8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
Somebody wrote "NYC Loves BMC" in chalk on the sidewalk outside Broadway's Lyceum Theater, the new home of Be More Chill, the high energy, high decibel pop-rock musical that stars Will Rolan…
You have one shoe box and twenty minutes until your house burns to the ground. What do you save? In Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, Signature Theatre asks not o…
"This play changed my life," proclaims shtetl tailor-turned-stage-manager Lemml (Ben Cherry) in Paula Vogel's incandescent Indecent, and as you look up in wonder at the candle and stage-lit …
In the 2019-2020 theater season, Arena Stage may well be the place to go to meet interesting people: the acid-tongued Texas Governor Ann Richards; Fidel Castro; Ken Ludwig's mom and dad, som…
"The growth of Nazism during the past few years frightens me. Today's populist politicians use rhetoric that is identical to Mussolini's and Hitler's propaganda. New generations need to be t…
We here in Washington, DC are no strangers to a "political circuses," but it was hard to know what to expect from Swedish acrobatic troupe Cirkus Cirkör, whose past performances have been d…
"Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place," writes the Victorian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, "full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions." The title of T…
The 2019-2020 season will be a busy one at Olney Theatre Center with 16 plays, concerts, and presentations as part of the company's 82nd season. Musicals will frame the opening of th…
At the top of Dominique Morisseau's Blood at the Root, teens burst onto the stage in a blast of energy and music, reciting lines filled with wild rhythms and formations coming every which wa…
How can one play make you low in spirit but high on life? In less than two hours, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 takes you on a whip-smart ride between sadness that race and class issues remain…
Joy Zinoman's Studio Acting Conservatory, which must vacate Studio Theatre this summer, will be safe to continue on, Zinoman announced on Kojo Nnamdi's show today. The City of Washington has…
British playwright Ella Hickson gets an American premiere of her sprawlingly ambitious and provocative play at Olney Theatre Center. Oil is a play written up as a "nexus of oil, economics, a…
Few foreign lands loom larger in the American imagination than North Korea, despite and because the average outsider knows almost nothing about the country. We're in the dark by design: the …
For its 2019 season, Quotidian will offer audiences the opportunity to see two plays which they may have missed during their runs earlier in the area. The season will open with Michael Holli…
 I asked three actors, all playing female royalty in Richard the Third at Shakespeare Theatre Company, to talk about what might convince wavering potential audiences to see this producti…
The Washington Ballet's new production of The Sleeping Beauty, running through Sunday at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater, is a breakthrough for D.C.'s hometown ballet company. It is …
Synetic Theater, Washington's acclaimed movement-based company, will remain in its Arlington, VA facility at least through late 2022, its landlord announced. Speculation about the fate of th…
Seems poetic that The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up is well over 100 now and still as impish as ever in Finding Neverland. Peter Pan, the eternal boy, sprung from the mind of Scottish novelist…
Ford's Theatre will present two of the best-known theater stories in the English-speaking canon and two plays about outsiders in America in its 2019-2020 season, the company announced yester…
Ally Theatre Company's production of The Head That Wears The Crown takes on intense subject matter, folding together high school relationships, sexual assault, eating disorders, and self-har…
Morrie Schwartz, the sociology professor and subject of Mitch Albom's bestselling book, Tuesdays with Morrie, once said, "Death ends a life, not a relationship. All the love you created is s…
The 1990s were a percussive decade. New York brought in 'da Noise and 'da Funk and Stomped even as the Blue Men thrumbed their melodic PVC tubes. Meanwhile, in Australia, steel fitter turned…
"I hope it is funny and sexy " and moving, too." I had asked playwright Joe Calarco about Separate Rooms, his newest work; in particular, what about it would pique the interest o…
Dickens's Davy Copperfield is the musical retelling of the classic tale that covers and crystalizes the first ten years in the hardscrabbe life of young "Davy". When Charles Dickens wrote it…
Truth be told, I've never been to Iceland. But I somehow doubt that Steve Yockey and Rorschach Theatre's horror-strewn and homo-centric vignettes in the rolling world premiere ReykjavÃk a…
