8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
This is the first in a new series of spotlights on restaurants offering special dining for theatre lovers. Earlier this summer, BLT Prime by David Burke launched a three-course prix-fixe…
When Mosaic Theater decided to stage two-time Pulitzer Prize recipient Lynn Nottage's satirical Fabulation or The Re-Education of Undine, artistic director Ari Roth sought a director who cou…
The second leg of 4615 Theatre Company's "Summer of Scandal" repertory, Harold Pinter's Betrayal, opened this past weekend at the Dance Loft on 14th. My review of the other play, Enron, is h…
Three different people, an eternity of living with the judgment of others in one tiny room, and one "hell" of a play. I could only be talking about one particular piece of vintage world thea…
So you're an actor who has just blown in from Oregon and you'd like to show your stuff to a D.C. casting director. Or you're a WATCH-award winning community theatre actor who wants to step u…
Eighteen years ago, a Texas energy company's deceptive accounting practices finally caught up with them, their inflated stock value plummeted, billions of dollars evaporated, employees' reti…
Ally Theatre's production of The War Boys, performing at Joe's Movement Emporium, tells a story that was written for another time but is very much being lived now as we face a crisis at the …
Just posted " the DC Theatre Scene Guide to Theatre Season 2019-2020. Perfect for planning your year of theatre going, the sortable guide lets you sort by companies, titles, dates and genres…
Dear Evan Hansen is a heart-wrenching, ultimately transformative, gut-punch of a musical. Â The Kennedy Center's production, directed by Michael Greif and featuring the national touring ca…
The title, Or, with its provocative comma, suggests the production's playful attitude toward binaries"in gender, sexuality, and morality. Brought to Capitol Hill Arts Workshop by Theatre Pro…
Bat Out of Hell is a frequently enjoyable jukebox musical running at New York City Center through September 8, using the muscular rock opera anthems from singer Meat Loaf's trilogy of bes…
It's not at all baffling why these two modest monologues by different playwrights were yoked together into a single show at the Public Theater earlier this year. There's an even simpler expl…
"Oh. My. God. Oh my god, you guys!" Keegan Theatre's production of Legally Blonde is so over-the-top, fabulously fun " the perfect sweet treat on a sweltering DC summer evening. For thos…
Top drawer producer-director Hal Prince died on July 31st in the unlikely city of Reikvik, Iceland, although, come to think of it, nothing was unlikely for this man who spent his working lif…
Harold Prince died this morning at 91 years of age after a brief illness, in Reykjavik, Iceland. There will be no funeral, but a celebration of his life is planned.  The lights of allÂ�…
The top of the Cirque du Soleil tent, stretching across one of the parking lots next to the Tyson's II mall, peaks over the collection of roadways as I drive into the neighborhood. The tent …
The best theater reveals moments of high emotion built on the intersection of intense preparation and the chaos of live performance. By that measure, the best theater experience in DC is Taf…
There are plenty of oohs and ahhs to be heard under the big top in Tysons, VA as Volta, one of Cirque du Soleil's most daring shows to date, brings plenty of imaginative and original acts to…
The Glimmerglass Festival offers a unique opportunity to singers and audiences alike to be around living composers. The "live relationship" creates a work that breathes and where new discove…
Blame their parents. Albert and Jennifer Chen are failing at life. Sure, they both graduated top of their class from Harvard. And, yes, Jen went on to get a medical degree and PhD (both …
Glimmerglass Festival has made a bold choice in re-mounting The Ghosts of Versailles, a complicated, multi-layered late 20th-century opera, as part of its 2019 season. Contemporary opera ten…
It is part poem, part prayer service, and part therapy session, but the first thing that will strike you about From Divorce to Restoration is its name. Restoration? Really? Aside from death,…
Once again, Arlington, VA has been invaded once again by bloodthirsty pirates. Earlier this summer, Signature Theatre premiered the rollicking musical Blackbeard in Shirlington Village. Now,…
The actress Annie Golden (mute Norma in Orange Is the New Black) stars as the actress Annie Golden, who exchanges the humiliations of auditions for the thrills of a career kick-boxing…
"It's the plot that you knew/ with a small twist or two/ but the changes we made were slight," croons Major Attaway as the Genie in the finale of Aladdin national tour, now at the Kennedy Ce…
