8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
New York-based Infinity Theatre Company will offer a two-show season this summer in Annapolis. The season will feature Rodgers and Hammerstein's A Grand Night for Singing in collaboratio…
Timothy Nelson has ended his first season as Artistic Director of In Series with a stunning and musically gorgeous production of The Tale of Serse. Like George Frideric Handel, the composer …
Shakespeare's most iconic schemer is the centerpiece of Synetic's fourteenth (mostly) wordless re-interpretation of the Bard's works. The world of 15th century England is updated to a dystop…
Bethesda-based Quotidian Theatre will be producing plays from two writers familiar to its audiences " Horton Foote and Connor McPherson " and one from Henrik Ibsen which shocked audiences wh…
The Misanthrope is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière, and first performed in 1666. More than 350 years later, this literary classic has been reimagined by Manhatt…
When we first met, David S. Kessler was a small mammal biologist at the National Zoo by day, avid theatre goer by night. He retired, but Kessler isn't the type to rest for long. He received …
There are rare but important artistic experiences that serve as spiritual pilgrimages. This year, in a kind of riches of Grace, we have shared in two at Spoleto Festival. Compagnie Hervé Ko…
A sun-drenched morning greeted townsfolk and cultural tourists alike for the 43rd no-weather-spoiler day at this year's Spoleto Festival Opening. People gathered in the street outside City H…
How often we, in our silos, get stuck in our own work and schedules. Even more, artists miss opportunities to be fed and inspired by the interplay of other arts forms. If released, dancers s…
While Spoleto Festival is perhaps best known for its cutting-edge premieres of opera, dance, and theater, it grants special dispensation periodically to productions by English language's fav…
Rainbow Theatre Project presents Stonewall: 50, a staged reading of new short plays that celebrates the legacy and worldwide changes that started from the Stonewall riots in June 1969.…
Singin' in The Rain seems like the type of beloved movie that shouldn't be made into a stage version, with its perfect 1952 film, directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and named by the AF…
Currently in its final weeks at Shakespeare Theatre Company, The Oresteia is Michel Khan's swan song after over thirty years as the Artistic Director before Simon Godwin takes over next seas…
Best Medicine Rep, the DMV's only theater company devoted to comedy, will present a 2019-2020 season composed of a fresh comedy from the West Coast, a reprise of a successful 2018 production…
When asked about how she comes up with ideas for her plays (which, let me tell you from personal experience, is every writer's favorite interview question), playwright, director, and filmmak…
When a stage manager places a single incandescent light bulb on a stand, front and center on a stage, it has a practical reason. The "ghost light" provides safety in the dark for living bein…
Dane Figueroa Edidi is many things. She is a playwright, poet, choreographer, performance artist, priestess, and advocate. She is also a Nigerian, Cuban, Indigenous transgender woman. To und…
"how to translate [Antigone]?", Anne Carson self-reflexes in her translator's note to the Sophokles classic. "I take inspiration from John Cage who, when asked / how he composed 4'33", answe…
This coming season, Everyman Theatre will inaugurate The Upstairs Theatre, its new 210-seat performance space, with a three-play new play festival, against a backdrop of five classic plays o…
Rachel Gates became spellbound by puppets at an early age, and while many children share her fascination, for Gates, it didn't end in childhood. After 30 years as a puppeteer, Gates is still…
We know very little about William Shakespeare, so we make stuff up. Thus we have Shakespeare in Love (John Madden"Tom Stoppard), which imagines the Bard falling for an aristocrat's wife who …
Playwright Allyson Currin's poignant new work Sooner/Later captures the messy reality of relationships and family in a funny and brutally honest way. From the crushing awkwardness of a first…
What makes someone a devoted opera fan? Is it the "gilterati?"Â If so, there was much in abundance Saturday night when the Washington National Opera hosted its Gala in the Opera House. Fr…
The Ferryman, a feast of Irish storytelling in a breathtaking mix of genres, opened on Broadway seven months ago, and since then it's gotten nine Tony nominations, best play awards from the …
Anyone watching television this week has probably viewed the onslaught of commercials for the Memorial Day weekend opening of Aladdin. It is the first of three major releases based on Broadw…
