8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
I admit, Michael Hollinger's tight, 90-minute Ghost-Writer, now being presented by Quotidian Theatre Company, snuck up on me. It may seem to tip its hat pretty early, as titles go, but you'l…
When she was a little girl, up until about the time she was 10 years old, Roz White visited her great grandmother in South Carolina every summer and saw first-hand the craftsmanship of the G…
Mosaic Theater will dedicate its fifth season to the stories of men and women who come to political awareness, and the consequences of that awareness. The company's eight-production 2019-202…
Out of all the ballets in the classical cannon, Le Corsaire possesses one of the thinnest and most nonsensical plot lines around, but who cares. Lovers of classical dance have been flocking …
We hear the sound of children in the front room through baby monitors, while we watch their parents carry on with all kinds of shenanigans in John Morogiello's comedy Play Date. Kira Burri a…
Full disclosure: Â As a mere slip of a girl I used to read Bullfinch's Mythology and Edith Hamilton's Mythology for fun and enlightenment and when I couldn't sleep I would populate the Gre…
Actress, playwright, and advocate Liza Jessie Peterson is a force of nature fighting to expose the wrongs of America's sprawling prison system, one performance at a time. Her rousing one-wom…
"Our work is ceremony, because, to us, art is ceremony," writes Alexa Elizabeth Rodriguez in her Director's Note. This is the experience of Siwayul (Heart of a Womxn): the audience is witnes…
Pooh Bear is a fuzzy, golden puff full of positive wonderment whose honey addiction still roils little bellies with laughter at Adventure Theatre MTC's Winnie the Pooh, a sweet stroll thr…
In his note in the program of Rainbow Theatre Project's new production of Tennessee Williams' lesser-known play Clothes for a Summer Hotel"his last to be produced on Broadway in his lifetime…
The 20th anniversary of the mass school shooting at Columbine High School on April 20, 1999 in Littleton, Colorado, will be on closing night for columbinus at 1st Stage. The play was written…
The D.C. theater and arts community is about to go where it's never been before as the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics is introducing the first-ever D.C.-wide biennial CrossCu…
As King Lear, Glenda Jackson enters with a casual swagger, giving off a scent of power that's lasted a lifetime. But Lear is portrayed by an 82-year-old woman, lean and light and, at 5'6…
New York City Ballet returns to Washington this week for its annual visit to the Kennedy Center with two programs that include two works from the company's legendary founder George Balanchin…
So, in Native Son, Bigger Thomas (Clayton Pelham, Jr.), a man with no options, lives in a one-room apartment on the South Side of 1940 Chicago with his mother (Lolita Marie) and his brother …
Twenty years on. And the horror of April 20, 1999 has not only not dissipated, but it also seems to have continually intensified with each mass school shooting. Virginia Tech. Sandy Ho…
When David Andrew MacDonald takes the stage as Leo Tresler in Arena Stage's Junk, an economic thriller that exposes the financial dealmaking behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1…
Michael Hollinger doesn't want you to be misled by a thumbnail description of Ghost-Writer, his three-character play about an Edwardian-era writer, his wife, and his secretary, the latter of…
"The saddest thing in life is wasted talent," Lorenzo the bus driver tells his son, Calogero, in A Bronx Tale. There's no wasted talent in the rock-solid touring production of the musical th…
Fans of Richard Wright's iconic 1940 novel Native Son will want to head to Mosaic Theater Company in the upcoming weeks for the two plays, running in rep, which have emerged from the novel. …
Nu Sass Productions' Dead Dog's Bone: A Birthday Play is about a girl and her dog and the messiness of growing up, but don't think for a moment that means it is a story you've seen before. E…
Spring in Washington DC opens up with a ground-breaking world premiere play, From Gumbo to Mumbo presented by  Keegan Theatre's PLAY-RAH-KA Series. It's a Live Narrative performed by two …
"We're in a strange relationship with our fiction, you see," Warren Ellis, the English comic-book writer, novelist, and screenwriter, once wrote. "Sometimes we fear it's taking us over, some…
How could one not run to a show that, in this day, puts together a story that purposes to go to the heart of a topic that raises both volatile antipathy and gut wrenching emotions of compass…
With characters named "Dude," "Gal," and "Chick," I was wary that Spills would be just another cliché story about millennials (What industry did we kill this time?). I was wrong. Who What W…
