8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
Catchy musical numbers and an intoxicated Pierre L'Enfant drawing D.C.'s confusing street layout were the highlights of E Pluribus Screw 'Em!, a hit-and-miss sketch-comedy-musical-political-…
Upbeat and whimsical, The Face Zone meanders between philosophical musings and autobiographical tales in a Sark-esque combination of drawings and poetry. Bopping from thought to thought, Mar…
Matt Dundas doesn't let facts get in the way of telling a good story, particularly if they are making fun of politicians past and present. His one-man show, performed as a walk along Pennsyl…
With raw emotion, dashes of humor, and a bold style, Judge Me Not comes out swinging from its first moments. Broken hearts, abused bodies, life and death " all the ups and downs of a group o…
Surfacing: An Inventory of Helplessness is less a story than a meditation on a condition. And the condition is grim. A (Yvonne Paretsky) seeks refuge in Vienna. The law is that if she can es…
It's probably safe to say that We're All Going to Fucking Die! is the only Fringe show where you stand a chance at taking home a prostate massager. Despite the cheekily morbid title, this br…
In 33 1/3 Chorus Girls, seven comedic sketches are linked by the loose thread of "show business." A klutzy stand-up comedienne tells academic jokes about Harry Potter, surrounded by hecklers…
There's nothing like a Greek tragedy to go from zero to 100 in just over an hour. In this case, we go from the broodings of a slighted god to a mother wielding her own son's head on a pike. …
With its clever script by playwright Iris Dauteman, Hatpin Panic weaves a terrific Mobius strip of a largely unknown scrap of history from America's turn of the century women's suffrage move…
Twanna A. Hines, a sexual and reproductive health educator and creative entrepreneur, answers our questions about her Capital Fringe show at Arena Stage. Where did the idea for your show com…
We listened as Allison Malcomstogle sat down with Robert Kittredge, the uthor of 33 1/3 Chorus Girls, to talk about the upcoming festival. Some of what we heard was barely believable. Malcom…
Somebody cared enough about a young black girl killed by a white cop in the powder keg summer of 1969 to give her a story. Nothing much was known about the girl"just her name, age and how sh…
In 2010, the Contemporary American Theater Festival staged something called The Eelwax Jesus 3-D Pop Music Show. It was the first musical they ever did. They've never done one since. The pla…
Mary Myers is about to embark to the Edinburgh Fringe festival to play Karl Marx in Mark in Soho. Before leaving, she's given us these words as she prepares for her last show in the Stat…
In Hillel Mitelpunkt's The Accident, a self-involved man, somewhat drunk, hits and kills a Chinese immigrant at about eighty miles per hour. Then, with his passenger, an equally self-involve…
A "new" production of La traviata shared the buzz opening weekend at Glimmerglass Festival. Nonetheless, as a co-production with Washington National Opera (and a handful of other opera compa…
Glimmerglass Festival opened its 45th season with a sensational Show Boat. The musical, based on Edna Ferber's novel about a floating theater on the Mississippi, could have been delivered as…
Gaseous and unpredictable, witty and sentimental, Support Group for Men is ninety minutes traffic of our stage which seems longer, an earnest foray into secrets and feelings masked as a come…
Looking for a place to gather with your fellow Fringe-goers after an evening show? Want somewhere where the "last call" arrives just a little bit later? Looking to spend less than a small fo…
So, I was reading "Norwegian Wood"Â by Haruki Murakami (yes, I also roll my eyes when someone casually mentions they were reading Murakami) and there is this beautiful line: "Life is here,…
After answering ice-breaker questions, three strangers mysteriously end up on a deserted island, premised on the classic "would you rather" scenario. Now all their answers are coming to l…
This play is the second in a trilogy of plays, all with a theme of domestic violence and its horrible multi-generational scourge on one family. The first play, Sobriety of Fear, was a one-pe…
For Capital Fringe this year, I have adapted The Bacchae by Euripides. I am true to the source material, except for a surprise in the beginning and the end, where I bring in the work of a…
The great opera contralto Marian Anderson (Angela Wildflower), has been denied accommodations at the Nassau Inn because of her race. So instead she stays at the home of one of her enthusiast…
 One evening, in September of 1922, legendary horror writer, H.P. Lovecraft, visited an old Brooklyn graveyard and took home a small souvenir: a chip from a tombstone dated 1747.  Late…
