8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
How do you like your Shakespeare? Intimate. Intelligent. Â Intrepid. And, I'd also add fully integrated through emotional truth and delivery of the musical richness of Shakespeare's langua…
Synetic Theater opens its season with a remount of its 2013 hit The Tempest, complete with its stunning watery world creation, amphibian-like cast, pounding AMC decibel electronic score, and…
The legacy and superstardom of Whitney Houston endures, judging from the bobbing heads and impromptu singalongs at Toby's Dinner Theatre's production of The Bodyguard. Based on the 1992 film…
" This season, audiences have the chance to see plays about the African-American experience, written both by a new generation of writers and distinguished playwrights from the 20th century, …
Comedian and storyteller Mike Birbiglia has a rare sleepwalking disorder " one that almost killed him. Â As he tells it, one night"in the throes of a particularly vivid, bad-guy-chase-sequ…
The same playwright who gave us The Father with a demented Frank Langella and The Mother with a depressed and possibly deranged Isabelle Huppert now offers us…dead Jonathan Pryce and…
How do we navigate our private and shared griefs? How do we buoy others up as we cope, and how do we drag them down? These are central questions in Kosovar playwright Doruntina Basha's play …
Literate, compelling, and uplifting, Trying is a fine two-person play brought to life with simple style and a gentle grace by 1st Stage. Director Alex Levy has an impeccable cast to work wit…
I'll admit, I was a bit terrified to attend Elephant and Piggie's "We are in a Play!" Mostly because my toddler, lovingly called the Shark, had lived up to her animal Patronus and didn't tak…
"Jubilant!" Strange word to describe a play about skin tones, a mean girl with a foul mouth, and the lasting affects of colonialism. Yet, no other word works when it comes to School Girls; o…
After an exciting Kickoff Party, and weeks of active buying from bargain hunters, we checked in with Amy Austin, President and CEO of theatreWashington for an update heading into the last we…
The Washington Stage Guild, renowned for its delightful stagings of "house playwright" George Bernard Shaw, kicks off its 2019-20 season with one of his earliest comedies, Candida, directed …
The Michelin Guide's official announcement for 2020 Bib Gourmand awards went live today. The Bib Gourmands are announced, yearly, before the announcement of their coveted star rating awards,…
Baltimore Center Stage's new artistic director Stephanie Ybarra gets off to a dynamic start with the winning, women-centered musical, Miss You Like Hell, which celebrates the passion and pai…
Alexander Burnett, in DC on a break from his studies in Paris, plays flight attendant Crystelle Desjardins, determined to win"Best Flight Attendant in the Fleet" for the 16th year in a row i…
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's restaging of his 2017 Broadway production of Jitney at Arena Stage"bringing to town much of the design team and several of the actors"is a terrific kickoff t…
Sometimes theatre amuses, sometimes it entertains, sometimes it moves. Oftentimes we get caught up in the protagonist's journey, sometimes we are dazzled by technical brilliance. Then there …
Local theater lobbies just got a bit colder with the passing of Alan Friedman, 71, on September 19. Along with his husband Lou Altarescu, Alan was a fixture in the Washington theater sce…
Recent research has shown that humans' domestication of dogs has altered canines' brains. I have a theory " it has not yet been borne out by science, but I am confident that it will be " tha…
For three nights in Woolly Mammoth Theatre's classroom space, first-time playwright Amanda Moskowitz will be telling her story. The play, I Am Her, and performance were not part of this writ…
We've seen "Jaws." We all know what an innocent fishing expedition can become. The stakes are more emotional than predatory in Audrey Cefaly's intense and steamy one-act, The Gulf, returning…
If someone were to ask me to describe the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury, I would start with Shattering. I would add Visceral, Iconoclastic, and Stinging. …
Best Medicine Rep stands out among our newer small theatre companies for location (a store space on the upper level of Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg) and for mission: they will only presen…
Washington, DC, is one of the few cities in the country where it's not uncommon for large groups of people to come together to spend two hours deep in conversation about the constitution and…
Never underestimate the power of a classic to communicate across time, cultures, and language in new and urgent messaging. We have Producing Artistic Director Hugo Medrano, the longest servi…
