8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
To put on a sweeping adaptation of the epic story of Peter Pan takes some faith, trust, and a little bit of pixie dust. Adventure Theatre in Tinker Bell, adds just the right touches of theat…
Five minutes into Flood City — clearly as part of that play’s idiosyncratic plot — Theater Alliance Artistic Director Colin Hovde interrupted proceedings to announce, among…
When two-time Helen Hayes winner Rick Hammerly woke up recently, a "morning" after taking the stage as fiercely funny drag queen Miss Tracy Mills in Round House Theatre's The Legend o…
Other Life Forms, local actor and playwright Brandon McCoy's new play, is likable"sweet, goofy and well-intentioned"but still needs a lot of work to have any lasting impact. The comic curios…
Director Nick Olcott was intrigued when he learned that playwright Patrick Flynn had a different take on the Peter Pan stories, a new play written from Tinker Bell's point of view. Michae…
The Emperor of Atlantis feels simultaneously "too soon" and "right on time". The creative minds of In Series have devised an inventive, timely, though somewhat uneven double bill that takes …
Adventure Theatre-MTC will reach into classic stories to create its five-show 2018-2019 season, the company announced. Included will be two world premiere musicals co-produced with outstandi…
"I mean, actors " it's hard for us to judge whether we're good in something or not, because we're probably not a good judge of it. We go by how it feels. "If you discover something about…
The Rainbow Flags are everywhere. Those who shackle themselves to the binary are besieged by the onslaught of colour. Debates rage about why there can't be a "straight pride parade", or some…
Mona Mansour's The Vagrant Trilogy, three one-acts that close Mosaic's third season, is an engaging, troubling and eye-opening tale of displacement and dispossession on a scale that is both …
Many theatrical experiences are perfect for Pride Month, but few are devised specifically for the celebration. Enter Brett Abelman's Switch, a new play set on the night of DC Pride, during w…
The Capital Fringe Festival, DC’s annual theatrical adventure into the new, the innovative, the small, and the off-the-wall, is now open to the ticket-buying public. Here’s what …
The Rainbow Theatre Project, dedicated to producing art which captures the experience of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, will present a five-production sixth season which incl…
The singular genius of Hamilton, the greatest musical ever written, is that it recognizes that the American Revolution did not end with Yorktown, but is ongoing, even today, and that there a…
In The Tempest, the lordly Prospero, formerly known as the Duke of Milan, is marooned on a miserable island with his daughter as his only human company. He also has Caliban, a growling subhu…
Break out the Bedazzler and falsies and shimmy into your Spanx. It's high season for drag in downtown Bethesda, thanks to the fierce and funny The Legend of Georgia McBride, playwright Matth…
For its 11th season, Tyson’s 1st Stage will have a war story, a story about the aftermath of a war, a story about a tragic war fought in a high school, a story about a man returning fr…
The painter Jacob Lawrence's 60-panel Migration Series chronicles the exodus of more than six million African-Americans from the South to the North starting around 1916. The WPA-funded proje…
When thinking of Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA), we’d be forgiven for thinking of beloved children's fables, or charming musicals with lessons to be learned. Oftentimes the messages…
It's a funny title, isn't it? Dancing in My Cockroach Killers. Yet, profoundly telling. About stereotypes. About other cultures. About "our" opinions of Latinos. Yet, this is not a show abou…
The Boston theatre community was rocked to its core this spring following a Facebook posting by a 26-year old actor. In this post, the young man recounts in vivid and unsettling detail how, …
Director Marc Bruni knew he was taking a risk in revamping the classic Frank Loesser (music and lyrics) musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying for a modern Washington, D.C.…
Thanks to a 14-year run on Broadway and an even longer 19-year run in London's West End"which continues to this day"Mamma Mia! is one of the most beloved jukebox musicals ever. It's no wonde…
In Series, for many years under the leadership of its founder Carla Hübner, will begin its first season with Timothy Nelson as Artistic Director this September, mashing great composers up w…
The 2018 Tony Awards will be presented Sunday, June 10 at 8pm (ET) on CBS. Despite the Broadway League's crowing about the 2017-2018 season being "the highest-grossing and highest-attended s…
