8,108 stories from DC Theatre Scene
Shakespeare's brave new world – a desolate island miles aways from Europe – is the fantastical setting where The Tempest offers up a blend of danger, romance, intrigue, family st…
Forum Theatre, long noted in DC for its raw and politically provocative theatermaking, has elected to cease operations, effective immediately. “As we began preparing for Forum's 15th s…
Two 19-year-old Yeshiva students set out on a mission to support less-dedicated Jews on the streets of New York, but their faith and friendship are tested in the world premiere of Lindsay Du…
From the theater that prodded, poked, and provoked for nigh on forty years rose the unlikeliest of DC's hallowed institutions and its leader " Howard Shalwitz. Many from the Woolly Mammoth h…
Theater critics, at least good ones, should be grizzled theatergoing veterans and yet be centered and sensitive enough to relive the experience of the newcomer every time they see a show. To…
Personal, funny, poetic, rough around the edges – Bob Bartlett's Swimming with Whales is well worth checking out while it’s at 1st Stage as I predict it will have life beyond …
In 1941, Jacob Lawrence became one of the first black artists to have his work shown in a New York City art gallery, with his powerful Migration Series on display, a sequence of 60 paintings…
Fans of Jordan Tannahill's work, including his 2015 book Theatre of the Unimpressed: In Search of Vital Drama"a screed against the ubiquity of the well-made play and the modern theatre's pro…
A bright young team of theater professionals brings Homer's epic to Washington for a fresh look at An Iliad, and the production packs a powerful punch. It may be just in time. Â Or maybe n…
Signature Theatre and its own "Scottsboro boys" have given us a musical for our times. Smart. Searing. Dangerous. Funny. Provocative. And " as it continues to expose and engage us in a c…
The boys are on Broadway, and they are fabulous. Jim Parsons, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and the rest of the nine-member cast of The Boys in the Band look like they are enjoying themselve…
The mythical city of Camelot has always been little more than a dream – a forest kingdom of unsurpassed beauty where magicians and enchantresses gleefully meddle in human affairs, knig…
As William Shakespeare's only comedy set in the new world, The Tempest deals with a major act of betrayal, ill treatment, the development of magic arts and a revenge plot that other playwrig…
Some of the best of Spoleto comes happenstance and often spills out onto the streets. So don't let the size of your wallet dictate whether you can take part in the joyful exuberance of t…
Charlotte's Web, the beloved children's book by E.B. White, is an emotionally taut tale that plays well with music by Charles Strause, who’s next musical was Annie. Here, Creative Caul…
It was 40 years ago that the Ballet Nacional de Cuba made its U.S. debut at the Kennedy Center and 30 years ago that it premiered its production of Don Quixote. It was 70 years ago that Alic…
Family members are complicated. They can comfort during tearful times and lunge at the flick of a few cruel words. NextStop Theatre Company's Bad Jews is a powder keg of familial tension tha…
Bedlam Theatre Company of New York City once again returns to DC, bringing their acclaimed, stripped-down production of George Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan at Folger Theatre. Audiences migh…
To judge the relative importance of a performing arts festival, one must ask the questions: "How are the arts furthered?" and "How are the artists being pushed?" Challenges come in all shape…
Charleston ravishes the senses. The unique aromas of this town hit you on your first step onto its streets. Confederate jasmine and magnolia mix with the smell of salty pluff mud at low tide…
One block west of the main drag through Eastern Market, in the cozy Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, the aptly named troupe We Happy Few has an amusing, engaging winner of a show with their take …
D.C. Playwright Bob Bartlett has always been curious about the ways humans respond to injured or distressed animals, and that theme seems to find its way into his writing again and again. In…
Playwright Ken Urban's absorbing new play starts strong and keeps you hooked during most of its snappy real-time runtime before slogging down in a closing exhalation and then abruptly coming…
I do not know. I do not remember. These are the words of a man looking back on his life: a young man haunted by shame and the pain of losing a part of himself as he lost his family. They bec…
You have heard this story before, but each time it comes at you in a different way, offering new anxieties and insights in equal measure. In Bluebeard, the beautiful young wife is given the …
