longer has his blanket. Marc…
In Joy Ikekhua's insightful reflection on School Girls: or, the African Mean Girls Play at Roundhouse Theater, they noted their discomfort with watching, in public, a play that exposed and e…
The Apocalypse. In fiction, the world falls to pieces because some outside force has infiltrated its defenses or some natural disaster changes the whole makeup of the planet causing a system…
Theatre and religion have been intertwined since the beginning " the very, very beginning. One of the earliest forms of theatre developed in Ancient Athens with public festivals of music, po…
Hotels rooms are one of those things we largely take for granted but are rich fodder for those of us with overactive imaginations who consistently wonder about the other people who have prev…
The playbill for Andar sin Pensamiento says the play starts with a tango. At the start, the music played to an empty stage is indeed a tango. You get the sense that director Mario Marcel is …
High school musicals are hot right now, with Broadway hosting everything from the biting Mean Girls to the heart-warming The Prom to the phenomenon Dear Evan Hansen to the zany Be More Chill…
