8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
Jamie Brickhouse is a memorable mimic. His enthralling solo show, I Favor My Daddy, doesn't feel solo because of how vividly he inhabits his characters. We meet his parents, Mama Jean and Da…
UrbanArias' Artistic Director Robert Wood continues to push the envelope of what makes for contemporary opera. In Elvis Costello, the famous Brit pop singer/song writer, he has found a compo…
If this were the 1850's, chances are you would know the name of Lola Montez. Mary Murphy is captivating in her portrayal of this alluring, crowd pleasing, coquettish, and controversial woman…
Although he wrote until his death in 1937, the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft was resolutely of the 19th century. His lurid prose, which frequently invoked evil in its most hideous forms, pres…
Rob Rafferty's been waiting for what we have all been waiting for " which is to say, for the fate which awaits us all. Poor Rob has been diagnosed with Brain Crabs, and so is reminded that h…
One enters into the eulogy of Mamita by her grown daughter, Charla, played by the playwright Adriana Hillas. But this one-woman performance is much more than a eulogy that remembers a loved …
"You should be honest with people, even when you're doing magic, which is essentially lying." That's according to Penn Jillette, the loquacious half of the magic duo Penn and Teller and " at…
Anyone who considers reality TV as lowbrow should withhold final judgement until they see this play. William Shakespeare's words lend themselves as surprisingly appropriate in a "Real Housew…
In Let's Fight and Say We Didn't, we witness a family at the breaking point. This student-run production from Anne Arundel Community College tackles mental health, child abuse, and the legac…
Greg DeLucia fully embraces the notion that the best way through a tough situation is laughter. His one-man storytelling show is both emotionally raw and steadfastly funny as DeLucia take us…
Forget about Adam. In Rewiring Eden, Paradise is a women-only zone, home to Eve, Lilith, and a host of other female figures borrowed from legend and myth. Long maligned or misunderstood, the…
In case you haven't heard, the future is female"and fiercely funny. At least as told by the Pipeline Playwrights"a collective of sharp-tongued women playwrights from NoVa, each presenting on…
Franz Kafka and musical theatre might not automatically go together in the minds of most theatre-goers. But Fringe festivals often showcase such juxtapositions and thus we have the musical t…
The Band's Visit shows why it's a multiple Tony Award winner in its stop at The Kennedy Center. It's a musical that grabs your heart with the most unlikely thing in the world of showbiz: eco…
I'm going to come right out and admit it: I'm no millennial sympathizer.Too many years of sleeping under my desk and being forced (by corporate dress code) to wear nylons through DC's swelte…
There are lots of ways to be stuck in life and many of them are explored in Stuck, an engaging two-hander written by Joy Cheriel Brown. Nickie, the winning MoNieshia Hunt, is an ambitious…
As I write this, I have now seen Mike Daisey do 8 of the 18 consecutive chapters in his A People's History. Â I've written a dispatch about each (which you can read here), and I'll be cove…
If a dream deferred dries up like a raisin in the sun, what happens to a dream fulfilled, but at the expense of one's own principles? Office of the Speaker delivers a soul-wrenching explorat…
If Would You Rather… issued a warning label for real life situations it would read: Beware of elaborate questionnaires and their accompanying release forms. The play takes you into a swirl…
Four for the price of one " what a deal! That's four characters making a strong impression in the one-person show American Tranquility, which deserves to play to sold-out audiences every nig…
Plastic, leather, and love all reign supreme with Up In Your Face's production of Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens. Not familiar with the show? In 1995, this wildly campy space musical/murder…
Rozina Kanchwala nails it: we in the U.S. live in a world of too many choices, where a girl can just ask Google to serve up a song instantly to match her mood. It's a time when everyone is s…
Oh wow," an audience member said as she stepped into the theater for Heartbeats & Algorithms. The world created by the light and the sound was palpable. The physical sensations continued…
Breaking up might be hard to do, but watching The Break-Up is a joyful, poignant, moving, and laugh-filled adventure for the audience. We follow Aldi on his emotional roller-coaster journey …
Let's get this out of the way first. Two Gentlemen of Verona is not Shakespeare's worst play. Not by a long shot; not in a universe which has Timon of Athens and Coriolanus and Two Noble Kin…
